Story of barefeet brickmakers to be told by museum
The story of women brickmakers from the Black Country who did their work barefoot is set to be told.
The Black Country Living Museum has announced that the story of the barefoot brickmakers, a group of women who made bricks, is set to be told in a new exhibit at the museum in Dudley.
It will feature women such as Nellie, who made bricks in bare feet for more than 60 years and, in her prime, was making 1,600 bricks a day.
The exhibition, which will be called Cricket Field Brickworks, will be officially launched on March 15 at the museum's Red By Night event.
A spokeswoman for Black Country Living Museum said: "The story of the barefoot brickmakers is one yet to be told by the Museum and you won’t be waiting too much longer.
"We are excited announce that the official opening of Cricket Field Brickworks will take place at our Red By Night event, 15 & 16 March.
"Among those named is Nellie, one of many women brickmakers in the Black Country, who was barefoot brickmaking for over 60 years, until she retired at the age of 84. In her prime, Nellie would make 1,600 bricks a day."
