Coalpit pin-ups: Leeds museum pays tribute to queens of industrial age

Exhibition honours the handful of ordinary women who were deployed by coal, wool, cotton and railway sectors to raise morale

They were ordinary young women who had never left their mill towns and pit villages when they were swept from the factory floor and plucked from their looms for a life of unimaginable glamour.

Now the queens of industry, the name given to the good-looking grafters who were given the job of representing some of the UK’s most important economic sectors in an industrial golden age, will be celebrated in an exhibition at Leeds Industrial Museum.

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2hB5Rf1