Catalogue Number
NMLH.2024.33.22
Object Name
photograph
Title
'At the station Kielousk. Aspinall.'
Place
Heywood, Manchester, Russia, Soviet Union
People
Lydia Ann Aspinall
Events
1925 Women's Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia trip
Description
A black and white group photograph of a Lydia Aspinall at a train station. The label says 'At the station Kielousk. Aspinall'.
This photograph was taken during a trip to the Soviet Union in 1925 undertaken by a group of women trade unionists investigating women's work and roles in Soviet Russia. The group travelled the country observing working practices to see what they could learn from the communist regime to improve workers wellbeing in their own work places in Britain. On their return they published a report titled 'Soviet Russia, An Investigation by British Women Trade Unionists April-July 1925'. A copy of the report is also held in PHM's Lydia Aspinall Collection.
Lydia Ann Aspinall (3/9/1875-17/3/1955) was born in Stalybridge, and lived in Heywood where she became a textile worker, a trade union activist for weavers unions including the Heywood Weavers Association and the Weavers, Winders and Reelers Association. In 1926 she became a Magistrate.
Note: the location 'Kielousk' has been copied directly from the label written in 1925, however no such town appears on search engine results as of June 2024. We believe this location may have been mistranslated at the time the object was created, and would welcome clarification from Russian speakers.
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