Woman Working At Butcher’s AKA Lady Grocers (1914-1918)

Woman working at butchers. Location of events unknown. Workers; Women. ’Lady Grocers - Firms Employ Women Assistants’. Woman working as a butcher: shot of woman; wearing white smock; apron; cap; standing behind counter in a shop; pieces of meat for sale are behind her on shelves. She sharpens knife; carves a big hunk of meat on the counter; using both knife and cleaver. Pan to left as she places the meat on the old scale to weigh it. Cut to a quick shot of the woman at the same counter; putting something small; like a card; into a small paper bag. Then she walks off to right. Commerce; food; grocery; home front; World War One. Cataloguer’s note: A sign in the background suggests that this is an early Sainsbury’s store. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the
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