Ladies Mile by Kristina-J Huddersfield Escort

Ladies Mile

As I am in Bristol this week I thought I would give a shout out to a lavatory attendant, yes that’s right, not that I hang around toilets or anything.

Victoria Hughes found herself in difficulties with two children, and a husband wounded in the First World War, she found herself the breadwinner, grateful at first for 4s 6d for two days a week duty at the lavatory next to Clifton suspension bridge. That rose to two guineas a week at her permanent post near Ladies’ Mile which she looked after from 1929 to 1962.

There she soon realised that many of her customers were local prostitutes. “I hope I showed some compassion,” she said. “They in turn gave me a sort of companionship and warmth.”

Dispensing tea and sympathy from the little office where she kept her knitting and the kettle was always on, Mrs Hughes met their difficulties and dangers with money, advice and sometimes intervention.

At the age of 80 she published her reminiscences Ladies’ Mile (1977), which shocked some at the time, but since has become a valued source of local history, and became the first lavatory attendant to be listed in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Now while this is an amusing story, women like Victoria blazed the way for the rights and status we women have today. Thank you Victoria for being an icon of Bristol, and allowing me to be who am I today.

Kristina x