“GRETA GARBAGE”

Evening Star, Issue 23678, 11 September 1940, Page 3

“GRETA GARBAGE”

DRIVES DUST CART IN VILLAGE Residents of Baildon, Yorkshire moorland village, have their refuse collected by No rah Blaney, the famous actress, who married Mr Basil Hughes, the . Bradford surgeon. She is now known, she says, as Greta Garbage, the Maid of the Middens. After Mrs Hughes heard Mr Ernest Bevin appealing for women to workone or two days a week so that regular workers could have rest periods, she applied to the Shipley Employment Exchange. “.1 told them,” she said, “ what sort of work I could do—typewriting, scrubbing floors, driving a car, and so on, but that I wanted something tough.” Then she startled the clerk of Baildon Council by asking him “ Why don’t you let me drive a dust cart or something?” The chairman of the cleansing department was informed of the offer and promptly accepted it, telling Mrs Hughes that she could start immediately, working two days a week. Mrs Hughes begins her day at 7.30 a.m. Dressed in shirt and trousers, with a handkerchief over her hair, she sets out with a refuse lorry and a mate. Besides driving tin; vehicle, she does her share of carrying and emptying the dustbins.