Ladies' Mile Author:Victoria Hughes, David Foot The memoirs of Victoria Hughes (1897-1978), a "professional lavatory attendant". Mrs Hughes kept notebooks that detailed her surprising encounters in the ladies' convenience that she looked after from 1929 to 1962. There she soon realized that many of her customers were local prostitutes. "I hope I showed some compassion," she said. "They in tur... more »n 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. -- from the UK Telegraph« less