Stock Photo - Dec. 12, 1949 - Britain's no.1. Needlewoman. For 122 nights when Betty Box's boy friends knocked at the door, her mother told them. Sorry , she's busy at Sewing. And she really was sewing , Betty, 26, a bank clerk, of Coppice - road , Middlesbrough , was embroidering a cloth base for a tray - and she did it so well that she beat all Britain's needlewomen to win first place in the London City and Guilds' Examination . her evening class instruction, Mrs. Helena Smith, said 'Betty has been attending the class for only twelve months' (Credit Image: © Keystone Press Agency/Keystone USA via ZUMAPRESS.com)

Stock Photo: Dec. 12, 1949 - Britain's no.1. Needlewoman. For 122 nights when Betty Box's boy friends knocked at the door, her mother told them.

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