A PLAY inspired by a trip to Armley Mills Museum will be performed in Bramhope next month.
Theatre company The Jay Walkers will visit the village as part of their tour for their Spring production, No Job for a Woman.
Playwright Jamesine Cundell Walker knew that she had a great aunt who was employed at Armley there when it was still a working textile mill.
Some family research and her own memories of Armley people back in the 1950s and 1960s then provided the basis for a story which is part fact, part fiction.
A spokesman for The Jay Walkers said: "The play brings to life a tight-knit working class community which has now long gone.
"It was a world where everyone knew their neighbours and deprivation was survived with determination and humour.
"You will laugh at and cry with the women of Armley who survived and thrived."
The company started in 2009 and tours the local area in Spring and Autumn, using church and village halls as their venues.
Their Bramhope performance will take place at the Village Hall Robert Craven Memorial Hall at 7.30pm on Saturday, May 20.
Tickets cost £8 and are available by calling (0113) 284 3361.
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