This group of six worked in the kitchens at Rockside just after the end of the First World War. The young man on the right in the back row is Harry Percy Salt, the son of Joseph and Evelyn Christiania, who was 18 in July 1920 and was still employed as kitchen porter at Rockside in the 1921 census. His family lived at 6 Wilmot Street. The others in the photograph are not known.

By 1925 Harry had left Rockside and was instead employed by Smedley's Hydro. He later worked for the East Midlands Elecrticity Board and died in 1966.

The second, undated, photo is a "Daily Mirror" publication and on the back, in addition to the newspaper's stamp, are the words "Early '20's" and "Eva" handwritten in pencil. Ethel May Smith, a dsughter of the late Isaac Smith who later became Ethel Hursthouse, is first from the left on the front row. In 1921 she had been a coffee waitress at Jackson House, where she lived in. She later worked at Rockside, which is why it is believed the group of ten young women and one man were amongst the hydro's staff, although searches to date have not been wholly successful in proving who they were. The photo seems to have been taken in the hydro's kitchen.

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