Kit Sollitt
South Yorkshire Women in Industry - an oral history project
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Kit Sollitt worked for the famous Viners cutlery company during and prior to the Second World War. Kit was a French Polisher working on the wooden cases for canteens of cutlery. She also polished furniture for the Viner family at their home, Stoke Hall.
A successful author Kit has published a book called 'Man of Steel'. For a review click here or for more background on Kit you can read the following article from the South Yorkshire newspaper 'The Star': WOMEN OF STEEL: My steelworks scars still remain.
Kit Sollitt was interviewed by was interviewed by Heather Hunt in 2009
Photographs: (top left) Kit, (top right) book publication, 'Man of Steel' by Kit Sollitt, (bottom left) Kit with work colleagues at Viners.
