Casgliadau Arlein

Black and white photograph. Half figure of male with tattoos on arms / chest (top half of face not shown). Stamp on back : LESLIE FREDERICK Photographer 27 TORRINGTON GDNS., PERIVALE, MIDDX. One of a collection of items formerly belonging to tattoo artist Jessie Knight

Jessie Knight was the first prominent female tattooist in the UK. She took over her father's tattoo shop in Barry aged 18 in 1927 and went on to prominence whilst working in Chatham, Portsmouth and Aldershot. She returned to Barry in 1968, and continued to work there as a tattoo artist into the 1980s.