page_title: Victoria Hughes
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Victoria Hughes / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: 1955_Ordnance Survey map of Durdham_Down
context_page_description: Victoria Hughes, was a British lavatory attendant, and the first of her profession to have an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, having published her memoirs Ladies' Mile at the age of 80, which some found shocking but which have since become a valuable local history resource.
context_section_description: Victoria Hughes was born Victoria Rogers on 22 June 1897 at Woodbury Lane, off Blackboy Hill, Bristol.  She was the fifth of ten children of Alfred William Rogers, a scaffolder, and his wife, Ellen Rogers.
  On 16 July 1916, she married Richard Hughes (1896–1965), an apprentice ironmonger, who the same day left to fight in France as a member of the Royal Berkshire Regiment during the First World War. He was present at the Battle of the Somme. They had two daughters together, Margaret (born 1920) and Barbara (born 1931).
caption: A 1955 map of Durdham Down showing the Ladies Mile diagonally, centre, running south from Stoke Road. Hughes' workplace indicated by arrow.
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