Italian Girls Working In Calbridgeshire Cannery -- Some of the Italian girls seen enjoying their tea break at the Wisbech (Cambs) cannery where they are working for six months. Forty Signorinas from Italy recently arrived in this country to spend six months working at the Smedley Cannery at Wisbech (Cambridgeshire). The girls who wee selected by Mr. M.J. Smedley, son of the Chairman of the Smedley Group, during a visit to Italy earlier this year, are from rural areas all over Italy. During their stay in this country, they are living at the company's hostel at Friday Bridge, a few miles from the Wisbech factory where they are working. August 10, 1955. (Photo by Fox photos).