A Kirkby dressmaker is using the lockdown by putting her 35 years of experience to good use - by making hundreds of face masks for the NHS and vulnerable people.
Jackie Robinson jumped at the chance after seeing a Facebook appeal asking for any seamstresses willing to volunteer their services to make the masks, and has now got her own production line going at home.
So far she and her daughter Libby have made more than 200 - around 40 a day.
The masks each bear the message ‘Stay at Home.’
Mum-of-three Jackie, 49, said: “We wanted to do our bit for the NHS and people in our community who are putting themselves at risk doing their jobs helping sick and vulnerable people.
“It’s times like these where everyone in the community needs to come together.”
She added: “I have recently been asked by staff at Aintree, the Royal hospital and local care homes for more.
“I’m leaving the masks ready for people to collect in a bag on my doorstep, this way there is no contact between us.”
Jackie’s friends Cathy Cuddihy and Lorraine Downey have also joined in with volunteering to make masks, while Carol Powell is helping to distribute them.
The fabric was supplied free of charge from Jackie’s workplace, uniform store Florence Roby in Knowsley.
