Source: File: Woolwich Royal Arsenal.jpg. World War One: Royal Arsenal's battle to feed the
guns By Greig Watson BBC News, 5 June 2014. The Original can be seen
at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26272844
[Accessed: 30 July 2015].
With summer's seasons
Of holidays in full swing
Despite wartime - morale
Set to raise the Woolwich
Royal Arsenal workers.
With the August bank
Holiday set to combine
The traditional 'beano
Day,' granted by royal
Warrant of George III.
The Annual Beanfest
Day, commemorated
This king’s visit - 6 July
1773 - this had existed
Until Edwardian years.
Reinstated, the July
Day combined with
2 August - Sunday
In-between made for
Longest rest of war.
Out of the 40,000,
Some 3,000 would be
Still on duty, to carry
Out maintenance for
One years constant run.
While this great needed
Overhaul of well used
ammunition apparatus
is made, the workers will
Likely rest in their gardens.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Woolwich
Arsenal Holiday. The Daily
Telegraph, [online] 29 July. P.10.
Col.6. Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11744429/Daily-Telegraph-July-29-1915.html
[Accessed: 30 July 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100
years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 30 July
2015).
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