Source: File: Women
working at the Ferranti factory. See an original image at: <http://www.centenarynews.com/article?id=3291>
[Accessed 26 January 2017]
On the 4th
floor of Harrods, London SW,
The Georgian restaurant
acted as a venue;
Depicted for a select clientele were massed
Workers, working in country’s protection.
Engaged in night
and day manufacturing
In defence of
the nation, half a million
Women were employed by the Ministry
Of Munitions - established in May 1915.
Displayed at the
London SW address,
Was a
photographic exhibition of women
Workers, undertaking the armaments
Manufacture in black
and white images.
In England's reorganised
industries were
Some 4,600
centres making armaments;
Along side
national factories of munitions,
In which able
women played a vital role.
The exhibition, organised
by Munitions
Of Ministry, were
aimed at the Georgian
Restaurant patrons,
who would peruse
The honest black
and white depictions.
15 varied types of
industry were shown
In 250
photographs - ordinary women
Working in
completion of arms and how
These workers were given much support.
Hospital and
welfare canteens shown
Alongside the munitions workers - taking
Control of
manufacturing explosives,
Barbed wire, shipbuilding
and aircraft.
Engineering, both electrical
and general
And building of gunnery the purpose
Of this project
acting a recruitment;
Women and more
women are needed.
An appeal went out to all 18 to 45 year
Old women to
approach their nearest
Employment
exchanges, or provincial
Training centres, in London or counties.
A bill of fare
would then explain the cost
Of living for a
woman in consideration;
These were real images of real women,
With dirt stained and
determined faces.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1917. Women's Munitions Works - Exhibition Of
Photographs. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 16 January 1917. P.10. Col.4. Available at:
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12214109/Daily-Telegraph-January-16-1917.html>
[Accessed: 26 January 2017].
Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 26 January 2017).
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