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A group of women munitions workers and a nurse, Barnbow. The women are wearing protective clothing, munition work was dirty and dangerous. In addition to the shell filling operations which began in December 1915, amatol, a highly explosive material made up of TNT mixed with ammonium nitrate, was produced from March 1916. The work was hazardous, there was the potential risk of explosions, the chemicals used were injurious to health. Health and safety procedures were practised but inevitably there were incidents which resulted in fatalities. There were three explosions, on 5th December 1916, 35 women were killed, another accident on 31st March 1917 resulted in the deaths of two girls. On the 31st March 1918 three men died, this happened when King George V and Queen Mary were in Leeds. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Barnbow Women Workers | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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