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Description: | British civilian worked as fitter in boiler factory, Blaydon, GB, 1916-1919
REEL 1 Background in Blaydon, GB, 1900-1916: family; education; memory of outbreak of war, 8/1914; recruitment in local area; father's military service during war; death of father; reason for studying engineering. Recollections of period as fitter in Harfield's boiler factory in Blaydon, 1916-1918: story of obtaining five year apprenticeship and terms of employment; pay; description of general duties and making engine parts for ships on shaping machine; daily routine; food; question of protective clothing; working hours; description of night school classes in engineering; religious beliefs; recreational activities.
REEL 2 Continues: membership of Boys' Club; sporting activities; description of operating lathe and question of skill; nature of parts produced on lathe; organisation of workforce; memory of manager and foreman; factory inspections; membership of union; meetings and role of union; question of holidays; story of accident on shaping machine; story of being called up and medical board, 9/1918; attitude to role of women in factory; description of work in fitting shop; assembly of ship's engines.
REEL 3 Continues: further comments on assembly of engines; use of hand file to make corrections; attitude to work in fitting shop; reaction to news of Armistice, 11/1918. Aspects of post-war life and employment: story of continuing to work in factory until closure, 1921; employment as fitter at Vickers, 1939-1945; nature of work on anti-aircraft guns; working conditions; union activity; duties as Air Raid Warden. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Barnes, Harry | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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