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Description: | British civilian worked at Pearces factory and in Smith Garrett's brewery in London, GB, 1914-1919
REEL 1 Background in London, 1898-1914: family; education. Recollections of period as civilian living in London, 1914-1919: reaction to outbreak of war, 1914; call up of husband to be; joining Pearces in East London; sewing buttons on soldiers tunics; attitude towards work; pay; other women at factory; 'piece' work; working conditions; move to Smith Garrett's brewery; duties washing bottles; bottle washing machine; reasons for changing jobs.
REEL 2 Continues: clothing; uniform at brewery; Zeppelin raids; number of women at brewery; working hours; being woken up in morning; clothing; description of cleaning barrels; relations with colleagues; pay; conditions in winter; description of cleaning barrels.
REEL 3 Continues: attitude of family towards her work; uniform; food rations; hours worked; social life. Aspects of period as civilian living in London, 1939-1945: memories of hop picking in Kent; holidays; air raids; damage to house during air raid.
REEL 4 Continues: damage to house during air raid. Recollections of period as civilian living in London, 1914-1919: deaths of friends and family in war; attitude towards Germans; Armistice Day celebrations, 11/11/1918; giving up job at brewery to men returning from war; operating bottling machine. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Pidgeon, Sarah Ann | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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