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Description: | British civilian munitions worker at Barnbow Shell Factory in Leeds, GB, 1915-1918
REEL 1 Recollections of period as civilian munitions worker at Barnbow's Shell Factory in Leeds, GB, 1915-1918: outbreak of war during family holiday; a family war death; troop presence in Leeds and effects of war on local community; queueing for tea; work in shoe factory and reason for dismissal 1914.
REEL 2 Continues: getting job at Barnbow shell factory; pay; cleaning and filling shells; trucking and stacking shells; handling explosive powder; talking with Winston Churchill on factory visit; variety of jobs; pay and bonus; train travel to Barnbow; Barnbow workers' song.
REEL 3 Continues: social backgrounds of munitions workers at shell factory 1915-1918; aspects of working conditions including search room and canteen; a wartime friendship; family background; mother's wartime work supervising land girls; obtaining food from farm; father's work; importance of Barnbow wages to family economy.
REEL 4 Continues: family's living conditions in disused windmill and obtaining water; obtaining tailoring after 1918; reason for return to work at Barnbow Shell Factory during Second World War; type of work; comparison of conditions and hours at Barnbow in two wars.
REEL 5 Continues: aspects of working conditions at Barnbow 1915-1918; social groupings of workers; behaviour and morals of Barnbow workers during Second World War; going to dances during First World War; aspects of work and pay at Barnbow and R B Brown's and Burton's tailors.
REEL 6 Continues: Second World War munitions pay; subsequent work; mother's home brewed beer; various aspects of family life. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | IWM | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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