|
Date: |
|
Description: | British civilian worker with George Bray's Company Ltd in Leeds, GB, 1914-1920
REEL 1 Recollections of period as civilian worker with George Bray's Company Ltd in Leeds, 1914-1920s: employment at George Bray and Company; duties making parts for shells and Rolls Royce engines; difficulty of making gas burners; quality of factory machinery; duties; industrial relations.
REEL 2 Continues: industrial relations; operating automatic machinery; status of Bray's compared to other Leed's companies; pre-war ambition to become a doctor; brother's career.
REEL 3 Continues: speed of production; working conditions; treatment of women workers in factory; working hours; family background.
REEL 4 Continues: family background; description of Woodhouse Fair; 21st birthday celebration; question of Trade Union membership; Labour party membership; attitude towards war.
REEL 5 Continues: attitude towards war; food shortages and rations; domestic duties; wages; social life; clothing.
REEL 6 Continues: reasons for leaving Brays, 1920; domestic duties; helping in family fish shop; alcohol consumption.
REEL 7 Continues: alcohol consumption; working in family fish shop; economic situation of people in Leeds; father's gifts of food for old and needy; death of father.
REEL 8 Continues: illegitimate children in area; cases of women going to Bradford for abortions. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Verity, Laura | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
|
|