Title

Munitions production, Burnham on Crouch, Essex, September 1915

Caption

Munitions production, Burnham on Crouch, Essex, September 1915. Seated men making rope handles for ammunition carriers. The Splicing Room at TT Nethercoat and Co, East Works, Burnham on Crouch. Nethercoat & Co were chandlers and sailmakers who during the First World War also made ammunition carriers and tents at their East Works and West Works.

Date

1915

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B05_310

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54,1Mb (2,4Mb) / 16,0in x 13,2in / 4790 x 3950 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings England people male interior indoors working work job man men sitting industry manufacturing worker country trade guy occupation British English industrial factory rope war location century Essex Britain profession inside HANDLE first world war wartime company concept seated B&W MONOCHROME World War I WWI black & white black and white B W World War One 1910s 20th century workers English Heritage 1st World War armaments industry chandler Home Front munitions factory munitions industry TGN WW1 photograph H Bedford Lemere splicing Burnham-on-Crouch Bedford Lemere H TT Nethercoat & Co photograph