Title

The Birmingham Small Arms factory, Small Heath, Birmingham, February 1917

Caption

The Birmingham Small Arms factory, Small Heath, Birmingham, February 1917. Rows of men and women at work in the examination branch room during the First World War. One of series of photographs of the BSA factory which produced rifles, Lewis guns, shells and military vehicles.

Date

1917

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B05_335

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54,2Mb (1,8Mb) / 16,0in x 13,1in / 4810 x 3938 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings England female women woman people male interior indoors working work man men industry manufacturing worker country trade guy British English companionship industrial factory war location century Britain inside first world war wartime company lady concept Birmingham B&W MONOCHROME west midlands 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 BSA Home Front munitions factory munitions industry TGN war effort war work WW1 photograph Adolph Augustus Boucher Boucher Adolph Augustus Birmingham Small Arms Small Heath photograph