Title

Belgian Munition Works, Clevedon Road, Barnes, Richmond, London, September 1918

Caption

Belgian Munition Works, Clevedon Road, Barnes, Richmond, London, September 1918. An interior view of a workshop in the Belgian Munition Works, also known as the Pelabon Works, showing workers, predominantly women, using lathes to create ammunition casings or other parts. During the First World War Belgian engineer Charles Pelabon established a munitions factory in Clevedon Road employing Belgian refugees to manufacture hand grenades and artillery shells.

Date

1918

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B05_385

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54,5Mb (2,5Mb) / 16,0in x 13,2in / 4809 x 3964 (300dpi)

Keywords

road building Clevedon Road Pelabon Works Charles Pelabon Pelabon buildings London England female women woman people interior indoors working work street industry manufacturing worker country trade British tool English Belgium lane refuge industrial factory avenue machine machinery Belgian war location century Britain inside first world war wartime lady concept barnes lathe B&W MONOCHROME refugee World War I WWI black & white black and white B W World War One 1910s 20th century refugees workers English Heritage 1st World War armaments industry Home Front munitionette munitions factory munitions industry Richmond upon Thames TGN war effort war work WW1 Charles photograph Adolph Augustus Boucher Boucher Adolph Augustus Belgian Munition Works Charles Pelabon photograph