Sujet
Cunard Shell Works, Bootle, Merseyside, September 1917
Légende
Cunard Shell Works, Bootle, Merseyside, September 1917. Female workers operating heavy machinery in one of the lathe workshops. In 1915 the Cunard Steamship Company?s store and engineering works at Rimrose Road, Bootle, was converted into a munitions factory. Four-and-a-half-inch, six-inch and eight-inch shells were brought to Cunard's Shell Works to be finished, checked and varnished before being taken to another factory in the area to be filled with explosive.
Date
1917
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive
Notre référence
HRM19B06_366
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
54,2Mo (1,9Mo) / 33,3cm x 40,7cm / 3938 x 4810 (300dpi)