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Object description
British schoolchild worked on milk round in Nottingham, GB, 1913-1915; civilian worker with Bobbers Mill Brass Foundry in Nottingham GB, 1916-1919
Content description
REEL 1 Background in Nottingham, GB, 1903-1913: family; education. Recollections of period as schoolchild working on milk round in Nottingham, GB, 1913-1915: milk round; school subjects; home life and separation of brothers and sisters; milk round work; milking cows and delivering milk; hours and work involved before and after school; making cheese and price of milk; health inspections.
REEL 2 Continues: twice daily milk deliveries; difficulties collecting milk; carrying milk churn; delivering milk measured from bucket; delivering to factories; lack of refrigeration; milking cows; coping with milk delivery work and school life; work in barber's shop; activities in school holidays and on Sunday; memories of sight of German Zeppelin airship, 24/9/1916; military presence in Woolaton Park; plays harmonica; contact with troops; story of explosion at shell filing factory in 1918.
REEL 3 Continues: attitude towards Germans; awareness of war conditions; family giving up milk round; employment with hosiery firm; how mother managed pay; meals. Recollections of period as worker in Bobbers Mill Brass Foundry in Nottingham, GB, 1916-1919: initial work in stores; brass finishing; description of foundry; processes involved in making parts for Royal Navy; learning trade; equipment used and dangers; move from stores work to machine work and increase in pay.
REEL 4 Continues: hours worked and mealtimes; getting to work; meals; clocking in and out; trade unions; obtaining pay rises; different size machine shops and processes; use of scrap brass; employment situation; brass products made; apprentice pay; military exemption for skilled workers; presence of women foundry and munitions workers; relations between lads in factory; break time activities; collections in factory.
REEL 5 Continues: working conditions including noise, ventilation and first aid; clothes worn by men and women workers; minor accidents; relations with management; system of pay for good parts only; processes involved; tools and equipment used; brass polishing and finishing; provision of own tools; assignment of jobs by foreman; setting up machines.
REEL 6 Continues: German Zeppelin raid, 24/9/1916; rationing; attitude towards German civilians; stopping work on Armistice Day, 11/11/1918; loss of employment, 1919; description of coal delivery work, 1919-1920; subsequent employment.