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• MUNITIONS FACTORIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "O'CONNOR W J (MAJOR)" (photographs) Made by: Milner Ernest 1918-08-05

  Crowds of munitions workers from the National Shell Filling Factory at Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, on the platforms of Attenborough railway station on 5 August 1918.

• WOMEN DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lewis G P 1918

  A female worker of the Mayfair Window Cleaning Company.

• SHIPBUILDING DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR, NEWCASTLE

  part of "IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Nicholls Horace

  A group of boys and girls wait at the gate of a shipyard with baskets and bundles of dinner for their relatives, probably at Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Ltd., Newcastle.

• WOMEN AT WORK ON THE HOME FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  A young woman stands on a ladder to paste a recruiting poster onto a wall in Thetford, Norfolk. She is carrying on her father's appointment as official bill poster and town crier while he is away at the Front. The words "Men of Thetford", "Men are...

• THE MINISTRY OF INFORMATION PHOTOGRAPHIC BUREAU, LONDON, 1918

  part of "IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Nicholls Horace 1918

  A scene outside the Photographic Bureau of the Ministry of Information at 10 Coventry Street, London, the day before the official opening for the sale of photographs to the public. Crowds of people are gathered around the large windows to look at the...

• WOMEN AT WORK DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Nicholls Horace

  A portrait of a "Woman Wartime Plumber and General Jobber" as she stands at the top of a ladder to work on a piece of drainpipe.

• WOMEN AT WORK DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Nicholls Horace

  Mrs Kitchener, a female gravedigger, uses a shovel to shape the top of a grave at Aley Green Cemetery, Luton.

• WOMEN AT WORK DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lewis G P

  A full-length portrait of a woman war worker as she pushes a sack barrow at a British army biscuit factory in Lancashire. The sack is full of loose army biscuits, which are being transported to another part of the factory to be packed.

• WOMEN AT WORK DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Nicholls Horace 1918

  Mrs Rosanna Forster from Kent is a chimney sweep, carrying on her husband's business while he serves abroad. Here she can be seen using a brush to knock on the front door of a house, her brooms over her shoulder.

• BELGIAN CIVILIAN WORKERS IN BRITAIN DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lewis G P

  Two young Belgian girls greet their father outside their home on his return from work, as their mother looks on from the doorway. He is a munitions worker and the family lives in Elisabethville, a fenced-off area of Birtley, near Gateshead, in County...