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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 1916-11-21

  The canteen for female munitions workers at the National Shell Filling Factory at Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, on 21 November 1916.

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

  part of "O'CONNOR W J (MAJOR)" (photographs) Made by: Milner Ernest 1916-11-18

  The crowded canteen for male munitions workers during lunchtime at the National Shell Filling Factory at Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, on 18 November 1916.

• COMMUNAL FEEDING DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

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

  A portrait of a supervisor in a 'National Kitchen' as she samples one of the dishes cooking in a large pot on the stove.

• 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: Nicholls Horace

  A striking portrait of a female fruit picker as she sits in the sunshine under a cherry tree, somewhere in Britain. She is wearing a cap and smock and holds up a handful of cherries as she sits on her basket. She also appears to be carrying a shepherd'...

• 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 smiling milkwoman as she stand on her dairy cart in the sunshine. The words 'Pool's Dairies' and 'Hayes' can be seen on the side of the cart and a large milk churn can also be seen. It is unclear if this photograph was taken in Hayes in...

• WOMEN IN UNIFORM DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR: THE WOMEN'S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE, CHATHAM

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

  Bakers of the WRNS smile for the camera as they pose for the camera, loaves of bread 'at a slope' on their shoulders at the Royal Barracks, Chatham.

• 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.

• THE HOME FRONT IN BRITAIN DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "HOME OFFICE COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Food shortages and rationing were not only an issue during the Second World War, as this food queue in Reading during the First World War highlights.

• WOMEN IN INDUSTRY DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR, SCOTLAND, 1918

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lewis G P 1918-11

  A woman war worker stands in a pile of refined sugar as she spreads it out with a shovel before bagging at the Glebe Sugar Refinery, Greenock, November 1918.