Description
Object description
British civilian General Post Office worker in Leeds, GB, 1914-1916; munitions worker at Woolwich Arsenal, London, GB, 1/1916-2/1916 and at No 1 National Filling Factory in Barnbow, Leeds, GB, 1916-1918
Content description
REEL 1 Aspects of period as worker with General Post Office in Leeds, GB, 1914-1916: reservist husband call-up 1914; obtaining General Post Office sorting work; accommodation arrangements and care for son. Aspects of period as munitions worker at Woolwich Arsenal, London, GB, 1/1916-2/1916: selection for munitions training at Woolwich Arsenal.
REEL 2 Continues: compositon of Leeds trainees to Woolwich Arsenal; selection committee interview for munitions training; advance pay to trainees; London lodgings; munitions training at Woolwich Arsenal; types of trainees; filling cartridges; clothing regulations.
REEL 3 Continues: relations with male workers at Woolwich Arsenal; safety instructions and clothing regulations; role of women at Woolwich; duration of training; training notes; character of education, 1890-1903.
REEL 4 Continues: Recollections of period as munitions worker at No 1 National Filling Factory, Barnbow, Leeds, GB, 1916-1918: role of men at shell factory; reasons for leaving; duties as forewoman; travel to factory; pay; dangers of work; distribution of workers' wages; purpose of shifting room; workers' head lice problem; factory nurse.
REEL 5 Continues: move of TNT filling factory to Barnbow shell factory; dangers of TNT; attitude towards managerial role of men; welfare supervisors; factory canteen; coping with workers' strike; productivity.
REEL 6 Continues: security at factory; relations with workers and other overlookers; end of war and stopping work; aspects of wartime Post Office and munitions work; cause of explosion at Barnbow.
REEL 7 Continues: absenteeism; Second World War air raid precautions; teaching women workers munitions work; further details of General Post Office work, 1914-1916; family reasons for choosing night shift; nighttime journey to factory.
REEL 8 Continues: safety and security precautions in factory, 1916-1918; work of trolley girls; safety precautions in factory layout; importance of checking size of brass shell case; introduction of safety barrier around dangerous machinery; shorthand typing training, 1903.