1. A group of pit brow workers at a coal mine,
Lancashire in September 1918. © IWM (Q 28302)
2. Receiving biscuit tins for packing in an army biscuit factory,
Lancashire, September, 1918. © IWM (Q 28314)
3. Ambulance drivers of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY),
Calais, January, 1917. © IWM (Q 4673)
4. The first women police officers served during the First World War. GETTY images.
5. Brick workers pose with shovels and a wheeled skip for conveying clay for silica brickmaking,
South Wales, 1914. © IWM (Q 28439)
6. Group of sludge pit workers at a glass works,
Lancashire, 1918. © IWM (Q 28398)
7. Workers at the flour mills of Rank & Sons, Birkenhead, Lancashire. © IWM (Q 28281)
8. A mechanic works under a car while performing repairs to the vehicle. GETTY images.
9. Group of female workers employed at a brickworks,
South Wales. © IWM (Q 28451)
10. Carpenters at the Tarrant Hut Workshops,
3 miles from Calais, 26 June 1918. © IWM (Q 6767)
11. Trolleys laden with sacks of flour in the grounds of the mills of Rank and Sons, Birkenhead,
Cheshire, in September 1918. © IWM (Q 28278)
12. Below the furnaces removing the glass that has come from a broken pot, in a glass factory,
Lancashire, September, 1918. © IWM (Q 28297)
13. Shoveling plaster used to bed glass on surfacing tables,
Lancashire. © IWM (Q 28295)
14. Preparing to sand blast a design on to a granite gravestone at Stewart and Co.,
Aberdeen, October 1918.© IWM (Q 28376)
15. Rolling casks of beer across the floor at a brewery,
Cheshire, September 1918. © IWM (Q 28336)
16. Feeding the charcoal kilns used for purifying sugar at a refinery,
Scotland, © IWM (Q 28351)
17. Demonstrating a Jack Truck to lift 10 cwts, in the J. T. Hardaker Bowling Iron Works,
Bradford, November 1918. © IWM (Q 28527)
18. Chemist in the laboratory of a cement works,
Scotland, November 1918. © IWM (Q 28370)
19. Posing with a stack of completed motor vehicle tyres in the rubber factory of
Charles Macintosh and Sons Ltd, Manchester, in September 1918. © IWM (Q 28237)
20. Packing a “government order for 1 million lamp bulbs” at a warehouse,
somewhere in Britain, 1917 © IWM (Q 28172)
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