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Birmingham factory worker Edith Hill of 74 Boulton Road, Handsworth, at work setting cutting tools for machines which bore Ant-Aircraft shells at a factory in the West Midlands during the Second
Land girls on their way home from the field in military area East Anglia The harvest has to be got within fourteen days MSI WW2
Young girls showing off one of six pairs of knickers that they made from an old night dress. April 1941
Children at The Everard Avenue School, Walton, Liverpool, helping to relieve the shortage of clerks by filling in the names and addresses on the new ration books. Picture taken 8th June 1942
Women Wrestling in 1941
Women at John I Thorneycroft & Co, Hampton Launch Works, Platts Eyot have just put the finishing touches to a Whaleback boat. 25th April 1943
Birmingham factory worker Mrs Ann Cottrell of Theodore Street, Birmingham, aged 83, at work at a munitions factory in the West Midlands during the Second World War. 11th September 1941
After the blitzing of the City of London, Red Cross Street Fire Station, which had been badly burned externally and only saved from destruction by the determined efforts of the Station personnel
Mrs Norah Dacre Fox, General Secretary of the Womens Social and Political Union speaking in aid of the War Effort in Trafalgar Square, London, Friday 9th July 1915
Mrs Norah Dacre Fox, General Secretary of the Womens Social and Political Union speaking in aid of the War Effort, London, Published Sunday Pictorial 1st September 1918
Mr and Mrs Lambert, Mr and Mrs Fraser, engineering shop, Stockport. 23rd June 1941
Testing beacon light bulbs at the Lemington Glass Works Ltd, Lemington, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear. 25th January 1945. P13474
Sixteen year old Vera Mary Stone blowing glass at Prestons on West Street, Sheffield during World War Two. June 1942
Anti-waste appeal slogans decorate a tram car in Glasgow, Scotland during the Second World War. 6th June 1941
Munition girls at work at a Welsh shell factory working for the Ministry of Supply during the Second World War. Circa 1941
Girls was work on the machines at a Royal Ordnance Factory Engineering factory in Cardiff, Wales during the Second world War. June 1941
A scene inside the Leece Street labour Exchange in Liverpool when the 1920 class of women attended for registration. From early 1941
Some of the office staff of a local Tin Box factory, making collecting boxes for the red Cross nurses. The production is done after working hours due to the labour shortage. 6th November 1941
A Royal Air Force officer addressing workers at a factory near Reading, Berkshire during the Second world War. 10th April 1942
A Royal Air Force officer etched women workers at a factory near Reading, Berkshire during the Second world War. 10th April 1942
A scene inside the labour Exchange in Cardiff when the 1920 class of women attended for registration. From early 1941, it became compulsory for women aged between 18 and 60 to register for war work
A female worker inspecting the cooling system of a Lancaster bomber plane of the Royal Air Force at an aircraft production site near reading, Berkshire during the second world War. 8th July 1943
Picture taken at a Government Training School in Birmingham where women of all ages have set out to learn the skills needed to work in munitions factories
Birmingham factory worker Beatrice Payne, at work making and testing parachute hooks, buckles and D-rings for airmen of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. 5th May 1942
Birmingham factory worker Mts Kate Budd at work during the Second World War. 5th April 1943
Birmingham factory worker Mrs Savage of 1 Hamhurst Avenue, Handsworth Wood, at work at a munitions factory during the Second World War. 5th May 1942
Emily Davies (nearest camera) who was blinded following an air raid in the blitz, pictured at work with three other blind women testing aircraft parts at a factory in the West Midlands during
Mrs Jeanings supervising part timer Mrs Williams at her machine in a Birmingham munitions factory during the Second World War. 28th May 1942
Sunday work in progress at a munitions factory in Birmingham during the Second World War. Woman at work in the Fuse inspection department of a Birmingham Arms Factory. 26th May 1940
Birmingham factory worker Mabel Evitts, aged 28, of 63 Princes Road, Warley, at work soldering torpedoes at a West Midlands factory during the Second World War. 5th May 1942
Factory worker Mrs C Kyle at work in a Birmingham munitions factory during the Second World War. 29th January 1941
Mrs Knight gets down to some tank parts under the eye of forewoman Mrs Jeanings at a Birmingham munitions factory during the Second World War. 28th May 1942
Seventy two year old factory worker Mrs Slim of 283 Queens road, Londonderry, Smethwick, who works five hours every morning in a Birmingham factory on drilling and milling machines
Factory worker Miss D Odell at work in a Birmingham munitions factory during the Second World War. 29th January 1941
Opening of a Womens War Work Exhibition at Solihull, Birmingham during the Second World War. Miss Connie Pattinson, capstan operator, speaking tat the exhibition
Londoners are earning good money and having a holiday at the same time by pea picking. This group of girls are staying at the Bedfordshire Agricultural Camp and spending their days working
The Forestry Commission of Scotland requested Scottish University students to volunteer for forestry work during their summer holidays
Members of an aircraft factory who recently visited an RAF Squadron, invited the pilots to pay them a visit at the factory and see their fighter planes being made
The vicar of Newton - on - Trent, Nottinghamshire, has turned part of his vicarage into a workshop where he and his parishioners complete a war job
Women of the WRNS doing skilled jobs such as carpenters and fitters at a Royal Naval Depot show themselves capable craftswomen. Photo shows: A maintenance worker on the turning machine
f all the man-sized jobs women have tackled during the war, none is perhaps bigger than that undertaken by Mrs Taylor of Bury, Lancashire
In a Ministry of Supply filling factory, shells are cleaned up after the explosive has been put in during the Second World War
A factory doing vital work on the sten gun for the Ministry of Supply employs workers of many nations; British and allies and refugees from Axis countries
In a bright, airy shop in a Ministry of Supply factory, fuses are assembled by girls working alongside male inspectors during the Second World War. June 1941
Working on two shifts in the twenty four hours, the entire Fire Brigade at a large Ministry of Supply factory in the South of England are assembling rifles instead of idly waiting for the fire alarm
Sailors of the Royal Navy have been helping to repair and make habitable London homes which were damaged by flying bombs. Picture shows: Able Seaman E.J
Reggie, Babble and Mary Damerell roll up their sleeves and lend a hand stocking the wheatsheafs while dad drives the three horse team harvesting the field of wheat on Brownston Farm near Yealmpton
A famous RAF fighter station near London runs its own agricultural section for producing pigs, rabbits, ducks and eggs. The labour is provided by the station personnel in their spare time
