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IMAGE number: EHT875483
Image title: Adapting industry to the war effort: Female workers in a lathe workshop at the Cunard Shell Works in Bootle, August-September 1917 (b/w photo)
Artist: Lemere, Henry Bedford (1865-1944) / English
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Location: Private Collection
Medium: black and white photograph

Image description: Cunard Shell Works, Bootle, Merseyside. Female workers operating heavy machinery in one of the lathe workshops. In 1915 the Cunard Steamship Company's store and engineering works at Rimrose Road, Bootle, was converted into a munitions factory. Four-and-a-half-inch, six-inch and eight-inch shells were brought to Cunard's Shell Works to be finished, checked and varnished before being taken to another factory in the area to be filled with explosive. Bedford Lemere & Co.
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