Bomb Girls--Britain's Secret Army (26 page)

Acton, London, 1944: Older women workers making cannon shells.

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Betty Nettle: Betty started work at the Bridgend Arsenal as a 17 year old in 1942.

Betty (
centre
) with two of her sisters. The Bridgend factory transformed the lives of thousands of women in the area.

Margaret Proudlock (
left
) and her good friend Sadie. They worked as a pair, punching cotton into pans of hot acid.

Margaret (
seated, front row, far right
) and her co-workers at Drungans: they’d often burst into song to keep themselves cheerful.

An early shift at the bomb factory.

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Electric arc welding at a major shell producing factory.

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Doing her bit: working on shell caps in the busy afternoon shift.

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Munitions women drink milk to reduce the harmful effects of their exposure to lead.

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Margaret Curtis and husband Jack on their wedding day, December 1945.

Margaret’s reference when she left the factory as the war ended in 1945.

Margaret, (
seated
) with some of the other girls working on ‘A’ Shift

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