Book/Printed Material Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings,
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Image 1 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings,- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 2 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings,- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 3 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, MUNITION LASSES- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 4 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings,- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 5 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings,- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 6 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, Frontispiece MISS LILIAN BARKER CBE Lady Superintendent- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 7 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, MUNITION LASSES Six Months as Principal Overlooker in Danger Buildings BY A K FOXWELL MA D LI Tt HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO mcmxvii- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 8 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, rc HT 6 o I DEDICATION TO THE CAP AND DETONATOR GIRLS MY DEAR LASSES I dedicate this little book to you in affectionate remembrance of our work in Woolwich Arsenal in…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 9 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, DEDICATION 5 permission from my chief to visit the other factories where women were employed I encountered familiar faces wherever I went Not only old friends presiding over examiners tables and college…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 10 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, 6 MUNITION LASSES ABBREVIATIONS IN TEXT LS Lady Superintendent PO Principal Overlooker DPO Principal Overlooker of Danger Buildings MO Medical Officer PREFATORY NOTE Tins little volume is intended to give the general…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 11 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, is CONTENTS CHAP PAGE I GETTING IN 9 They have their exits and their entrances SHAKSPEARR 2 THE MUNITION ARMY 25 But to this sembly runnying in the waye My strength fayleth…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 12 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, 8 MUNITION LASSES CHAP 7 WOMANS WORK OUTSIDE OUR FAC TORY PAGE 85 Here work enough to watch and catch Hints of the proper craft tricks of the tools true play BROWNING…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 13 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, MUNITION LASSES CHAPTER I GETTING IN They have their exits and their entrances SHAKSPEARE ONE memorable day last year the Registrar for the University Womens War Service invited me to go to…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 14 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, 10 MUNITION LASSES steamed out of Charing Cross Station and over the river there came into view that majestic scene which Wordsworth has described so feelingly 1 Earth hath not anything to…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 15 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, GErTING IN 1 yard its Arsenal and its Military College Since the war however Woolwich and the Arsenal are interchangeable terms Seen from Woolwich Common it has a certain dignity approached by…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 16 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, 12 MUNITION LASSES are ranged on the roadway the covered booths where everything may be bought in the way of clothing household utensils and food pro vided that ones ambitions are not…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 17 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, GETTING IN 13 or French market gardener is plying her trade here and earning a livelihood for the period of the war by selling flowers and plants to the Arsenal munition workers…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 18 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, 14 MUNITION LASSES change opposite the station or with letters of introduction from the Ministry of Munitions must proceed to the gate a matter of a half penny tram fare from Beresford…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 19 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, GETTING IN 15 admission passes we turn to a shed like build ing somewhat similar to a waiting room at a wayside station This is the office of the Lady Superintendent under…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 20 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, 16 MUNITION LASSES applies a fund of humour which brings her triumphantly through The LS Office consists of a goodsized room where candidates are interviewed with a small type writers office opening…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 21 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, 1 GETTING IN 17 train one or two overweights cause a bulg ing in the line and various countenances wear anxious or chastened expressions as they are partially submerged by one or…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 22 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, 18 MUNITION LASSES Whats that Trotyl Well miss I have my husband at the front and my children to look after I dont feel I ought to run the risk There are…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 23 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, F77 111E GETTING IN 19 The wearing of a cap is one of the regula tions says the LS This is where womans work comes in not only doing the work required…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 24 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, 20 MUNITION LASSES the grudging answer comes Er fortyfive What were you doing before you came here Doin I aint bein doin nothin leastways for eight years Her voice resumes in more…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 25 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, 77 GETTING IN And all this work revolves round the LS whose splendid physique and cheery forceful ness dominates the whole staff In the midst of marshalling the candidates by the door…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 26 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, 00 MUNITION LASSES esemmg or an immediate slight readjustment of can teen administration Every candidate gives her age and previous calling and is appointed to work suitable to her age and strength…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 27 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, GETTING IN 23 Those who are interviewed as Principal Overlookers are sent on after a talk with the LS to the manager of the group of factories to which they are assigned…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 28 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, 24 MUNITION LASSES tered number and rule book is handed to us with instructions to present ourselves at a certain hour and place in the Arsenal the following Monday morning The rule…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 29 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, CHAPTER II THE MUNITION ARMY But to this serably runnyng in the waye My strength fayleth to reche it at the full SIR THOMAS WIAT THE streams of humanity that flow in…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 30 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, 26 MUNITION LASSES path than the incoming one for there are trains to catch and trams to mount in the least possible time in order to secure a few minutes more rest…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 31 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, THE MUNITION ARMY 527 have been detained by congestion of traffic and are anxious to pick up their ticket in time make frantic and ineffectual attempts to break through the main human…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 32 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, 28 MUNITION LASSES arrive in time and it is a marked day in ones experience to rise for the first time at 5 am breakfast and set off to work while the…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 33 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, THE MUNITION ARMY 29 injunction Screw your courage to the stick ing place and derive comfort from the con vincing conclusion of her spirited and well not fail So we brace ourselves…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 34 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, 30 MUNITION LASSES This journey was a mild harbinger of the twice daily or nightly route to be taken In hot August days the heat was stifling and the dust suffocating in…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 35 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, THE MUNITION ARMY 31 Here we are a gruff voice might be heard saying in the darkness possibly proceeding from a man of thirty years standing in the Arsenal Here we are…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 36 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, 32 MUNITION LASSES side walk with a pleasant view of lowlying country interspersed with streams and a variety of marshland vegetation The third way has some claims to natural effects and might…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 37 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, SM11111 THE MUNITION ARMY 53 autumn we have felt the calm beauty of this way and sung an evensong with the rest of Nature enjoying the quietude before the noise of many…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 38 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, 31 MUNITION LASSES courtier ambassador poet wrote the patriotic lines in his exultation at reaching England once more Tagus farewell he exclaims for I go to meet the Thames to seek my…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
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Image 39 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, THE MUNITION ARMY 35 symbolic of Light Force and Darkness as companion to his Rain Steam and Speed or provided Dante with another passage for his Purgatorio Two traits are noticeable in…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Image 40 of Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings, 6 36 MUNITION LASSES of paper changing hands after each answer The conversation like the game generally revolved round the questions what his name was what hers when they met what he…- Contributor: Foxwell, Agnes Kate
- Date: 1917-01-01
About this Item
Title
- Munition lasses; six months as principal overlooker in danger buildings,
Names
- Foxwell, Agnes Kate.
Created / Published
- London, New York [etc.] Hodder and Stoughton, 1917.
Headings
- - , World War, 1914-1918--Women
- - Weapons industry--Employees
- - Women--Employment--England--Woolwich
- - Woolwich, England Royal arsenal
Notes
- - Describing the work at Woolwich arsenal.
Medium
- 156 p. front. (port.) plates. 19 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- HD6073.M8 F6
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 18003011
OCLC Number
- 14220408
Online Format
- image
- online text