Category:Women at work in the United Kingdom in World War II

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'She is only one of a multitude of efficient and conscientious women workers in engineering industries. Her particular task is to make an important component of the Weir pump, a piece of machinery with which all sailors Art.IWMARTLD1535.jpg 800 × 553; 109 KB
'The Islington Borough Council have employed women on this strenuous task. On the left, wielding a pick, is Mrs Kellam, forewoman, a grandmother who is not afraid of hard work and responsibility. Her daughter, Edith, is Art.IWMARTLD1538.jpg 3,326 × 2,475; 1.83 MB
'These Hampstead women are typical of the thousands engaged on the useful and laborious work of collecting salvage of every sort to help the war effort. In this instance heavy sacks of waste paper are seen being loaded Art.IWMARTLD1534.jpg 800 × 604; 117 KB
UK worker meets Roosevelt - Toni Frissell LC-F9-01-4211-92-2.jpg 844 × 902; 424 KB
A female Fire Guard using a stirrup pump on the roof of a building in London, 1941. D5007.jpg 4,479 × 4,693; 2.95 MB
A Girl Joins Up- Women's Factory War Work, England, UK, May 1941 D3425.jpg 539 × 800; 51 KB
A Girl Joins Up- Women's Factory War Work, England, UK, May 1941 D3440.jpg 534 × 800; 45 KB
A Girl Joins Up- Women's Factory War Work, England, UK, May 1941 D3448.jpg 541 × 800; 49 KB
A Girl Joins Up- Women's Factory War Work, England, UK, May 1941 D3449.jpg 800 × 535; 50 KB
A Girl Joins Up- Women's Factory War Work, England, UK, May 1941 D3451.jpg 536 × 800; 50 KB
A Girl Joins Up- Women's Factory War Work, England, UK, May 1941 D3458.jpg 800 × 527; 53 KB
A Girl Joins Up- Women's Factory War Work, England, UK, May 1941 D3464.jpg 544 × 800; 63 KB
A Girl Joins Up- Women's Factory War Work, England, UK, May 1941 D3465.jpg 533 × 800; 53 KB
A Girl Joins Up- Women's Factory War Work, England, UK, May 1941 D3467.jpg 800 × 538; 65 KB
A Girl Joins Up- Women's Factory War Work, England, UK, May 1941 D3470.jpg 538 × 800; 47 KB
A Girl Joins Up- Women's Factory War Work, England, UK, May 1941 D3473.jpg 531 × 800; 45 KB
A Girl Joins Up- Women's Factory War Work, England, UK, May 1941 D3474.jpg 539 × 800; 51 KB
A Girl Joins Up- Women's Factory War Work, England, UK, May 1941 D3475.jpg 538 × 800; 53 KB
A Girl Joins Up- Women's Factory War Work, England, UK, May 1941 D3476.jpg 535 × 800; 59 KB
A Girl Joins Up- Women's Factory War Work, England, UK, May 1941 D3477.jpg 537 × 800; 46 KB
A member of the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) serving with a 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun battery, December 1942. TR452.jpg 2,463 × 2,480; 1.62 MB
A Merlin Is Made- the Production of Merlin Engines at a Rolls Royce Factory, 1942 D12105.jpg 764 × 800; 97 KB
A Merlin Is Made- the Production of Merlin Engines at a Rolls Royce Factory, 1942 D12112.jpg 800 × 792; 71 KB
A Waaf Corporal Ach-gd Watches From the Control Tower As An Aircraft Comes in CH8136.jpg 761 × 800; 83 KB
A woman war worker machining a cylinder block for a Rolls Royce aero engine. TR1141 (cropped).jpg 1,000 × 750; 337 KB
A woman war worker machining a cylinder block for a Rolls Royce aero engine. TR1141.jpg 1,772 × 2,477; 1.15 MB
A Women's Royal Naval Service signaller with signal flags, 1940. A1699.jpg 1,755 × 2,480; 733 KB
A young woman worker painting the fuselage roundel on a Mosquito aircraft at de Havilland's factory at Hatfield in Hertfordshire, 1943. TR918.jpg 2,480 × 1,701; 1.02 MB
Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) girls at the Royal Artillery Experimental Unit at Shoeburyness in Essex, recovering shells from the mud flats at low tide, 1943. TR743.jpg 2,402 × 1,772; 1,004 KB
Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) girls at the Royal Artillery Experimental Unit, at Shoeburyness in Essex, using the Window Position Finder to sight shell bursts in the air or water, 1943. TR744.jpg 2,423 × 1,772; 838 KB
Birth of a Bomber- Aircraft Production in Britain, 1942 D7083.jpg 758 × 800; 62 KB
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 D2155.jpg 530 × 800; 46 KB
Boiler repair.JPG 2,560 × 1,920; 4.95 MB
Captain Pauline Gower of the Women's Air Transport Auxiliary women's work in the War (other than the Services) - Six lithographs by Ethel Gabain Art.IWMARTLD1537.jpg 800 × 579; 75 KB
Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB111.jpg 756 × 800; 59 KB
Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB164.jpg 774 × 800; 57 KB
Cecil Beaton Photographs- Tyneside Shipyards, 1943 DB166.jpg 765 × 800; 63 KB
Dorothy Du Boisson.jpg 2,301 × 2,396; 2.28 MB
Fighting Fit in the Factory Art.IWMPST14311.jpg 466 × 708; 61 KB
Flying Bomb- V1 Bomb Damage in London, England, UK, 1944 D21226.jpg 800 × 536; 57 KB
Flying Bomb- V1 Bomb Damage in London, England, UK, 1944 D21228.jpg 800 × 539; 53 KB
Flying Bomb- V1 Bomb Damage in London, England, UK, 1944 D21229.jpg 800 × 542; 59 KB
Flying Bomb- V1 Bomb Damage in London, England, UK, 1944 D21239.jpg 607 × 800; 57 KB
Flying Bomb- V1 Bomb Damage in London, England, UK, 1944 D21240.jpg 800 × 620; 79 KB
Gas Drill at a London Hospital- Gas Masks For Babies Are Tested, 1940 D649.jpg 536 × 800; 54 KB
Gas Drill at a London Hospital- Gas Masks For Babies Are Tested, England, 1940 D650.jpg 566 × 800; 50 KB
Gas Drill at a London Hospital- Gas Masks For Babies Are Tested, England, 1940 D656.jpg 800 × 576; 76 KB
Gas Drill at a London Hospital- Gas Masks For Babies Are Tested, England, 1940 D657.jpg 800 × 572; 62 KB
Girl Gunners- the work of the Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Experimental Station, Shoeburyness, Essex, England, 1943 D12694.jpg 765 × 800; 62 KB
Girl Gunners- the work of the Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Experimental Station, Shoeburyness, Essex, England, 1943 D12700.jpg 763 × 800; 35 KB
Girl Gunners- the work of the Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Experimental Station, Shoeburyness, Essex, England, 1943 D12701.jpg 778 × 799; 62 KB
Girl Gunners- the work of the Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Experimental Station, Shoeburyness, Essex, England, 1943 D12702.jpg 800 × 796; 39 KB
Girl Gunners- the work of the Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Experimental Station, Shoeburyness, Essex, England, 1943 D12705.jpg 776 × 800; 41 KB
Girls Garnishing Camouflage Nets in an Ordnance Factory Art.IWMARTLD1671.jpg 800 × 638; 87 KB
Head and shoulders portrait of Mrs Chaulkey, a war worker in Britain, 1943. TR640.jpg 2,480 × 1,733; 1,014 KB
Housewives! Wvs Needs Your Help! Art.IWMPST19869.jpg 437 × 661; 113 KB
INF3-88 pt1 Child minding Artist Andi.jpg 2,406 × 3,660; 2.54 MB
Inspecting gun shells (29340541775).jpg 1,000 × 742; 170 KB
It's the Women We Need Art.IWMPST13886.jpg 474 × 720; 47 KB
Jettison Petrol Tanks- the Production of Jettison Tanks For USE by the United States Army Air Force and Royal Air Force, Britain, 1944 D23460.jpg 800 × 547; 60 KB
Jettison Petrol Tanks- the Production of Jettison Tanks For USE by the United States Army Air Force and Royal Air Force, Britain, 1944 D23462.jpg 800 × 543; 58 KB
Jettison Petrol Tanks- the Production of Jettison Tanks For USE by the United States Army Air Force and Royal Air Force, Britain, 1944 D23467.jpg 774 × 800; 60 KB
Laundry in Wartime- the work of Gleniffer Laundry, Catford, London, England, UK, 1944 D23249.jpg 768 × 800; 80 KB
Laundry in Wartime- the work of Gleniffer Laundry, Catford, London, England, UK, 1944 D23251.jpg 758 × 800; 67 KB
Laundry in Wartime- the work of Gleniffer Laundry, Catford, London, England, UK, 1944 D23252.jpg 761 × 800; 74 KB
Laundry in Wartime- the work of Gleniffer Laundry, Catford, London, England, UK, 1944 D23254.jpg 765 × 800; 63 KB
Laundry in Wartime- the work of Gleniffer Laundry, Catford, London, England, UK, 1944 D23260.jpg 749 × 800; 58 KB
Laundry in Wartime- the work of Gleniffer Laundry, Catford, London, England, UK, 1944 D23263.jpg 760 × 800; 57 KB
Laundry in Wartime- the work of Gleniffer Laundry, Catford, London, England, UK, 1944 D23266.jpg 774 × 800; 66 KB
Laundry in Wartime- the work of Gleniffer Laundry, Catford, London, England, UK, 1944 D23267.jpg 755 × 800; 71 KB
Laundry in Wartime- the work of Gleniffer Laundry, Catford, London, England, UK, 1944 D23268.jpg 767 × 799; 80 KB
Laundry in Wartime- the work of Gleniffer Laundry, Catford, London, England, UK, 1944 D23271.jpg 769 × 800; 64 KB
Laundry in Wartime- the work of Gleniffer Laundry, Catford, London, England, UK, 1944 D23272.jpg 775 × 800; 82 KB
Laundry in Wartime- the work of Gleniffer Laundry, Catford, London, England, UK, 1944 D23408.jpg 773 × 800; 71 KB
Leisure and Entertainment during the Second World War D2693.jpg 800 × 566; 86 KB
Letter Into Bullet- Turning Salvaged Paper Into Rifle Cartridges, England, 1942 D7166.jpg 771 × 800; 77 KB
Letter Into Bullet- Turning Salvaged Paper Into Rifle Cartridges, England, 1942 D7169.jpg 763 × 800; 73 KB
Letter Into Bullet- Turning Salvaged Paper Into Rifle Cartridges, England, 1942 D7174.jpg 767 × 799; 68 KB
London Fashion Designers- the work of Members of the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers in Wartime, London, England, UK, 1944 D23072.jpg 772 × 800; 65 KB
Making Camouflage Nets- the War Effort in Britain, 1943 D15171.jpg 800 × 597; 94 KB
Members of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) practice welding at a Government Training Centre as part of their training to become Ship Mechanics in 1943. D17082.jpg 1,772 × 1,850; 758 KB
Miss M Greatorex, a war worker involved in the manufacture of 17-pdr anti-tank guns, 1943. TR1415.jpg 1,725 × 2,480; 617 KB
Mrs C Graham, a war worker involved in the manufacture of 17-pdr anti-tank guns, 1943. TR1413.jpg 1,740 × 2,480; 550 KB
Mrs Irene Stacey at her workbench in a factory in Bristol during 1942. D10433.jpg 1,665 × 2,480; 932 KB
Mtc Girls For America- Women of the Mechanised Transport Corps at Work, London, England, 1940 D2546.jpg 568 × 800; 64 KB
Munitions Production in Britain, 1940 D674.jpg 800 × 605; 69 KB
New Sacks For Old- Salvage in Wartime Britain, 1943 D16868.jpg 757 × 800; 83 KB
New Sacks For Old- Salvage in Wartime Britain, 1943 D16869.jpg 754 × 800; 96 KB
Old Rags Into New Cloth- Salvage in Britain, April 1942 D7458.jpg 752 × 788; 93 KB
Opportunities in Government Service Art.IWMPST13962.jpg 464 × 698; 48 KB
Photography Q27483.jpg 678 × 800; 74 KB
Pre-fabrication in Shipbuilding. 29, 30 and 31 March 1943, Newcastle and District, Furness and Co, Billingham. Special For the Technical Papers. the Main Feature of These Ships Is the Pre-fabricated Parts. A15744.jpg 591 × 800; 45 KB
Rolls Royce factory -Merlin engines and female workers-1942 (original).jpg 756 × 800; 78 KB
Royal Academy of Music- the work of the Royal Academy in Wartime, London, England, UK, 1944 D22286.jpg 538 × 800; 46 KB
Services Club- the work of the Women's Voluntary Service at Chester House, Clarendon Place, London, England, 1943 D14086.jpg 763 × 800; 67 KB
Sketch for Making Coloured Parachutes (Art.IWM ART LD 4957).jpg 570 × 800; 114 KB
Sten Gun Production in Britain, 1943 TR641.jpg 800 × 558; 55 KB
Sten Gun Production in Britain, 1943 TR642.jpg 800 × 563; 53 KB
Stirrup Pump Manufacture, England, UK, 1941 D3597.jpg 800 × 637; 77 KB
Student Nurse- Life at St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, Surrey, 1943 D12835.jpg 774 × 800; 61 KB
Telegraph Less Art.IWMPST4040.jpg 704 × 564; 57 KB
Telegraph Less Art.IWMPST4041.jpg 698 × 568; 55 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service in Britain during the Second World War TR2599.jpg 800 × 585; 55 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service in Britain during the Second World War TR2603.jpg 800 × 584; 55 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service in Britain during the Second World War TR2604.jpg 800 × 584; 50 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service in Britain during the Second World War TR2605.jpg 800 × 583; 34 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service in Britain during the Second World War TR2607.jpg 800 × 583; 60 KB
The Birth of a 25 Pounder Gun, 1942 TR515A.jpg 800 × 586; 37 KB
The British Cotton Industry- Everyday Life at a British Cotton Mill, Lancashire, England, UK, 1945 D26001.jpg 776 × 800; 88 KB
The Home Front in Britain 1939-1945 TR968.jpg 800 × 555; 40 KB
The Reconstruction of 'an Incident'- Civil Defence Training in Fulham, London, 1942 D7924.jpg 762 × 800; 77 KB
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A22746.jpg 778 × 377; 44 KB
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A22763.jpg 800 × 603; 42 KB
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A22764.jpg 800 × 600; 62 KB
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A24934.jpg 800 × 598; 57 KB
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A24936.jpg 800 × 600; 53 KB
The work of the Auxiliary Territorial Service at a Mixed Anti-aircraft Battery, England, UK, 1942 D8287.jpg 800 × 636; 54 KB
The work of the General Post Office, London, October 1941 D5259.jpg 1,772 × 2,326; 877 KB
Training For War Work- Chiswick Polytechnic, Turnham Green, 1941 D3792.jpg 625 × 800; 72 KB
Under Fire - As a Reward- Mortar Bomb Production and Testing at J and F Pool's No 1 Works, Hayle, Cornwall, England, 1943 D12418.jpg 800 × 612; 81 KB
Under Fire - As a Reward- Mortar Bomb Production and Testing at J and F Pool's No 1 Works, Hayle, Cornwall, England, 1943 D12423.jpg 800 × 530; 66 KB
Under Fire - As a Reward- Mortar Bomb Production and Testing at J and F Pool's No 1 Works, Hayle, Cornwall, England, 1943 D12424.jpg 766 × 800; 73 KB
Under Fire - As a Reward- Mortar Bomb Production and Testing at J and F Pool's No 1 Works, Hayle, Cornwall, England, 1943 D12427.jpg 760 × 800; 76 KB
Under Fire - As a Reward- Mortar Bomb Production and Testing at J and F Pool's No 1 Works, Hayle, Cornwall, England, 1943 D12429.jpg 800 × 642; 79 KB
Under Fire - As a Reward- Mortar Bomb Production and Testing at J and F Pool's No 1 Works, Hayle, Cornwall, England, 1943 D12431.jpg 800 × 796; 90 KB
Under Fire - As a Reward- Mortar Bomb Production and Testing at J and F Pool's No 1 Works, Hayle, Cornwall, England, 1943 D12432.jpg 763 × 800; 61 KB
Underground Railway Women- Women at work on London's Tube Network, 1942 D9480.jpg 755 × 800; 62 KB
Underground Railway Women- Women at work on London's Tube Network, 1942 D9483.jpg 757 × 800; 84 KB
Useful Jobs that Girls Can do Art.IWMPST14942.jpg 722 × 481; 83 KB
Van Girl- Horse and Cart Deliveries For the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, London, England, 1943 D16830.jpg 754 × 800; 71 KB
War Industry in Britain 1939 - 1945 A22762.jpg 800 × 602; 59 KB
War Industry in Britain 1939-1945 A12138.jpg 800 × 602; 53 KB
War Industry in Britain 1939-1945 A25050.jpg 800 × 603; 75 KB
War Industry in Britain 1939-1945 A8991.jpg 569 × 800; 44 KB
War Industry in Britain 1939-1945 TR516A.jpg 800 × 587; 56 KB
War Production in Britain, 1943 TR648.jpg 800 × 548; 35 KB
War Savings Will Make Your Dreams Come True Art.IWMPST16411.jpg 2,309 × 3,508; 2.33 MB
War worker Mrs T Charlesworth, at a factory making 17-pounder anti-tank guns, 1943. TR1414.jpg 1,731 × 2,480; 637 KB
War Workers in the West Country, Britain, 1943 TR658.jpg 800 × 587; 54 KB
War Workers in the West Country, Britain, 1943 TR659.jpg 800 × 586; 52 KB
War Workers in the West Country, Britain, 1943 TR672.jpg 800 × 588; 66 KB
Water-cooled machine guns just arrived from the USA under lend-lease are checked at an ordnance depot in England. - NARA - 196325.jpg 3,000 × 2,301; 3.28 MB
Winston Churchill watches a female riveter at work on a Supermarine Spitfire at the Castle Bromwich factory in Birmingham, 28 September 1941. H14259.jpg 1,772 × 1,779; 902 KB
Women - Please Lend Your Support a Little Longer... Art.IWMPST15116.jpg 482 × 723; 109 KB
Women assembling Hawker Hurricanes 1942.jpg 764 × 800; 233 KB
Women at War 1939 - 1945 TR464.jpg 3,947 × 4,011; 4.08 MB
Women at War 1939 - 1945 TR683.jpg 586 × 800; 33 KB
Women at War 1939 - 1945 TR741.jpg 583 × 800; 30 KB
Women at War 1939 - 1945 TR742.jpg 800 × 582; 60 KB
Women Carpenters Then and Now- Women at work in England, 1941 D2689.jpg 800 × 599; 90 KB
Women Carpenters Then and Now- Women at work in England, 1941 D2694.jpg 800 × 604; 83 KB
Women Carpenters Then and Now- Women at work in England, 1941 D2695.jpg 800 × 564; 79 KB
Women Carpenters Then and Now- Women at work in England, 1941 D2696.jpg 592 × 800; 64 KB
Women Carpenters Then and Now- Women at work in England, 1941 D2697.jpg 569 × 800; 40 KB
Women Carpenters Then and Now- Women at work in England, 1941 D2700.jpg 800 × 604; 77 KB
Women Carpenters Then and Now- Women at work in England, 1941 D2702.jpg 800 × 601; 59 KB
Women lumberjacks at Pityoulish lumber camp IWM Art.IWM ART LD 1539.jpg 800 × 524; 92 KB
Women of Britain! Art.IWMPST14418.jpg 460 × 718; 36 KB
Women on the Home Front 1939 - 1945 A13724.jpg 800 × 576; 56 KB
Women on the Home Front 1939 - 1945 A8989.jpg 800 × 598; 66 KB
Women Wanted - as Ambulance Drivers Art.IWMPST3399.jpg 489 × 722; 158 KB
Women War Workers in Britain, 1944 TR1808.jpg 703 × 800; 37 KB
Women War Workers in Britain, 1944 TR1809.jpg 763 × 800; 54 KB
Women War Workers in Britain, 1944 TR1810.jpg 764 × 800; 89 KB
Women War Workers in Britain, 1944 TR1811.jpg 652 × 800; 35 KB
Women War Workers in Britain, 1945 TR2597.jpg 800 × 527; 63 KB
Women War Workers in Britain, 1945 TR2598.jpg 525 × 800; 35 KB
Women workers checking 25-pounder artillery shells at the small arms factory of J & F Pool Ltd in Hayle, Cornwall, 1943. TR660.jpg 2,404 × 1,772; 981 KB
Women workers from the small West Country arms factory of J & F Pool Ltd in Hayle, Cornwall, are given a mortar firing demonstration, 1943. TR673.jpg 2,475 × 1,772; 1.47 MB
Women working in an underground munitions factory at Liverpool, 1945. TR2665.jpg 2,317 × 1,772; 1.16 MB
Women! You are Needed in the National Fire Service Art.IWMPST13894.jpg 462 × 710; 43 KB
Women's Factory War work at Slough Training Centre, England, UK, 1941 D3500.jpg 800 × 616; 88 KB
Women's Factory War work at Slough Training Centre, England, UK, 1941 D3517.jpg 668 × 800; 72 KB
Women's Street Cleaning Brigade- Female Dustmen at Work, London, 1942 D8942.jpg 760 × 800; 98 KB
Women's Street Cleaning Brigade- Female Dustmen at Work, London, 1942 D8944.jpg 758 × 800; 89 KB
Women's Voluntary Service Run Children's Clothing Exchange, Norwood, London, 1943 D16857.jpg 800 × 790; 82 KB
Womens Timber Corps member at work.jpg 352 × 461; 44 KB
WWII UK Two women aircraft workers carry a propeller.jpg 678 × 800; 74 KB

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