Image of Adapting industry to the war effort: Female workers varnishing the by Lemere, Henry Bedford (1865-1944)

Adapting industry to the war effort: Female workers varnishing the inner cavity of an artillery...

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Image title: Adapting industry to the war effort: Female workers varnishing the inner cavity of an artillery shell in 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 using a pump to coat the inner cavity of a suspended heavy artillery shell with a thick liquid, possibly a varnish or adhesive. 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.
Photo credit: © Historic England / Bridgeman Images
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