| Description | Items in BURN/4 were not part of Burnett's original collection, and were added in the 1990s - 2000s by Brunel Library staff. This item is photocopies from book, "London", Geoffrey Bles, 1934.
Factory girl working during WW1. Volunteered to work in Danger Zone filling shells. Describes work, filling shells, and the “monkey” machine. Faced a major explosion and TNT poisoning. Awarded OBE.
A factory girl working during WWI. She volunteered to work in the Danger Zone filling shells, and the 'monkey' machine. She faced a major explosion and TNT poisoning. She was later awarded the OBE.
Her typescript account of her experience of munitions factory work includes:
Working with TNT.
Architectural structure of factory and grounds including security measures
General staff of the factory (including military guard).
Significant presence of working women (10,000 employed in total).
Camaraderie of factory life.
Accounts of injury and death e.g. body parts crushed by machines.
Author severely injured by shell explosion, causing blindness and leg injury.
Photocopies from book, London, Geoffrey Bles, 1934, pp61-65; 74 -77; 79 -88; 177-184; 227-235. |