Topical Budget: With The Queen At Woolwich, Woolwich (1917)
ProRes digital file Black & White Mute 1917 1:12
Summary: Women workers receive a visit from Queen Mary, as she inspects their work at the munitions factory in Woolwich.
Title number: 19868
LSA ID: LSA/26312
Description: Women had been employed at Woolwich before the First World War, and here can be seen engaging in various types of work for the war effort. Queen Mary, who is accompanied by Princess Mary, enters the factory to huge cheers from the lines of women workers, and then takes a particular interest in a woman using a sewing machine.
Cast: Mary, Queen Consort to George;Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood
Further information: Woolwich Dockyard was part of the Royal Arsenal complex, which employed 80,000 in munitions work during the war.
Keywords: Factory; Factory workers; First World War; sewing
Locations: Woolwich
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