Do you remember: Factory Girls

 

 

Ministry of Works Recruiting poster

 

The men all called to arms

Factories required hands to manufacture goods

Engineers to make the machines of war

Fitters: to assemble aircraft, tanks,

Machinists, to work the lathes to make the parts

 

Hands to fill shells with explosives

Working in small numbers in sheds behind the local inn, or

In an organised factory setting > Still in small isolated sheds

Some protected  by earth walls

Filling the shells with "Devils Porridge"

 

The call for help was answered

Women of all ages

And walks of life

Donned the boiler suit robes

Tools in hand

 

They trained

 went to work with enthusiasm

To supply Boy friends, husbands...

With machines and arms

So no man would be left short

 

Rivet gun in hand

A Spitfire was assembled

Engines tested

Ready for flight

Delivered to the squadron by a lady pilot

 

Aeroplanes, ships, tanks and trucks

All built by fair female hands

Boy friends, brothers, cousins, uncles, dads

All supplied

By the newly trained female force

 

Wild Rose

April 2020