Gas Works
Item
Title
Gas Works
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Identifier
5753.mp4
IWMFILM546-low.mp4
Creator
Unknown
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Abstract
Women workers at a gas manufacturing plant, probably in Britain, during the second half of the First World War. The women work outside shovelling coke into sacks and loading these onto a cart. At another heap they shovel the coke onto sieves balanced on wheelbarrows to sort out the slag. The slag is taken in the barrows to another tip where it is dumped. The staff inside the gas works includes a few men. Lighting conditions are poor but the furnace doors are open and women are working shovelling coke inside.
Date
1917 - 1918
Date Created
1917-01-01
Temporal Coverage
1918-12-31
Spatial Coverage
England
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Source
DVD copy of original film
Medium
DVD copy of original film
Type
Footage
Contributor
Alisa Miller
Publisher
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
producer
Unknown
Subject
Allied Forces
Battle
Home Front
Industrial
Somme
Women