The fabric room at the Waring and Gillow factory and depository in Hammersmith during the First World War, showing women sewing the fabric on aeroplane wings

Date:
Nov 1916
Location:
Waring And Gillow Factory, Cambridge Road, Hammersmith And Fulham, Greater London Authority, W6
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Cambridge Grove, Hammersmith And Fulham, Greater London Authority, W6
Reference:
BL23701/010
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

Waring and Gillow were furniture manufacturers who established a reputation for supplying high quality furniture to some of the richest families in the country. During the First World War their factory and depository in Cambridge Road (later renamed Cambridge Grove), Hammersmith was used for making aeroplane components. The Bedford Lemere daybook records Waring & Gillow as the clients for this photograph.

Content

This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Curator: ##

Photographer: Lemere, Henry Bedford

Keywords

First World War Aircraft Factory, First World War, Women's History, Air Transport