Furniture manufacturers Waring and Gillow established a reputation for supplying high quality furniture to some of the richest families in the country. During the First World War their factories in Lancaster and London were used for the war effort, producing aircraft components and ammunition cases. This photograph was commissioned by Waring and Gillow.
This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Photographer: Lemere, Henry Bedford: Bedford Lemere And Company
Factory, Aircraft Factory, Air Transport, People At Work, Women's History, First World War