During the First World War many factories were converted to making munitions and equipment for the war effort. In 1915 the Cunard Steamship Company’s store and engineering works at Rimrose Road, Bootle, was converted into a munitions factory. Four-and-a-half-inch, six-inch and eight-inch shells were brought to Cunard's Shell Works to be finished, checked and varnished before being taken to another factory in the area to be filled with explosive. The photograph was taken for the Cunard Steamship Company Limited.
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
Early 20th Century Shell Factory, Early 20th Century Munitions Factory, First World War, Industrial Heritage, People At Work, Women's History
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