A group portrait of the managers and workers in the Belgian Munition Works, also known as the Pelabon Works

Date:
1919
Location:
Belgian Munition Works, Clevedon Road, Richmond Upon Thames, Greater London Authority
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Pelabon Works, Clevedon Road, Richmond Upon Thames, Greater London Authority
Reference:
BL24539
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

During the First World War Belgian engineer Charles Pelabon established the Pelabon Works, a munitions factory in Clevedon Road employing Belgian refugees to manufacture hand grenades and artillery shells. This photograph is a reproduction of BL24380/006, originally taken in September 1918, however a man who is seated on the left of the chair in the original has been painted out in this image. In the Bedford Lemere daybook the subject of this negative is recorded as Greycoat St Group (Repro Neg).

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

Owner: Pelabon, Charles

Client: Varley, A F

Photographer: Boucher, Adolphe Augustus: Bedford Lemere And Company

Keywords

Early 20th Century Munitions Factory, People Posed, First World War