A Pathe newsreel link of women war workers of Birmingham on parade by the Town Hall/Council House. Viv.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=QsmSnO9T3I0
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=QsmSnO9T3I0
i agree chris and there are so many articles that do not put the names of people that are in the photographs...What a great picture! Someone's mothers, grandmothers...... It's such a shame that, despite the power of social media, so many subjects of images like this never ever get spotted and identified.
Chris
As far as I remember some women were from Ireland, A family we knew, who lived in Hall Green, had an Irish girl - from the Republic - as a lodger. She worked in a factory - her name was Bridie.Agree Chris. The only thing that I can add to this is whether the building was the later Remploy building. If so it was on the Soho Road. I remember Remploy was next to the ‘Labour Exchange’ and opposite the later multi-storey DHSS building.
So it makes me wonder were these women/girls those who’d signed up for war work at their local labour exchange ? And perhaps they were local girls. There’d have been plenty of war work relatively nearby; munitions etc.
Viv.