Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The life story of a Canary girl who returned from New York to Gloucestershire and worked in the munitions factory during the first ...
A Gloucester author who has written a book on Quedgeley’s history is surprised city chiefs have not been in touch about the Canary Girls – who they are planning to commemorate. The Canary Girls was ...
Munition workers were often women, freeing up men from the workforce to join the armed forces A statue is being erected to honour the women who risked their lives to provide frontline ammunition ...
Gloucester will commemorate the so-called Canary Girls, who risked their lives to provide ammunition for the frontline, with boards telling their story in Quedgeley. The Canary Girls was the nickname ...
A major contributor to the national effort during World War One was the Gloucester National Shell Filling Factory at Quedgeley. It was a crucial link in a chain of 16 gun ammunition filling factories, ...