Female Welders in Britain
The Most Iconic Photographs of Welding in Britain during World War II
A young female welder at Tyneside Shipyards, 1943
Shipbuilding in Wartime: A female welder in a shipyard in Glasgow, 1944
Cecil Beaton, Imp. War Museum, D20830
Two female welders at work on a merchant ship during World War II at Greenock (1939-1945)
Lt R G G Coote, Royal Navy, IWM A12138
A woman welder building a prefabricated ship at the Henry Scarr shipyard at Hessle near Hull (1939-1945)
Lt J E Russell, Royal Navy, IWM A22762
Agnes Smith, a fifty year old mother of ten, was a forewoman of a Greenock shipbuilding yard
A woman standing on a ladder for arc welding the first two parts of a prefabricated steel ship at the shipyard of Henry Scarr Ltd, Hessle near Hull (1939-1945)
J E Russell, Royal Navy, IWM A22763
A group of welders, both male and female, watch as one of their colleagues works on a metal plate, Tyneside Shipyards, 1943
Female welders and burners leaving for their break. These women worked on building Britain's prefabricated ships at the shipyard of Henry Scarr Ltd at Hessle near Hull
Lt J E Russell, Royal Navy, Imperial War Museum A22746, 1939-1945
Apprentice welder Mary Cunningham just finished training at Greenock in June 1942, going to work on her first warship
Members of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) weld with oxy-acetylene burners at a Government Training Centre as part of their training to become Ship Mechanics in 1943