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TRAINING WOMEN, BEAUFOY INSTITUTE, LAMBETH:WORLD WAR II
TRAINING WOMEN, BEAUFOY INSTITUTE, LAMBETH:WORLD WAR II
Bill Wilson instructing Sally Hooks, an acrobatic dancer with Bertram Mills circus, in the use of a hacksaw at the Beaufoy Institute, Black Prince Road, Lambeth. Bill was a teacher at St Andrew's School, Roupell Street and because of his technical qualifications in metalwork, was instructed to assist the Ministry of Labour with the training of women in general engineering practice. The course lasted 6 weeks and the women were urgently required to fill labour shortages in the munitions factories. Originally photographed for the Sunday Pictorial magazine.Digital image by kind permission of Bill Wilson. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.
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| Collection: | Home Front Project 2005 |
| Image type: | Photograph |
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| Ref: | 06860 |
| Identifier: | SPd4070/5 |
| Date: | c.1940 |
#1926 - 1950 #EDUCATION #Home Front Project 2005 #Photograph #WAR AND ARMED FORCES
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