The girls in the museum for reasons of their own posted this picture today. It features some of the 2000 women who worked at Crittalls during the Great War making shell casings and other required items. They were paid the same as the men and began at 12/6d a week ending in July 1918 at £2/10/- a week. Considering the soldier began at ten shillings a week and few got much more the lassies were doing well.
Having posted this I sent it on to the local facebook page where so far 13 women and one male (he says) have 'liked' this. Typical women self obsession. How many would have liked it if men were shown doing the real hard work at the foundry? Tsk!
I thought I would add this to it as if they are interested they might part with all that money they earn and buy one of the books relevant to women. I have not read them myself though I did look through the one on terrorists called 'The Suffragettes.' It only costs a pound yet so far only one has sold. I wonder how many of these women who 'liked' the post actually vote round here in UKIPLand? It would be sad if they refused because 'it makes no difference.' Sadly we have no vote this next local election so none of the Conservative members offering us rate rises and service cuts will notice the public apathy on May 3rd.
It was a quiet day with no schools in, only three visitors and three other callers, even the phones were quiet. This is usual in between exhibitions. However I still managed to fall asleep for half an hour after lunch anyway. I expect it will be full of females for the next week or two as we have the textile (yawn) exhibition on.
2 comments:
Do you get many tourists calling into the Museum, I always try and go to local museums whenever we visit somewhere as its interesting and gives you some background. Do all English Museums charge?
Dave, Most museums now charge. Only large ones get money to survive the rest struggle. Some only open once or twice a week as they are run by volunteers, we have four paid staff and need a fancy exhibition to bring in people during summer months. School parties, other groups, hall hire etc help to pay costs. Always best to look them up before going.
Lots of museum fans pop in when passing, I like to do the same.
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