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When Britain entered World War I in 1914, thousands of women joined the workforce to fill jobs left by men sent overseas.

In addition to taking over as transit workers, police, bank tellers and firefighters, women dominated the manufacturing industry which sprang up to fuel the war effort.

Women filled the floors of factories producing artillery shells, gas masks, tanks, ships, planes, mines and various munitions.

Women and men work amid rows of artillery shells at the National Filling Factory in Chilwell.

Rubber workers in Lancashire make mouthpieces for gas masks.

Female chemical workers load wheelbarrows with lime.

A worker hauls a cake of nitrate ammonia out of a dryer in a chemical plant.

A worker welds a frame tug for a military airplane.

Tannery workers draw skins from a lime pit.

Tannery workers.

Mine net workers wire floats together.

Workers prepare for the construction of concrete ships.

Workers build parts for boilers and condensers.

A rubber worker operates a spreading machine in a tire factory (left) and another worker shapes a tire. (right)

Workers craft electrical fittings.

A 20 ton crane operator.

Workers test a mine with air pressure. (left) and WRNS workers fit a mine.

Gear planers in a factory in Sunderland.

A worker operates a circular saw.

A worker drills holes for the ribs of airship sheds.

Workers paint War Office vehicles.

Workers haul wood in a lumber yard.

Asbestos workers at a factory in Lancashire.(left) and Workers paint airplanes at a factory near Birmingham.(right)

Workers haul away earth while excavating for the installation of hydraulic pumps.

A worker with an electric motor.

Railway workers unload goods from a train.

Workers construct and treat airplane wings.

Workers assemble artillery shells.

Workers paint steel beams.

A railway worker operates signal box levers. (left) and Workers clean a locomotive.(right)

Workers in a brass fittings shop.

A crane operator.