http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk A Pictorial History of Liverpool Mon, 21 May 2012 18:41:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/pleasant-hill-street-1918/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pleasant-hill-street-1918 http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/pleasant-hill-street-1918/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:00:13 +0000 Colin http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/?p=358
Two fascinating photographs from WW1. The factory of James Troop, a brass foundry, on Pleasant Hill Street (off Sefton Street), had evidently been turned into an aircraft factory. Although women had worked in factories and mines from the start of the Industrial Revolution, the necessity to recruit women as part of the war effort was to give the suffragette movement the momentum required to gain the vote (in 1918 for women over 30 but 1928 before they gained the same rights as men).

]]> http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/pleasant-hill-street-1918/feed/ 1