The Stitchery of Catherine Hill, a Lancashire Lass
To mark the centenary of the start of World War One, I wanted to share one of my family photos with you.
The photograph was taken in 1916 in Lancashire, England.
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This note in the archive is a document detailing the materials supplied by Fox Brothers during WW1 (1914-1918). A scan of the original document detailing the order is available for you to view on this page and shows that Fox Brothers supplied a total of over 8,000 miles of cloth to the British and Allied governments, using 10,000 tons or 900 trucks of wool…… I gasp to think of what it took to produce this amount of cloth – noisy machines and the huge workforce of women doing war work.