High Explosives concert party

CUNARD WORKS, Rimrose Road, Bootle. The Cunard Shell Works concert party, The High Explosives, in costume for a show. In 1915 the Cunard Steamship Co store and engineering works at Rimrose Road, Bootle, was converted into a munitions factory. Projectile heads were brought to the Shell Works to be finished, checked and varnished before being taken to another factory in the area to be filled with explosive. Photographed by Bedford Lemere and Co in 1917

Bedford Bootle Checked Converted Cunard Explosive Explosives Filled Finished Lemere Munitions Projectile Rimrose Varnished

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