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Picture No 10700630
Date 1915
Description Lord Norbury, a fitter in an aeroplane factory during WW1
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Well-known peer doing his "bit" as a fitter in an aeroplane factory. The Earl and Countess of Norbury pictured together at Weybridge. The earl, at the age of fifty three years, undertook to work as a fitter in an aeroplane factory in Surrey, receiving the usual pay of 7d. per hour, working from 6 am to 6 pm. Lady Norbury was doing her bit too, assisting at a buffet at one of the big London rail stations for the supply of free meals to soldiers and sailors returning home from leave.
Source Photograph by Wynford Swinburne in The Tatler, 30 June 1915
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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