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.
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Source | Photograph by Wynford Swinburne in The Tatler, 30 June 1915 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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