Photo of possible munitions factory WW1 Hayes

[Boudicca95]

Hi everyone

I have attached a photo that shows my great aunt with some co workers. She is the one without a cap. I know she worked for HMV and I believe it was turned into a munitions filling station during WW1. I have found an old photo of the site on line and it seems to show lots of cabins with the same kind of chimney. It also shows workers with similar kind of caps.

Can anyone date this photo and/or confirm where I think it is?

Many thanks!

[EDWARDO]

Oooh. There's two without caps......

[JustBenjy]

Hi everyone

I have attached a photo that shows my great aunt with some co workers. She is the one without a cap. I know she worked for HMV and I believe it was turned into a munitions filling station during WW1. I have found an old photo of the site on line and it seems to show lots of cabins with the same kind of chimney. It also shows workers with similar kind of caps.

Can anyone date this photo and/or confirm where I think it is?

Many thanks!

Well there was a National filling Factory in Hayes. Started in Oct 1915.Filling shell (18-pdr. to 12-in.), cartridges, and components.   

Also a factory making Aero engine parts, was Mitchell Shaw, under control of NFF.

My guess is your photo is the shell filling plant,  National filling Factory no7

Lots of detail here.  http://middx.net/articles/munitions.htm

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[LouisaS]

One of my mum's Gt Aunt went to London to do war  "work" , she met a friend in London who came back to Cheltenham to live.   They might have been in Hays?

[nanny jan]

I'm not sure that Hayes, Middlesex would have been considered as London in WW1.

Living there as a child in 1950s it wasn't considered as London.....when we moved into our new house there were fields and horses at the end of our garden.

Nanny Jan

[lizbet t]

I know Hayes is where my grandmother worked and she was living around Fulham. I am very curious about how she got there, she was supporting the family because my grandfather was disabled.