DON Family History SocietyFeb 6
2. The story of a distressing accident at Skinningrove Ironworks by which a young Staithes woman was decapitated, was told at an inquest at Bretton on Saturday, on Maud Armstrong, seventeen, a labourer engaged to assist the fitters. A verdict of Accidentally killed whilst following her employment was returned. She was wearing a Staithes fisher bonnet at the time.... Mr E Bury, works manager, stated they could not account for the girl having been run over. He thought that the bonnet she was wearing would have something to do with her not seeing the approach of the engine and truck. #forgottenwomen #munitionsfactory
DON Family History SocietyFeb 6
1. Series of women who died in munition factories but no recognised:
There are a number of communities on Lives of the First world War that include female munition workers. Who died due to their war work. It is difficult to identify where munitions people worked due to the secrecy at the time about their activities. This is about women who died in explosions, fires, and other industrial accidents in munition factories but not remembered in any other factory-based community.
Maud Armstrong was born in 1900, Leeds, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of George Armstrong and Maud Storey.
In 1911 Maud aged 11 lived with her family at 8 n 1917 she worked at the Labourer Ministry of Munitions, Skinningrove Ironworks.
On 1st June 1917 Maud was accidently killed whilst following her employment aged 17. Skinningrove Ironworks, Skinningrove, Yorkshire United Kingdom. Church Street, Staithes, Yorkshire. #forgottenwomen #munitionsfactory
EditorNov 19

Milford Haven shortlisted for new UK munitions factory

The Government has committed to building at least six new factories across the UK, producing weapons components including propellants, explosives and pyrotechnics. Officials say the investment will restore onshore energetics production for the first time in nearly two decades.

Pembrokeshire on the shortlist

Potential sites include Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire, alongside Grangemouth in Scotland and Teesside in Northeast England. Other areas under consideration are Monmouthshire, Cumbria, Dumfriesshire, Ayrshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Essex, Worcestershire and Hampshire.

The Ministry of Defence has already commissioned feasibility studies and engineering design work, with construction expected to begin on the first site within the next year.

Jobs and investment

The Government says the programme will create at least 1,000 new jobs nationwide, with Defence Secretary John Healey describing the initiative as “building the factories of the future in Britain.”

He added:

“We are making defence an engine for growth, unambiguously backing British jobs and British skills as we make the UK better ready to fight and better able to deter future conflicts.”

Wider defence investment

Alongside the munitions programme, two new drone factories are opening this week — Helsing’s “resilience factory” in Plymouth and STARK’s new production line in Swindon.

The Government argues that the investment will not only strengthen the UK’s Armed Forces but also deliver a “defence dividend” in the form of skilled jobs and industrial growth across the nations and regions of the UK.

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