“Thousands of women entered the building industry in 1941. By 1944 there were nearly 25,000 women working in the construction industry in Britain – labourers, concrete workers, carpenters, welders, bricklayers and so on”. It’s estimated that the labour power that built London’s Waterloo Bridge was between 75% and 90% female”.
– Christine Wall, Historian and Carpenter (The Ladies Bridge Documentary, Karen Livesey)
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