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The Canary Girls were British women who worked in munitions manufacturing trinitrotoluene (TNT) shells during the First World War (1914–1918). The nickname arose because exposure to TNT is toxic, and repeated exposure can turn the skin an orange-yellow colour reminiscent of the plumage of a canary .
Munition workers were sometimes called Canary Girls, British women who worked in munitions manufacturing trinitrotoluene (TNT) shells during the First World War1 (1914–1918). The nickname arose because exposure to TNT is toxic, and repeated exposure can turn the skin an orange-yellow colour reminiscent of the plumage of a canary. [2]
Munitionettes worked with hazardous chemicals on a daily basis without adequate protection. Many women worked with trinitrotoluene (TNT). Prolonged exposure to the nitric acid used in the process turned worker's skin yellow, prompting the popular name canary girls.
Mass Grave in St. Mary's Church, Attenborough. A substantial part of the National Shell Filling Factory was destroyed in an explosion of eight tons of TNT on 1 July 1918. In all 134 people were killed, of whom only 32 could be positively identified, and a further 250 were injured.
Thousands worked in munitions factories (see Canary Girl, Gretna Girls), offices, and large hangars to build aircraft. [1] Women were also involved in knitting socks for the soldiers on the front, as well as other voluntary work, but as a matter of survival, women had to work for paid employment for the sake of their families. [13]
Mikron's 2016 tour featured Canary Girls by Laurence Peacock, about 1914 munitions factory workers (who were known as Canary Girls because their skin turned yellow from working with toxic substances), [14] [15] and PURE by Richard Vergette, about the chocolate industry now and in the past. [16]
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Laurence Peacock is an English playwright and dramaturg based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.His Canary Girls, about the canary girls (munitions workers) of World War I, was one of Mikron Theatre Company's two touring productions in 2016, [1] [2] and his In At The Deep End, about the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, is one of their two productions in 2017.