Biggest H&S disaster in Leeds: Barnbow Lasses 100 years on

It’s a quiet disaster involving the sacrifice of 35 women that I want to commemorate today – 100 years after the awful events of the Barnbow munitions factory situated not many miles from the HR180 office near Leeds, during the First World War. They were known and the Barnbow Lasses or Barnbow Canaries. It was […]

September 19, 2016

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