Inside Newcastle England: Armstrong Built 13,000+ Guns — Armed 78,000 Workers For The Great War

Описание: On the foggy morning of August 4, 1914, the River Tyne slid past Newcastle’s shipyards—and inside Armstrong Whitworth’s Elswick Works, thousands of workers began a shift they thought would be ordinary. By nightfall, Britain was at war, and Elswick would transform from a peacetime factory into an around-the-clock engine of industrial warfare.

This documentary-style story follows the people behind the numbers: the rapid wartime expansion from 12,000 workers to tens of thousands, the arrival of women munitions workers, the relentless three-shift schedule, and the dangerous reality of forging, machining, and shell-filling where a single mistake could mean death. It’s a history of labor under pressure—where production quotas, telegram orders, and frontline letters collided with exhaustion, accidents, and invisible long-term illness.

By 1916–1918, Elswick helped power Britain’s artillery war—guns, shells, shipbuilding, and the brutal logic of total war. And when the Armistice (1918) finally arrived, the machines didn’t stop right away… but the jobs did—revealing the forgotten aftermath for the workers who built victory at industrial scale.

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