Carriage Works Gallery

No 7 Shop, Carriage Finishing Shop, 1924

Dozens of men can be seen here in the carriage finishing shop. It was here that parts of the carriages were finished off. Doors, windows and decorative parts were completed here and used to finish off the carriage building process

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1920s, 1924, Carriage Building, Carriage Works, Finishers, No 7 Shop, Swindon, Swindon Works, Wood

No 12 shop, Carpenters Shop, 1934

An exterior view of the Carpenter's Shop. This workshop was situated adjacent to Station Road, next to one of the Works underpasses. The Carpenter's Shop also had its own subway allowing workers to avoid the complex array of railway tracks outside the building

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1930s, 1934, Carpenters Shop, Carriage Works, Swindon Works, Workshop

No 9 Shop, Sewing Room, August 1914

The date of this photograph is 7th August 1914. Just three days after Britain entered the war. By this date there were already women employed at Swindon Works and this view of the Sewing Room in the Carriage and Wagon Works shows approximately 30 women working on fabric items for carriages. From Swindon Works war records we know that requests were made from the Government for items such as first aid stretchers, cots and mattresses for ambulance trains and blankets. These would have come through the sewing room to be worked on and completed

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