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THE FIRST WORLD WAR
GOODS PORTERS
"That they should successfully undertake work calling for such severe
physical endurances as the work of the porters in railway goods sheds is
a possibility which would have been simply derided three years ago."
Railway Gazette 8 June 1917
"Women wheeled heavily-laden trucks with great pride, and
'would never admit that men could do any work
better than they could do it themselves'"
Edwin Pratt, British railways and the Great War, 1921.
Goods Porters loading milk churns, c.1917
Goods Porter bagging calves.
Great Eastern Porters weighing goods, c.1916
London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, c.1916
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