These nearly 3000 items from the BBC Archive have been made freely available for personal, educational, and research use, licensed under the terms of the RemArc licence.
The material is searchable, can be browsed by ‘Theme’ or ‘Decade’, and filtered by media type.
You can download individual items from the collection, or use the search and filtering to produce your own downloadable collections.
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2977 results found
Factory Cadbury
Cadbury Chocolate Factory, Birmingham on the occasion of the derationing of sweets
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1940s, people, images
Factory Foreman
A skilled engineer and foreman of the Tool room in a Royal Ordnance Factory on the Midlands.
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1940s, people, images
Factory Girls 2
Formerly a cashier she is now working in an aircraft factory doing a skilled mans job.
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1940s, people, images
Factory Girls 3
One of the thousands of married women who came back to the factories to help in the war effort.
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1940s, people, images
Factory Girls
The Worker of the Week. She will be presented in the broadcast on 19th July (BBC Forces Programme). Formerly a Cashier, she picked up remarkably quickly her new work in an aircraft factory, and is now doing a skilled job.
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1940s, people, images
Factory Girls Manchester
A factory in the north-west of England
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1940s, people, images
Factory Group
Workers' Playtime broadcast from an aircraft factory in the BBC Home and Forces programme
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1940s, people, images
Factory Hosiery
One of the Town to Town programmes arranged between the BBC and Station WTAG, Worcester, Mass. The woman pictured is a linker at a hosiery factory in Leicester, who took part in the programme.
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1940s, people, images
Factory Ladies Toy
Producer interviewing some of the workers at a London toy factory who are busily engaged in making crackers.
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1940s, people, images
Factory Man
A broadcast from an aircraft factory in the BBC Home and Forces programmes. One of a series of programmes for Factory workers relayed from various factories in England.
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1940s, people, images
Factory Ulster
The weaving shed in an Ulster factory
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1940s, people, images
Factory Ulster Rayon
Charles Freer records an interview with a young worker in the finishing department of a Rayon factory.
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1940s, people, images
