Barnbow

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Settlement in West Yorkshire, England

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::summary Settlement in West Yorkshire, England ::

There were a further two explosions at the factory; the first in March 1917 killing two girl workers, and one in May 1918 killing three men.{{cite news |title=Story of the 'Barnbow lasses' lives on |url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/our-yorkshire/heritage/world-war-one/homefront/story-of-the-barnbow-lasses-lives-on-1-6888186 |accessdate=13 March 2016 |newspaper=Yorkshire Post |date=13 October 2014

Barnbow was Britain's top shell factory between 1914 and 1918, and by the end of the war on 11 November 1918, a total of 566,000 tons of ammunition had been shipped overseas.

ROF Leeds

In the Second World War, the factory became ROF Leeds, and postwar manufactured the Centurion tank.

Monuments

In 1925 the Five Sisters window at York Minster was rededicated to the 1,513 women who died in the line of service during the First World War, including the women who died at Barnbow.

In October 2016, the site of Barnbow Munitions Factory was listed as a scheduled monument.

There are two memorials to those killed, each listing all the names. In Manston Park is a stone with a plaque. On Cross Gates Road, by the roundabout at the Ring Road are 3 small stones with a simple inscription. Around them on the ground are metal tiles, each bearing the name of one of the women.

In February 2025, a blue plaque was unveiled in Pontefract commemorating Barnbow munitions worker Mary Lucy Turner who died of TNT poisoning. Her plaque is also intended to commemorate the many other Barnbow Canaries who died of the same cause. File:Barnbow Lasses park memorial 3 26 August 2017.jpg|Plaque in Manston Park File:Barnbow Lasses memorial 2 26 August 2017.jpg|Memorial stones on Cross Gates Road File:Barnbow Lasses memorial 1 26 August 2017.jpg|Plaque on Cross Gates Road File:Barnbow Lasses memorial 3 26 August 2017.jpg|The name of one of those killed File:Oak panel from York Minster's Five Sisters windows listing female munitions workers' that died in WWI.jpg|Oak panel from York Minster's Five Sisters window listing female munitions workers' that died in the First World War File:Mary I Turner who died of TNT poisoning 3.9.17.jpg|Mary Lucy Turner who died of TNT poisoning 3.9.17

References

References

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  2. Harry Parkin, ''Your City's Place-Names: Leeds'', English Place-Name Society City-Names Series, 3 (Nottingham: English Place-Names Society, 2017), p. 21.
  3. (2016). "Leeds in 50 Buildings". Amberley Publishing.
  4. (September 1997). "Barnbow Munitions Factory 1915–18".
  5. (7 November 2015). "Paying tribute to Leeds's women of the First World War". Morley Observer.
  6. (6 October 2008). "Barnbow: Cross Gates factory horror that stayed a secret". Yorkshire Evening Post.
  7. (23 June 2012). "East Leeds: 'Barnbow Lasses' names tribute gets the go-ahead". Yorkshire Evening Post.
  8. "The Barnbow Lasses, World War I factory workers".
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  11. . (September 1925). "Five Sisters Window: Unveiling by the Duchess of York". *Canadian Nurses’ Association*.
  12. Fell, Alison S. (2018). "Women as veterans in interwar Britain and France". Cambridge University Press.
  13. (10 October 2016). "Memorial at last for munitions blast lasses". The Times.
  14. (2025-02-11). "Eight blue plaques to be unveiled in Pontefract celebrating the lives and achievements of people throughout history".

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