Navvies In Skirts (1916)

Navvies in Skirts women take jobs as navvies during World War One. Location of events unknown. Pan along line of women in long skirts shovelling rocks from a huge pile 15 feet high. Then a line of female navvies (building labourers) approaching pushing full wheelbarrow. Shot looking down line of square openings at ground level, some with boards laid across. Dark buildings in background whole scene very Dickensian. The women workers push wheelbarrows out and dump their loads into the openings. Next, a great shot of woman pushing the wheelbarrow forward and dumping rocks into what seems to be a big open cellar with absolutely gigantic pile of rocks behind her; other women at work. Proletariat; heavy; strength; the sexes. G378 FILM ID:1848. 2 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé