Thursday 14 January 2021

“Doing her bit” …… the porcelain munitions worker

 Of all the memorabilia commemorating the work of munitions workers during the Great War, this has to be one of favourites.


 It bears the mark Carlton China and was made and sold in Rochester.

 And with an eye to profits the company would have sold the figure across the country substituting the name and coat of arms of Rochester for a heap of different places.

 The market for crested china with a war theme, was an undoubted winner, and ceramic figures of tanks, battleships and ambulances vied with those of wartime nurses, British bull dogs and aircraft.

 After the war to these were added miniature porcelain war memorials, by which time the industry had begun to return to its prewar models featuring seaside resorts, touristy buildings, and key rings.


many of these have appeared on the blog.*

 Location; the Great War

 Picture; “Doing her bit”, circa 1915-1918, from the collection of David Harrop

 *Crested China, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Crested%20China

 

 

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