Women’s Fire Service Aka . Fire Drill Issue Title - Find The Lady (1942)

Women in the National Fire Service. East London. Various shots of the ladies of the fire service marching - slow and fast. M/S mobile kitchen, a girl gets out of her truck and runs up to it. M/S of another lady writing on a board, recording which appliances have been dispatched to a fire. Good M/S of lady dispatch riders driving towards the camera on their motorcycles (Winifred Ashford is the smallest). C/U as one hands over a message to the kitchen. M/S as the lady writes on the board. Various shots of a pump drill, the women take the hoses and train them on the fire before rolling them up again. M/S’s as they drink tea and eat biscuits on their break. FILM ID: 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 also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136