Tuesday 16 July 2013

The forgotten heroines who built Waterloo Bridge: Historian reveals how women were drafted to construct 'The Ladies Bridge' in WWII but never got the credit they deserved | Mail Online

The forgotten heroines who built Waterloo Bridge: Historian reveals how women were drafted to construct 'The Ladies Bridge' in WWII but never got the credit they deserved | Mail Online: "Records of women who helped build the bridge have never been found
Could have been thrown out when construction company folded
Female workforce ignored when the bridge was opened in 1945 but male workers were thanked
By 1944, 25,000 women were working in the construction industry"
Urban legend: Evidence that London's Waterloo bridge was built by women is said to have been thrown out when the project's contractors went out of business