Did the shops within the Arsenal in Woolwich have any football teams? (Also any local firms)
BBC History Extra about Munitions Girls and Football.
http://www.historyextra.com/feature/first-world-war/10-things-you-probably-didn%E2%80%99t-know-about-first-world-war
3) Munitions girls kept football going
The Football League suspended its programme after the 1914
–15 season (although the FA continued to allow clubs to organise regional competitions), and amateur tournaments were difficult to run with so many men in the army, so women stepped into the breach.
Munitions workers – ‘munitionettes’, as they were known – formed football teams and played against rival factories. Munitionette football attracted a wide following, and many matches were played at the grounds of professional clubs. When peace came, however, the female players had to hang up their boots and go back to the domestic lives they had been leading before the war. But the sport continued to enjoy success until women were banned from playing in Football League grounds in 1921. [ McFARNON
I'm sure the Arsenal Munitionettes had a team. Anyone know?
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2014.08.30
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