![A photograph of four female workers breaking cotton waste bales at HM Munitions Factory, Gretna, [1918].](https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/sites/default/files/styles/image_library_preview/public/FourFemaleWorkersBreakingCotton_GD1-1011-15%20371x208_0.jpg?itok=DyskpLoK "A photograph of four female workers breaking cotton waste bales at HM Munitions Factory Gretna. Crown copyright, National Records of Scotland, GD1/1011/15, [1918]")
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