3-022-520 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

Female Civilian Painting a Building, 1931. 'They were an adventurous lot, no denying that. The first great war had been the start of women taking over men's jobs. Now it looked as though only another, and greater war, between the sexes, could put an end to the trend...It certainly couldn't be claimed that these young ladies were expressing any nostalgia for the safe and secure'. From "Time To Remember - A New Era", 1931 (Reel 2); documentary about the world in the early 1930s.