This is one job you would hope you won’t be seeing in a Maidstone factory again any time soon – assembling gas masks.

This Kent Messenger photograph shows women in a factory assembling the masks ready for distribution to the public during the Second World War.

Were you, or someone you know, one of the women pictured? Did you do a similar job during the war?

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