Our projects for 2025
Factory Fashion
Our Factory Fashion project has been on display at the libraries in Ross on Wye and Leominster and is spending May and June at the Old Grammar School in Ledbury. We’re delighted that the exhibition is then going on tour to Scotland and will be on display at the Devil’s Porridge Museum this summer. In 2026 it will be on display at the Bromyard Local History Centre. The project’s tour has been made possible thanks to funding from the Herefordshire Community Foundation.
Factory Football
We are delighted to have secured a Sporting Heritage grant which we will be using to take a Factory Football exhibition to the Football and War Conference in Wolverhampton in June. This fabulous photo is the Royal Ordnance Factory Rotherwas Canteen team in 1917. Amongst these early pioneers are two sisters, Miss Sadie Lloyd (front row holding the football) and Miss Honor Lloyd (second from the right back row). Thanks to Honor's grandaughter, Pauline Hughes, for the wonderful image. We're trying to trace the other women (and man) pictured. Do you think your relative may be one of them? Please message us here or email us at Rotherwas@hotmail.com
Our Previous Projects
EXPLORING ROTHERWAS - THEN AND NOW
The Exploring Rotherwas project has finished but the marvellous work will continue.
Our QR code history walk is in place and it’s fabulous to see so many people finding out more about the history of Rotherwas. There’s more information on the Rotherwas Then and Now pages of this website and you can pick up a paper map at the Herefordshire Archives, the Shell Store, the Munitions Cafe, HR4K and Warehouse 701. Look out for the shell shaped signs across Rotherwas.
We met hundreds of people at local events, and organised history walks, school visits and open days to share the history of ROF Rotherwas and the people that worked there during both world wars. We continued to visit workplaces, care homes, schools, colleges, local community groups and St Michael’s Hospice to talk about the history of the site.
We’ll continue to work with professionals, volunteers and staff at the Herefordshire Archive and Record Service to create and maintain a Roll of Honour for all munitions workers from Rotherwas and other ROF sites across the country.
This project was possible thanks to the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
The Rotherwas Angel was officially unveiled by former ROF Rotherwas munitions worker Nancy Billings and the Mayor of Hereford Jacqui Carwardine.
Rotherwas Angel sCULPTURE
IS IN PLACE! We are delighted to put this fabulous piece of art on permanent display at Rotherwas where it will be a memorial to all the people who worked at ROF Rotherwas. Thank you to Hereford City Council. Hereford College of Arts, the Goodwin Family, QuickSkip, Rhys Griffith and the team at HARC, Oliver at Errand Studio architects and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Where is it? The sculpture is on the corner of Fir Tree Lane and Skylon View at Rotherwas, the road leading to the Shell Store. Postcode - HR2 6SR It’s a 5 minute walk from Herefordshire Archives and Records Centre and a 10 minute walk from The Munitions cafe at the Shell Store. There is free parking and toilets at both locations. what3words - ///brightly.competing.frostbite