Checking Collection

An advance guard of the army of steelworkers who returned to their jobs at Port Talbot after the strike which lasted six weeks

Raquel Welch, pictured at London Heathrow Airport, 3rd June 1967

R. A. F. ground crew clean the guns of a bomber. Pilots are ready to praise
R.A.F. ground crew clean the guns of a bomber. Pilots are ready to praise the ground staff and say there would be no raids if the guns weren t cleaned and the planes regularly checked

LCC Weights and measures office. A collection of fraudulent weights and measures, at one of the offices. Weights filled with cork and wood, measures with false bottoms etc. 7th July 1932

Porth Decorative Products, a Christmas decoration factory. Wales, December 1994

Paratroop Training at RAF Ringway, Manchester. England. Paratroopers checking each others harnesses and packs RAF Ringway was a Royal Air Force station in Ringway, Cheshire, England, near Manchester

Scottish Newcastle Breweries. Eric Lavell (45) assistant to the Head Brewer checks for quality with shift brewer Reg Evans (29)

Tom Jones, singer from Wales, pictured circa 1965, examining his famous tonsils in the mirror. Sir Thomas John Woodward OBE (born 7 June 1940), known professionally as Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer

Lifeboat HQ at Poplar, water tests for life belts. July 1932

Bryant & May Ltd. Liverpool. Making match boxes entirely from wood. Inspection of the wood. 6th May 1930

Protecting the housewife. Weights and measures testing department of the LCC. Testing scales and weights. Thousands are brought to this office each year to be tested

Lea Valley tomato harvest. 30, 000 tons of tomatoes. Grading tomatoes in the grading shed before packing for market. 21st July 1923

Officers examining the licence of a lady motorist in Dublin. October 1920

A special series of photographs taken to illustrate the preparedness of the Home Guards. They were all taken in the Dover and Folkestone area

Competitors get under way in the mens event in the Longwood Harriers Round the Park races at Greenhead Park, which was won by Andrew Pearson in a record-equalling 19min 56sec. 8th July 1992

Cart and Van Horse Auction, New Kent Road, London, circa December 1947

An employee of the Knockando Whisky Distillery checks the casks in the bonded warehouse. The whisky is left a minimum of three years but usually between 8 and 25 years in wooden barrels to mature

Barrels being tested in the bonded warehouse at the Knockando Whisky Distillery, Moray, in the Strathspey whisky producing area of Scotland. January 1972

Littlewoods Pools: A general view of one of the four large pool rooms where the women check pool coupons against the weekends results. 1949

A 20 ton truck of coal being completely turned over. December 1924

Production line at E. M. I. factory in Hayes Middlesex where the new Beatles LP Rubber Soul
Production line at E.M.I. factory in Hayes Middlesex where the new Beatles LP Rubber Soul is being manufactured, 24th November 1965

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