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Fulham manager Malcolm Macdonald with a roll of turf at Craven Cottage as the pitch is re-laid. 12th May 1983
Each man for himself - prospectors at West Wylam digging for coal during the fuel shortage in February 1952
Workmen open up the road in Brandling Park, Jesmond, Newcastle, for the laying of new gas pipes prior to work starting on the new motorway on 24th January, 1972
Porthcothan Bay Cornwall, 1950s Holiday Makers dig a trech in the sand to stop cars from being driven on to the beach. The trench was 150 yards long and 2 feet deep
People of James Reckitt Avenue, Hull, Yorkshire, look as the men dig the garden. It is likely that they are digging to build an air raid shelter
A view of Worcester Street and Market Hall Bull Ring, Birmingham, West Midlands, February 1959
Construction crew seen here working against the clock to complete the laying of a new twin track at Dairycoates which will allow the transfer from the overhead tracks from which this picture was
Garden in the Citys Heart. A garden is being created on the new roundabout in Whitechapel, Roe Street, Liverpool City Centre
Nuns build a convent. Every moring 18 nuns don aprons over their habits and start building. They are out to build their own chapel, cloisters, choir and cells
Pope John Paul II, tree planting ceremony ahead of Mass at Heaton Park, Manchester, Monday 31st May 1982
Archaeologists digging up a perfectly preserved wooden railway which had lain buried beneath colliery spoil at the site of the former Lambton Cokeworks in Sunderland on 16th October 1996
Lazy summer days. The midday sun sends holidaymakers to sleep on Margate Beach. However one youngster continues to build his sandcastles whilst everbody else has 40 winks. August 1946
Swansea Bay. Naturalists dig up spartina grass which is threatening to reinvest Swansea Bay. 13th February 1972
Residents of Peel Street, Lincoln digging trenches as precautions against possible air raids in the city during the Second World War. 12th September 1939
Residents of Skellingthorpe Road, Lincoln digging trenches as precautions against possible air raids in the city during the Second World War. 1940
Access to Burma for troops and supplies must be maintained and many roads are being built by the Army under unimaginable difficulties
It is 75 miles from Hopin to Mawlu fourteen days journey through a monsoon swept jungle, over Japanese road blocks, through little devastated villages where every possible track is mined
British troops in Iceland. A young child helping a soldier pickaxe the ground. Circa 1941
Making dug outs in Shepherds Bush, West London. Picture taken 5th March 1946
No sooner had the Germans found urgent business elsewhere than Dieppe townspeople rolled up their sleeves and began clearing road blocks throughout the town without waiting for the arrival of
The Royal Irish Fusiliers. These pictures were taken with a battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers who are in the forward areas of the B.E.F
At 1: 30 a. m on the morning of June 6th, 1944 British and American airborne troopsAt 1:30 a.m on the morning of June 6th, 1944 British and American airborne troops and parachutists, using over 1, 000 troop carriers and gliders landed behind the German defences in Normandy
Leningrad inhabitants, including women of all ages, under the leadership of Petrov, a munition worker, take shovels and picks to help construct anti-tank ditches in answer to the call to defend their
Daily Mirror Treasure Hunt, Porthminster Beach, St Ives, Cornwall, Monday 6th July 1959. Daily Mirror Pirates are staging a Summer treasure hunt on a tour of UK seaside resorts
Digging up Working Street, Cardiff, outside the new Queens Arcade, Cardiff. A newly-paved area of Cardiff city centre is being dug up, just weeks after it was laid at a cost of £ 50, 000
The lowering of the road under the Queen Street bridges is well under way. The one side has been completed and traffic travelling eastwards is now running on the newly lowered surface
Air raid shelter trenches being dug in the grounds of Monks Abbey, Monks Road, Lincoln, in preparation for the possible out break of war. 28 September 1938
Road workers, digging up the road at Oxford Street, London. Picture taken 20th July 1933
Trench digging in the London parks. A. P.s the busy scene in Kingston gardens todayTrench digging in the London parks. A.P.S the busy scene in Kingston gardens today where trenches were being dug. 27th September 1938
Britain prepares for searching positions deep in the ground in a London park. 1st September 1939
Birmingham University students and workmen from the City Council seen here filing sandbags in a pit near the University, for the protection of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on the eve of the outbreak
From today citizens of Newcastle will see tangible evidence of the preparations for the 1929 North-East Coast Exhibition to be held on the Town Moor
1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games - workmen digging up the track at Cardiff Arms Park. July 1958
Recruits of the Womens Land Army digging at a site beside the river her Flint, Manchester during the Second World War. 21st March 1943
Recruits of the Womens Land Army get work in the fields near Torquay, South Devon during the Second World War. 30th August 1940
Scenes at the village of Hottot near the town of Tilly Sur Seulles in Nothern France shortly after the D-Day landings. The village which is on the main Caen to St Lo road has seen some bitter
Cannair Moodie Ltd employees working on a seven mile tunnel under Coventry city centre. 17th March 1970
Cannair Moodie Ltd employees Charlie Rodgers from Arranmore (left) and James McGee from Falcarragh working on a seven mile tunnel under Coventry city centre. 17th March 1970
Brighton Road Railway Bridge in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, West Midlands, England. Picture shows men at work on the road. Picture taken 18th September 1929
Civic thanks from the Lord Mayor as rescue workers search the rubble in Bean Street, Hull for survivors following a particularly heavy air raid on the city. 15th March 1941
Rescue workers search rubble for survivors after a parachute mine detonated on Bean Street in Hull during the Luftwaffe raid on the city on the night of the 14th - 15th March 1941
Airborne British commando troops who arrived in support of the glider troops dig in after crash landing in Normandy, Northern France
Tree planting at Guisborough. 1973
Cutting a new road, Manchester to Liverpool. Near Sparrow Hall, Fazakerley, Liverpool. Circa 1927
Construction of a new road off of Long Lane signals the beginning of a new housing development. Circa 1931
Work is now underway on the 8 million extension of the Tees container terminal at Teesport The plan to more than double the size of the existing quay at the terminal a total waterfront of 290 metres
Archaeological dig at St Peters Church, Wooten Wawen. 9th December 1974
