Dirty Collection

Actress Diana Rigg in a scene from the televison programme The Avengers 1965

A miner at work underground in a coal mine. August 1984 P017840

Alfred Demaszure (Left) engine driver and Andre Devos, fireman seen here on the footplate of the Golden Arrow on its journey from Calais to Paris

Children Expression December 1963 Three Young boys whos home is the Gorbals Distict of Glasgow

Owing to the diminishing coal supplies and bad weather, deliveries of coal to the housewife have been slowed down and many are trekking with prams and wheelbarrows to coal wharfs

Miners in the pithead baths following a shift underground at Mosley Common Colliery Lancashire England, showering after their shift August 1954

Coal Miners shower after their shift in the pit head. February 1942 P018169

Grimy and weary after 48 hours of fighting on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands, US Marines enjoying coffee aboard a transport ship

Children playing indoors by dustbins in a house in Hull. 9th July 1953

Pit-head bathes at the Hamstead Colliery in Hamstead, South Staffordshire. 24th August 1937

Miners at the Cannock Wood Pit handing in their Davy Lamps and lanterns at the end of their shift. May 8th 1939

Miners of the Bullclliffe Colliery near Wakefield seen here coming off shift. 30th July 1963

A mile from Westminster. Flats that back on to each other in Pollock Road SE17. Clothes lines stretch across the area. Large refuse bins stand full against the walls the area in

Young probationers of the Westminster Abbey Choir School, aged from eight to ten years old, smothered in mud after a hard drawn game on the Vincent Square sports field in Westminster, London

A white tom cat called Sidney who needs a good wash

Films Carry On Camping Film 1968 Filming at Pinewood Studios Barbara Windsor gets stuck in the mud - muddy camp site

This chimney sweeper left his mark on the young lady

Coal miners John Derbyshire front and Vinc Higson give each other assistance to get clean in the pithead baths following a shift underground at Mosley Common Colliery Lancashire England August 1954

Warrington v St. Helens. Carl Webb tackled for the ball by Saints players on each side. February 1988

Derelict housing in an area of Dorothy Street, Felling, Gateshead - An adventure to Children finding anythig to play with even rubbish

Coal Mines underground scenes. Norton Hill Colliery, Somerset. Ernest Knowles, 40 years a miner, heaving coal. March 1946 P017838

Coal Mining underground scenes at Hucknall Colliery in Nottinghamshire. May 1972 P017832

Little girl stands by a dustbin in a Bradford Slum. November 1953 D6539

Stay-in strikers return. John James washes the back of his friend Arnold Moyle. February 1960 P018171

Children playing amongst the rubbish and debris in Halewood, Liverpool. 8th April 1974

Sir Bernard and Lady Docker visited the Water Haigh Colliery, near Leeds. Pictured, Sir Bernard and Lady Docker after their tour of the coal seams. 21st March 1954

Wigan v Halifax Rugby league match at Central Park. Halifax forward Birkin with the ball, crashing through the Wigan defence with Nordgren on the right and another Wigan player coming in to tackle

Dinner time for Pitman Tom, at home in Stanley. He is pictured with his wife and children. 1st February 1947

Husband Tom, home from the pit, likes a look at the paper as his wife waits to dish up dinner in Stanley, County Durham. 1st February 1947

Mrs Gladys Batt attempting to clean her four-year-old daughter Georgina of paint. 16th October 1958

Sherpa children pose in the street of one of the high villages in the SoluKhumbu region of the Nepalese Himalaya. March 1977

Miss Marie Fielding, the only woman French Polisher on the Isle of Man. She is only 22 years old and has been doing it for 9 years. Isle of Man, 7th May 1954

John Kenneally runs a ten horse string at Clipsham, Rutland, spent £15
John Kenneally runs a ten horse string at Clipsham, Rutland, spent £ 15, 000 in countless man hours tearing up a rail track to make a race track

In a quiet and deserted East Works at Longbridge, car engines are covered with brown paper while maintenance squad overhauls the track. 29th July 1969

British troops walking up to the front line through deep mud and over heavy ground and ploughed fields in Holland during the Second World War. December 1944

Madame Sweep: For men must work and women must sweep might be the slogan of Mrs. Ada Riches, of Woodbridge, Suffolk. She had always swept her own chimneys

Chimney sweep in London with with brush and rods, May 1937

Bela Zola Life in the Mirror Series. Three fish porter wearing their distintive hats at Billingsgate Fish Market in the East End of London discussing trade. 28th February 1954

This is a low res scan. If you require the hi res image please email urn to desk@mirrorpix.com Mud Mud Glorious Mud A small boy seen here enjoying himself on the muddy beaches of Southend Circa 1948

Cardiff - Old - Caroline Street looking towards St Mary Street, 4th January, 1974

To Nigel Morris and Leslie Hughes the old bombed patch at the top of Galston Street, Adamsdown in Cardiff is just the place were boys can really get down to muddy work January 1961

Housing slums in the Gorbals district of Glasgow where the children have grouped together to build themselves a playground August 1970

A young girl warms her hands by the oven. February 1957

Interior view of a London terraced house showing a child in the kitchen March 1983

Girls face after eating chocolate, circa 1950

Flint Knapping at the Peter Grimes flint mine in Norfolk May 1935

Coal Miners return to the surface after a hard day digging for coal in the mines April 1951

A Coal delivery man outside a house in 1967 January 1967

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