Factories Collection (page 2)

A scene typical of Widnes - factories and smoke. 28th July 1973

Exterior view of Watneys Brewery in Mortlake, London. 6th August 1975

Sixteen year old Vera Mary Stone blowing glass at Prestons on West Street, Sheffield during World War Two. June 1942

Dawsholm paper mill in Maryhill Glasgow by the River Kelvin June 1934

Workers at Wilkinson sweet factory in Pontefract, Yorkshire chatting during their shift October 1981 friendshipimages

Industry: Thomas Hedley & Co. Ltd, soap works in Trafford Park. View taken from the main road. July 1956 P008344

John Stonehouse MP, Minister of State for Technology, with French officials, including with Jean Chamant, Minister of Transport

Willing hands at work in the pressing department of Windsors clothing factory at Fjorestjach Trading Estate Swansea. 28th January 1957

Alfred Street Huddersfield Circa June 1965

Munition girls at work at a Welsh shell factory working for the Ministry of Supply during the Second World War. Circa 1941

Some of the office staff of a local Tin Box factory, making collecting boxes for the red Cross nurses. The production is done after working hours due to the labour shortage. 6th November 1941

A Royal Air Force officer addressing workers at a factory near Reading, Berkshire during the Second world War. 10th April 1942

A Royal Air Force officer etched women workers at a factory near Reading, Berkshire during the Second world War. 10th April 1942

A female worker inspecting the cooling system of a Lancaster bomber plane of the Royal Air Force at an aircraft production site near reading, Berkshire during the second world War. 8th July 1943

Unopposed capture of valuable Burma Oil fields area is a most pointed indication of Japanese collapse. Troops probing down towards the Yenangyaung Road

St DunstanOs men are now working in our aircraft factories. In the foreground, left to right, are Private Ernest Callow, R.W

View at a Russian munition works engaged in the restoration of damaged enemy tanks, which are used afterwards by tank crew of the Soviet Red Army against the Germans in their ongoing arduous battle

Picture taken at a Government Training School in Birmingham where women of all ages have set out to learn the skills needed to work in munitions factories

Birmingham factory worker Beatrice Payne, at work making and testing parachute hooks, buckles and D-rings for airmen of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. 5th May 1942

Birmingham factory worker Mts Kate Budd at work during the Second World War. 5th April 1943

Birmingham factory worker Mrs Savage of 1 Hamhurst Avenue, Handsworth Wood, at work at a munitions factory during the Second World War. 5th May 1942

Emily Davies (nearest camera) who was blinded following an air raid in the blitz, pictured at work with three other blind women testing aircraft parts at a factory in the West Midlands during

Mrs Jeanings supervising part timer Mrs Williams at her machine in a Birmingham munitions factory during the Second World War. 28th May 1942

Sunday work in progress at a munitions factory in Birmingham during the Second World War. Woman at work in the Fuse inspection department of a Birmingham Arms Factory. 26th May 1940

Birmingham factory worker Mabel Evitts, aged 28, of 63 Princes Road, Warley, at work soldering torpedoes at a West Midlands factory during the Second World War. 5th May 1942

Factory worker Mrs C Kyle at work in a Birmingham munitions factory during the Second World War. 29th January 1941

Mrs Knight gets down to some tank parts under the eye of forewoman Mrs Jeanings at a Birmingham munitions factory during the Second World War. 28th May 1942

Seventy two year old factory worker Mrs Slim of 283 Queens road, Londonderry, Smethwick, who works five hours every morning in a Birmingham factory on drilling and milling machines

Factory worker Miss D Odell at work in a Birmingham munitions factory during the Second World War. 29th January 1941

Opening of a Womens War Work Exhibition at Solihull, Birmingham during the Second World War. Miss Connie Pattinson, capstan operator, speaking tat the exhibition

Members of an aircraft factory who recently visited an RAF Squadron, invited the pilots to pay them a visit at the factory and see their fighter planes being made

Working on two shifts in the twenty four hours, the entire Fire Brigade at a large Ministry of Supply factory in the South of England are assembling rifles instead of idly waiting for the fire alarm

Fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force whose lives were saved by parachutes make a visit to the factory where the parachutes were produced

Tank production for the Ministry of supply is now in full swing in various parts of the country. (Picture) Tank production going at full speed. Circa 13th July 1941

An aerial view of the Renault works at Billancourt, a suburb of Paris on the River Seine, after it was bombed by aircraft of Bomber Command, RAF, on the night of 3rd March 1942

As the soldiers of the Red Army have by their courage given a new inspiration to the people of Europe, so the workers of the Soviet eager to make every sacrifice in their countrys great fight against

Munition girls at work in a factory in England during the Second World War. Mrs Bird acetylene welding. 7th February 1942

Munition girls selling war certificates to workers in their factory in the Midlands during the Second World War. 21st November 1942

At this factory in the North East of England over 100 men and women are working on material for the Ministry of Supply, a great deal of it for the Merchant Navy and the Royal Navy

Stockpiles of bombs are loaded for transport from a secret underground munitions dump in England during the Second World War. May 1944

Munition workers Katherine Pearson and Alf Thatcher box up 25 pounder shells at a Ministry of Justice Shell Filling factory in England during the Second World War. May 1945

Port Sunlight Works and Part of Village, Merseyside, Circa 1914

Port Sunlight Works, Merseyside, Circa 1914

Tank Crew receive a cheery greeting when they visited a Government factory in the North West, Ordinance Factory at Kirby, near Liverpool, to encourage the production of munitions

Kirkby Manufacturing and Engineering Works, Kirkby, Wednesday 28th March 1979

Kirkby Manufacturing and Engineering workers cooperative, members leaving meeting, Kirkby, Friday 10th February 1978

Idle machinery of which until yesterday workers were turning out coronation material bearing the head cipher of King Edward VIII. 11th December 1936

Sandra Thistlewait and Jean Wordsworth testing cases with their rubber hammers. 12th October 1970

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