Factory Worker Collection

Fisher Bendix Factory, Kirkby, workers vote overwhelmingly to carry on their occupation of the premises, Friday 7th January 1972

Shultons, Cosmetics factory, Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, North East, England, 16th May 1990

King George V and Queen Mary of Teck visit the factory Soap Works of Sir William Hesketh Lever, Port Sunlight, Merseyside, Wednesday 25th March 1914

Royal Ordnance Factory, Ministry of Supply, Wales, June 1941

Workers at William Pretty and sons Ltd in Ipswich sitting at their singer machines putting in the elastic bands in underwear November 1935

Ronnie Metcalf operates a nibbler in a factory in 1980

The shop floor of George Angus in Wallsend is empty and the lathes and presses are silent due to power blackouts in 1972

Mrs. Annie Kelly, typical of these women of steel. She is working hard boring a shaft of a submarine, and she is the wife of a crane driver in the same factory. 4th October 1944

The initial stage of production of a British ten-ton bomb. The bomb is cast round the framework on which rope made from wood shavings is wound. Circa 1940s

A riveter at a Valentine tank factory in the Midlands. 28th September 1941

Bassets confectionery factory, Owlerton, Sheffield. Christine Broughton, 21, with a pile of Liquorice Allsorts. 4th September 1967

Stacking shells for anti-aircraft guns in a midland shell factory. 4th October 1939

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

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

Volkswagen assembly line worker Peter Schredewitz at work in Wolfsburg, Germany. 15th January 1982

Hamilton Robb Ltd. Riverside factory Portadown, Armagh. Yarns being treated in the bleach house before being sent forward for weaving. 18th April 1929

Olive Taylor, the female crane operator. 4th December 1940

Ebbw Vale, Wales. Welsh steelworker makes his way home from the British Steelworks of Ebbw Vale, 11th March 1971. Face of Britain 1971 Feature

Making meters at Prescot. British Insulated Callenders Cables factory, women making electric light meters. 18th January 1946

Workers on the pilot production line at the new Samsung factory Wynyard, making microwaves. 24th August 1995

World War Two - Second World War - A record output of 200, 000 bricks in 48 hours was reached by Blythe and Sons, Birtley, a North-East firm with a history extending over nearly 80 years

Tank Assembly at Longbridge plant, Birmingham, Circa 1941

Laurie Cunningham, West Brom Player, meets factory workers based next door to The Hawthorns, typewriter manufacturers Smith Corona

World War Two, Grace Shults at a welding smiths work assembling farm wagons at Great Yeldham, Essex. 28th February 1944

British women working in a rope factory during the second world war March 1941 1940s

Guinness Flats in Stamford Hill, London, have got their own war factory. In the little club room hut behind the estate houswifes are busy all day long making torch batteries

One of the latest additions to the forge has been this 20 cwt. clear space hammer which is regularly in use in 1972

A factory worker in an engineering firm in 1972

Workers making steel equipment in 1998

Mrs. Marjorie Landles a the J Barbour factory making the all weather Game Fare breeches for Her Majesty the Queen in 1979

John Lang welding in 1980

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