Heavy Industry Collection

Workers at K & L Steel Founders and Engineer Limited seen here preparing a cast for the manufacture of mobile crane components, Letchworth. Circa November 1949

The refrigerated cargo ship Manora in dry dock prior to launch at Swan Hunter shipbuilders Neptune yard. 08/03/1970

Eddie Stobert haulage eddie stobart now his lorries have made him a cult figure as king of the road 1993

The Austin Motor pressing plant at the Longbridge Works. Circa 1929

Chainmakers L Kirton of Netherton. 31st December 1947 A circlet of glowing metal in his tongs: striker John Bladens hammer descends and a new link in the chain is created

Avonmouth Severnside in the 1970s - shows just how much things have changed in just one generation. Much of the heavy, polluting industry has now disappeared to be replaced by extensive warehousing

The interior of the George Stephenson South Street Locomotive Works in Newcastle Upon Tyne on 9th June 1998. The picture show Mike Brown with some of the original equipment

Women who work as water carriers seen here at the Durgapur steel works in West Bengal, India. February 1961 l

Men seen here at the start of their shift at the Durgapur steel works in West Bengal, India. February 1961 l

Women water carriers seen here at the Durgapur steel works in West Bengal, India. February 1961 l

Woman seen here making tea for the workers at the Durgapur steel works in West Bengal, India. February 1961 l

Women water carrier seen here making tea for the workers at the Durgapur steel works in West Bengal, India. February 1961 l

Roughnecks working on a oil production platform drilling for oil just off the coast of Abu Dhabi. July 1965

Coal miners working at the coal face in the Somerset coalfields, March 1946 OP403B

General scenes in Venice. This is a typical scene taken on the mainland at the Porto Marghera industrial area showing pollution in the canal and the heavy industry. April 1975 75-2202-021

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