Housewife Collection

Liverpool housewives seen here gossiping in the street. Women holding parcel June 1962

Newcastle women washing their clothes at Snow Street Wash House, Newcastle. 16th November 1970

Tattooed housewives of Coventry. Mona O Brien shows the scar on her face where she has had an anchor tattoo removed. 12th March 1964

Tattooed housewives of Coventry. Mrs Dorothy Randall (left) and Mrs Christina O Brien show off their body art. 12th March 1964

Mrs Williams, who has moved to a house further away from her mother, in Liverpool. The journey to visit family now involves a train journey. 16th August 1968

A housewife stoning the steps in Nelson Street, Manchester. 1st December 1961

Houses in Stockley Park affected by flies on rubbish brought from London and tipped into the disused clay pits. Londoners would load barges on the canal and come to tip the industrial

Scenes in Wattstown, South Wales. Located in the Rhondda Valley in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, ceremonial county Mid Glamorgan, Wales

Interior view of a Liverpool terraced house showing a woman scrubbing her hands in the basin, Merseyside, 1962

Woman at home knitting. Circa 1955 A119-003

Mrs Ada Jameson and her daughter Jean, pictured standing outside the steps of their condemned home on Ellison Street in Liverpool, after receiving visit from Housing Minister, Dr Charles Hill

Model Nicki Howarth poses in the kitchen, holding a broom and smoking a cigarette. 27th September 1972

Woman seen in the kitchen drying a frying pan. Circa February 1952

Any day is washday for the housewives of Talworth, Surrey, thanks to the ten automatic machines in this new shop. Here is Miss Doreen Borcham who runs the new sevice, receiving a customers laundry

Mrs Susan Davies seen here loading up here hostress trolly before serving afternoon tea. Mrs Davies is seen here in kitchen full of labour saving gadets. 14th September 1952

Wilfred Pickles seen here under the thumb. January 1947

An old woman cleaning the toilet. November 1969 Z10818-001

An old woman cleaning the toilet. November 1969 Z10818

Please Doctor byline image for the Woman Sunday Mirror Feature 7th October 1955

Reta Tutin and Nora Sharpley have no Monday morning blues as they leave Snow Street Wash House with their cleaned washing. 16th November 1970

Women in Middlesbrough. 1971

Women in Middlesbrough, one of them holding a rat. 1971

Housewife Baling waste paper into neat bundle in Derby 15th October 1939 Paper recycling was also important in the Second World War huge demands were put upon British timber stocks

A welcome for Gran (Mrs Zena McDonald), the mother of Mrs Williams, whose visits to her daughter and her family now involves a train journey. 16th August 1968

Lift failures at Haigh Heights, Everton, have helped Mrs Irene Wright to wear out three prams in a little over two years. 8th March 1973

A barter exchange in Luneburg, Germany after the Second World War. After the war there was a scarcity of vital necessities such as food

Birmingham housewife feeds her pet jackdaw whilst in the garden beating her rugs. 29th November 1953

Its all a matter of saving fuel although miners wives seeing the new-style ranges to be installed in their South Moor homes

Housewife Vera Lynn at home with her daughter Virginia. 17th March 1957

Housewife Vera Lynn. 17th March 1957

Housewives of Forge Row Aberavan seen here building their own road. March 1953 D1204-001

A woman hanging out her washing in a street in St Ives, Cornwall. 15th February 1954

Customers at a Growers Fair Price Vegetable Market. East Grinstead, West Sussex, August 1947.Customers at a Growers Fair Price Vegetable Market. East Grinstead, West Sussex, August 1947

Clothes Show, housewife Rena Harling on the catwalk at The Pavilions shopping centre, Birmingham, 16th September 1989

Any old iron. Fred Skidmore with a old bedstead. October 1952

Woman using sewing machine. Circa 1964 A1137b-002

Mini Pearl from America who is both a cabaret star and a successful boss of 100 fried chicken restaurants, last night was appearing with Liberace on his TV show

Cooking a celebration meal on a troublesome oil stove on her 38th birthday, Mrs. Jane McFarlane of Horns land cottage, Fillington Sussex thought how nice it would be to have a Caller gas stove

Finals of the Army Cookery Competitions. The Army Catering Corps Training Centre at St. Omer Barracks Aldershot saw the Armys top cooks in an annual event which began 70 years ago

Domestic scenes: A woman cooking in her kitchen at home, 1954

A Housewife cooking in the kitchen, 1957

Domestic scenes: A woman making cakes in her kitchen at home. 1954

A Housewife cooking spaghetti in the kitchen, 1957

Woman seen in the kitchen baking Circa February 1952

Supermarket Shopping March 1958 Shopkeeper promoting his products to customers outside his store in Peckham London

Housewife shopping in Modern Supermarket in North Finchley London April 1958 Mrs P Ray stacks her basket by picking item off shelf

There is no shortage of meat in Eire. Our picture shows: The village stores in County Wexford with a great display of meat

Wilfred Pickles seen here under the thumb. January 1947

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