Housewives Collection

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

The last remaining corporation wash house on Shipley Street, Byker, Newcastle - local residents use the facilities for the last time 30 September 1971

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

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

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

The housewives of Glasgows Drum Chapel housing project seen here queuing for the mobile shop. 26th April 1955

Shopper browsing the butchers counter at a newly opened self service food store in North London. 14th November 1958

Shoppers browsing the dairy counter at a newly opened self service food store in North London. 14th November 1958

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

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

Caring for baby Welsh fashion In the valleys of Wales The new Baby is introduced to the neighbours. 1st March 1954

The Duck Pond, a well know spot on the Mouldworth- Delamere Forest Road, Cheshire, 17th August 1935

View across the plains of Cheshire, taken from Peckforton Hills, 23rd June 1960

THE SEVENTIES were a time of strikes and, in December 1974, the big national bakers decided to follow suit, demanding a 66% pay rise

Talking turkey in the market... but which one? The slip of paper on the back of this
Talking turkey in the market...but which one? The slip of paper on the back of this festive scene from December 22nd 1967, has lost its caption. Could it be the old St Johns Market?

Market trader selling his wares at The Crock Fair on Hearsall Common, Coventry 27th May 1974

Clothing Fashion 1950: Tea-cup apron. May 1950

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

The Express Dairy at Streatham Hill which has been turned into a self servive store. 30th November 1951

One of the travelling shops which serves Glasgows new housing schemes. 13th April 1957

Shopper browsing the aisles at a newly opened self service food store in North London. 14th November 1958

Shoppers browsing the fruit counter at a newly opened self service food store in North London. 14th November 1958

A group of Housewives pose for a picture before leaving Britain for a holiday in the Spanish resort of benidorm March 1973

Coke queue Manchester. Pram loads of coke leaving Gaythorne Gasworks this morning. December 1950 P009433

London housewives queue up to receive thier supply of coal from the roundsman. The coalman has been supplied with an army lorry to make his deliveries during the Second World War February 1945

Weather- Drought: The water Carts out in Golborne. May 1954 P012314

Pictures of Joel Barnett, Labour MP for Heywood and Royton, who was presented with a petition from residents of Blackshaw Lane, Royton, near Oldham

Pictures of Joel Barnett, Labour MP for Heywood and Royton, who was presented with a petition from residents of Blackshaw Lane, Royton, near Oldham

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping