Industrial Collection

Shipbuilding, Glasgow, Scotland, 6th March 1971. Face of Britain 1971 Feature

Irlam Steel works. Left to right, Stuart Johnson, 24, Jack Hughes, 53, Eric Teal, 33 and Martin Kennedy leader of Workers Action Committee at Irlam steel works

Irlam Steel works. Left to right, Eric Teal, 33, Jack Hughes, 53, Stuart Johnson, 24, and Martin Kennedy leader of Workers Action Committee at Irlam steel works. 23rd June 1972

Universal Beam Mill, Teesside Steel, Lackenby, 2nd February 1989

Dome petroleum oil rig. "Soverign Explorer"at Cammell Laird
Dome petroleum oil rig. " Soverign Explorer" at Cammell Laird, days before launch. 3rd December 1983

Aerial view of Garston Gas Works. Garston is a district of Liverpool, Merseyside. 15th May 1956

Redcar Blast Furnace, British Steel, 3rd July 1979

Birmingham factory worker Edith Hill of 74 Boulton Road, Handsworth, at work setting cutting tools for machines which bore Ant-Aircraft shells at a factory in the West Midlands during the Second

General scenes outside the Ford paint, trim and assembly plant in Dagenham, Essex as new Ford cars roll off the production line. 16th November 1960

General scene showing vehicles alongside the Runcorn to Widnes Transporter Bridge. 27th November 1953

Aerial view showing the new Runcorn - Widnes bridge across the River Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal. On the right of the picture is the bridge that it was built to replace

A view of part of the ICVO plant at Garston Gas Works. Garston is a district of Liverpool, Merseyside. 24th May 1960

ICI, Wilton. The bottom half of a 5000 ton chemical storage tank being fitted into place. It will hold VCM, vinyl chloride monomer from new works being built opposite Lackenby Works on the Trunk

A 5000 ton chemical storage sphere is symbolic of the millions spent by the firm each year on construction projects as part of the 130 million chlorine complex. ICI Wilton. 7th October 1980

Beaming Deartment at Regent Cotton Mill owned by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation Limited, in Failsworth, Manchester, Circa 1935. The mill opened in 1906, closing 1958

An advance guard of the army of steelworkers who returned to their jobs at Port Talbot after the strike which lasted six weeks

Scenes at Gladstone Dock, Liverpool, Merseyside. 8th February 1949

Aerial view of Albert Dock, Liverpool, Merseyside. 17th August 1980
Aerial view of Albert Dock, Liverpool, Merseyside.17th August 1980

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

BSA Factory, Small Heath, Birmingham. 15th March 1973

Seventeen year old skinhead teenager Janet Askham poses in the street at her home in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire. 6th June 1970

Heavy bomb damage at Stettin after RAF attack on 20 / 21 April 1943
Heavy bomb damage at Stettin after RAF attack on 20/21 April 1943. Pictured, the first reconnaissance photograph the AG Der Chemischer Produkten Fabriken Pommerensdorf-Milch (Chemical Plant)

Birmingham factory worker Mrs Ann Cottrell of Theodore Street, Birmingham, aged 83, at work at a munitions factory in the West Midlands during the Second World War. 11th September 1941

The Gnome and Rhone aircraft factories at Limoges in German occupied France, which not only manufactures air engines for the Luftwaffe

Scenes at the Ford motor factory in Dagenham, Essex showing cars parked outside the factory after coming off the production line. The Mark 1 Cortina. 24th January 1964

The first car on the production line at Ford motor plant in Dagenham following the strike. 20th March 1969

New Ford Anglia cars coming off the production line at the new Ford paint, trim and assembly plant in Dagenham, Essex. 27th October 1959

General view of the Leeds to Liverpool Canal showing the "Scaldy"
General view of the Leeds to Liverpool Canal showing the " Scaldy" at the back of Vauxhall Road, Liverpool. November 1970

Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, Wales. Located within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. September 1960

View of North Ormesby flyover. Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire. 1971

Workers from Round Oak Steelworks, Brierley Hill, West Midlands, meeting together to discuss closure of factory, 30th November 1982

The past and future meet in this picture at the boatyard in Walsall, West Midlands (formerly Staffordshire). As boatbuilders are pictured at work on a longboat

HM Submarine Revenge was launched at Cammell Lairds in Birkenhead, Merseyside yesterday. 18th March 1968

King George Dock in Hull, East Yorkshire. 16th March 1965

British Steel, South Bank Coke Ovens, Lackenby. 13th June 1987

British Steel Corporation, Redcar, lighting the blast furnace. 12th October 1979

Cargo Fleet Works, British Steel Corporation, 23rd February 1981

British Steel Corporation, Hartlepool Works, 14th January 1983

A glimpse of the vast Gaskell-Marsh works at Widnes. The men are conveying loads of sodium formate which goes into the making of Oxalic acid. Circa 1920s

Aerial view of Teesside. Cleveland, across to Billingham. 28th July 1995

Aerial view of Teesside, Tees Newport Lift Bridge. 28th July 1995

Aerial view of The Tees Transporter Bridge, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, seen from the North of the Tees, 21st November 1972

The South Docks, Liverpool, now almost completely silted up since the docks closed in 1972 and dredging operations stopped. 27th February 1982

The Teesside Power Plant was officially opened at Enron-Wilton, Teesside by the Right Hon Lord Wakeham, leader of the House of Lords. L-R Andy McCleod, Lord Wakeham, Tom White. 10th September 1993

ICIs 312 foot high Nitram plant. The plant which cost 3 million was opened in November 1969. About 500, 000 was spent on cutting noise and pollution

The demolition of the Fertiliser Plant on ICI Billingham site. 23rd June 1993

The new style course in which unemployed youngsters are being trained in office skills at ICI Billingham is proving popular

ICI, Billingham. In left foreground can be seen the agricultural division HQ block, and in the background the Tee meanders. 26th April 1977

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