Industry And Work Collection (page 6)

Bilston Pottery 1958 The team measuring and cutting clay for the manufacture of flower pots at the Bilston Pottery

Bilston Pottery 5th May 1958 Women in the drying room loading flower pots ready to be fired

Bilston Pottery 5th May 1958 Moulding flower pot saucers at the Bilston Pottery

Bilston Pottery 5th May 1958

Making and lining cocoa tins. One of a continuous series of automatic and semi automatic processes at the Cadbury plant at Bournville. Circa 1929

Wil Preedy sits cross legged making a hamper basket while his brother Arthur sorts out some of the finished articles in their Deritend workshop. 21st May 1952

Bilston Pottery 5th May 1958 A potter seen here throwing a large flower pot at the Bilston Pottery

Bilston Pottery 1958 Loading flower pots into the kiln for firing at the Bilston Pottery

A skilled leather cutter carries out the first stage of the manufacture of a handbag by cutting the leather to a template. 9th October 1931

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

Bilston Pottery 1958 Glazed flower pots being readied for the final firing

Esterbrook Pen Factory 21st November 1967 Nib production at the Esterbrook Pen factory, Moland Street, Birmingham

Cricket Bat Making 14th April 1932. A scene in a Midland sports manufacturers factory where a craftsman is engaged in the delicate task of creating the blade of a cricket bat

A squad of craftsmen at work cutting designs on to delicate glassware at a Midlands glassworks. 5th February 1958

BSA Bicycle assembly line in Small Heath 30th April 1935

Esterbrook Pen Factory 21st November 1967 The finished Esterbrook Relief pens being placed in their presentation boxes before shipping to the retail market

Esterbrook Pen Factory 21st November 1967 Pen nibs being modified following quality control checks at the Esterbrook Pen factory at Moland Street, Birmingham

150 coal workers march to save Kirk opencast site, 15th October 1988

A Birmingham Clock maker seen here in his workshop. 16th April 1962

The final process in the hallmarking of gold. Birminghams Assay Office in Newhall Street, and it is there that the standard of wrought plate made in the city is tested before sale. 1st October 1931

Tennis rackets being strung at the Birmingham factory of Messers Clapshaw and Cleave Limited. 26th May 1939

Hard Realities: Its a man-sized job shifting a huge timbered canal narrow boat through a cumbersome and ageing lock on the Grand Union Canal

Scaffolder oblivious to working at height, high above central Birmingham. 26th January 1954

January is the time of year when they cut and bundle osiers in the countryside. They are much used in farms and gardens to make hurdles

The village blacksmith pursuing his ancient craft in the picturesque village of Claverdon, near Warwickshire. As will be seen from the picture the entrance to the old smithy is in the form of a large

Spotlights and stage equipment on stage at the new Paramount Cinema as it nears completion. The new 2, 750 luxury seat cinema

The winter of 1946 - 1947 Coal being loaded from the pit tubs onto waiting empty lorries at the Cannock and Leacroft Colliery at Cannock

Miners coming off shift at Hamstead Colliery, West Bromwich to the news that the mine is to close in 1965. 22nd January 1962

A typical Black Country scene of the 1920s

Council workman laying a new footpath during the alterations to Victoria Road, Cambridge. April 1959

Council workman building a new wall during the alterations to Victoria Road, Cambridge. April 1959

Knocking off of work are the shipyard workers of P. S. Austin shipyards on the river Wear
Knocking off of work are the shipyard workers of P.S. Austin shipyards on the river Wear, Sunderland, 28th April 1954

Council workers re-painting a worn out zebra crossing on High Street West, outside the Empire Theatre, Sunderland 28th April 1954

Letting the boss down. Up on the hills of Hampstead Green a sewer is being relined and Mrs Stride the sewer foreman goes up and down the 25 foot hole by holding on to the hook of a crane

Bargemen at work Chelsea Reach on the River Thames close to the Chelsea Flour Mill, Deptford Bridge, Greenwich, London. 26th March 1954

The machine room at King and Hutchings, Circa 1955

Demolition of Coads to make way for Burton s, Uxbridge 1936

Platforms under construction at the underground station, Uxbridge 1936

The final touches are added to the Slough Social Centre Circa 1936

Girder for new bridge, York Road, Uxbridge 1936

Excavations for new Uxbridge underground station 1936

Oxford Road widening, Denham 1936

High Bridge, Uxbridge seen here under going repairs 1936

Demolition in an un-named street in Uxbridge circa 1936

Hercies Road, new shops under construction, Hillingdon 1936

Widening Leborough Lane, Amersham Road, Beaconsfield. Circa 1935

Excavations for new Uxbridge underground station 1936

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