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Dockers loading a ship at Gladstone Dock, Liverpool. Pictured is Danny Cull, 67, who has been a docker for 35 years. 9th August 1965
Queen Elizabeth II pauses to talk to one of the women on the assembly line during her walkabout at the Hoover factory in Merthyr. 9th March 1973
Britains first Traffic Warden to control traffic as opposed to booking cars for parking offences, Mrs Joyce Roffey, on point duty at a busy crossroads in Croydon, Surrey
Fishing boats leaving Mevagissey Harbour, Cornwall. 1973
A London business firm who proposed to move their factory to Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, took the precaution this week of taking coach loads of their employees wives to see their proposed new
The gardener at the Tall Trees Hotel and Nightclub in Yarm. 1971
If you want to get ahead... four Examiner newspaper deliverers have won cycling safety helmets in a national competition. Emma Dolman, 13 (left), her brother Mark, 14, Neil Pain, 15, and Steven Kaye
Window cleaning in Park Lane, London. 10th April 1954
Window cleaners at work. 10th February 1954
Liverpool Playhouse staff. 1982
Enthusiasm is the first requirement for an assistant stage manager, the dogsbody job that launches most youngsters on their stage careers
A decorated barrow boys stall on the eve of his wedding, outside Charing Cross Station. 6th August 1958
Head postmaster retires. 1971
Presentation to Wimpey apprentices in Middlesbrough. 1972
Mrs Margaret Betteney, senior attendant at Chester-le-Street loo with attendants Jean Pearson and Ivy Harboard. The ladies hard work
Visitors are given a tour of the new power station at Dungeness, Kent. 10th August 1966
New personnel manager at Skinningrove. 1971
John Collier Awards. 1976
John Collier factory. 26th April 1984
Union Official Albert Burton and Freda Holmes visit their old workplace, the Queen of clothing factories in Middlesbrough - the John Collier works, formerly Prices Tailors. 26th April 1984
Quality controller Sally Nicholas checks the tea for taste at the Tetley Tea factory, Eaglescliffe. 17th June 1986
Cuff are sewn and trimmed automatically, at Dewhirst Shirt Factory, Dormanstown. 14th February 1978
A pocket-sewing machine in action was a highlight of the industry tent at the British Week held in Middlesbrough. Here Janet Stubbings, of Dormanstown
A staff member uses a 20 foot long band kinfe to cut accurately round a pattern at the Dewhirst factory. 14th February 1978
Skinningrove blast furnace plant, which is to close. 1971
Vickers Armstrong works, Elswick. December 1938
The Scotswood works of Messers Sir W. G Armstrong, Whitworth and Co (Engineers) LtdThe Scotswood works of Messers Sir W.G Armstrong, Whitworth and Co (Engineers) Ltd. The picture shows the 12 o clock buzzer, a signal for a rush of workers for dinner
Hilbre Island custodian Charles Clifton and his wife Jean feeding their two goats. One of the goats was born on the Island of Skye
Hilbre Island custodian Charles Clifton and his wife Jean. Circa 1967
Fish Quay, North Shields. The photographer took this photo from the top of the Low Light Tower. 14th May 1938
English grown chicory - 400 farmers of Hunts and Cambs are cultivating 1200 acres of chicory. The first factory in this country has been established at St Ives, Huntingdonshire
Women packing biscuits at Huntley & Palmers, Reading. 18th November 1935
The first bar of gold at Dolaucothi Gold Mine with day shift workers. Afternoon and night shifts are also being worked. February 1938
Team work counts in the great steel works of Britain. Most of the furnace teams have worked together for many years. Pop Moss
Turning the cut up chicory drying in a hot chamber. 23rd October 1932
From the face to the main haulage, some as long as half a mile, the tubs have to pushed by men through absolute darkness. Sometimes the roof is just an inch higher than the tb
Before 5. 30am, a queue of applicants for 30 jobs at Queens Park HippodromeBefore 5.30am, a queue of applicants for 30 jobs at Queens Park Hippodrome, Harpurhey, had begun to form and before midday over 1, 000 men and women had lined up. Circa 1935
A female police officer, circa 1930
Mr and Mrs Lambert, Mr and Mrs Fraser, engineering shop, Stockport. 23rd June 1941
Scottish fishergirls preparing fish for curing after the landing of a heavy catch at North Shields Fish Quay. 22nd August 1936
Mending their nets - Amble fishermen repairing their crab pots on the pier. 26th February 1932
The new Post Office building in Bishop Street where the sorting system will be housed. 17th July 1975
Coventrys new head post office cost £2, 600, 000Coventrys new head post office cost £ 2, 600, 000, has nearly four acres of floor space and will employ 800 people. The building, in Bishop Street
Post office workers sorting the Christmas mail at Coventry Sorting Office. The final trip from the office to the van. 16th December 1991
Sorting mail at Bishop Street. 21st July 1984
Youth Opportunities Programme school leavers meet Mr John Egan, chairman of Jaguar Cars, at the companys Radford training centre. 24th August 1981
A true love romance gripped one stockton bookworm so much she just couldn t let it go - for 22 years. And a would-be weightlifter must have become so engrossed in the sport he forgot to return
Theres always plenty of activity here. Its the room where all the local history questions are answered just one of the many behind-the-scenes departments of the Central Library. 15th March 1956
