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17 year old girl and father rethatch a village. Quite a big job for 17 year old Joyce Stamford and her father Corrie Stamford is the thatching of 50 cottages, in and around Barley
A workman perched above the maddening crowds, takes a lunchtime snooze in the warm October sun in the centre of Leeds, while shoppers walk past below. Leeds, West Yorkshire, 18th October 1962
A man cutting down a tree in Barley Village, Lancashire. Circa 1952
Happy trio (left to right) Signalman Arthur Warner, Signalman Jack Morgan, 28, from Middlesbrough, Signalman Mick Alexander, 23, worked with NEEB, from Billingham. 24th June 1981
Construction of the Queensway Tunnel, which is one of The Mersey Tunnels, circa 1930s
Men cutting down a tree in Fountain Court, The Temple, London, circa 1946
Two men at work at Rye Harbour, Sussex. November 1952 C5848
Dame Edith Pitt, Conservative MP climbs a ladder assisted by Mr Dennis Howell PM when local MPs visited the Birmingham Industrial Safety Centre, 22nd April 1963
Princess Diana and children, pictured on ski lift, The Alps, Switzerland, Sunday 7th April 1991. This was Dianas first ski holiday since her tragic trip with Charles to Klosters three years ago
A workman cutting up an old engine at a breakers yard at North Blyth on 5th January 1965
Engineer Ian Cowan takes a look at the rare Victorian saloon carriage on 1st October 1990, which is being restored and put back into service at the Tanfield Railway Museum
The advantage of being young: Terry Gregg, of The Moorfields, Coventry, sits in the drinking trough as David Graham paints the clock tower on Stoke Green, Coventry. It has stood here since 1934
Natalie Dower puts the finishing touches to her exhibition piece at the Mead Gallery, Warwick University, Coventry. 17th February 1993
A fire blazes at the Cold Storage building, Adam Street, Cardiff, following a German air raid - Jan 1941
A race against the weather during harvest time at Brunton Farm, Gosforth, in October 1951
Aldersgate St. Fires during the 2nd Great Fire of London caused by fire from High Explosive on the night of December 29th, 1940
Firefighter tackle a fire following the V1 bombing of Brown Brothers in Great Eastern Street. July 1944
Fireman tackle a blaze in the Waterloo area cause by High Explosive bombs during the 2nd Fire of London December 1940
You can t keep a good goat down... especially when there are succulent chestnut leaves just temptingly out of reach. Millie the nanny reaches the top of the ladder to taste its favorite food
Welcome to Stourbridge - from the fine swimming baths which attract bathers from a wide area. These three 16-year-olds - from Cradley Heath and Kingswinford - are Pat Edwards
Shop owners taking down the Belgium flags before Louvain is occupied by the advancing German army. August 21st 1914
Inventions: Car Roof Tent: A new revolutionary camping invention "The Roof Tent"Inventions: Car Roof Tent: A new revolutionary camping invention " The Roof Tent" seen here on top of a Austin A40. 1960 A760-004
The army fire service in training September 1943
Pear picking in April 1970 - much of the produce comes to English shops
Strangers who pass by the back door at no 7, West View, Wallsend-on-Tyne, usually gasp with astonishment at the figure of a workman at work re-pointing the wall
Sandra Stokes gets to work window cleaning on the high ladder while her partner, Sally Ledger, stays nearer the ground. March 1972 P006518
Sister Clevely stepping aboard the SENNEN lifeboat january 1952 C134 / 2Sister Clevely stepping aboard the SENNEN lifeboat january 1952 C134/2
Fashion 1970s Pink leotard and leg warmers. Model sitting on ladder
V1 flying bomb attack on Australia House in Aldwych, London, 30th June 1944. One of the deadliest attacks, 46 people were killed and at least 200 others suffered serious injuries