Machinery Collection

Concorde lands at RAF Fairford after successful test flight of new engines, breaking sound barrier, 14th August 1970

Volunteers in Newcastle General Hospital laundry. Wynn Griffiths Assistant Sector kAdministrator and Len Key General Admin Assistant load freshly washed linen into a dryer in March 1979

Carpet Traders Limited, Kidderminster. A woman worker seen here operating one of the countless looms in the Axminster department. 18th April 1933

Cliff Yeomans of Ashbourne, West Hallam ploughing match. 15th September 1986

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

Lace curtains seen here being manufactured at an unknown Nottingham factory. 14th March 1966

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

Workers at William Pretty and sons Ltd in Ipswich sitting at their Singer machines putting in the elastic bands in underwear November 1935

Boot factory of Messrs, Manfield and Sons, Ltd. Northampton. Making room. No. of hands - 147. Pulling over uppers. April 1930

The Bucket Wheel Reclaimer, at Aberthaw power station. 28th May 1968

New Models, the fruit of five years of development and planning appeared on the Massey Ferguson assembly lines. The new model 165 tractor promises years of sustained production. Circa 1964

Mark Macklow is third generation cobbler at his grandfathers shop in Gateshead

Edwin Macklow, first generation cobbler at work in his shop

Kayser Bondor, Pentrebach & Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, Wednesday 6th May 1964. Kayser Bondor at Pentrebach specialises in manufacturing underwear. Our picture shows

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

Female workers putting lids on tins of Mansion Polish at Cherry Blossom Boot Polish and Mansion Polish Works, Chiswick, 12 November 1931

Worker operating a pottery lathe in Doultons Pottery Factory, Lambeth, London. 5th April 1932

Female worker breaking jute in Dundee Jute Mill, Dundee, Scotland. 16 October 1931

Bowater Paper Mills Ltd. Wet end of paper machine, showing new material passing over machine wire. November 1935

Penlee stone quarry, Newlyn, Cornwall. Rock-boring machine driven by compressed air drilling a hole for an explosive charge

Machinist at the BSA Factory, Small Heath, Birmingham seen here manufacturing front forks for BSA motorcycles. Circa 1965

Eddie Appleyard with Bonny & Prince at the West Hallam Ploughing match. 15th October 1989

Brailsford ploughing match 15th October 1963

Two horses ploughing seen side by side at the annual ploughing match at West Hallam - District ploughing, hedgecutting competition, Weston Hall, Weston-on-Trent. 15th October 1989

Ploughmans Lunch West Hallam ploughing match - Gerald Taylor farmer 15th June 1950

West Hallam ploughing match 15th June 1950 - David Neal for Hinkley

Brailsford ploughing match 15th October 1981

West Hallam ploughing match - Mr Gerald Taylor of Gotham Nottingham 2nd in the Ploughing contest. Ron Temple leads the horses 15th October 1981

West Hallam ploughing match the only woman in ploughing competition Ann Sale of Draycolt in the clay 15th October 1981

Ploughing at Heathrow now the site where the of airport is located. 1935

Women operating looms at a Milan mill. Circa 1955

Jam production in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. Britains Jam for civilians and troops is an all the year round occupation

Womens Land Army girls with a tractor probably taken on farms in North Somerset during the Second World War. Circa June 1942

Some local Land Army girls learning to drive a Fordson tractor at the start of the last war, in 1939. As you can see, there was not much concern for health and safety in those days

Robert Howarth aged 17 working at Crossleys factory. Halifax in West Yorkshire. 9th June 1959

First stage of cutting out - 240 layers of 30 metre long fabric at Dewhirst Factory, Dormanstown. 14th February 1978

Staff member working at Dewhirst Factory, Dormanstown. 14th February 1978

M4 Motorway Construction, June 1970. Junction 10, Winnersh, Wokingham

The Sun Newspaper, launched by owners IPC, International Publishing Corporation, to replace the Daily Herald. First published in Manchester on Tuesday 15th September 1964

Feature, Graystone White & Sparrow, Crane Hire Company, 31st March 1995. Managing Director, David Barrass, takes a ride in a basket, 140 foot above depot, Stockton

Views. Teesside Leisure Park. 31st March 1995. Feature, Graystone White & Sparrow, Crane Hire Company. Managing Director, David Barrass, takes a ride in a basket, 140 foot above depot, Stockton

A Ferguson TE20 tractor seen here ploughing a Warwickshire field circa 1953

Workers at J & J Cash Ltd. 11th February 1972

Lily Carlson, manageress at the Liver Laundrette in Runcorn, offers refreshments to her customers. She also allows yoga fan Lawrence Fulton to meditate as his washing spins. 6th March 1979

This 15 ton "Joy Sullivan continuous miner continous miner"
This 15 ton " Joy Sullivan continuous miner continous miner" has been imported from the United States for experiments in British mines

Another coal mine at risk. Betws colliery manager Vince Rogers. August 1984 P017678

Three-years-old Dawn Millican was among the many visitors who visited the Northern Optical Congress at Harrogate, Yorks, this week

Munition girls at work at a Welsh shell factory working for the Ministry of Supply during the Second World War. Circa 1941

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