Porters Collection

Wartime women porters at The General Station, Cardiff, Wales. Having fun, sitting as a group on the railway luggage trolly

The deliveries and the loading of purchases of fresh fruit and vegetables in a congested Tavistock Street WC2 at the rear of Covent Garden Market

Porters checking parcels that have arrived by train at Ashby-de-la-Zouch railway station. Glass negs taken 1958

One of hundreds of patients being evacuated from a Birmingham hospital in specially converted Corporation buses at the outbreak of the Second World War. 1st September 1939

Unusual sight in Birmingham when half of ton of solid gold bars were transported from Messers Collie and Co, commodity brokers of Newhall Street to the Lloyds bank in Temple Road. 6th January 1940

Bela Zola Pictures Mrs priston aged 82 a licensed peddler in Billingsgate Market and Spitelfields Market

Mrs priston aged 82 a licensed peddler in Billingsgate Market and Spitelfields Market 1st March 1954

The trawler Lord Nelson lands its catch from the northern fishing grounds in Hull. 25th August 1961

Railway loading fruit on the famous Strawberry Line along the Cheddar Valley in the early 1960s

Sherpa porters who were with the British expedition which climbed Kangchenjunga, watch a wood turning lathe in operation, during a visit to Redcar-lane School, Redcar

Borough Market, Porters Race. Two barrows loaded with 4. 5 cwt
Borough Market, Porters Race. Two barrows loaded with 4.5 cwt. (hundredweight) of fruit are used in a race from Borough Market on a five mile course to Guys hospital where the fruit was then given to

Women doing the work of men who have been called up for military service. Seen here loading and unloading goods wagons at Reading marshalling yard. 9th February 1942

General view of Smithfield Market in Manchester. 13th September 1973

Workers at the Smithfield Market parade a Spud Sack Jack - the Union Jack was last used in their Coronation celebrations. 19th October 1973

A view of Plessey Railway Station on 13th September, 1939, which was awarded a special prize in the British Rail Stations Garden Competition. George Allan and James Harmen the two porter gardeners

Mr. J Knox and Mr. W Ratcliffe (Porters) look over the prize winning show at Beamish Railway Station for the best kept station. There were prizes for the station gardeners on 17th September 1953

Mail bags being received and checked in at the headquarters of Unity Football Pools in Liverpool, in 1939. Unity Pools operated throughout the Second World War

Prior to singer Frank Sinatra departure from Claridges Hotel a small van arrives at the hotel to collect all of the Sinatra partys luggage. 18th May 1975

Billingsgate fish market, London circa 1935

Fish market at Fleetwood August 1947

Truckloads of Xmas parcels on platform 17 of Victoria Station with parcel Porter Jim Robinson (on electric truck) about to move off as the Foreman F. Dennisons stacks the last parcel

Fashions of the 11th Annual Poultry Feather Hat Competition were being shown at the CafAoe
Fashions of the 11th Annual Poultry Feather Hat Competition were being shown at the Cafś Royal, Regent Street. Irene Moffatt took a trip down to Smithfield market to show the porters what a good

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