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Reproducing Roman pottery at Ashtead, Surrey. Roman ideas for modern households. A potter at work making reproductions. 28th August 1926
The Earls Court Motor Show. London Visitors enter and exit the exhibition centre on Warwick Road, Earls Court, West London. Picture 15th October 1970
Miss Betting Shop winner, Miss Jessica J. Gooch (aged 20), from Kenton, near Harrow, whose measurements are 35 - 23 - 36 with her trophies
London Stock Exchange 1980s 1988 AB ports Harold Rattle Shares Money Finance Busy
National Union of Seamen (Mersey Area) mass meeting held at Liverpool Pierhead near the Seamans war memorial during the ongoing seamans strike
The Waters Edge pub, South Shields. Tyne and Wear, North England. Picture taken as part of a news story of a drowning in the area. Picture taken 29th August 1998
The New Ferry Tavern. Ferry Tavern in Ferry Street situated close to the Ferry Landing stage at South Shields, Tyne and Wear
The Horsley Hill Hotel. Horsley Hill, South Shields, Tyne and Wear. Picture taken 9th January 1998
The Motor Show, 1935, at Olympia London. Centre is the Fiat stand displaying the new Fiat 1500 car. Picture taken 25th October 1935
Cow for car. Searles of Worthing, car dealers, take anything in part exchange for a car
A currency dealer studies a computer screen at the Natwest Bank trading floor in London January 1991
The Turks Head, on the corner of Baring Street and Greens Place. South Shields, Tyne and Wear. Picture taken 5th May 1993
The Steamboat Pub, 27 Mill Dam, South Shields, Tyne and Wear. Picture taken circa 2nd April 1998
The High Crown, Eureka pub on Frederick Street, South Shields, Tyne and Wear. Picture taken 5th September 1992
The Dolly Peel pub on Commercial Road, South Shields, Tyne and Wear. Picture taken 30th July 1998
The Winskells, Horsley Hill, South Shields, Tyne and Wear. Picture taken 9th January 1998
East End greengrocer doing his best to remain open for his customers despite the inconvenience of the shop
Pegu, the vital road and rail junction 50 miles north of Rangoon, Burma on the wide Pegu river has fallen to the Allied Fourteenth Army in their sweep Southwards to the Burma coast. Picture shows: R
World War Two. Wales. The hairdresser carries on with his business, though his window has been blown in by a bomb in the Welsh Village. Picture shows a hairdresser giving a customer a shave
The Earls Court Motor Show. London Visitors sit on the floor in front of the Jaguar stand. In the background is a luxurious Jaguar XJ6. Picture 18th October 1970
Mr Stanley Morris, a Birmingham designer and craftsman, puts the finishing touches to a gold presidential chain for the Society of Thoracic Surgeons of America
The Smithy at Ponteland - a typically rural scene. This forge bears the date 1822. Circa 1930
Making puns on his name is the occupation of Mr Alfred Sparkes. Hes an electrical engineer at Collyhurst, Manchester. 11th October 1935
They phone Miss Fone. Miss V Fone, quite rightly, is a switchboard operator at Commercial Structures, Ltd. Leyton. 24th October 1935
Seller of the teapot is Mr. Fred Potts, of Gorton, Manchester, who has been trading in pottery for twenty-five years, and finds his name to be an excellent advertisement
Mr Cakebread the baker. Born at Clavering, Essex, sixty-four years ago, Mr. Nathan Cakebread, was apprenticed to the baking business in Woodford at the age of sixteen
Let us introduce you to Mr. H. W. Butcher, who has been a family butcher at Orpington, in Kent, for the last eleven years. Mr
Mr Uncle the pawnbroker. 8th November 1935
Mrs Catt from Carshalton Beeches with some of her Siamese cats. She is a member of the Siamese cat club and has bred Siamese cats for nearly four years. 7th November 1935
Hawker at work in Newcastle. 19th December 1938
The Motor Show, 1930, at Empire Hall, Olympia London, Among the cars launched at this show was The Bentley 8 Litre, Picture taken 17th October 1930
The Motor Show, 1961 at Earls Court, London, The 1961 Motor Show saw the Humber Super Snipe Series III and Lea-Francis Lynx launched, Picture taken 17th October 1961
A barter exchange in Luneburg, Germany after the Second World War
General view of the huge crowd gathered at the Royal Exchange in Manchester during the Indian boycott protest meting
Female workers of the Tate and Lyle sugar refinery in Liverpool make their way to the staff canteen to consider action to offset the threat to the sugar factory
Busy scenes in Market Street, central manchester. 14th January 1969
A blacksmith at work in Kings Norton, West Midlands, England. Picture taken circa 1930s. Suggested date 1st June 1935
Onwards lies The Humber. A tug and a powered barge head for the Humber, while on the right of the picture lighters wait to unload or receive new cargoes
Aerial view of Riverside Quay, Hull. 21st April 1958
Tugs, lighters and barges moored to the staithes awaiting to unload their goods into warehouses along the River Hull
A huge stack of used horseshoes outside a blacksmiths workshop, Scarrington, Nottinghamshire. 7th June 1966
Fishwives of Cullercoats filling their creels for the days rounds at North Shields Fish Quay. April 1936
It is a well known tradition among coopers that when an apprentice cooper completes his training he goes through the ritual of being rolled in a barrel
Scenes in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. April 1954
ICI apprentice plumbers Andrew Hutchinson (left) and Michael Wilson have swapped places with their counterparts at Middlesbrough Council for two weeks
Market Place in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London (formerly Surrey). June 1957
Busy scene at Rupert Street market in Soho, London. Circa 1955
St Peters Church on Thornaby village green, workman Gary Sayer at work on restoration. 3rd February 1986
World War Two Home Front. A woman delivery boxes full of fish to traders in Billingsgate market, London September 1943
Referee Jack Taylor pictured in his job as a butcher in Wolverhampton, 1970
Greengrocers stall in East Street Market, London. circa 1955
Market Day in the market place at Newbury, Berkshire. December 1935. P007940
London Stock Exchange 1980s September 1981 Shares Money Finance Busy
Queen Elizabeth arriving at the London Stock Exchange in the City of London for a visit. 18th November 1998
Finance Stock Exchange dealer sitting at desk Holding two telephones to each ear Traders Dealers holding phone
Lord Avon, former British Prime Minister Anthony Eden, at the sale of cattle at Manor farm near Salisbury, Wiltshire. Auction of his famous Alvediston herd of pedigree Hereford cattle
Picture shows 2 (two) welders. They are each standing behind gas canisters, and jokingly letting the components line up with their eyes and mouths
The Alum House pub in South Shields, Tyne and Wear. Picture taken 19th November 1997
The Beacon, in Greens Place, Lawe Top, South Shields, Tyne and Wear. Picture taken 31st August 1996
Soldiers learning how to become brick layers and house builders. The instructor (bricklaying nearest to the camera) is 40 years old Norman Green a foreman for a big building concern in peacetime
Russian ships arrive at a British port with a cargo of timber during the Second World War
A cobbler at work. He is making boots - perhaps army boots. Picture taken 1st September 1944
The village blacksmith in a new setting. Tank Corps members carrying out repairs on an anvil at their West Country headquarters. Picture is passed by Censors
Road workers, digging up the road at Oxford Street, London. Picture taken 20th July 1933
Mechanical Handling Exhibition, Earls Court, London, Tuesday 5th May 1970. Our Picture Shows
Darn Crook, Newcastle, with lorries transporting meat, beer, vegetables and household goods. 28th February 1931
Life aboard the 3 masted Penang. 111 days is rather a long time on the ocean, and a little light music and a fine day encourages the seamen on to sing
At the opening of the Plumbers Museum in the ancient Morden Tower, Newcastle, by the Lord Mayor (Coun. J.G. Nixon). 13th September 1932
Mr Kettle mends a Kettle. Mr. A. S. Kettle, of New Street, Newark, Notts, mends his namesake - a kettle! October 1935
Beer runs in the family. Meet Mr. Richard Beer, of the Prince Alfred, High Street, Poplar, London. Mr. Beer has owned the Prince Alfred for 32 years
What could Mr Spratt be but - a fishmonger! He lives up to his name in Kinglsey Road, Hounslow, where he started his business last January. 20th October 1935
Hyman Ash (I m an ash), Rochdale Road, Manchester, works in fathers timber yard. 17th October 1935
Mr A Smith, the smith of the forge, Sutton Valence, Kent. 5th November 1935
Mr Starling, very properly this owner of a bird shop in Surrey Street, Croydon is Mr Starling. He has other pets in stock, too, but the birds he tends with special care
Mr George Axe (left) aged 58 years, shows his wares. Hes an ironmonger in Ben Jonson Road, Stepney, London. 29th October 1935
Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Vincent Kempenfelt Applin pictured while canvassing, talking to a knife grinder. 19th August 1921
London School of Printing and Kindred Trades. These students in the book-binding department are applying gold finish to the backs of volumes. 14th September 1935
The Daily Mirror Group Stand at The Newsagents Fair, exhibition hall complex, Belle Vue Zoological Gardens, Belle Vue, Manchester, Tuesday 28th February 1961
A Ford Escort, the 20, 000th car manufactured at the Ford Motor plant in Halewood, is hoisted aboard the 1374 ton motor vessel Helics at Garston Docks for transportation to Finland. 4th May 1968
Mass meeting held by joint union strikers on the Liverpool waterfront during the ongoing seamans strike. Picture shows: Empty scenes at the docks during the meeting. 5th October 1966
The Italian general cargo ship Vallisarco seen here unloading its cargo at Hays Wharf in the Pool of London. 2nd June 1955
Busy King Street in Central Manchesters main shopping area, showing traders unloading goods from their vans on the side of the road. 3rd July 1970
Canoeists of Lagos, Nigeria bringing goods from ships anchored off the coast. March 1955
