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Men running through a tunnel, cut out by the quarrymen, to take cover during the blasting. Penlee stone quarry, Newlyn. 26th February 1923
Penlee stone quarry, Newlyn, Cornwall. 25th February 1923
Quarrying green slate. Lowering slate down the side of Yew Crags on the east side of the Valley. In the distance in Buttermere. Lake District. 4th December 1934
Cutting reeds in Norfolk. 12th February 1938
Reed cutting at Broad Farm, Rockland St Mary, Norfolk. An industry which gives considerable employment in Norfolk. This farm cultivates reeds and grasses. 14th May 1933
Reed cutting on Rockland Broad. There is an increasing demand for the Norfolk reeds, the finest in the world. 9th April 1935
A new industry, snake and reptile skins for bags and shoes. Ironing a 5 years python skin. Colonia (Sarum) Ltd. Salisbury. 10th November 1935
Mediterranean shells for the English seaside. Shell girls examining and preparing shells at Mr Henry Harveys studio at Camberwell for distribution as gifts to sell at seaside resorts
Bryant & May Ltd. Liverpool. Making match boxes entirely from wood. Inspection of the wood. 6th May 1930
Paper industry. View of machine house from wet end. 25th July 1922
Preparing material ready for the paper making machine. Empire Paper Mills. 14th August 1922
Police Centenary. Metropolitan river police bring their boat alongside a barge while one of the party goes aboard for inspection - one phase of the many activities of a force that will celebrate its
Two leather craftsmen at work. Circa 1925
Merseyside dockers who went to the National Assistance Board offices in Balliol Road, Bootle, asking for benefit, after their nine day unofficial stoppage
Reptile snake skins. New west of England industry, women pegging down snake skins for drying. 13th January 1933
Forest Products Research Laboratory. A saw dentist treating and sharpening the teeth of a great log saw. This is one of the largest experimental saws. 30th March 1935
New railway tickets with advertising insets. Pictured, this machine makes in an hour 50, 000 of the new tickets to be used by the L. M. S. in 1931
Preparing the watercress harvest. Watercress beds throughout the country, more so in the North, have suffered this year owing to the continued drought
Watercress time. Now is the time of year when watercress is at its best and busy times are being experienced in the growing districts
Water-cress time at Cassiobridge. Now is the time of year when watercress is at its best. There is work all the year round in the beds from which the harvest is now being gathered
Protecting the housewife. Weights and measures testing department of the LCC. Testing scales and weights. Thousands are brought to this office each year to be tested
The great Railway Clearing House. Millions of used railways tickets from all the big companies, pass through the tidiest department, of the Railway Clearing House every year
Lea Valley tomato harvest. 30, 000 tons of tomatoes. Grading tomatoes in the grading shed before packing for market. 21st July 1923
A curious effect caused by the old fashioned method of hanging out onions for the " drying out" process at the farm of Mr John Wright, near Cheadle, Cheshire. 2nd October 1934
An onion seller. 1st December 1928
A group of workmen at Doigs Grimsby yard in the 1920s
An old time production at Dunlop s. Circa 1925
The a at work at Dover, Kent. 1932
A Clyno car being repaired by an a patrol man. 1932
a man at work in Dover, Kent. 1932
33 year old Patrick MacKenton from London, bursts into song on the parapet of the Albert Hall, 90ft above the Albert Memorial seen in the background
Easter bonnets being made at Edward Mann Ltd. hat factory in Stoke Newington. Roped in by the girls as models while the Easter bonnets are finished off, are Martin Levy, the works foreman
Nick Bass (21) completes his apprenticeship in the printing trade. He became " Lady Codiva" to mark the end of his six year apprenticeship as a compositor at Wilkinson Bros
Newcastle General Hospital. An electronic technician tests neurophysiology apparatus in the new muscular dystrophy laboratories at the General hospital. Circa 1966
Roy Holmes retired driver behind the control of the Tulyar deltic engine. 15th October 1988
The Second Severn Crossing under construction. 25th January 1994
Inventors have the chance of showing their inventions to a board of judges who are selecting people to appear in the Inventors Club programme on television
Mr Irene Quaranta pictured at work in the Toulouse Aircraft factory. 22nd April 1975
Work in progress at the Toulouse Aircraft factory in Southern France. 22nd April 1975
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
August Bank Holiday 1937. The ice cream man was a welcome sight to these takers at Warwick. 2nd August 1937
9 month old Jane Turnock plays happily in her play pen as her mothers works away in the background, in the converted staff training room at Henrys store in Manchester. January 1966
The Riddle of the Sphinx 21st May 1954 What exposure does one give near the river on the embankment with a slow film and a overcast sky and some rain in the air
Enjoying a drink in the Subway club, meeting place for fisherman and dockers. March 1965
King George Dock, Hull. March 1965
King George Dock, Hull. Mr Harry Kelsey (51, right) and Mr J Watson (49, left). March 1965
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visits Liverpool. Mr Arthur Nimmo from Grassendale explains his job in the bookbinding section at the Sir Robert Jones Memorial Workshop. 29th November 1974
Miss Esther Rantzen, pictured at work in her office at the BBC, Kensington House. Esther is the " trouble shooter" on Bradens Week. 20th October 1969
