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Emily Davies (nearest camera) who was blinded following an air raid in the blitz, pictured at work with three other blind women testing aircraft parts at a factory in the West Midlands during
Mrs Jeanings supervising part timer Mrs Williams at her machine in a Birmingham munitions factory during the Second World War. 28th May 1942
Sunday work in progress at a munitions factory in Birmingham during the Second World War. Woman at work in the Fuse inspection department of a Birmingham Arms Factory. 26th May 1940
Birmingham factory worker Mabel Evitts, aged 28, of 63 Princes Road, Warley, at work soldering torpedoes at a West Midlands factory during the Second World War. 5th May 1942
Factory worker Mrs C Kyle at work in a Birmingham munitions factory during the Second World War. 29th January 1941
Mrs Knight gets down to some tank parts under the eye of forewoman Mrs Jeanings at a Birmingham munitions factory during the Second World War. 28th May 1942
Seventy two year old factory worker Mrs Slim of 283 Queens road, Londonderry, Smethwick, who works five hours every morning in a Birmingham factory on drilling and milling machines
Factory worker Miss D Odell at work in a Birmingham munitions factory during the Second World War. 29th January 1941
Opening of a Womens War Work Exhibition at Solihull, Birmingham during the Second World War. Miss Connie Pattinson, capstan operator, speaking tat the exhibition
Farmers balloting for farm implements during the Second World War. 21st March 1943
A holidaymaker on a Bedfordshire farm during the Second World War, gives a cuddle to one of the horses. 3rd June 1944
Londoners are earning good money and having a holiday at the same time by pea picking. This group of girls are staying at the Bedfordshire Agricultural Camp and spending their days working
The Forestry Commission of Scotland requested Scottish University students to volunteer for forestry work during their summer holidays
Members of an aircraft factory who recently visited an RAF Squadron, invited the pilots to pay them a visit at the factory and see their fighter planes being made
Corporation workmen filling and place sandbags to protect civic building from bomb blast at the outbreak of the Second World War 2nd September 1939
A demolition squad make safe a bomb damaged building at Hodge Hill Common following a raid on the city. 18th August 1940
Women engine cleaners at work during World War II. Circa 1941
Royal Ordnance Factory. Private M Webster with Private Elsie Bolton, both of Liverpool, working on a cardboard carton manufacturing machine which turns out 1200 boxes a day
A corner of the 800 acres Royal Ordnance factory and estate at Kirkby which the Government has offered to Liverpool Corporation for development as a new industrial estate. Circa 1945
Working on two shifts in the twenty four hours, the entire Fire Brigade at a large Ministry of Supply factory in the South of England are assembling rifles instead of idly waiting for the fire alarm
Fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force whose lives were saved by parachutes make a visit to the factory where the parachutes were produced
Reconstructing the Burma road near the Salween River during the Second world War. An American Army bulldozer and Chinese labourers carrying basket loads of crushed rocks
Female factory workers checking land mine detectors. A row of finished detector heads. The apparatus for recording their reactions to hidden mines is fitted separately. June 1943
Nearly five thousand workmen, mostly forced imported labour, were employed In repairing the bomb damage to the marshalling yard at Hamm, Germany, at one time
Elephants used by Allied Forces during the Burma Campaign in World War Two for labour and heavy lifting tasks such as bridge building
As the soldiers of the Red Army have by their courage given a new inspiration to the people of Europe, so the workers of the Soviet eager to make every sacrifice in their countrys great fight against
Naga head-hunters constructing Indias defence road on the Assam (North India) -Burma front. Picture taken 23rd July 1942
The stockade of a restored coal mine in the Donets Basin region which was recently liberated by the advancing Red Army during the battle against the German Army on the Russian Front
Grandmothers working on the railway lines during the Second World War. September 1942
The ordinary man and woman is rewarded in the second part of the New Years honours list. Miss Elsie Bedford of the Womens Land Army from Plaistow in London, busy with her charges at St
Miss Joyce Richardson, aged 21 of Rotherham, South Yorkshire at work as a junior chemist in a great steel works laboratory
Mrs M Hampton, one of the first women gangers with LNER, busy at work in Sheffield on one of the train line tracks. March 1942
Lengthwomen at work oiling and scraping at Westbourne Park Railway Station, GWR. Their job is to maintain the working order of the lines including tasks such as plate laying, point-oiling
A gang of length women at work oiling and scraping at Westbourne Park Railway Station, GWR. The man in the background warns approaching trains that workers are on the line
Volunteer harvesters holds a service and prayer in the harvest field at Wylam, Northumberland as their day of work comes to a close
Some of the first women gangers with LNER, busy at work in Sheffield on one of the train line tracks. March 1942
Women at work at Chiswick Bus Depot in West London during the Second World War. Left is Mrs Florence Brown with Mrs Ann Dennis at work on one of the bus chassis while it moves along the conveyor
Veteran driver of the Oxford Bus Company Miss Rosalind Williams getting into her cab for another journey during the Second World War. 1st October 1943
Demolition in progress of a tall building in Fetter Lane (opposite the Daily Mirror building). This building was hit during the " Blitz" period
Bouquets for Huyton policeman David Henderson from local shop keepers and assistants as a thank you to him for organising a charity dance. 10th December 1982
Canadian loggers camp in Scotland during the Second World War. These pictures illustrate the off duty life of the Canadian loggers who, at a camp in Scotland, are engaged in felling timber
Munition girls at work in a factory in England during the Second World War. Mrs Bird acetylene welding. 7th February 1942
Munition girls selling war certificates to workers in their factory in the Midlands during the Second World War. 21st November 1942
A Royal Army Ordnance Corps workshop, established in the west Country to keep in working the order the a guns and equipment connected with the site deals with a large variety of jobs varying from
Five sisters form a fire fighting team on a trailer pump and are seen here at practice. They are Rose, Ivy, May Margaret and Betty Ellard of Erith, Kent. 14th September 1943
Mrs A. C. Driver aged 50 at work at her lathe at the Beaufoy Technical Institute in Lambeth, part of the LCC School, where she is working to pass out and work in a munitions factory. 24th July 1940
Women at work at a munitions factory during the Second World War. Circa 1941
