Work Collection (page 9)

Commuters at Rayners Park await the next train to Waterloo. November 1938

Signalman working in an unknown signal box on the Woking to Waterloo line. November 1938

The driver Southern Railways King Arthur Class locomotive Sir Percivale awaits the signal from the guard to depart Waterloo station. November 1938

Driver of a Southern Railways Electric Multiple Unit train approaching Rayners Park Station. November 1938

Pictured, apprentices of Driver Southall Ltd, who found an answer to label snags. 4th September 1972

Reading shopkeepers, rate increases. January 1975

Council workmen constructing a public air raid shelter outside Lloyds Bank in Church Road, Birmingham on the eve of the outbreak of the Second Word War. 1st September 1939

Workmen complete the sandbagging of Birminghams Magistrates Court on Corporation Street in the week following the outbreak of the Second World War. 12th September 1939

Lyons workers visit Barnsley. Key workers from other parts of the country who will be coming to live in Barnsley to work at the new Lyons factory, are taken round the town by coach

Birmingham City Council workmen seen here filling and sandbagging the Citys Education Office in Margaret Street in the city centre a few days before the outbreak of the Second World War

Birmingham council workmen construct an emergency water container in the city centre on the eve of the outbreak of the second world war. 1st September 1939

Many hands make light work... Said these girls from C and A
Many hands make light work...Said these girls from C and A. When they cheerfully joined in sandbag filling in Birmingham City Centre on the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War

At the Lyons Nippy School at Oxford Street Corner House, girls are taught how to become efficient waitresses. This Nippy is showing potential candidates just how they should look

George Phillips Daily Herald / Sun Photographer 19th February 1962
George Phillips Daily Herald/Sun Photographer 19th February 1962

Sunday People Photographer George Phillips 3rd August 1963

Mushroom growing in Sussex. 23rd April 1933

Braille printing by a blind girl. October 1920

Horse hair for violin bows. Valuable tails of white horses in bunches and being divided up in small hanks for violin bows. 7th December 1924

Cockpit of a British United Airlines BAC 1-11 during a European proving flight to Spain. 27th January 1965

Air traffic controllers in the control tower at Heathrow Airport handling departing and arriving flights. 18th October 1964

Railway carriages. The plant at Swindon showing carriage in cylinder ready to be sealed up. January 1933

Pye Works, polishing shop, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Circa 1929

Daily Mirror newspapers being loaded on to a Liverpool bound train at Euston Station. London. 2nd December 1920. Composite Image

Loading Pye radios on to LNER delivery lorry. Circa 1929

The Inspectors Room at Cannon Row Police Station. May 1929

New Scotland Yard. Classification of criminals. The crime index. May 1929

Metropolitan Police Lost Property. In the Index Department at the Lost Property Office, Lambeth. May 1929

Floating a billiard bed at Dinorwic Slate Wharf, Rotherhithe. Slate splitting is an art acquired by long practice. It is an unusual Thames-side occupation

The pilot and flight engineer of Overseas Aviation walk towards the terminal at Gatwick Airport after landing their Canadair Argonaut charter flight from the continent 15th May 1961

An Air Stewardess of Overseas Aviation walk towards the terminal at Gatwick Airport after charter flight from the continent 15th May 1961

They phone Miss Fone. Miss V Fone, quite rightly, is a switchboard operator at Commercial Structures, Ltd. Leyton. 24th October 1935

General view of Ellington Pit, Northumberland. Circa 1987

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 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

Seaweed used to deaden sound in workshops and public buildings is the latest device to deal with Londons noise problem. Collected in Canadian waters

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

The Southwold lifeboat, The Mary Scott, goes out on her quarterly exercises. Stowing away the sail. 23rd February 1934

Daily Mirror, Bouverie Street, a consultation. Left to right, C Hosken, H Sanders and R Charlton. June 1922

Reed Cutting on the Thames 1st May 1927 Within a stones throw of Chiswick church, not far from Hammersmith Bridge is a small island in the River Thames

Nurses prize day. 1973

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

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