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Eric Owen, chief modeller at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, creating a vase to a clients specifications. In the foreground are models for a vegetable dish and coffee pots. 1946
A group of female workers at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, remove newly created articles from their moulds after the liquid state clay was poured in and left to stand for half an hour
Works send-off Ron Hill, Britaines marathon runner for the Olympic games, as he leaves courtauldes factory in Droylsden, for the last time before leaving for Tokyo
Picture shows Biba Boutique in its 2nd home at 19-21 Kensington Church Street. London Kensington High Street area The shop assistants in their hoop mini dress uniforms
Some of the workers in a section of the Bemrose printing works at Aintrees Long Lane. Liverpool, 16th January 1946
Red Cross flag seller in central London catches up on the latest news from Normandy following the Allied invasion. 7th June 1944
Local factory, Meridian, on South Bank Road is beating the recession producing and selling underwear to major retailers. Pictured, a general view of machinists. 11th August 1993
Burtons menswear factory in Guisborough. October 1983
16 women from Burtons Farndale menswear factory in Guisborough have lost a total of 126lbs in a sponsored slim. Their weight loss has proved to be a 225 gain for Marske Cheshire Home
Upholsterers seen here at work at the Greaves and Thomas furniture makers at their Amherst Works in Northwold Road, Clapton. 17th March 1953
Latex being cut for straps for corsets and girdles at the Spirella Corset factory in Letchworth 14th January 1949
Au Fait girdle manufacture at the Spirella Corset factory in Letchworth 14th January 1949 Straps being attached to a girdle
Englands new sugar industry. The beet sugar industry in England has received a decided fillip by the large factory built at Newark in which the Government holds half the capital
Sugar beet factory near Ely, Cambridgeshire. In the foreground are flumes which roots are tipped to be carried along by water into the factory. This i the farm of Mr W.A
Construction of the Queensway Tunnel, Liverpool. 30th December 1929
Female sunbathers soak up the sun in Spinningfields, Manchester as high temperatures hit the city An office worker walls past in the other direction. 4th August 1975
Coal Mines underground scenes. Norton Hill Colliery, Somerset. Ernest Knowles, 40 years a miner, heaving coal. March 1946 P017838
Life can be hectic for Willie MacLean. In there course of one day, he could need all this gear. For 25 -year-old Willie is a Jack-of-all-trades in Castlebay on the island of Barra, Inverness-shire
Scenes at the Walkers Factory, Leicester. 26th January 1978
Picture shows World War Two munitions worker Carol Gosling. Picture taken 27th December 1942
Miss Jessie Lawton, at her machine in the munitions factory in Birmingham, where she works.. Picture taken 30th August 1943
Employees at the BMC works at Longbridge, Birmingham, West Midlands. October 1967
Workers at the Birmingham Mint, Birmingham, West Midlands. October 1967
Dannimac factory. October 1986
Local factory, Meridian, on South Bank Road is beating the recession producing and selling underwear to major retailers. Pictured, fabric cutting. 11th August 1993
Wheels being dipped in chemicals in preparation for their tyres for the production line at the Triumph car factory in Coventry. 23 September 1931
Tyres checked on the assembly line at the Triumph car factory in Coventry. 23 September 1931
Packing chocolate bars at the Cadbury factory at Bourneville 26th March 1953
Worker on the production line at the Cadbury factory at Bourneville 26th March 1953
The Hoover Factory in Perivale 20th March 1953
Assemble worker on the production line at the Hoover Factory in Perivale 20th March 1953
Quality control seen here testing the mangle on a newly assembled washing machine at the Hoover Factory in Perivale 20th March 1953
Components being manufactured for assemble at the Phillips Cycle factory in Birmingham 10th March 1953
VW Volkswagen near Brunswick, West Germany. A day in the life of Heinrich Gemnich, 40, ex-Luftwaffe pilot, one of the 17, 000 men and women who work at the VW factory
Reading shopkeepers, rate increases. January 1975
Sugar beet - a good root near Ely, Cambridgeshire. These sugar beet are white not red. 1st September 1925
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
Liverpool footballer Jimmy Case gets an extra special welcome from two workers at Anfield following Liverpools FA Cup semi final win over Everton. 28th March 1971
Gales which topped 100 miles an hour battered three giant concrete towers to rubble at Britains " pride of Europe" power station
A worker stacking shelves at a Tesco Store in Middleton, Manchester. 30th October 1972
Secretary of State for the Environment Chris Patten MP visits the Rover Plant at Longbridge, Birmingham. 1st October 1990
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh visit Wales. Pictured, the Queen talking to Mr Reg Matthews of Newbridge in the bobbin room during her tour of British Nylon Spinners (BNS), Pontypool
Queen Elizabeth II pauses to talk to one of the women on the assembly line during her walkabout at the Hoover factory in Merthyr. 9th March 1973
Three generations of descendants of indentured East Indian labourers brought to Trinidad in the mid 19th century to work in the sugar cane fields seen here during a break from working in the sugar
Steelworker Tony Dooley of Portmead, Swansea, with the VLN converter in the background at the British Steel Corporations Port Talbot plant. 15th January 1969
A pocket-sewing machine in action was a highlight of the industry tent at the British Week held in Middlesbrough. Here Janet Stubbings, of Dormanstown
