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Eighty years old Mr. Joseph Brogan who has been awarded the BEM for his service as a miner. He is employed at the Garswood Hall Colliery, Aston-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. January 1946 P018209
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
Burtons menswear factory in Guisborough. October 1983
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
Some of the workers in a section of the Bemrose printing works at Aintrees Long Lane. Liverpool, 16th January 1946
Scenes at the Walkers Factory, Leicester. 26th January 1978
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
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
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
A worker stacking shelves at a Tesco Store in Middleton, Manchester. 30th October 1972
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
Computers at Leasco Offices, Reading, September 1980
Women working at Brough s, helping to meet the enormous demand for steel drums and containers of all kinds. 10th January 1946
The apple press at the Bulmers Cider Mill in Old Plough Lane, Hereford. Circa 1959
Brian Connolly putting final touches to the Cyclone, at the fair on Stokesley High Street. The fair precedes the annual agricultural show on Saturday. 20th September 1978
Scott Lithgow staff leave dock yard after first day at work. 1967
At the age of seventeen, Tessa Furnell is well on her way to achieving her ambition to he Britains first woman aero-engine designer
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
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
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
Molten metal draining from one of the furnaces at Ford Motor Factory in Dagenham, Essex. July 1939
Interior view showing the new central crossing in Worksop Priory Church following restoration work. October 1935
Miss Gwen Johnstone, daughter of Mr and Mrs Johnstone in the living room of the farmMiss Gwen Johnstone
Cut price grocers in Forest gate, 15th September 1955
Village milkman George Wake doing his daily rounds in the Yorkshire Dales with his four and a half gallon milk can strapped to his back. 8th August 1944
A female butcher seen here at work in her shop. Yapton, West Sussex. 1963
A worker cleaning the grounds outside Tonbridge Castle in Kent May 1952
Madame Sweep: For men must work and women must sweep might be the slogan of Mrs. Ada Riches, of Woodbridge, Suffolk. She had always swept her own chimneys
Electricians checking the lights in one of the 114ft floodlight towers at St Andrews, home ground of Birmingham City Football club, 5th February 1957
A Cockney Earns His Living- Hes the most popular person in a heat wave, ice cream seller fins a customer in the heart of Londons shopping centre. Circa 1950
A signalman at work at Snow Hill railway station in Birmingham, June 1932
Out of service Kings class locomotives pictured at Stafford Road depot in Wolverhampton. September 1962
Day in the life of Covent Garden Market Cirica 1948 London, England. A flower lady with her flowers has a read of her paper in between her daily customers. Picture taken 1st July 1948
A woman customer at the Victoria check in office, pictured on the day that Laker Airways went bust. 5th February 1982
A 1982 Laker brochure stands on the counter of an empty booking office at Victoria, London, on the day that Laker Airways went bust. 5th February 1982
Beatles shop in Baker Street 3rd December 1967 No 94, Baker Street, was painted in psychadelic colours over the weekend by a team of painters and students
Mr J Colcough, a worker at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, hand painting one of the china plates using a medium of turpentine, fat oil and aniseed. 1946
Seventeen year old Len Mills, apprenticed turner of teapots and teapot lids at a Stoke On Trent pottery, produces between 400 and 500 teapots in and eight and a half hour day
A potter at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, creates a vase on his spinning wheel, using his fingers to shape the article from the inside as well as out. 1946
Mr Joseph Moss, a worker at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, operating the profile for platemaking. 1946
Workers at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, set plates in "saggars"Workers at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, set plates in " saggars" containing alumina. The saggars are then sealed before being put into the oven. 1946
MR Gs Oakden, a worker at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, marking imperfections on bowls which have just been fired, to be removed with a carborundum stone. 1946
A worker at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, pictured in the mill, where glaze made of borax, lead, stone, whitening and sand and fritted together in a " frit kiln
Olwyn Cotgreave, aged 20, tracing in platinum the outline of the flower design on a dessert plate
A worker at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, dips a newly created article into a vat of glaze. 1946
A team of painters at the Minton China Works in Stoke On Trent, fill in the coloured portions of the design applied to the china plates. 1946
A Red Cross nurse helps and elderly gentleman to a bench during a day trip to Trentham Park Circa 1958
Sandy Phillips seen here at the Salmon Leap in Pitlochry recording the number of salmon returning up river to breed. Circa 1959
Shipyard worker. Circa 1940s
Fishing Industry fisherman wearing yellow overalls April 1989 emptying basket of fish into crates dock workers dispute