Workers Collection (page 7)

Petrol Shortages 1953. Boys pushing a lorry which has run out of fuel. 23rd October 1953

Dock Strikes 1949. Strikers meeting Victoria Park as they vote back to work. 23rd July 1949

Dockers Strike 1948. Dockers mass meeting in Victoria Park. 12th July 1948

Dock Strikes 1945. Sandy Powell addressing the dockers clerks. 12th October 1945

Road worker with drill taking up a street in London. 29th March 1935

Strikers at Stratford Town Hall with Arthur Deakin, General Secretary of The Transport and General Workers Union after they told him they would not return to work. 11th January 1947

Dock Strikes 1949. Strikers meeting in Trafalgar Square. 18th July 1949

London Gas Strike. November 1944

Men queuing up outside the Labour Exchange to collect their money. 29th May 1945

A muffin man of London. 6th November 1934

General Strike 1926. Feeding Field telephone lines in Hyde Park, London. 4th May 1926

Defence Force on Wimbledon Common. An old soldier signs up again. 15th April 1921

Clocking in at School: The boys clock-in at the Silver Jubilee School. January 1970 P006334

The Prince and Princess of Wales during a visit to Jaguars Browns Lane, Coventry factory. 15th February 1984

The first trooper moves in: Where are the soliders? Stephen Bully aged 9

Arms for Russia. Girls at the Ordinance factory stencilling suupplies for the USSR with Russian words. 20th April 1942

Cotton Mills: Welfare (Fieldhouse Mill). July 1950 P005794

Mining: Industry: "Britains Ugliest Beauty Spot": Blaenau Ffestiniog
Mining: Industry: " Britains Ugliest Beauty Spot" : Blaenau Ffestiniog, a Welsh slate mining village, where the giat slag heads of Slate tower high above the roof tops

At a recent Exhibiton at Bristol, there was shown a cut-out wooden toy dog. He is called " Wallop" and is the idea of Mr. S.R. Gage, Managing Director of a Bristol Engineering firm

Rope making: Off to another hawser. The signals is given and the rope begins to turn as it makes its way along the rope walk railway. January 1944 P004300

Agriculture - Hops and Hop e picking: Hop picker "sit down"strikes at May
Agriculture - Hops and Hop Ð picking: Hop picker " sit down" strikes at May s, E. Farleigh. September 1945 P004547

Bomb damage near Waterloo Station. A Blitzed bus caused by blast from a V1 flying bomb. June 1944 P009482

Blast damage to a block of flats at Maida Vale in London after a V1 flying bomb attack, showing C.D. searching amongst the wreckage. June 1944 P009499

The Last of their Line. 1. The pit-brow lasses are to leave Giants Hall Colliery, Standish
The Last of their Line.1. The pit-brow lasses are to leave Giants Hall Colliery, Standish. They will no longer be needed when a new washery plant is opened at Gidlow. September 1953 P005128

While most people today are trying to forget Christmas, workers at Napier Novelty Company Ltd in Rickmansworth, returned today and started to produce crackers for Christmas 1970

Britains men and women of steel. Steel works of Britain producing engines, guns, armour and many other products for the war effort

General office scene: Secretary taking notes and answering the phone in a Birmingham office. Circa 1955

Women with buckets, bags and sacks scrounge for pieces of coal amongst the slag at the local pit near Gorton in Manchester during the coal shortage of World War Two

While most people today are trying to forget Christmas, workers at Napier Novelty Company Ltd in Rickmansworth, returned today and started to produce crackers for Christmas 1970

Mrs Village and Mrs Milward working in their box. August 1941 P012047

A strike at Spratts food factory in East London because of a dispute against a new " clocking in" system and a new method of paying wages. October 1945 P012064

Welsh miners on strike drew their last full weeks pay at Nine Mile Point Colliery in Monmouthshire, Wales. March 1944 P012055

Strike at the shipbuilding yard in Barrow In Furness. October 1943 P012065

Factory girls on way home, at Mountain Ash, Patting. Miners now on strike. March 1944 P012056

Munitions workers taking in the sunshine as they have their fortunes told by Miss Ethel Bellenger. April 1943 P012289

Occupations: Shop Assistants. Shop assistants seen here learning how to wrap Christmas presents before the Christmas rush. October 1953 D6139-004

This was the scene out side Newcastle-on-Tyne Police Court when 127 shipyard workers appeared on a charge of taking part in a strike in connection with a trade dispute at Walker-On-Tyne shipyard

Munition workers sports: The needle threading competition proved the men experts during the annual spoers day at a munitions factory. September 1942 P012234

A thousand of Heathrow Airports 30, 000 ground staff stopped work for a mass demonstration today. Passangers walking from the aircraft to Terminal buildings during the strike meeting

The C. P. Hole-boring machine is being used to bore apertures in the coal face - the same
The C.P. Hole-boring machine is being used to bore apertures in the coal face - the same depth as the undercut made by coal-cutter, ready for an explosive charge

A Rescue man in the mines with his assistant the canary. January 1951 P017722

Thanks to such machines as the Sullivan Shortwall Coal-Cutter, the coal face in the Colliery moves forward about 300 yards every year

Miners at Creswell Colliery, Notts, smashed their output target forty-one times out of fifty-two in 1947. January 1948 P017716

Wearing headscarves for protection, Lancashire women and girls are doing a grimy but important job of work in the screening plant in a Leigh colliery

Miners cheer a lump of coal that took a year to dig out. January 1950 P017723

The state of the mines. A roadway at Sealfield Colliery falling apart. July 1984 P017742

These men run their own mine in the forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. 1930 P017727

A Mines rescue worker kissing his canary. January 1981 P017743

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