Working Collection

The crew of a Yarmouth Herring boat pull in their catch on a storm tossed North Sea. Circa 1935

Mr Richard Angier (wearing glasses) and Mr Andrew Usborne, Directors of U A Engineering, Sheffield, have found a way to produce good quality scissors without depending solely on skilled hand labour

In the office at Parkes Machine Tools Ltd; Mr Edwin Hallard (joint managing director), Miss Victoria Parkes (office junior), Mr Geoff Arnold (accounts)

Land girls on their way home from the field in military area East Anglia The harvest has to be got within fourteen days MSI WW2

Nylon yarn enough to make ten thousand pairs of stocking is being used to make tow ropes for British tugs. Our picture shows Margaret Carr from Portabelle in Edinburgh

Dispatch Rider Violet Goozee. March 1944 P009053

Maling pottery works, women applying transfers ahead of forthcoming royal coronation of King Edward VIII, September 1936

A miner at work underground in a coal mine. August 1984 P017840

Teesside Butchers, 53 years a butcher, Circa 1972

Workmen open up the road in Brandling Park, Jesmond, Newcastle, for the laying of new gas pipes prior to work starting on the new motorway on 24th January, 1972

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

Birmingham factory worker Edith Hill of 74 Boulton Road, Handsworth, at work setting cutting tools for machines which bore Ant-Aircraft shells at a factory in the West Midlands during the Second

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

Workers at William Pretty and sons Ltd in Ipswich sitting at their Singer machines putting in the elastic bands in underwear November 1935

Alfred Demaszure (Left) engine driver and Andre Devos, fireman seen here on the footplate of the Golden Arrow on its journey from Calais to Paris

Norprint Centre in national Backing Britain Campaign East Anglian Printing firm made headlines by printing 100, 000 free labels to support the cause. January 1968 Y146-2

Londons newest timber dock, The Lavender Dock, has been bought into commission. 26th October 1930

The men of the bridge. Yesterday morning while most of Scotland was asleep the men of the bridge were hard at work. The men are the 46 workers - a self contained unit of tradesmen - whose job year in

King George Dock, Hull, East Yorkshire. March 1965

Beatles Fan Club Office, 10th April 1964. Anne Collingham (18) and Bettina Rose (20), joint national secretaries to The Beatles Fan Club

Bill Harmeston uses a Northumberland County Council steam roller to level out the track for the causeway between Holy Island (Lindisfarne) and the mainland. 20th May 1954

Red-haired Alan Prescott, the St Helens and England Rugby League forward who switched from loose to prop because he had put on so much weight, is training hard potato gathering on a farm at Haydock

Red-haired Alan Prescott, the St Helens and England Rugby League forward who switched from loose to prop because he had put on so much weight, is training hard potato gathering on a farm at Haydock

Tyne Dock in 1975

Jackie Daniels, the first wife of magician Paul Daniels. They married in 1960 and divorced in 1975, although they d been separated for five years before that. Pictured, working as a barmaid

McVitie & Price Biscuit Factory, Harlesden, London, Tuesday 15th February 1966

Kayser Bondor, Pentrebach & Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, Wednesday 6th May 1964. Kayser Bondor at Pentrebach specialises in manufacturing underwear. Our picture shows

Gypsies in their Romani wagons, on way to Appleby Horse Fair, in Cumbria, North West England. 2nd June 1965. Left to right, Hedley Turnball of Westway, Throckley and John Sample of Francis Terrace

Max Quarterman, the 33 year old plasterers mate who earns up to £400 a week
Max Quarterman, the 33 year old plasterers mate who earns up to £ 400 a week, pictured carrying his hod on a building site at Hazelmere near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. 6th January 1975

Muriel Mottershead, Supervisor at Chester Zoo, also daughter of founder George Mottershead, pictured with animals, 19th June 1950

Steeplejack Fred Dibnah brought down the 100 foot Jamesons fireclay works chimney at Corbridge, Northumberland on 26 April 1987

Tom Ferrie DJ disc jockey circa 1982

Animals Pit Pony April 98 Dobbin the pit pony A©Mirrorpix
Animals Pit Pony April 98 Dobbin the pit pony © Mirrorpix

Women Wrestling in 1941

Actor Gordon Wharmby who plays Wesley Pegden in the BBC situation comedy series Last of the Summer Wine, pictured at work underneath a Citroen Dolly during filming of the series. 31st August 1989

Police Cadets, passing out parade at Hinchingbrooke, Cambridgeshire, 27th July 1974

Stage Door Canteen, 201 Piccadilly, Central London. Masses of rubbish have to be cleared out before alterations for the Club can be carried out

Maisy Nicholas helps fit a wireless aerial to a Thorneycroft whaleback boat at John I Thorneycroft & Co, Hampton Launch Works, Platts Eyotduring the Second World War. 8th November 1943

Thousands of 3. 7 inch Anti Aircraft shell cases stacked up in a munitions factory
Thousands of 3.7 inch Anti Aircraft shell cases stacked up in a munitions factory somewhere in England during the Second World War. August 1941

British Army constructing gun emplacements near Alexandria, Egypt. 15th December 1940

A hazard of convoy duty for women in the Mechanised Transport Corps, Jeep stuck in the mud, on a cold winter day, Circa 1944

Women at John I Thorneycroft & Co, Hampton Launch Works, Platts Eyot have just put the finishing touches to a Whaleback boat. 25th April 1943

Birmingham factory worker Mrs Ann Cottrell of Theodore Street, Birmingham, aged 83, at work at a munitions factory in the West Midlands during the Second World War. 11th September 1941

Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour, accompanied by his wife, Florence Anne Townley, talking with one of the operators at the Ministry of Labours wartime headquarters in the North West

At the famous Wills tobacco factory in Bristol, the staff work overtime on their very popular brand of cigarettes which sell as much as 24% of the market

Staff at work at Viners Cutlery, Sheffield. 3rd September 1967

General views of Hepworths Tailors, Leeds. 13th December 1967

King George V and Queen Mary of Teck visit the factory Soap Works of Sir William Hesketh Lever, Port Sunlight, Merseyside, Wednesday 25th March 1914

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