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Day in the life of Covent Garden market in Central London, circa 1948
Douglas steam locomotive belonging to the Hunt Brothers. July 1954
The 123 year old Liverpool and Manchester Railway (LMR) 57 Lion steam locomotive, comes out of retirement from the museum at Crewe to drive up and down the Rugby-Leamington line at Dunchurch
Engine driver and fireman at work on a British Railways locomotive, February 1954
Linwood men vote to stay out. Workers at the Linwood Factory in Paisley, Scotland. 3rd February 1978
To celebrate the beginning of the Epsom meeting, bookmaker Gus Demmy decided to brighten the life of his punters by dressing his staff in the costume of the pearly people
World War One. The stands of a football ground have been turned into a workshop making gas masks helmets and other protective equipment. July 1916
Derby Day betting activity. 3rd June 1949
Pickled Onion Factory workers hard at work with tears in their eyes. July 5th 1978
Dockland Houses, Isle of Dogs. Families set up home in pre-fabricated houses, Circa 1946
The Christmas Mail rush is well under way. By the beginning of December the Post Office expects to be handling over 100 Million Letters, cards
Staff at the Official Beatles Fan Club in Monmouth Street, Soho, London wade through the thousands of letters that pour into the office daily, 10th April 1964. The girls are: Kathy Belcher (17)
Beatles Fan Club Office, 10th April 1964. Anne Collingham (18) and Bettina Rose (20), joint national secretaries to The Beatles Fan Club
The Newcastle Food Office, where staff were busy in December 1940 organising the issue of new ration books. 3rd December 1940
Post World War Two - Second World War - A crowd gathers at the biscuit counter of the Fenwicks store in Newcastle following the abolition of points rationing announced by Mr Webb, Food Minister
World War Two - Second World War - Busy scenes at Newcastle Food Control Office, when many householders made applications to change their retailers of rationed foods. 21st January 1941
Post World War Two - Second World War - City grocery assistant, Mr William Wanup, makes a celebration cut on the first day of derationing of butter, 14 years after rationing of it began
Post World War Two - Second World War - Many thousands of ration books were unclaimed at St Jamess Church Hall, Newcastle, and some of them were being checked off in piles ready for issue
Post World War Two - Second World War - People exchange old ration books for new issues at the Ration Book Distribution Centre in St James Congregational Church Hall, Northumberland Road, Newcastle
Post World War Two - Second World War - A woman collects her meat ration from a butcher. 12th January, 1951
Chelsea footballer Alan Hudson takes a break from DIY at his Putney home, May 1972
Chelsea footballer Alan Hudson tundertaking some DIY at his Putney home, May 1972
Dorothy Smith, Usher selling ice cream and cigarettes at local cinema, Glasgow, Scotland, 11th June 1957
A last wave from the engine driver before the final trip of the day on 29th January 1963
A recovery gang from Worksop, on 6th April 1972 taking up the stretch of line outside the historic cottage in Wylam where George Stephenson, father of the railway, was born
Workers at Mitchells and Butlers brewery in Smethwick, Staffordshire, pouring 120, 000 pints of beer down the drain due to an industrial dispute. 19th April 1966
Bob Hudson, Charge Hand in charge of the Beer Disposal Department at Ansells Brewery in Birmingham, pictured with a work mate pouring 600 barrels of beer down the drain due to an industrial dispute
Bob Hudson, Charge Hand in charge of the Beer Dosposal Department at Ansells Brewery in Birmingham, pictured with a work mate pouring 600 barrels of beer down the drain due to an industrial dispute
A workmant at Ansells Brewery in Birmingham, pouring half a million pints of Pale Ale down the drain due to an industrial dispute. 16th February 1968
Ansells Brewery. A process operative adding a filtering agernt into the automatic beer filter. 1st October, 1970
Ansells Brewery. A routine sample of beer for analysis being taken from the automatic chiller. October 1970
Ansells Brewery. A technician carrying out routine surface examination inside one of the 15 new 10, 000-gallon capacity conditioning tanks. 1st October, 1970
The new style hat for a Biritsh Rail ticket collector as seen on Mr. Fred McIver on 24th November 1966
Rail workers extending the track for the Stephenson Railway at Percy Main on 15th August 1989
A signalman waiting for trains to pass through before changing signals and points on 1st April 1975
Signal man Walter Allan opening the level crossing at Clifton with the push of a button on 1st April 1975, from the comfort of his signal box at Stannington where they have installed closed circuit
Trainee signalman Derek Colley, from Denton Burn, Newcastle, keeps his eye on the Down Main from West Jesmond signal box during his practical training
Ted Tomiak, a student from Jesmond, Newcastle, on signal box duty on 23rd April 1973
Railway enthusiasts Derek Cowan, Eric Maxwell and Neil Morgan taking a break from track laying on 22nd October 1986. They were extending the Tanfield Model Railway to East Tanfield village in
A general view of the sidings at the new Tyne marshalling yard at Lamesley on 21st June 1963
Work has begun on 23rd May 1975, on a £7, 000 scheme to keep trespassers off aWork has begun on 23rd May 1975, on a £ 7, 000 scheme to keep trespassers off a stretch of railway line where two schoolboys died. It runs past the Deans Estate at Tyne Dock, South Shields
Roger Jenkins (centre, smoking) producer of the BBC television programme Z Cars seen in the control gallery during rehearsals on 27th November 1962
Tailor, busy at work in his workshop, 18th March 1947
24 year old June Parkyn working as a machinist at a London fashion house. But June is more than a machinist. She is in fact a real working model
Street scenes, New Delhi, India, January 1961
Women at work at a textiles factory in Kampala, Uganda. 27th February 1977
On the road to Tehran, a persian peasant with camels, Circa 1926
