Labourers Collection (page 4)

Chinese labourers filling sandbags near Arras, France, WW1
Chinese labourers filling sandbags near Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 13 June 1918

Preparations for the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, 1852
The Nelson Monument in St Pauls cathedral, as preparations for the funeral of the Duke of Wellington get under way. Date: 1852

Chinese labourers at Boulogne, France, WW1
A parade of Chinese labourers at Boulogne, northern France, during the First World War. Date: August 1917

Chile - Agricultural Labourers Camp
The customs of the agricultural labourers in Chile - a temporary camp where the men are spit-roasting meat and drinking Chilean wine. Date: circa 1910

M CORMICKs REAPER
MCCORMICKs REAPER McCormicks patent American horsedrawn reaper being used by two farm labourers. Date: 1850s

Robots as the farm workers of the future
Robots depicted as the farm workers of the future. Date: 1896

1872 / Farm Worker Meeting
During the period of agricultural unrest, farm labourers meet at the Eleanor Cross in Geddington, Northamptonshire Date: 1872

Puss in Boots talks to reapers mowing a meadow, persuading them to tell the King that the meadow belongs to his Master. Illustration to a fairytale by Charles Perrault, first published 1697

The Bridge Builders
The title page of Rudyard Kiplings short story The Bridge Builders, as it first appeared in the Illustrated London News Christmas issue, 1893

Union Workhouse, Tetbury, Gloucestershire
The Tetbury Union workhouse, Gloucestershire. Loitering outside are a number of people - some small children, several labourers, and an older man with a stick

Hydraulic drills at work on Culebra Cut, Panama Canal

View of all the Gates in West Chamber, Gatun Locks, Panama Canal

Scene outside city wall in Kashgar, western China
Workers in a field outside a city wall in Kashgar, western China

Seville Orange Picking - Seville, Spain. Seville oranges are too bitter for modern tastes, and are therefore commonly used to make marmalade

Building project in Czechoslovakia
A housing project in Czechoslovakia - the whole community is seemingly getting involved in the construction project. To the left is a warning sign in Czech and German

French forced labourers WWII
Forced labourers leave gare du Nord, Paris, for Germany during World War II

Laying railway track
Gangs of railway labourers work on the laying of a new section of track running beneath a bridge. The lamps held by the navvies cast spectral traces of light across the gloomy atmospheric scene

The Dock Labourers great strike in London
Top picture: Those who agree to this resolution hold up their hands." Bottom picture: On the contrary." A unanimous vote to strike at a meeting of dock workers outside the west India dock

Boulogne Docks 1917
Under the instruction of a British officer, Chinese labourers load sacks of oats at Boulogne Docks

Workmen digging in the cellar of Borley Rectory
Undated photograph of workmen digging in the cellar of Borley Rectory. HPG/1/3/7 (vii)

Franco Prussian War. Prussian barricade on the reuil Road: F
The reality of German occupation is summed up in this image of the Ffranco-Prussian war, where German soldiers control the movements of French labourers

Roman Antiquities
A group of Roman vases and utensils discovered in Barrow-on-Soar near Leicester. Skeletons were also discovered by labourers digging for limestone

Russian Peasants
Russian peasants, old and young, equipped for some heavy-duty woodwork with sturdy hatchets and saws

Engaging Dock labourers at West India Dock
Illustration by A. Forestier showing unemployed men being engaged as dock labourers at West India Dock, London. Many aspects of dock work were relatively unskilled

Busy Fleet Street 1930S
Two labourers lift a box crate onto the back of an open carriage parked on busy Fleet Street

Lowkers Amid the Corn
Six women lowkers amongst the corn, one using a Brub, used for extirpating thistles. The Owner of the field sits on horseback observing the workers as they weed and clear

Geologists at Swanage
Labourers and geologists working at a site in Swanage, Dorset, where geological discoveries were made

British Farmer, 1867
A Victorian gentleman farmer speaking to one of his farm labourers

Agricultural Strike
AGRICULTURAL WORKERS STRIKE Night meeting of farm labourers at Wellesbourne, Warwickshire

Cromwell / St Ives Farm
OLIVER CROMWELL On his farm at St Ives in 1631

Builders Wait for Hire
Building Labourers waiting for hire

Restoration of Sphinx
Restoring the Sphinx

French Utopia of 1850
A French Utopia, with harmony between colours, creeds, scholars and labourers, young and old, male and female, the arts and the sciences amid the joy of nature & new technology

Bristol Sugar Refinery
Workers shovel sugar at the Counterslip refinery in Bristol, England

Captain Boycott thanks labourers for help with harvesting his potato crop, a harvest which had been boycotted by his tennants due to the evictions

Irish Labourers / Punch / 50
Mr Briggss Pleasures of Housekeeping Cartoon about Irish labourers employed to build a house

Farmer and Farmworker
A Victorian gentleman farmer speaking to one of his farm labourers

Holyhead Pier & Boat
Irish farm labourers come to England for harvest work; the scene depicted is Holyhead Pier at the time of their return, as they jostle to board the Dublin packet

Irish Leave for Work
Irish farmhands leave for England to find harvest work

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