Dustbin Collection

NUPE members protesting against cuts, Coventry
Striking NUPE (National Union of Public Employees) members protesting against proposed council cuts outside Whitley Abbey Comprehensive School, Coventry, 10 November 1981. Date: 1981

Comic postcard, Neighbours chat over garden fence Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two women talking over fence
Comic postcard, Two women talking over the garden fence. Well, the only pleasure I have in life now is taking my boots off! Date: 20th century

City of Edinburgh Cleansing Department lorry, early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Comic postcard, Woman falls from window into dustbin Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Women looking over garden fence Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Neighbours chatting at the gate Date: 20th century

DUSTBINS / CATALOGUE / 1900
Three galvanised iron dustbins Date: circa 1900

Royal Air Force Armstrong Whitworth A. W. 38 Whitley Mk. III
Royal Air Force Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley Mk.III. The Tiger engined Mk.III was no longer used operationally by September 1941

Soho, London - street character walking along Meard Street, a narrow street off Dean Street. 1973

The Dustman and Bin
A dustman carries a bin of rubbish up the steps at the back of his truck, 1937, in the days before black sacks and wheely-bins. Date: 1937

Six girls on a Balham street, SW London
Six girls huddled together in front of a wooden fence on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Refuse collector at work on a Balham street, SW London. He is wearing a mortar board which someone has thrown away. Date: circa 1960s

Refuse collectors at work on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1960s

Boy with dog, Balham, SW London
A boy sitting on a dustbin in front of a house in Balham, SW London, with a dog on his lap. Date: circa 1961

Gibraltar cub scouts in anti-litter campaign
Gibraltar cub scouts taking part in an anti-litter campaign, marching along a main street

GLC-LFB Refuse collection strike and rubbish fires
The extended refuse collection strike in the early 1970s resulted in piles of rubbish and uncollected waste lying for weeks in London streets

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