Industry Collection (page 23)

CEGB linesmen doing maintenance work, Kent
CEGB (Central Electricity Generating Board) linesmen doing routine maintenance work on the Supergrid transmission line between Northfleet and Canterbury, 24 July 1961

Electricity Council appliance testing lab, Leatherhead
Electricity Council appliance testing laboratories, Leatherhead, Surrey. A new extension was opened on 16 May 1969. Showing the Housecraft Department

Calder Hall Atomic Power Station, Cumbria, the first power station in the world to generate electricity on an industrial scale from nuclear energy, which opened in 1956

Industry Industrial Power Station 1960 1960s
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Foundations of Hunterston Power Station, Ayrshire, Scotland
A view of the turbine hall foundations of Hunterston Power Station, Ayrshire, Scotland, showing the first reactor building in the background

Bankside Power Station, South London
Side view of Bankside Power Station, an oil-fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames, London, 30 April 1975. The power station generated electricity from 1952 to 1981

Industry Industrial Power Station Cegb London
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Members of London Peace Action campaigning against war toys outside a Toy and Hobby Fair at Earls Court, West London, 3 February 1981. Date: 1981

Employment protest, Liverpool
Employment protest in Liverpool, 17 March 1979. Those taking part include Dunlop workers, Tate & Lyle workers, and members of the National Union of Seamen. Date: 1979

British Leyland workers protesting, London
British Leyland workers protesting during a strike, and taking part in a demonstration in London which included a march to the House of Commons

Official picket line outside Vauxhall Motors, Dunstable
Official picket line with placards outside Vauxhall Motors, Dunstable. Date: circa 1970s

GEC workers campaigning, GEC Headquarters, London
GEC workers campaigning outside the GEC Headquarters in London during a lockout from the Keith Blackman works at Tottenham, 18 March 1970. Date: 1970

NALGO union members campaigning with placards
NALGO (National and Local Government Officers Association) union members, gas office and fitting staff, campaigning with placards outside the headquarters of the North Thames gas board, 14 July 1981

APEX union members campaigning with placards
APEX (Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff) union members campaigning with placards to demand equal pay for women. Date: circa 1970s

Babcock and Wilcox workers, Renfrew plant, Scotland
Babcock and Wilcox workers at the Renfrew plant, Scotland, during a mass meeting as part of an employment dispute. Date: circa 1970

Members of DATA campaigning, Tothill Street, London
Members of DATA (Draughtsmen's and Allied Technicians Association) from Rolls Royce, Coventry, campaigning in Tothill Street, London, 21 August 1970

Men and women in a tailors workshop with sewing machines on the workbenches. Date: circa 1960s

Tailors in a workshop with coat on display
A group of tailors in a workshop with a finished coat on display on a dummy. Date: circa 1960s

Three people in a tailors workshop. Date: circa 1960s

Tailors in a workshop. Date: circa 1960s

Cutter at work on a garment. Date: circa 1960s

Tailor at work on a garment. Date: circa 1960s

British Design Exhibition in Moscow, Soviet Union, arranged by the Council of Industrial Design and the Central Office of Information

Porcelain factory, Doubi, Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia
A young woman, Wanda Janakova, working in a porcelain factory in Doubi, Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia. This factory specialised in coffee and tea sets, many of which are exported to western Europe

Mizpah Hotel, Tonopah, Nevada, USA, built in 1905, named after the Mizpah Mine, and the social hub of the area. Date: circa 1930

Stalls with wooden partitions selling fresh fruit wholesale. Date: 1937

Manufacture of Ostrich Feathers - Women Curlers 1907
The last treatment was having its locks curled. Using a blunt knife the women workers curl the plumes some reaching the length of about ten feet

Manufacture of Ostrich Feathers - Joining feathers 1907
Edwardian women sitting along a table, using a sharp knife they cut and trim the quill thin and flat, so the colourful feathers can be glued together. Date: 1907

Manufacture of Ostrich Feathers - Changing Hue 1907
The feathers were taken out of bleaching and dyed to show their new appearance. The white ones are bewildering in their snowy whiteness and the coloured have quite forgotten their former dinginess

Manufacture of Ostrich Feathers - Plumping 1907
After the ostrich feathers complete there journey from Cape Town, South Africa, bales of cruelly plucked feathers arrive by boat to London, the Worlds feather market

Manufacture of Ostrich Feathers - Washing 1907
After the ostrich feathers complete there journey from Cape Town, South Africa, bales of cruelly plucked feathers arrive by boat to London, the Worlds feather market

Spanish Civil War. Poster of the 1937's film Barrios bajos (Poor neighbourhoods) by filmaker Pedro Puche. Sindicato de la Industria del Espectaculo (Entertainment industry syndicate). Drawing

Spanish Civil War. Tres elementos necesarios para crear una nueva Espana (Three required elements to set up a new Spain). Poster from Sindicato de Agentes del Comercio y de la Industria

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Toda la industria y el comercio bajo un mando unico (All the industry and trade under an only rule)

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Producid!! (Produce!!). Ink poster edited by the Republican government. SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Historico Nacional

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Per a una potent industria de guerra. Ier Congres Metal.lurgic de la UGT (For a powerful war industry. 1st Metallurgical Congress of the UGT)

Spanish Civil War Industria De Pau? Guerra Peace
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Spanish Civil War 3 Elementos Necesarios Para
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Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Por la independencia de Espana (For the Independence of Spain). Poster by Josep Renau edited by the General Commissariate of the Army

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The nationalization of industry will accelerate the victory. Poster of the Spanish Communist Party

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). La destruccio del bosc es la destruccio de l'economia (Destruction of the forest is the destruction of economy). Poster edited by the Generalitat of Catalunya

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The President of the Republic Manuel Azana and the President of the Generalitat Lluis Companys visiting the war industry (29th january 1937). Photo by Perez de Rozas

Hilliard & Chapman, free standing patent knife polishing and sharpening with six different sizes. Date: 1862

Shepherds at North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, with horses and carts, two live sheep, and what appears to be a pile of four dead sheep

Collection for South African rail strike
Two men brandish collection buckets for the South African rail strike to support Rail Against Apartheid. Signs show that the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR)

Canvey Island protest
Residents of Canvey Island, Essex, protest in central London, expressing their opposition to the proposed expansion of the petrochemical industry on the island

First British Built Construction Southampton
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Orient Explorer oil drilling platform
The Orient Explorer, the first British-built oil drilling platform, constructed in Southampton Docks, pictured shortly before it was towed 9, 200 miles to Labuan in Borneo Date: February 1959

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