Manual Collection (page 12)

Scouts and cubs at work, Ghana, West Africa
Scouts and cubs at work clearing a compound, Ghana, West Africa

Firemen by Thomas Rowlandson
A sedan chair transporting 2 ladies preceeded by a fireman. Pedestrians carrying a lamp and sheilding from the rain with an umbrella

Workers with hammers

Workmen hammering rivets into a vessel

Kensington Vestry firefighters with trailer pump. Date: 1860s

Weekly LFB drill display with manual and motor pumps
Weekly LFB drill display with an old manual pump and a modern turbine motor pump both brought into action, 26 August 1936. Date: 1936

Weekly LFB drill display with old manual pump
Weekly LFB drill display with an old manual pump brought into action, 26 August 1936. Date: 1936

Firefighter in Orange Street, London W1, WW2
Firefighter operating a two-man manual hose in Orange Street, London W1, 21 September 1942. Date: 1942

Shand Mason horse-drawn manual pump and crew
A Shand Mason horse-drawn manual pump, with crew from Red Cross Street fire station in traditional costume, taking part in the 1932 Lord Mayors Show, City of London

LFB firefighter, manual method of hose laying
An LFB firefighter in brass helmet demonstrating the manual method of hose laying, with the hose in folds over his shoulder

LFB firefighters pulling manual hose cart
LFB firefighters at Fire Station D (Floating) pulling a manual hose cart and ladder, August 1938. Date: 1938

Old manual fire engine in a museum
An old manual fire engine in a museum, on loan from the Merryweather Museum, Greenwich

Old fire engine and other equipment in a museum: an ancient fly wheel manual fire engine from Windsor Castle, built by Merryweathers predecessors, Hadley & Simpkin, in 1735; fire apparatus of 1666

Model of an old manual fire engine
Model of an old manual Shand Mason fire engine, presented by F Burkitt in February 1937

Manual pump in Orange Street, London W1, WW2
A two-man manual pump in Orange Street, London W1, 21 September 1942. Date: 1942

Firemen riding a fire engine
Firemen riding an early fire engine bearing the initials MFB (Middlesex Fire Brigade?)

WW2 poster, Every Rivet a Bullet, Speed the Ships. Showing a shipyard worker in action. Date: 1940s

October Tree Felling by R Coxon

Workers threshing grain, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Coolie in grass coat, Japan
Coolie (manual labourer) in grass coat, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Men laying new light railway, Western Front, WW1
Men at work laying a new light railway, so that logs can be transported to a sawmill. On the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers at work, Western Front, France, WW1
British soldiers at work on the Western Front in France during World War One. They are army navvies, recycling bricks from a ruined building to construct roads. Date: circa 1917

British troops transferring logs, Western Front, WW1
British troops at work at a new open air sawmill on the Western Front during World War One. They are transferring logs from a light railway. Date: circa 1916

Inniskillings digging
Soldiers of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers digging, and posing with a boy on a donkey; they are possibly in India. Date: C.1913

Man harvesting in a field, He Also Serves, WW1
He Also Serves. A man harvesting in a field at the start of the First World War. The verse below says: He serves no less who toils to save / The harvest for his native land. Date: August 1914

Women workers in a factory - WW1 era
A group of manual workers, mostly women, inside a factory - WW1 era. Date: circa 1915

Two women in a factory operating machinery. A barrel of green paint is part of the process. The Factoru produced (among other things) lead shrapnel for use in explosive artillery shells (WW1)

WW1 - Group of manual workers in a factory - Shrapnel
WW1 - A large group of female manual workers in a factory producing lead shrapnel for use in high explosive artillery shells. Date: circa 1915

Men and boys in a workshop, most of them looking towards the camera

Workman in a factory - lead works - ww1
A workman in a factory, having a break from his work. The factory produced lead shrapnel for us in artillery shells - WW1 era Date: circa 1915

WW1 - Manufacture of artillery shell shrapnel
A group of female manual workers in a factory, standing close to vats containing molten lead, using in the manufacturing of shrapnel for WW1 artillery shells. Date: circa 1915

Lead Shrapnel manufacturing - Women - WW1
A group of manual workers, mostly women, inside a factory producing lead shrapnel for artllery shells - WW1. Date: circa 1915

Womens Royal Air Force -- Coal Fatigue
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing two women on Coal Fatigue, ie shovelling coal. Date: 1919-1920

Preparing for Festival of Empire at the Crystal Palace
Preparing for the Festival of Empire and Pageant of London at the Crystal Palace. Everywhere huge structures are rising upon steel and woodwork skeletons

Building the Aswan Dam
Excavation at the Western Channel of the Aswan Dam on the River Nile in Egypt. Date: 1902

Cotswolds Hay Cart
Farm workers with the hay cart on a Cotswolds farm. Date: early 1930s

Quedgeley Haymaking
Haymaking on a farm at Quedgeley, Gloucestershire, England. Date: early 1930s

Haymaking 1930S
Haymaking on a farm in the Cotswolds, England : Unloading hay from a horse cart onto a haystack. Date: early 1930s

Giant Haystack
A large haystack on an English farm. Date: early 1930s

Children Haymaking
Children on horseback helping to collect hay on an English farm. Date: early 1930s

Farmer with Wheelbarrow
An English farmer in the Cotswolds, wheeling his wheelbarrow through a farm gate. Date: early 1930s

Making a Haystack
Making a haystack on an English farm. Date: early 1930s

Gathering Hay 1930S
Collecting hay with horses on an English farm. Date: early 1930s

Horse and Plough 1930S
Men using ploughing fields with a horse-drawn plough, England. Date: early 1930s

China - Chinese Farmer carrying two large bundles of a yolk
China - Chinese Farmer carrying two large bundles of his crop of choice by means of a yolk across his shoulders. Date: circa 1910s

China - Shanghai - Heavy cart pulled by a human team
China - Shanghai - Heavy street cart (laden with wooden crates) pulled by a human team. Date: circa 1930

Cornish Boatman sets an amateur fisherman straight
Sarcastic Amateur Fisherman: " Are there any fish to be caught here, my man?" Cornish Boatman: " No Zur; You caught em all the last time as you was here!" Date: circa 1890s

Illustration of the Treatise on the Astrolabe
" Illustration of the " Treatise on the Astrolabe". "

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