Manual Collection (page 13)

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". "

Shwemedaw Pagoda - Pegu - Shwemedaw Pagoda - In the course of foundation reinforcement and rebuilding, relics have been found dating back to 10th Century

Workmen drilling in Bristol, possibly doing maintenance work on the underground sewerage system. Date: circa 1950s

Scene on a country lane, Yugoslavia
Scene on a country lane in former Yugoslavia at harvest time. People leading ponies carrying large bundles of hay. Date: September 1965

MFB (London) station ladder drill
Metropolitan firefighters taking part in ladder drill. Both large ladders are wheel escapes and the ladder on the right has an extension to give it additional height

London Fire Brigade HQ workshop, Lambeth
Men at work in the London Fire Brigade HQ workshop, Lambeth

LCC-MFB Bishopsgate fire station appliance room
The appliance room of Bishopsgate fire station, located at 162 Bishopsgate in the City of London. Showing its array of fire engines that comprised two horse drawn escape carts

GLC-LFB Fireshow at Crystal Palace
A major charity event was organised at Crystal Palace to raise money for the Firefighters benevolent fund in the hot summer of 1976

LCC-LFB Period fire display at Southwark HQ
London firefighters putting on a weekly display for the public at Southwark, Brigade Headquarters. They are using a Victorian manual fire pump in a reenactment of the days of horse drawn fire engines

Fire brigade manual fire pump (museum exhibit)
An example of the type of manual fire engine that would have been pulled to the scene of a fire. These were unlikely to be used by the Insurance brigades

LFEE lithograph print of a firefighting scene
A manual pump is being worked by volunteers whilst firefighters from the LFEE direct their efforts and fight the fire. The LFEE was the forerunner of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, formed in 1866

Firefighters doing productive work in lull period, WW2
During the longer lulls in firefighting activities, NFS firefighters took part in industrial production for the countrys war needs

Montage of images of parish fire pumps
Four examples of manual parish fire pumps. The top image is typical of the manual pump used in London by the Insurance fire brigades prior to the creation of the London Fire Engine Establishment

Man-powered flying machine
A man-powered flying machine in a countryside setting. The Aerostat - Worked by Manual Power - Invented by W. Miller, M.R.C.S. 1843

Disgorgement of Champagne in France. Disgorgement is a skilled manual process in the production of Champagne, where the crown cap and lees are removed without losing much of the liquid

Doffer in a Lincolnton, (NC) mill. Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina. Date 1918 November

One of the small boys in J. S. Farrand Packing Co. and a heavy load. J. W. Magruder, witness. Location: Baltimore, Maryland. Date 1909 July

Boys linking bed-springs. 14 and 15 years old. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. Date 1917 January 25. Boys linking bed-springs. 14 and 15 years old. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

A little spinner in a Georgia Cotton Mill. Location: Georgia. Date 1909 January

Laborers hands. Date not after 1925

Spinners in a cotton mill. See 2134(?). Date 1911?

A doffer boy in Globe Cotton Mill, Augusta, Ga. Location: Augusta, Georgia. Date 1909 January

A little spinner in Globe Cotton Mill. Augusta, Ga. The overseer admitted she was regularly employed. Location: Augusta, Georgia. Date 1909 January

General View of, 2 Spinning Room in Indian Orchard Cotton Mill, Indian Orchard, Mass. Location: Indian Orchard, Massachusetts. Date 1916 June 29

Making a new road, Palestine
Men and boys employed in making a new road in Palestine. Date: early 20th century

Silhouette of ploughing scene
Silhouette of a ploughing scene, with a man guiding his manual plough across a field with the help of two farm horses

Unloading illegal catch of fish, Boulogne, France
A fisherman unloading an illegal catch of fish at Boulogne, France. Date: circa 1970s

Brtish troops breaking stones, Flanders, WW1
British troops breaking stones for road making around the time of the Battle of Broodseinde, Flanders, during the First World War. circa 1917

Ditching Tools
An impressive collection of ditching tools, leaning against a wall in Wales. Date: 1950s

Land Girls with Logs
Two Land Girls, part of the Womens Land Army during World War Two, sawing large felled trees into logs with manual saws. Date: early 1940s

Two British soldiers working in a ditch, WW1
Two British soldiers working in a ditch full of water during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Sappers and miners working on a tunnel, WW1
Sappers and miners working on a tunnel during the First World War. Date: 1916

Threshing wheat during the First World War -- more wheat was needed because of the U-Boat campaign. 1914-1918

Navvies building a new railway line, UK
Navvies building a new railway line at an unidentified location in the UK. A station building can be seen in the top right

Filling, weighing and packing tea, Bankside, London
Workers filling, weighing and packing chests of tea at Messrs Travers Wharf, Bankside, London. Date: circa 1902

Tea merchants cutting and mixing machine, London
Workers with a tea merchants cutting and mixing machine at Messrs Travers Wharf, Bankside, London

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