Overalls Gallery

Llewellin Churn Works, Haverfordwest, South Wales

A group of employees, mostly women, of the Llewellin Churn Works at North Gate, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. Butter making equipment can be seen, as well as fresh pats of butter, large milk churns, and enamelled buckets for moving milk

© Mary Evans / Roger Worsley Archive

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Ox roasting at Stratford-upon-Avon Mop Fair

Scene showing an ox being roasted at the Stratford upon Avon annual Mop Fair, Warwickshire. Farm workers, labourers, servants and some craftsmen would work for their employer from October to October. At the end of the employment they would attend the Mop Fair dressed in their Sunday best clothes and carrying an item signifying their trade. A servant with no particular skills would carry a mop head hence the term Mop Fair. Employers would move amongst them discussing experience and terms, and once agreement was reached the employer would give the employee a small token of money and the employee would wear bright ribbons to indicate that they had been hired. The stalls at the fair sold food and drink, while others offered games to play.
circa 1911

© Mary Evans Picture Library/The Pete Frost Collection

Former tin miner in the abandoned Levant tin mine

Former tin miner in the abandoned Levant tin mine, near Pendeen, Cornwall, England. He leans on some of the derelict machinery. The mine is now renovated, owned by The National Trust and turned into a museum. It houses the world's only Cornish beam engine still operated by steam on its original site. The Sunday Times 1991 Date: 1991

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library