Overalls Collection

Smithfield Market
Carcasses hanging from hooks and butchers wearing their traditional white overalls at Smithfield Market, London. Date: 1950s

The Days Work by Muriel Dawson
A little boy in dungarees or overalls and with a wide brimmed hat stands on the end of a jetty fishing with a makeshift rod and line. Swans fly overhead

Blacksmiths outside their forge
A superb photograph of six Blacksmiths and coachbuilders posing for a photograph outside their forge/workshop, each holding the tools of their trade

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Group photo, Claridges Hotel kitchen staff, Mayfair, London W1. Date: 1908

Gibbs Happy Families - Master Tooth the Dentists son. 20th century

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

Ta Poster / Bairnsfather
A recruitment poster for the Territorial Army featuring Bairnsfathers WWI creation, Old Bill

Two young men sorting through a pile of scrap metal
Two young men, one in a top hat, the other in a bowler hat, sorting through a rather unpromising pile of scrap metal in a junk yard

Calthorpe Racing Car
1908 Tourist Trophy Race, 24th Sept, Calthorpe 4-cylinder racing car. Known as the Four Inch Race because that was the maximum size of cylinder bore allowed for entry. Race heId on Isle of Man

Wheelwrights making cart wheels
Wheelwrights or wainwrights making large wooden wheels in a traditional rural workshop. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Aberdeen Fish Market
Two market traders walk through Aberdeen Fish Market, Scotland, where thousands of fresh fish are set out in crates and wicker baskets

Shire horse drawn dray
Shire horse drawn brewery dray passes through a village, delivering beer to The Lamb and Flag pub. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Who Said Rabbits? by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl in a bonnet and overalls takes her pet dog for a walk. Date: 1940

Queen Elizabeth II visit coal mine
Queen Elizabeth II dressed in protective white overalls to make her first descent into a coal-mine at Rothes Colliery, Fife, Scotland in 1958

Scene at a petrol station, with an attendant filling up a car

Singer Sewing Machine - Shoe Repairers Machine model 29K53. 1932

Advertisement, Levi Strauss copper riveted overalls
Advertisement for Levi Strauss copper riveted overalls, featuring Levis Electric Rodeo -- the Talk of Treasure Island. The figures are all hand-carved likenesses of famous rodeo people in authentic

WW2 poster, The Girl Who Isn t There must realise that absenteeism lets her pals and her country down. Design by Victor Hicks. Date: 1940s

Springtime by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl with a spring lamb. Date: circa 1940s

Signwriters at work
A wonderful photograph by Heinz Zinram showing a master signwriter at work, with his younger collegue (or apprentice) behind. A study in concentration, accuracy and exactitude in the craftsmans art

Gibbs Happy Families - Mr Pipe the Plumber. Date: 20th century

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

Wartime poster, Britain Expects that you too, this day, will do your duty. Suggesting that civilians as well as soldiers have a role to play in the war effort. 1940s

1920S Jazz Band
Experienced players in a West End (of London) workshop, who daily repair instruments belonging to famous bandsmen, have formed a band, thoroughly testing all the instruments! Date: 1920s

Doing Laundry 1940S
A housewife uses a kind of dolly leg with a rubber plunger on the end of it to wash her clothes in a metal tub. Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

Policeman riding a Triumph motorcyle
A police rider turning a corner on his Triumph motorcycle, fitted with white legshields and a front numberplate (denoting this picture is pre-1975)

Group photo, Carlton Hotel kitchen staff, London, posing on the hotel roof in November 1908. Date: 1908

Women lumberjacks sawing trees, WW1
Women lumberjacks sawing trees during the First World War. 1914-1918

Expert grinder at Wilkinson Sword Works, WW1
Expert grinder at Wilkinson Sword Works, working on a new bayonet during the First World War. 1914-1918

Stripping Oak Bark
Four working class men in flat caps work as a team, stripping bark off a huge oak tree, which has been felled for tanning

Display of cattle at annual County Show, Devon
Display of cattle, led by handlers, at the annual County Show, Devon. Date: 1960s

Off to the Sea by Muriel Dawson -- a little child ready for the summer holidays. Date: 1940

Scientist in Metropolitan Police laboratory
A scientist at work in a Metropolitan Police laboratory, during the early days of forensic science. Date: circa 1920s

Fishmonger - Port of London
A fishmonger carrying boxes of fresh fish unloaded at the Port of London, close to Tower Bridge, visible in the distance

A factory worker cuts a block of wood
A young apprentice carpenter uses a large industrial jigsaw to cut a block of wood, while an older employee supervises his work. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Team of Carpenters making a cart
Three carpenters make a cart under the watchful gaze of an elder craftsman or the intended recipent of the cart. Watercolour Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Two women workers at the factory gates, Derby
Two female workmates pose outside the factory gates at Burroughs & Sturgess, Frederick Street, Derby

Stringed instrument maker in his workshop
A stringed instrument manufacturer in his workshop, testing the strings of a double bass

John Irwin grocers, Pensby Road, Heswall, Merseyside
John Irwin Sons & Co Ltd, cash grocers, Pensby Road, Heswall, Wirral, Merseyside, with delivery van and staff posing in a group outside. Date: circa 1920

Norah Blaney working on a dust-cart in WWII
Actress, singer and variety star, Norah Blaney (Mrs Basil Hughes), driving on a dust-cart and collecting refuse for Basildon Council as part of the war effort during the Second World War. Date: 1940

Miss Modern the pilot, Schoolgirls Adventure Book Date: 1938

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Willing Volunteers to fight for the cause - We are ready'. Date: 1965

Berlin fireman outfit
German Edwardian Firemen's Outfits; from a fire brigade demonstration in Berlin. It shows a fireman wearing the very latest of outfits

Three comic profiles with movable chain. Date: circa 1920s

Women on production line, United Biscuits, Harlesden
Women at work on the production line for McVitie's Jaffa Cakes at the United Biscuits factory in Harlesden, Middlesex, 23 September 1970. Date: 1970

Porter pulling a loaded cart at a market, 20 July 1970. Date: 1970

Man removing peas from froster in Birds Eye factory
Man removing peas from a froster in Birds Eye factory. The peas have been quick-frozen, ready for storage at sub-zero temperature. Date: circa 1970s

Woman inspecting peas in Birds Eye factory
Woman inspecting peas in a Birds Eye factory before they are quick-frozen. Date: circa 1970s

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