Sorting Collection

Poster, Night Mail, quoting part of the poem by W H Auden written for and narrated in the documentary film of the same name (1936). circa 1930s

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

Sorting Post 1930S
One of the hundreds of groups of auxiliaries at the General Post Office (GPO), dispatching parcels to distant colonies during the usual Christmas postal rush

General Post Office
THE GENERAL POST OFFICE, Lombard Street, London

Sorting Post 1930S
A postal worker at the General Post Office (GPO), at Mount Pleasant, north London, sorts out parcels on a conveyor belt in the warehouse

Pouch Cove, Newfoundland - Fishing Stages. A fishing stage is a wooden vernacular building, associated with cod fishing in Newfoundland, Canada

Potato harvest, Rafta Farm, St Levan, Cornwall
Mother and daughter (Pamela and Sandra Semmens) working on the potato harvest at Rafta Farm, St Levan, near Lands End, Cornwall. Date: 1970s

Wool sorting and classing, Burrawang, Australia
Wool sorting and classing in a shearing shed, Burrawang, New South Wales, Australia. Date: circa 1890s

Blitz in London -- salvaged mail, Calthorpe Street, WW2
Blitz in London -- following the bombing of Mount Pleasant Post Office on 18 June 1943, salvaged mail was temporarily piled up in nearby Calthorpe Street. Date: 1943

Fig sorting - Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory, Izmir, Turkey
Fig sorting at the Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory and depot at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. A very traditional scene in the main fig-producing region in Turkey. Date: circa 1910s

Salvation Army elevator
Men at work sorting waste paper in a Salvation Army Elevator. Elevators, which aimed to help the unskilled or unemployed, combined a factory space together with hostel accommodation for those working

Hop Pickers 1907
Workers in a Kentish hop garden sorting hops from a large basket into an upturned umbrella

Fine Hand Hackling and Sorting Yarn in a Spinning Mill - an interior shot showing a man hackling flax by hand at a bench by a window. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Dyeing Wool and Yarn for Donegal Homespun, Inishowen
Dyeing Wool and Yarn forDonegal Homespun, Inishowen - a view of two men outside a thatched cottage sorting wool and yarn. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Donegal: Inishowen)

Clam Diggers sorting and grading their pickings, Boston, USA
Clam Diggers sorting and grading their pickings - Boston, Massachusetts, USA Date: circa 1910s

Gpo Sorting, 1875
The General Post Office, London : stamping and sorting letters

Sorting tobacco, St Catherine, Jamaica, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Sorting and cleaning cotton, St Vincent, Caribbean Date: early 1900s

Sorting and cleaning cotton in St Vincent early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Picking, sorting and packing apples Missouri USA early 1900s

Diamond washing and sorting, possibly South Africa, Victorian period

Diamond mine washing and sorting

Post Office Sorting Room Date: 19th century

Post Office Parcel Sorting Room Victorian period Date: 19th century

Sorting coal at a coal mine Date: circa 1900s

Coal Mining sorting the coal early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Sorting pottery in a pottery factory

Letters arrive for sorting at the London General Post Office Date: 1923

Prawners, Sydney Harbour
An etching of some prawn fishing boats beside a dock, with four people sorting their catch and supplies. Date: circa 1925

W. Heath-Robinson: Coal sorting shed, drawn for the 1922 Heath Robinson Calendar commissioned by Atherton Collieries. Date: 1921

General Post Office - St Martin s-le-Grand, London. This was the main post office for London between 1829 and 1910. Photograph showing the room devoted to sorting of newspapers

Sorting through old clothes in Londons East End
Sorting through old clothes on a stall in a market in Londons East End. Date: circa 1950s

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Washing up
The caption on the postcard is Washing up - probably a play on sorting things out now that the war is over. The reverse carries a message from Winston Churchill We must now devote all our strength

Woman sorting out laundry on four poster bed. 1926

Sorting tea, China. Date: circa 1870

Sorting a dust-heap at a County Council depot 1900
Men turn over the heaps of rubbish, while women look for a honest penny collecting bottles and empty and sardine tins in the County Council depot. London. 1900

Sorting the Christmas Mail on Christmas Eve
Sorting the Christmas Mail Christmas Eve at the London General Post Office. 1892

Boy kneeling on the floor sorting out some glass jars
Boy kneeling on the floor in a dining room, sorting out some glass jars. Date: circa 1950s

Flood victims, Grosvenor Road area, Pimlico, London
Flood victim residents of the Grosvenor Road area, Pimlico, London, sorting out their ruined belongings

General scenes at the Post-Office 1875
Sketches showing scenes in a general Post-Office. Date: 1875

Chief office of the parcel mail 1849
Mail coaches busy outside the main office in Catherine Street, in the Strand, London. Date: 1846

In the folding room, busy workers checking, sorting and putting in order the pages, of the weekly Graphic, before it is sent out to the general public. Date: 1881

New sorting-room at General Post Office 1846
New Inland department of the General Post Office in St. Martins-le-Grand in London. Date: 1846

Travelling rail post office 1890s
Her Majestys mail-carriers, sorting letters on the London and North Western railway with speeds of sixty miles an hour. Date: circa 1890s

TELEPHONE ENGINEERS
Three G.P.O. engineers, happy in their work, think nothing of sorting out a mind-boggling mess of telephone wires and cables. Date: early 1930s

Grading the quality of collected prunes at Agen, France
Grading the quality of collected prunes at Agen in the Lot-et-Garonne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Date: circa 1910s

Czech Republic - Mobile Post Office - Auto Posta
Czech Republic - Mobile Post Office and Sorting Vehicle - Auto Posta. Date: 1937

Duke of York at the reconstructed G. P. O. at Mount Pleasant
Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI 1895-1952) at the reconstructed G.P.O. at sorting Office at Mount Pleasant, London - November 1934

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