Workers Collection (page 14)

CLIMBING CHIMNEY SWEEP
One of the few remaining climbing sweeps. Date: Circa 1862

COTTON MILL 1902
Women work at the winding frames Date: 1902

COTTON WEAVING 1902
Women weave at looms. Date: 1902

Railway workers in London 1900
A selection of photographs showing railway workers in London. Date: 1900

Female WaC RAF motor-cyclist at work 1918
Female WaC RAF motor-cyclist driving a staff officer through the Strand, London, with the famous Russian restaurant, Romanos, in the background

RUSSIAN WORKERS GROUP
A very large group of Russian factory workers all stare out at the camera Date: 1920

INDIGO CULTIVATION 1871
A montage of engravings illustrating the cultivation of indigo. Date: 1871

Refilling chests at a tea warehouse 1874
Workers refill tea chests in a warehouse. Date: 1874

Bulking at a tea warehouse 1874
Workers shovel (or bulk) tea into tea chests in a warehouse. Date: 1874

NEW FARMING METHODS
Workers on a communal farm are given instruction in new farming methods Date: 1951

SOUTHAMPTON DEMO 1932
Street demo by Southampton workers against hardships caused by the industrial crisis Date: 1932

CHECKING PERSIAN CARPETS
Persian carpets are checked and examined in the workshop of an importer, before being offered for sale. Date: circa 1930

Matchbox maker in London
A good days work A London matchbox maker surveys the pile of matchboxes she has just made. Date: 1890

PLUCKING RABBIT FUR 1895
Women working at home pulling fur from rabbit skins to stuff beds. Date: 1895

1919 / TSAR, POPE & BOYAR 1919 / TSAR, POPE & BOYAR
Workers oppressed by Tsar, Pope and Boyar (the bourgeois) - but now the Bolsheviks will put a stop to oppression... Date: 1919

Diamond mines workers 1887
Various scenes showing the mistreatment of black workers in the diamond mines of South Africa. Date: 1887

BRYANT & MAY MATCHMAKERS BRYANT & MAY MATCHMAKERS
Women boxing wax vestas at the Bryant & May factory. Date: 1888

LEATHER / UNHAIRING SKIN
Two leather workers unhairing skins

Hat factory workers, Southwark, London 1841
Hat factory workers making beaver (or bever) hats at the Christy hat factory in Southwark, London. Men employed in wetting, rolling, pressing ruffling and blocking the hat bodies. Date: 1841

GREAT WOOL FLOOR / LONDON
The great wool floor at the London docks. Date: 1850

Blind Basket-Makers in London 1900
Blind basket-makers at work in Tottenham Court Road, London. Date: 1900

Chimney Sweep 1869
The number of people living in London was on the increase, to get any trade you had to get up very early in the morning, sweeps usual were up and about at starlight, waiting for people to arise

1882 / LANDOWNER / WORKERS
A workman walking in the street with his wife doffs his cap when his boss rides past Date: 1882

Scene in a Flint Glass Factory, glass cutter at work 1841
Scene in a Flint Glass Factory, Holland Street, Blackfriars, London, glass cutter at work. Date: 1841

GIRLS DANCE QUADRILLE
Robert Owens Institution at New Lanark : dancing classes for the workers children Date: 1825

Tram Company Uniform
FAMILY GROUP WITH TERRIER DOG POSE FOR PHOTO IN STREET. FATHER OF FAMILY WEARING A LONDON TRAMWAYS UNIFORM Date: 1911

Boring machine used in the Hoosac tunnel 1869
Workers using a primitive boring machine to make the tunnel, lying between Switzerland and Italy, being thirty-six miles long and about twenty-five feet broad

The Underground Workers
A team of dwarf miners, the underground workers in action

Cartoon, Mr Briggss Pleasures of Housekeeping -- Irish labourers employed to build a house. Date: circa 1850

15TH CENTURY COUNTRY
Le Travail des Champs - farm workers sowing, plowing, harrowing, reaping, threshing, digging, planting trees &c. Date: late 15th century

Trapper seated 1867
TRAPPER AND PUTTERS A small boy opens and closes the trapdoor while another child pushes a laden wagon along a narrow gallery. Date: 1867

Boy - Girls in Belgium
BELGIUM Women, girl and boy workers at the Charbonnages du Trieu- Kaisin, Viviers Date: 1911

Pits and pitmen - night-shift 1871
Night-shift down the pits, half an hour before the shift starts at five-thirty in the evening, the miners meet on the pit-heap for a chat by a fire, this engraving was took from Seaham

Workers Mixing Malt in a Brewery
Mixing malt; workers standing in it up to their waists Date: 1870

Sheffield Steel manufactures 1866
Sheffield : scythe-grinders. Date: 1866

Assam tea industry in India
India - Various aspects of tea cultivation in the state of Assam. Date: circa 1870

Sabbatarians stop delivery of post on Sunday
Sabbatarians achieve a short lived victory, having stopped the delivery of post on Sundays. Though pleasing to Post Office workers, it infuriated the public. Date: 1850

Lancashire cotton industry 1844
Women at work in a power-loom factory, Lancashire Date: 1844

Child labour, clerk for a lawyer
Lawyers clerk, France Date: 1841

Estate Workers, Thought to be a Norfolk Stately Home, England. Date: 1900s

The Princess Mary Caravan - The Caravaners at work. The Girls Friendly Society supported young women by help in finding work, providing hostels etc

King George V (1865-1936) and Queen Mary (1867-1953) visit a factory workshop during a tour of the North Eastern Counties of England. Date: circa 1916

Elderly man (sundowner), Adelaide, South Australia
Elderly man (an itinerant worker, swagman or sundowner), Adelaide, South Australia. Date: 1900s

Haymaking in the Auvergne, France. Date: circa 1910s

Office party, 1930s
Delightful photograph taken at what looks like an office party in the 1930s. Whatever the occasion, everyone looks to be having an extremely jolly time. Date: c.1935

Fishermen pull nets ashore onto quayside, Donegal, Ireland
Fishermen pull their nets ashore onto the quayside from a fishing boat, Donegal, Ireland. Date: 1992

On the lawns of Abbey Gardens Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Four young office workers and a white swan sit in the lawns of Abbey Gardens Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, and enjoy their lunch break Date: 1988

Workers tea break beside the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal
Two male factory workers take a tea break on the banks of the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal at Tinsley Locks, Sheffield, England. Date: 1996

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