Workmen Collection (page 2)

Comic postcard, Plumber and maid in kitchen Date: 20th century

Draycott, Cotswold village, Butler Saw Mills workmen with a steam traction engine in the background. Date: circa 1908

Preparing street decorations for royal wedding
Painters decorate crowns to be used in street decorations for the royal wedding of Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones. Date: 1960

Painting street decorations for royal wedding
Painting decorative crowns - street decorations for a royal wedding, Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones. Date: 1960

Epstein sculpture arriving at London gallery
Sculpture Genesis by Jacob Epstein arrives at a Bond Street gallery on an open truck. Staff consider how to move it. Date: circa 1950s

Christmas decorations go up in Regent Street, London
Illuminated Christmas decorations being erected in Regent Street, London. Date: circa 1960s

Comic postcard, Cold weather conversation Date: early 20th century

A war-zone in Ireland. Sinn Fein-ers, who had attacked loyalist workmen, fleeing from police down York Street in Belfast, during unrest in 1920. Date: 1920

Comic postcard, water passed by Borough Surveyor, WW2 Date: circa 1940s

Work on the tramway in Kingsway, London, connecting the lines in the north and south. Date: 1905

Two working class men enjoying a break from work with a cup of tea. Date: 1920s

Chair-mender, News Boy, Flying Pieman and Blackfriar s
Chair-mender, News Boy, Flying Pieman and Blackfriars Bridge. Chair-mender repairing a chair seat with rushes in Punyer Alley 46

Front cover of a bound volume of The British Workman, an improving magazine for the working classes founded by Thomas Bywater Smithies in 1855, committed to encouraging temperance, protestantism

Cartoon, The Bill-Sticker (Gladstone and Irish Land Bill)
Cartoon, The Bill-Sticker -- a satirical comment on Gladstone as Liberal Prime Minister, choosing to prioritise the Irish Land Bill over other planned legislation. Date: 1881

Cartoon, A Frozen-Out Party (Gladstone and Liberals)
Cartoon, A Frozen-Out Party -- a satirical comment on the Liberal Party (Gladstone, Bright and others), currently out of power, standing around in Downing Street like workmen

Cartoon, A Block on the Line (Electoral Reform)
Cartoon, A Block on the Line -- a satirical comment on a delay in the progress of electoral reform, with rival political parties offering to sort it out

Plaster decoration at the New Oxford Theatre
A workman seen high up in the roof of the New Oxford Theatre in the process of erecting plaster decoration from Messrs. White Allom for Charles B. Cochran

Manufacturing hard steel rails for the railway. Date: 1880

Locomotive engine factory, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
George Stephensons locomotive engine factory, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with men at work. Date: 1845

Railway cutting works in progress in the early days of rail expansion. Date: 1840s

Railway cutting works at Wormwood Scrubs, West London. Date: circa 1840s

Underground railway construction, London 1861
Underground railway construction in progress for the Metropolitan line, London, at Thames Embankment. 1861

Underground railway construction, Euston Road, London
Underground railway construction, earth-hoisting machine, drawn by horses, operating in Euston Road, London. 1861

Underground railway construction, Kings Cross, London
Underground railway construction for the Metropolitan line, Kings Cross, London. Date: 1860

Railway construction, Baker Street, London 1868
Railway construction at Baker Street, London, at the junction of the St Johns Wood and Metropolitan railways. Date: 1868

Railway construction, extension to Broad Street, London 1871
Railway construction, showing demolition of the Worship Street Gas Works to make way for Great Eastern Railway extension to Broad Street, London. 1871

Railway construction accident, Camden Town, London 1849
Railway construction accident at Camden Town, NW London, when some newly constructed arches collapsed on the western side of Kentish Town Road

Construction, Rose Hill cutting, Brighton & Lewes Railway
Construction work taking place on the Rose Hill cutting, Brighton & Lewes Railway. Date: 1846

Road painters carrying broken white line stencil, Sept 1939
Road painters carrying the " blackout stencil" which enabled workmen to paint broken white lines down the centre of roads with ease, in order to reduce accidents when driving in blackouts

The Cresta Run - a repair party at work
Workmen busy tuning up what is one of the most famous toboggan runs in the world - the Cresta Run in St. Moritz - at Battledore and Shuttlecock, two well known turns. Date: 1924

Steeping, evaporating and crystallising, Hurlet Alum Works
Three stages in the production of alum -- steeping pits, evaporating boiler and crystallising coolers at the Hurlet Alum Works, near Glasgow, Scotland. Date: 1843

Planing machine, Clyde steamboat works, Glasgow, Scotland. Date: 1843

Boring machine, Clyde steamboat works, Glasgow
Man operating a boring machine, Clyde steamboat works, Glasgow, Scotland. Date: 1843

Cutting and punching engine, Clyde steamboat works, Glasgow, Scotland. Date: 1843

Machine at a rope and sail cloth factory, East London
Yarn dressing and beaming machine at the Sir Joseph Huddart and Co rope and sail cloth factory, Limehouse, East London. Date: 1842

Rope making at a rope and sail cloth factory, East London
Flat rope making at the Sir Joseph Huddart and Co rope and sail cloth factory, Limehouse, East London. Date: 1842

Rope laying at a rope and sail cloth factory, East London
Rope making or laying at the Sir Joseph Huddart and Co rope and sail cloth factory, Limehouse, East London. Date: 1842

Rope spinning at a rope and sail cloth factory, East London
Rope spinning at the Sir Joseph Huddart and Co rope and sail cloth factory, Limehouse, East London, with a close-up view of the many strands of a rope. Date: 1842

View inside a rope and sail cloth factory, East London
View inside the Sir Joseph Huddart and Co rope and sail cloth factory, Limehouse, East London -- a workman operates a strand-registering machine. Date: 1842

Sumach tan tub at a leather factory, south London
Sumach tan tub (part of the goatskin tanning process) at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

Channel Tunnel attempt between Dover and Folkestone, Kent
Channel Tunnel digging attempt between Dover and Folkestone, Kent, with machinery and workmen. Date: 1880

Metropolitan Extension under construction 1864
Metropolitan Extension Railway under construction at Smithfield, London. 1864

Embankment making the tracks 1906
Labourers laying steel tracks for the new electric tram-way at Thames Embankment, London, construction started by the London County Council at the end of August 1909

Embankment torn to pieces for the trams 1906
London County Council beginning the construction of the electric tram-way along the Thames Embankment from Westminster Bridge, starting at the end of August 1909

New tunnel under the Seine 1905
Night staff work on the new tunnel extension under the River Seine. Date: 1905

Casting steel ingots at Messers Firth and Sons Factory
Front cover of The Illustrated London News, 28th August 1875, showing the Royal visit to Sheffield. Casting steel ingots at Messers Firth and Sons Factory. Date: 1875

Metropolitan railway and Fleet Ditch 1862
Engraving from the foot of Frederick Street, Grays Inn Road, at its junction with Bagnigge Wells Road. of a portion of the works in progress for this vast undertaking. 1862

Barricade on the Rue de Lechelle, Paris, France
Barricade in the Rue de Lechelle, Paris, France, 28 July 1830. Swiss and Lancers wanted to drill the passage but the intrepid workmen resisted so much that they forced their way back. 1830

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