Workmen Collection (page 4)

Men at work on bomb-damaged house
Men at work on a bomb-damaged house, just after the end of the Second World War. circa 1946

Sleeping workmen in a cart
Two exhausted workmen sleeping in the back of a cart. circa 1900

Busy scene in a wheelwrights workshop. 19th century

Scene in a saddlery workshop, with four workmen and a client. 19th century

WW1 poster, US Shipping Board
Poster, Rivets are Bayonets, Drive Them Home! US Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. circa 1918

Builders of the Wesleyan Chapel, Milford Haven, Wales
Group photo, builders of the Wesleyan Chapel (Priory Road Methodist Church), Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales. The building was officially opened on 5 June 1902 by Mrs J A Turner. Date: circa 1902

War Wounds Slowly Mending - repairs to towns in France
Restoring the devastated towns of Northern France. Montage of sketches by Helen McKie showing the careful rebuilding and restoration of towns in France devastated during the First World War

Removal of horse trough in Eastbourne, Sussex
Removal of a horse trough on a street in Eastbourne, Sussex. Date: circa 1962

Spain. Barcelona. Working demonstration. Engraving. Colored
Spain. Barcelona. Working demonstration. The Tivoli Theatre, a meeting point of the protesters. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1890. Colored

United States. Kensington Fire Brick Works. Engraving. Color
United States. Philadelphia. Kensington Fire Brick Works, 1884. Engraving. Colored

Advertisement for Rawlplugs. 20th century

Book of Trades, The Basket Maker. 1841

Two garage mechanics. Date: 1970s

Rail Accident London
Crowds gather to watch workmen as they start to clear up the wreckage after an accident at Camden Road on the North London Railway. Date: 1864

Laying Railway Track 30S
Workmen laying a railway track Date: 1930s

Falling from Skyscraper
Two workmen fall when scaffolding breaks on a New York skyscraper, but they are hauled to safety Date: 1933

Buiding the Houses of P
The Hoisting-scaffold in operation during the construction of the Victoria Tower of the new Houses of Parliament, designed by Pugin. Date: 1850

Autumn Leaves / Green Park
Workmen busy early in the morning picking up the first Autumn leaves in Green Park, London. Date: 1934

Class Distinction 1934
Three workers laugh at a fat capitalist taking his dog for a walk. Date: 1934

Westminster Builders
Workmen on precarious scaffolding, building the new Westminster Bank buildings high above Throgmorton Street, London. Date: 6 February 1930

Alexander Pope / London
ALEXANDER POPE English poets home at Plough Court, Lombard Street, in the City of London Date: 1688 - 1744

Homes for Workers
Elevation of workmens dwellings, Birkenhead Date: 1852

Bridge across lake at St. Jamess Park laid at night
Men working under floodlight to lay a new bridge across the lake at St. Jamess Park as the birdlife of the park slept. Date: 1961

Steam shovel at Santa Cruz, Panama Canal construction
Bucyrus steam shovel in operation, at Santa Cruz, Panama Canal construction, loading railcars with soil. Date: circa 1914

Night workers laying an electric cable in London 1900
Workmen working in the streets at night laying electrical cable. Date: 1900

Getting a rise in the World 1912
Photograph of the tallest skyscraper (at the time) being built in New York by the Woolworth Company. Workman holding on with nothing but rope chains and without any safety equipment

The Vienna Universal Exhibition: Japanese workmen building a Japanese village. 1873

E Beesley & Son, Homer Street, London
E Beesley & Son (C Beesley), builders and decorators, Homer Street, off Marylebone Road, London. Date: circa 1910

Scene in a timber yard, Devon
Scene in a timber yard in Devon, with a man standing on a pile of tree trunks, and another tree trunk being lifted above him. In the foreground are piles of cut planks. Date: circa 1960s

Man in timber yard, sawing tree trunk, Devon
Man in a timber yard, sawing a tree trunk, Devon. Date: circa 1960s

Dockers unload sugar at the West India Docks, London Date: 1889

East and West India Dock, London - Arrival of John Bowes
East and West India Dock, London - Arrival of the John Bowes screw steamer into the Collier Dock. Date: 1852

Man working on road repairs, Liverpool Road, Eccles
A man working on road repairs in Liverpool Road, Eccles, Manchester. Date: circa 1977

Two pages of a book, The Somme, Michelin
Two pages of a book, The Somme, Volume I, The First Battle of the Somme (1916-1917), published by Michelin, 1919, dedicated to the memory of Michelin workmen and employees who lost their lives

Title page, The Somme, Michelin
Title page, The Somme, Volume I, The First Battle of the Somme (1916-1917), published by Michelin, 1919, dedicated to the memory of Michelin workmen and employees who lost their lives

Book cover, The Somme, Michelin
Book cover, The Somme, Volume I, The First Battle of the Somme (1916-1917), published by Michelin, 1919, dedicated to the memory of Michelin workmen and employees who lost their lives

London in 1919 - rebuilding roads outside John Lewis
After a number of London thoroughfares were badly neglected during the First World War, many roads and famous streets were repaired by workmen in 1919

Silhouette advertisement for Lapidosus Limited
Silhouette advertisement by H.L. Oakley for Lapidosus Limited of High Holborn, London. Depicting the history of work in stone through the ages, with Stonehenge in the Stone Age

Tenor bell for St. Pauls, 1878
New peal of bells for St Pauls Cathedral: the tenor bell, presented by the city corporation, produced by John Taylors Bellfoundry of Loughborough. Date: c. 1830

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, work resumed
John Brown & Company in Clydebank in Scotland, begin the major task of constructing Queen Mary Ocean Liner then know as Hull Number 534, which began in December 1930 on the River Clyde

North London School of Drawing & Modelling, Camden Town
North London School of Drawing and Modelling, Camden Town. The school, states the Illustrated London News, may be considered a model school for the education of art-workmen

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, with reconstruction to the stonework taking place. The Floral Hall is just visible on the left

ILN front cover - start of Thames Embankment works
Front cover of The Illustrated London News depicting the commencement of the Thames Embankment works near Westminster Bridge in February 1864. Date: 1864

Workers with hammers

Glassblowing workmen and boys

Workmen hammering rivets into a vessel

Scene in the Royal Mint. The Deputy Master, The Right Hon William Grey Ellison-Macartney, allowed Matania to sketch the conversion of tons of early Victorian copper coinage into Georgian pennies

Bells for Christ Church, Boston, Massachusetts
A chime of thirteen bells for Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the foundry yard.The bells were manufactured by Henry N. Cooper and Co, of Boston. Date: 1860

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