Workshop Collection (#14)

Chain Workshop 18th C
Two men at work in a chains workshop in the 18th century Date: Circa 1760

Belt Workshop 18th C
Men and women making belts in a French workshop in the 18th century. Date: Circa 1760

Playing Cards Workshop
Men making playing cards in a French workshop in the 18th century. Date: Circa 1760

Mettray : Workshop
METTRAY (near Tours) Open agricultural and industrial colony for juvenile offenders, 1839-1939 : BOYS IN A WORKSHOP LEARN USEFUL TRADES Date: circa 1850

Swedish Shoemaker / 16th C
A shoemakers workshop and shop in 16th century Sweden Date: 16th century

Child labour in carpenters shop
Carpenters apprentice, France 1841

Bonson propellor factory
E.W. Bonson. Interior of the Bonson factory, showing men working on the production of airplane propeller blades (wooden)

Nash garage
Warren. Nash Motor Corporation, Greasing Front Wheels. - Close up of a mechanic working on a Nash auto at the Warren

Furniture workshop, Barnstaple, Devon
Men at work assembling wooden sections in the furniture workshop of Messrs Shapland and Petter, Barnstaple, Devon

William Caxton in his workshop
Great nobles visited Caxtons workshop. William Caxton (c.1422-1492), English merchant and printer, the first to introduce the printing press to England and the first English seller of printed books

Ole. Tonnesen, blacksmith and wagon shop, Iowa

Cutting ivory to make piano keys
A craftsman cuts (ethically harvested) ivory tusks in order to make piano keys

Sailmaker - Penzance, Cornwall
An elderly sailmaker (Arthur Willoughby), working in the traditional way in Penzance, Cornwall

Double page spread in a diary for 23-28 October
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 23-28 October. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Rowing boat, the Kathryn Anne, in a boatbuilders workshop
A rowing boat, the Kathryn Anne of Exmouth, in a boatbuilders workshop. (1 of 2)

Building a fishing boat, St Ives, Cornwall
Andrew Besley, boat builder, building a 20 foot traditional wooden fishing boat at St Ives, Cornwall. It is designed to work off a steep pebble beach of the kind found in East Devon

Window detail, Dinorwig Slate Quarry, North Wales
A window detail on the main workshop building at Dinorwig (or Dinorwic) Slate Quarry, near Llanberis, North Wales. Wooden patterns for the ironwork, including these frames

Women sewing in a factory
Women sit at work at a long bank of sewing machines in what appears to be a clothing factory or workshop

Engineers shop, NIPRCC East Harling, Norfolk
Scene in the engineers shop at the East Harling, Norfolk, branch of the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control

Boot workshop, NIPRCC, East Harling, Norfolk
Boot-making workshop at the East Harling, Norfolk, branch of the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control

Fitters shop, Inebriates Reformatory, Guiltcross, Norfolk
Scene in the fitters workshop at the Eastern Counties or East Harling Inebriates Reformatory, Norfolk. Housed in the former Guiltcross Union workhouse

Girls outside a (clothes-making?) workshop
A group of working-class girls stand outside a workshop, possibly connected to the clothing trade. A note on the back of the picture reads These are a few of our girls from the workshop

Fitters Shop, Portland Prison, Dorset
The fitters workshop at Portland Prison, Dorset. The prison opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area

Boys in training at a Borstal institution
Boys in training in a carpenters workshop at an unidentified Borstal institution

John Pounds, provider of education to poor children
John Pounds (1766-1839), a Portsmouth shoemaker, teacher and philanthropist, who from 1818 provided free basic education for the poorest children in the town, by teaching them reading

National Workshop (Tailors) in the Prison of Clichy, Paris
Tailors at work in the debtors prison of Clichy in Paris, working away while one inmate reads aloud from the newspapers of the day

Shoemaking Workshop, Holborn Union Workhouse, Mitcham
The shoemaking workshop at the Holborn Union workhouse, Mitcham, Surrey. Male inmates are at work making and repairing shoes for use in the workhouse

Diamond Rubber Company - Tyre Department
Main Division of the Automobile Tire Building Department of the Diamond Rubber Company. 540 men are shown in this group

Model fishing boat maker, Cornwall
A model fishing boat maker in his workshop, somewhere in Cornwall. He is in the process of constructing a new boat with two masts

Thomas Cochrane at home
Major Thomas Cochrane is the fortunate owner of a beautiful villa, the Villa Reve d Or, at Cannes, where these photographs were taken

Wood Turning, Tunisia
A carpenter turns wood supported using his feet

Tunisia - Arab painters
Arab painters decorate metal pots/ewers in Tunisia, North Africa

Tunisia - Plaster Carving
The carving of fantastically decorative plaster screens in a Tunisian workshop

Artisans - Morocco
Moroccan street artisans, making decorative inlaid furniture items in wood and metal

A Turkish Tinker
A metal utensil manufacturer in Constantinople in his workshop. A Turkish Tinker, a mender of metal objects

Bethlehem - Working Mother-of-Pearl
Working Mother-of-Pearl used (amongst other things) in the decoration of furniture and small decorative items in Bethlehem, then very much part of the Ottoman Empire

Statue of Winston Churchill
A tribute from Sir Winston Churchills constituents. As he celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday with his family at Chartwell

Sawing a large plank
Two carpenters use a large upright saw to split a large wooden plank. A colleague is signalling a break with the arrival of a cup of tea, whilst two boys look on with keen interest

Carpenters building a wagon
Three carpenters working on a wooden wagon, using traditional tools and techniques. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Workshop - National Laboratory of Psychical Research
Undated photograph of workshop in the laboratory of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research where instruments were constructed and kept in repair. HPG/1/2/1 (iii)

Assembling the wiring for a complex machine
An engineer inserts a thin wire into a section of the assemblage for a Kimball machine. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Repairing Red Army Gun
Engineers of the Red Armys 24th Division repair a gun in a workshop installed on a train, enabling it to be moved to where it is needed

Making Oars 1930
Making wooden oars for the Oxford verus Cambridge boat race - shaping the haft

Violin Maker
A violin maker fixing the wooden front onto the main body of the instrument in his workshop

Pile of Pots / Sakara
A street in Sakara. A young girl stands close to a stall selling decorated pots

Fitting shop at the Grand junction railway works
The fitting shop at the Grand Junction railway engine works at Crewe. Repairs of locomotive engines and the completion of new engines

Woman / Munitions
A woman working in an ammunitions factory

Scene in a Forge
A massive object - possibly the barrel of a gun - is manhandled by a team of ironworkers in an ancient but well-organised workshop

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