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London Fire Brigade Headquarters workshop
LCC-LFB Coach purchased as a Brigade Control UnitThis rather dishevelled looking former coach was purchased by the London Fire Brigade as its new Brigade Control Unit. Following a thorough overhaul
GLC-LFB Brigade Headquarters Control Unit (CU)The mid 1970s saw a number of innovative appliance designs come into play as the London Fire Brigade adapted to an ever changing and more Health and Safety conscious working environment
GLC-LFB Breathing Apparatus Coach (BAC)The mid 1970s saw a number of innovative appliance designs come into play as the London Fire Brigade adapted to an ever changing and more Health and Safety conscious working environment
NFS (London Region) HQ staff carA staff car, with accident damage to front right wing, outside Lambeth workshops. Fire Force Area 38 headquarters was located at Wimbledon where this car would have been allocated
NFS (London Region) damaged LFB fire appliance, WW2The former red fire engines of the London Fire Brigade were painted grey in WW2 and during the time of the NFS. Here a damaged dual purpose pump has been delivered to the Regional headquarters
NFS (London Region) pump repairs, Lambeth workshopsA damaged LCC London Fire Brigade fire engine, after repair, at the Headquarters station, Lambeth. The appliance is without its ladders and equipment and painted in a wartime battleship grey colour
Stocks of fire brigade hose fittings, LFB HQ workshopsAn assortment of pump collector heads, hose adapters and suction hoses on the floor of the London Fire Brigade workshops at Lambeth
Workshops and Store Areas - Anglo-Iranian Oil Company works at Masjid-I-Sulaiman - one of the first active oil fields in the Middle East Date: circa 1930s
Chinese man, Tank Corps workshop, Teneur, France, WW1A Chinese worker salvaging tank track plates at the British Tank Corps Central Workshops, Teneur, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1917
Westinghouse Railway Works, ManchesterMachine shop aisle Westinghouse Train Works, Manchester, Lancashire, England. circa 1906
William Hughes, Australian PM, visiting workshops, FranceWilliam Morris Hughes (1864-1952), Australian Prime Minister, visiting workshops in France during the First World War. Date: 1916
Docks and Workshops at GibraltarThe No.1 and No.2 Docks and Workshops at Gibraltar Date: circa 1910s
Bonson propellor factoryE.W. Bonson. Interior of the Bonson factory, showing men working on the production of airplane propeller blades (wooden)
Nash garageWarren. Nash Motor Corporation, Greasing Front Wheels. - Close up of a mechanic working on a Nash auto at the Warren
Ole. Tonnesen, blacksmith and wagon shop, Iowa
Window detail, Dinorwig Slate Quarry, North WalesA 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
Aston Union Cottage Homes, Erdington, West MidlandsThe entrance to Aston Unions cottage homes, opened in 1899 at Erdington, Birmingham, West Midlands. The homes housed pauper children away from the main workhouse which occupied an adjacent site
National Workshop (Tailors) in the Prison of Clichy, ParisTailors at work in the debtors prison of Clichy in Paris, working away while one inmate reads aloud from the newspapers of the day
St Marylebone Poor Law Schools, SouthallThe St Marylebone Schools on South Road, Southall, Middlesex. An inscription below the pediment gives its date of construction as 1858
Kings Norton Union Cottage Homes, Shenley Fields, WorcesterRockery garden at the cottage homes at Shenley Fields, Worcester, established in the 1880s by the Kings Norton Union to house pauper children away from the workhouse
Wednesfield Cottage Homes, StaffordshireMain drive at the Wednesfield Cottage Homes, Staffordshire, were established by the Wolverhampton Union in 1890 at a site on Amos Lane, to house pauper children away from the workhouse
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Cottage Homes, PontelandChildrens cottage homes at Ponteland, Newcastle upon Tyne. The homes were erected in 1901 by the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Union to accommodate pauper children away from the workhouse
Aston Union Cottage Homes, Erdington, BirminghamAerial view of Aston Unions cottage homes which were opened in 1899 at Erdington, Birmingham. They housed pauper children away from the main workhouse which occupied an adjacent site
National WorkshopsNational workshops are set up by the provisional government
Ostrich Feather MakingThe new feather fashion brought a rush of work to the workshops where they combed, curled, dressed and tinted the feathers ready for the milliners
Floating Harbourthis Floating Harbour with its Workshops Can be Moved from One Location to Another