Workers Collection

Manufacture of cork balls at Chingford General view of the house 28 November 1922

Workers are unloading sacks of flour from a Bedford truck belonging to Pledge & Son Ltd, the milling company, on one of their deliveries in Ashford, Kent. 1939

Waiters, chefs and kitchen hands at Londons Savoy hotel went on strike early today, it was decided that tables were to be left bare and underserviced in the private suites, restaurant and Grill room

Building work on the widening of the Swanley Bridge in Kent. 1938

Hop Kilns removing dried hops from the kilns in Goudhurst. ( A general view ) 1937

Working shaft in the Kilsby Tunnel 8 July 1937 The tunnel is located near the village of Kilsby in Northamptonshire and opened in 1838 as a part of the London and Birmingham Railway

The tea boys at Lloyd Loom. 1938

Women hop pickers in Beltring, Kent. Each worker has a gas mask over their shoulder in box in case of a gas attack. 1939

Hop picking at Maplescombe Farm, Farningham, Kent. 1938

Hop pickers in East Peckham. Young and old working in the hop field. 1 September 1938

A newspaper boy spreads the news of the sinking of the Titanic to bystanders outside Oceanic House, the headquarters of the White Star Line Company. 15th April 1912

Scotch lassies engaged in curing kippers at Douglas, on the Isle of Man September 1916 Fish where the fish are!

Reassembling an underground tunnel, this latest picture of the Bristol aircraft companies giant Brabazon, which when completed, will be the " Queen Elizabeth" of the air

Police, armed with truncheons, clashed with strikers at the Barbican building site

The construction of an Air Raid Precautions shelter beneath a war memorial in Swanley, Kent. 1939

Hop pickers walking back to the oast houses with a loaded cart. 1935

Tarring roads in Swanley, Kent. 1936

Ice Cream for the Fruit pickers The ice cream vendor does a steady trade throughout the day - on Kent fruit fields during the hot weather

Pea picking in Swanley. 1936

Atalanta works, Loughborough, run by women 6 February 1921

Atalanta works, Loughborough, run by women at the forge 6 February 1921

Farm workers in Farningham load hay on to the trailer being pulled by a tractor. 1935

Advertisement for Barretts Fresh Fruit Lemonade undated

Advertisement for Lipton Tea 1896

Richborough Train Ferry on the east coast of Kent

An overview of the Richborough Train Ferry on the east coast of Kent showing the ramp between boat and land

Rubberised Asphalt Paving - The first roadway of its type. Shown in three stages from rubber asphalt, precoated granite chipping and then the finished section

Richborough Train Ferry on the east coast of Kent showing steam engines being transported

Safety precaution South Fleet, Kent. 1934

Hop picking 200 years ago Hop gathering - old style - is pictured in this eighteenth century print in the Kent county archives at Maidstone

Crockenhill Woods. 1934

Building the new Albany Park train station. 1935

Laying wooden paving in Trafalgar Square, the resinous heartwood being extremely durable and the noise of the traffic being somewhat deadened

The Prince of Wales pub in Mottingham, Bromley is being demolished. 1936

The building works at the new Albany Park Station. 1935

A train is going past the site where the Albany Park Train Station is under construction. 1939

Repairing Eltham Church tower. 1937

Mr W Arrowsmith, founder of WJ Curley and Sons, in the yard of his bone and tallow factory in Stratford, East London. 5 October 1937

The new Albany Park train station. 1935

1910 Election poster

Anonymous Poster Designer, 1930 Full speed ahead - fulfil the Five-Year Plan in Four years. Colour lithograph

Mr C L Ager, the steeplejack, with his assistants, who were attacked by red ants on the spire of Shackleford Church, near Aldershot. 1922

Pulling down 300 year old trees in Bushy Park, London, that had become dangerous. The work was undertaken by unemployed Welsh and Durham miners. 16 January 1929

Cricket Bat Making at John Wisdens Pressing a blade to harden it, several tons of pressure are brought to bear on it 26 March 1920

The making of cricket balls at London football compny station road, South Norwood Making the quilt, cork to the weight of about 2 3 4 oz is bound by pure worcester wool and hammered into shape 1926

Manufacture of cork balls at Chingford Turning balls from the blocks of cork 28 November 1922

Making clay bricks powered by horses, Eyhorne Street, Hollingbourne, Kent. 1935

A team of four workers on Western Cross Farm, near Greenhithe, Kent, are pictured hoeing and pulling out weeds on 28 acres of majestics planted in the second week of April

Halfway Street in Sidcup, Kent. 1934

The children of hop pickers take shelter to watch the Battle of Britain. August 1940

Hop pickers huts in Swanley, Kent. 1939

Hop picking. 1935

Bedford cattle truck. 1935

View of a train on the perilous railway track on Mount Washington. 19th century

Pumps for draining the Kilsby Tunnel 8 July 1937 The tunnel is located near the village of Kilsby in Northamptonshire and opened in 1838 as a part of the London and Birmingham Railway

The Story of Exposition The Panama - Pacific International Exposition Company 1915 The Transfer Table, Palace of Transportation San Francisco

Inside front cover of the book, Les Merveilles de la Science, by Louis Figuier

Royal Wedding. Last minute preparations are going ahead in London this morning to make everything ready for the Royal Wedding tomorrow. Laying down the red carpet at Westminster Abbey this morning

Here is a job that could be speeded up - that of painting white lines and dashes on the roads. This picture was taken at Seal, Kent - where the march of time, in this respect, is rather slow

3 ton Bedford truck being loaded by a conveyor loader at the Sand & Gravel Co Ltd gray gravel pit in Sidcup, Kent. 1934

Tree felling. Stockbury. Kent 1937

White lines for the narrow Hastings Road. 1937

He looks down on Parliament. A welder on a precarious perch high above the Albert Embankment. He is at work on the new W H Smith building which overlooks the Houses of Parliament and the Thames

Cars and commuters making their way across Westminster Bridge towards Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, London, England. 1960 s

London. Site of Bucklesbury House, a 14 storey block of offices, before the building starts.c.1953

Building workers strike. Barbican strikers picket outside Mytons prior to their march to the Guildhall later this morning, where 24 of their colleagues are appearing. Pickets with their placards

Police ring Barbican building site. More than 100 City police faced hundreds of building trade workers at the trouble - torn Barbican site today

Building the Canning Town Bridge, London. 1933

The Duchess of York with Lady Crosfield at the opening of the new building of the North Islington Welfare Centre, Manor Gardens, north London. 28 February 1928

Duchess of York opens new hostel and lunches with city workers at Tower Hill. The
Duchess of York opens new hostel and lunches with city workers at Tower Hill

Where World Economic Conference will meet. The new building of the Geological Museum
Where World Economic Conference will meet

The demolition of Alhambra Theatre in the West End of London. 1936

The construction of new buildings in Wapping, the London dock area which had been heavily bombed during the London blitz in World War II. 1948

Testing wireless apparatus for Kings speech at Economic Conference. There is
Testing wireless apparatus for Kings speech at Economic Conference

Cleaning the House of Commons in readiness for the opening of the new session. 26 October 1934

Prince of Wales to inspect international telephone exchange. The Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales to inspect international telephone exchange

Malyutin Ivan - The Eighth Congress of Soviets got things going in Russia. Stencilling, four drawings, 1921

Christmas at the General Post Office, dealing with the parcels at Mount Pleasant 18 December 1921

Labours May Day Celebration. There was a Labour May Day celebration in Hyde Park, London. Father Jack Bucknell of the Poplar Catholic Crusade, addressing the crowd. 1 May 1924

German State river police guard cable works. Work has been suspended at the Oberspree Cable Factory owing to a strike. The building is being guarded by the State River Police

Workmen entertained to Christmas dinner in partially completed city building. Novel Banquet Given by Chairman and Directors of Hambros

The flower harvest in the Scillies. At Tresco wheelbarrows of golden spurs ( flowers) being taken from the developing house. 21 February 1923

Suger Mill in Barbados 25 March 1920

The flower harvest in the Scilly Isles. Men packing the flowers, narcissi and daffodils, for the London market. 5 March 1920

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