Industry Collection (#17)

Balloon Construction
September 1906: The balloon workshops at Short Brothers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Gold Chain Making
circa 1909: Girls working in a section of the polishing room, making gold chain at Goods & Sons Birmingham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Balloon Making
September 1906: An interior of Short Brothers workshop where hot air balloons are manufactured. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Train Wheels
1926: A scene in a factory which makes wheels for trains. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Tweed Spinners
circa 1909: Scottish crofting women carding and spinning wool with their spinning wheels. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cotton
circa 1909: Jones Cotton Mill, Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cider Apples
1908: Tons of apples in the yard at Henley and Sons Cider works in Newton Abbot, Devon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Boiler Shop
24th February 1907: The boiler manufacturing area of Yarrow torpedo factory, Poplar, East London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Making Buttons
circa 1909: Workers in a Birmingham button factory packaging the finished product. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Button Factory
circa 1909: Hundreds of workers punching buttons out of sheet metal in a Birmingham factory. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Ice Lifting
25th June 1907: Slabs of ice being winched through a trap door in an ice manufacturing plant. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Torpedo Works
24th February 1907: The fitting shop of Yarrow torpedo works, Poplar, East London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Production Line
1909: Workers cutting buttons in a factory in Birmingham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Factory Visit
9th January 1930: Visitors to the Bristol Aeroplane Co works at Filton, Gloucester where the all-steel fighting planes Bristol Bulldogs are constructed

Cap Makers
July 1909: Capmakers at work in M Jacobsons factory in Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hat Makers
July 1909: Women making hats at the Sutton & Torkington factory in Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Painting Wings
9th January 1930: Workers at the Bristol Aeroplane Co works at Filton, Gloucester, spraying identification markings onto the wings of the Bristol Bulldog

Bulldog Jupiter
9th January 1930: Mechanics at the Bristol Aeroplane Company works in Filton, Gloucester, adjusting a Bristol Jupiter engine during the manufacture of a Bristol Bulldog aircraft. (Photo by Edward G)

Shaping Propellers
9th January 1930: Workers at the Bristol Aeroplane Company works in Filton, Gloucester shaping and balancing propellers for the Bristol Bulldog

Cider Works
Workers shovelling sag (the remains of pressed apples) into a basket at Henley and Sons cider works at Newton Abbot in Devon, 1908. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Cider Works
Tons of apples are delivered by horse-drawn cart to be stored in the pound at Henley and Sons cider works, Newton Abbot, Devon, 1908. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Windmills of Kinderdijk, Netherlands

Messel fossil pit site in Hesse Germany

Sagrada Familia

Sagrada Familia

Sagrada Familia

Sagrada Familia

Coke ovens, Ruhr area
World cultural heritage coal mine and coke oven ZollvereinFor many visitors this is the highlight of their city break to the Ruhr Area

Rabelo boats in Douro river, Porto
The Rabelo boat is a traditional Portuguese cargo boat that for centuries was used to transport people and goods along the Douro River

The Baochu Pagoda against the skyline of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

The skyline of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
The Baochu Pagoda against the skyline of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Royal Albert Docks
12th February 1980: A scene from the Royal Albert Docks during the Industrial dispute. (Photo by Chris Ball/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Metal Worker
A worker pouring white hot metal into moulds

Metal Welding
An iron welder at work

Factory Floor
Workers on the Ozalid factory floor

Towing The Orion
The Orion Oil Rig being towed

New Jaguar Cars
2nd September 1972: A line of Jaguar cars covered with brown paper at the Jaguar factory, Coventry. (Photo by Frank Tewkesbury/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Annies Van
5th August 1930: The caravan in which Miss Annie Croft is touring the country with her production of The Maid Of The Mountains, which will shortly be seen in the West End

Barbara Cartland
Mrs A G McCorquodale (1901 - 2000) who is designing all the costumes for and also producing the Pageant of the Superstitions for a Halloween Ball at the Park Lane Hotel in aid of the Townswomens

Steel Works
29th April 1939: Railtracks which bring locomotives to and from the Guest Keen Baldwins steel works in Cardiff, Wales. Original Publication: Picture Post - 116 - Steel - pub

Boys On The Bridge
1st October 1955: A group of boys passing under the elaborate metalwork gateway of a bridge in the Scottish industrial town of Kilmarnock

Machine Guns
circa 1940: Machine guns used for aeroplanes, awaiting shipment from a converted automobile plant in America. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Construction Workers
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1950s: Two Men Construction Workers, Climbing Two Tall Steel Beams Girders That Are Connected By Wires Pulley. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Bridge construction
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Bridge construction site over industrial canal. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Trains and furnaces
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1950s: Industrial site with trains on intersecting tracks, blast furnaces in background. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Power shovel
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Power shovel with jaws open, view from below. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

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