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Occupation Collection (#11)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Home Grown

Home Grown
22nd September 1917: Prize winning vegetables grown by underground railway workers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Gasometer Revamp

Gasometer Revamp
11th June 1918: Women workers painting the top of a deflated gasometer at the Gas Light and Coke Company, Bromley By Bow. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Safe To Walk

Safe To Walk
August 1918: Trafalgar Square with no buses during the transport strike in the last few months of WW 1. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Busless London

Busless London
August 1918: Piccadilly Circus, London with no buses, during the transport strike in the last few months of WW 1. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Bus Strike

Bus Strike
August 1918: Buses parked at Shepherds Bush, Lonndon, terminus during a bus strike. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Full Time Footplate

Full Time Footplate
3rd January 1927: A LNER driver and fireman at work in the cab of their locomotive at Stratford Repair Shop after a period of staff working short time. (Photo by H. F)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Packing Plant

Packing Plant
February 1930: Workers loading boxes of cans onto a machine which adds labels before they are packed into cases. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Burns At Horse Show

Burns At Horse Show
25th February 1913: British trade unionist John Burns watching the judging at the Shire Horse Show. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Dublin Riots

Dublin Riots
22nd August 1911: The aftermath of a riot in Talbot Street, Dublin, one of the ways workers vented their frustrations during a series of strikes in Ireland and Britain

Background imageOccupation Collection: Track Construction

Track Construction
October 1906: Workers loading carts with earth, during construction of the Brooklands motor racing track. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Hiring Fair

Hiring Fair
23rd September 1912: Farm hands wait in the market square to be taken on by new employers at the Michaelmas Hiring Fair, High Wycombe, 1912. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: The Eagle Hut

The Eagle Hut
circa 1905: A worker for the YMCA at the American Eagle Hut. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Strike Breaking

Strike Breaking
30th May 1912: A long line of strike-breaking meat vans on their way to Smithfield with a police escort during the Great Transport Strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Hop Kilns

Hop Kilns
16th April 1908: Hop-pickers drive their cart to a demonstration at Maidstone, Kent. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Motorized Harvest

Motorized Harvest
1st September 1907: Workers using motorized reapers for harvesting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: McCorman Reapers

McCorman Reapers
1907: Workers using horse-drawn reapers during the harvest. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: General Strike Food Convoy, May 1926

General Strike Food Convoy, May 1926
9th May 1926: An armoured car escorts spirit wagons through Aldgate, watched by interested bystanders during the General Strike

Background imageOccupation Collection: Dock Strike

Dock Strike
1949: Cars on the Royal Albert Docks waiting to be shipped to South Africa but held up by the London Dock Strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Strike Traffic

Strike Traffic
1926: Londons traffic confusion on the first day of the General Strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Mass Meeting

Mass Meeting
18th August 1911: Liverpool tramway employees attending a mass meeting at Dindal, Liverpool, during the railway strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Irish Rail Strike

Irish Rail Strike
25th September 1911: British troops marching into Dublin during the Irish Railway Strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Empty Station

Empty Station
25th September 1911: The deserted station at North Wall, Dublin, during the Irish Railway Strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Union Rally

Union Rally
4th April 1914: Stock market workers show their support for the Unionist cause in Ireland during the Great Ulster rally at Hyde Park in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Meat Vans

Meat Vans
28th May 1912: Crowds demonstrating as meat vans leave Connaught Docks for Smithfield meat market, London, during the 1912 transport workers strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Church Move

Church Move
10th September 1926: Canadian construction workers moving a church at Calgary, Canada. (Photo by W. J. Oliver/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Car Factory 1914

Car Factory 1914
22nd January 1914: An employee checking the machinery at the Wolseley Motor Companys Works at Adderley Park, Birmingham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Exhibition Pay

Exhibition Pay
May 1908: Workers who are constructing the Franco-British Exhibition are viewed queuing up to receive their wages on a Saturday afternoon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Tea Break

Tea Break
October 1906: Workers who are constructing the Brooklands, Surrey racing circuit having a coffee break at a mobile canteen. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Buttons Ltd

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

Background imageOccupation Collection: Fitting Gun Sights

Fitting Gun Sights
9th January 1930: Workers at the Bristol Aeroplane Co works at Filton, Gloucester, fitting controls and calibrating the gun sights of the Bristol Bulldog

Background imageOccupation Collection: Tilling The Soil

Tilling The Soil
30th March 1917: A woman guides a plough over a field at Cambridge University Farm. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Ice Manufacturing

Ice Manufacturing
26th March 1907: The compressor inside the engine room of an ice factory. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Carriage Works

Carriage Works
September 1911: The bogie shop at the London and North Western Railway carriage works. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Insurance Offices

Insurance Offices
The general offices of the Chartered Insurance Institute at Aldermanbury, London

Background imageOccupation Collection: Cornish Seaweed

Cornish Seaweed
1935: The gathering of seaweed with St Michaels Mount in the background. (Photo by Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Sponge Farm

Sponge Farm
Loading sponges for transport in Key West, Florida

Background imageOccupation Collection: Glasshouses

Glasshouses
1st May 1908: Glass cloches at a fruit and vegetable farm in England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Road Spraying

Road Spraying
May 1908: A tar spraying machine surfacing a road. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Waterworks

Waterworks
May 1909: A lock in the waterworks at Hampton Wick. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Lydia Ward

Lydia Ward in Guys Hospital, London

Background imageOccupation Collection: Making Buttons

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

Background imageOccupation Collection: Harriers Riding

Harriers Riding
23rd October 1906: Peppard Farmers Harriers riding in single file in the countryside at Wyfold Grange. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Loaded Cart

Loaded Cart
13th September 1907: Farmers loading an overladen cart with hay during harvest. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageOccupation Collection: Antibiotic Plant

Antibiotic Plant
Technicians at Europes newest and most modern antibiotic plant on its opening day. The plant in Sandwich, Kent, cost ?2, 500, 000 to establish and manufactures Terramycin, Tetracyn

Background imageOccupation Collection: Traction Engine

Traction Engine
1908: A traction engine carrying tar spraying equipment, during road repair experiments near Putney, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)



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