Occupation Collection (#12)

Road Foundations
Workmen using old salmon tins and other assorted containers for road foundations in Euston Road, London

Road Construction
Workmen renovating Londons road surfaces by cleaning old road stones

Lifeboat Launch
The launching of the Newquay lifeboat

Hay Making
1922: Women loading hay on a farm in Bedford. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cart Horse
A cart horse and its driver, making a collection at a goods yard in Kings Cross, London

Fire Fighters
Two fire women at drill, with a hose spraying at full force

Hospital Food
Nurses at St Bartholomews Hospital eat lunch in the dining hall

Country Dancing
Dancers practising their routines in the garden

Model Armada
Craftsmen at work on a model armada for His Majestys Government Exhibit at Wembley, London

Fire Women
Members of the Womens Fire Brigade on a fire drill with hoses and extingushers at full force

Canal Crisis
Workers on the Panama Canal project deal with a landslide. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Turkey Farm
A group of workers at a Norfolk turkey farm. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Belfast Children
Children playing in a Belfast street after the National Union of Dockers strike, organised by James Larkin. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Warming Drink
February 1916: Standing beside her bus a woman bus conductor is drinking hot milk from a large mug. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Occupied Minsk
1918: German troops entering Minsk after its capture during World War I. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Disrupted Travel
20th October 1938: A rail worker fixing a fog warning notice at South Woodford Railway Station in Essex. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Threshing Machine
September 1907: Farm workers grinding and threshing by motor at the Dennis Brothers Farm in Kirton, Lincolnshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Food Convoy General Strike Armoured Cars, 1926
May 1926: Armoured cars escorting food wagons through Oxford Circus to Hyde Park, London, during the General Strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Wartime Workers
29th June 1918: Women war workers march to Buckingham Palace in London. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Rail Strike
October 1918: Paddington station, London, during a railway strike, with hopeful travellers crowding onto one end of the platform. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Sunday Food Convoy
9th May 1926: During the General Strike, an armoured car passes through Aldgate escorting a Sunday convoy of spirit wagons from the London docks to a depot in Hyde Park

Deserted Railroad
30th September 1919: Main line signals at Waterloo Railway Station in London during the railway strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Skeleton Service
27th September 1919: The 12.30 leaving Waterloo Station in London for Portsmouth during the railway strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Lorries On Call
3rd October 1919: A convoy of Dennis lorries ready to be used during the railway strike. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Leyland Convoy
3rd October 1919: A convoy of Leyland mobile car repair shops during the rail strike. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

All-Out
1919: Police strike meeting at Tower Hill, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Police Union
5th May 1919: A Police Union demonstration in Trafalgar Square. (Photo by Roper/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Paddington Station
October 1918: Deserted Paddington railway station in London during the rail strike. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Transport Strikers
28th July 1912: A procession of transport strikers cross Tower Bridge in London, on their way to a rally in Southwark Park. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Belfast Strikes
1st July 1907: A Belfast quayside as the Irish army is sent in, in an attempt to end the dock strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Devon Cider
1908: Workers loading wagons at Henley and Sons Cider Works at Newton Abbot in Devon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Funeral Crowd
August 1907: The procession at the funeral of Belfast rioters shot by soldiers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Strikers Protest
1st July 1907: Trollies loaded with paper, upset by the striking Belfast dockers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Army At Tonypandy
1910: Military tents at the colliery during the Tonypandy strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Great Strike
10th May 1926: The Great Strike in the provinces, with workers demonstrating and carrying banners as they march through the street. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Sugar Refinery
1st November 1913: A sugar refinery in Natal, South Africa, with Indian workers arriving. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Oil Field
1st December 1918: Men working amidst the thick smoke of the Baku oil fields. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

May Day Demo
1st May 1912: Workers march through Holborn and Kingsway on the 1912 May Day demonstration in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Workers Protest
1st February 1914: Trafalgar Square is packed with demonstrating workers from the Royal Ordnance Factories listening to speakers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hop Pickers Demo
16th May 1908: Trafalgar Square is packed by a demonstration of hop-pickers demanding protection against importation of hops. (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)

Harvest By Motor
1st September 1907: Workers using a motorized tractor take a load back to the rick during the harvest. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Motorized Plough
1st September 1907: Workers using a plough pulled by motor. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dock Strike
1st July 1907: A group of 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment soldiers at Belfast dock during the dock strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Police Push
circa 1920: Police pushing back the crowd at an unemployment demonstration in Whitehall, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Unemployed Demo
circa 1922: A section of the crowd on the May Day labour demonstration in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Flat Cap Crowd
31st May 1912: Striking London transport workers listen to an address from the English Trade Union Leader Ben Tillett on Tower Hill. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Railway Employees
26th October 1907: A platelayer and ganger working on railway track. It was many years before bright clothing was introduced to make track workers readily visible

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