Occupation Collection (#13)

Strike Tanks
10th May 1926: Armoured cars and troops at Hyde Park Corner, London, preparing to escort Londons great food convoy at 6am on the seventh day of the General Strike. (Photo by E)

Women Fire-Fighters
March 1916: Members of the Women of the Fire Brigade put a fire escape into position. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Food Escorts
8th May 1926: An armoured vehicle escorting food wagons passing through Oxford Circus, London, during the General Strike. (Photo by Davies/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Horse De Comabat
July 1907: A traction engine rendered Horse de combat by strikers during the Belfast strike by dockers and the Royal Irish Constabulary. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dock Strikers
5th August 1911: A crowd of dock strikers in Trafalgar Square, London. Nelsons Column is in the centre. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Union Meeting
September 1913: Crowds in Dublins O Connell street attending a trades union meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Lettuce Farming
21st March 1908: Women workers on a fruit and vegetable farm in Thatcham Berkshire, digging a hole while in the background lettuces are picked from their frames

After The Strike
15th May 1926: Resumption of work by dockers at London Bridge, after the settlement of the 1926 General Strike. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Women War Workers
circa 1915: A Woman working on an engine in an engineering shop. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Back To Work
15th May 1926: Dockers unloading ships at London Bridge three days after the end of the General Strike. (Photo by E. Bacon/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)

Petrol Wagon
7th May 1926: Mounted police escort a petrol wagon along St Georges Road, Southwark, London, during the General Strike. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Kingsway Construction
circa 1906: Construction workers laying the foundations of Kingsway, central London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Tram In Street
14th May 1926: A London County Council tram travelling in a street in London during the General Strike. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Linophone Operators
1907: Workers setting up type with Linophones which are a combination of phonograph and linotype machinery. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Food Convoy
9th May 1926: A crowd watches as a food convoy guarded by armoured cars drives down India Dock Road in east London, during the 1926 General Strike. (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)

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

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

Johannesburg Riot
1925: The tank which played a prominent role in the Johannesburg rebellion, where union unrest erupted in the Rand Revolt, in which white workers

War Work
June 1916: Crowds of men gathered outside Great Scotland Yard and the Office of Works in London, awaiting their turn in the army recruiting office. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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)

Keep Away
A nurse tends to young patients in a river ambulance for sufferers from infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB)

Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China

Men remove snow from roof during a winter storm in the town of Ainokura, in the Japanese Alps, a World Heritage Site by Unesco

Fire At Flixborough
1st June 1974: A view of the Nypro plant at Flixborough after the fire on 1st June 1974 where explosions within the plant killed several workers. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Metal Worker
A worker pouring white hot metal into moulds

Metal Welding
An iron welder at work

Leopard Display
A leopard display at Bertram Mills Circus, Olympia, London

Factory Floor
Workers on the Ozalid factory floor

Sale Starts
Staff open the doors of Debenhams department store to let in the crowds of waiting shoppers for the first day of the sales

Arsenic Test
Two scientists, testing for arsenic and chemical pollution during their routine pollution patrol, Ventnor beach, Isle of Wight

Collection Tin
A volunteer collecting money in the rain for The Church Army

Church Army
A collector for the Church Army shakes a can for contributions

Rubbish Pile
8th February 1979: Piles of rubbish near Charing Cross Hospital in Hammersmith, London, during the dustmens strike. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

London Bridge Station
8th November 1971: An employee in a control room at London Bridge Station, London. (Photo by John Minihan/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Anti Freeze
Workers in Champagne install frosting supports to protect young grape vines from freezing temperatures. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Man riding bucking bronco
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1950s: Man riding bucking bronco. (Photo by George Marks/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Life guard on beach with rescue boat
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1950s: Life guard on beach with rescue boat. (Photo by George Marks/Retrofile/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)

Surgeon and nurse
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1930s: Surgeon and nurse in surgical gowns, nurse writing in chart, doctor holding stethoscope. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Pony Vacation
circa 1954: Working horses on a holiday arranged by the International League for the Protection of Horses. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6944 - A Horse On Holiday - unpub

Ship Building Strike
1st April 1957: A vessel under construction at the Burrow-in-Furness shipyard where work has stopped during a strike. Original Publication

Obsolete Machinery
28th March 1953: Machinery in a tinplateworks in South Wales factory which is due to close. This is because of the building of giant strip-mills which need fewer workers to run them

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