Work
Orrell Blacksmith, 75 year old Sam Cadman
Work - Blacksmith
The last of the Orrell Blackmiths is seventy-five-year-old Sam Cadman, who is gamely carrying on the home industry in a small smithy behind his cottage in Church Street.
Views: 22,835 Year: 1954 1 Comment
Day's Output
Work - Joinery
Joiner's shop daily output. The time has not long passed since it took a joiner and an apprentice over 5 hours to assemble one barrow.
Views: 11,165 Year: 1936
Joiner Apprentices
Work - Joinery
Two joiner apprentices assembling a wheelbarrow.
Views: 13,594 Year: 1936 1 Comment
The General Strike, 1926
Work - Strikes
Buses and trams were run with volunteer drivers and conductors. Many young undergraduates enjoyed themselves at this work. The strikers showed admirable self-control at these efforts to defeat them, and there were only a few ugly incidents.
Views: 12,716 Year: 1926 1 Comment
The General Strike, 1926
Work - Strikes
Buses and trams were run with volunteer drivers and conductors. Many young undergraduates enjoyed themselves at this work. The strikers showed admirable self-control at these efforts to defeat them, and there were only a few ugly incidents.
Views: 11,692 Year: 1926
The New Britain Is Not Yet
Work - Strikes
Market Place, Wigan - It is peace - but the new Britain that was to come with peace has not yet been born. Industrial troubles culminate in the great coal strike of April, 1921.
Views: 29,156 Year: 1921 5 Comments
Railway Strike, 1919
Work - Strikes
Railway transport was paralysed for nine days in September and October by a strike. Eventually the Government intervened, and secured a settlement. Photo shows a non-striking porter having a few moments' rest.
Views: 12,389 Year: 1919
Railway Strike, 1919
Work - Strikes
The clerical staff at Euston Station became porters and unloaded trains carrying food.
Views: 12,279 Year: 1919
Railway Strike, 1919
Work - Strikes
A food convoy in Hyde Park during the railway strike.
Views: 11,836 Year: 1919
Coal Picking
Work - Strikes
Coal picking during the strike, 1912, at the Pretoria Pit, Atherton.
Views: 13,279 Year: 1912 2 Comments
Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering
Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.
Views: 24,361 Year: 1900 7 Comments
Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering
Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.
Views: 12,292 Year: 1900
Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering
Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.
Views: 12,843 Year: 1900 1 Comment
Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering
Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.
Views: 13,952 Year: 1900 1 Comment
Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering
Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.
Views: 13,893 Year: 1900 1 Comment
Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering
Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.
Views: 14,636 Year: 1900 1 Comment
Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering
Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.
Views: 12,520 Year: 1900 1 Comment
Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering
Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.
Views: 12,073 Year: 1900
Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering
Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.
Views: 12,216 Year: 1900
Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering
Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.
Views: 14,437 Year: 1900
Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering
Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.
Views: 12,621 Year: 1900
Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering
Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.
Views: 20,833 Year: 1900 1 Comment
Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering
Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.
Views: 12,609 Year: 1900 1 Comment
Soup Kitchen
Work - Strikes
Revd. William Wickham serving at a makeshift 'Soup Kitchen' in Wigan during the miners' strike of 1893.
Views: 13,962 Year: 1893