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Unknown building, plan of principal floor.

Vol IV Pl CXXXIX P.85

A photograph of a drawing of a large house, possibly Gopsall Hall in Leicestershire.

Three men standing on the lawn of a large country house (unidentified location).

Three men outside large country house (unidentified location).

Women workers in telephone exchange during WWI (London Trunk Exchange)

A woman wearing the original uniform for postwomen, issued 1915.

A group of postwomen at Barnet. with their bicycles.

Women workers in telephone exchange (Holborn Manual Exchange)

Typical telephone operator, circa 1900-1905. National Telephone Company.

Telephone operator at switchboard c. 1900.

Ladies of the Post Office seen here sorting telegrams which had been handed in at various counters, and sending them to the appropriate transmission points.

Ladies of the Post Office seen here operating at an early telephone exchange when all calls were connected by hand at every intermediate exchange.

St Ives Consols showing children at work.

Children were often employed on refining stages, sometimes working in water with bare feet. Their ages ranged from about seven or eight to 12 or 13. Their pay would have been from 1d to 2d on starting,…