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Surface Workers Refining Tin St Ives Consols
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,…
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,…
Telephone Operator at Switchboard c1900
Ladies of the Post Office seen here operating at an early telephone exchange when all calls were connected by hand at every intermediate exchange.
Women sorting Telegrams for Transmission
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.
Telephone Operator at Switchboard c1900
Telephone operator at switchboard c. 1900.
Telephone Operator at Switchboard c1900
Typical telephone operator, circa 1900-1905. National Telephone Company.
Holborn Manual Exchange 1904
Women workers in telephone exchange (Holborn Manual Exchange)
Group of Postwomen Barnet c1914
A group of postwomen at Barnet. with their bicycles.
Post Woman in original Uniform issued in 1915
A woman wearing the original uniform for postwomen, issued 1915.
London Trunk Exchange 1916
Women workers in telephone exchange during WWI (London Trunk Exchange)
Three Men outside Country Mansion
Three men outside large country house (unidentified location).
Three Men outside Country Mansion
Three men standing on the lawn of a large country house (unidentified location).
Picture of Mansion possibly Gopsall Hall
A photograph of a drawing of a large house, possibly Gopsall Hall in Leicestershire.
Inside view of Gopsal Chapel
Vol IV Pl CXXXIX P.85
Plan of Principal Floor of unknown building
Unknown building, plan of principal floor.