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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)
Dorothy Rowena Cade Founder Minack Theatre
Dorothy Rowena Cade, founder of the Minack Theatre.
PREVREF 1499 duplicate photo
PREVREF 1499 duplicate photo
Rowena Cade Founder working at Minack Theatre
Rowena Cade working at the Minack Theatre at age 80.
Portrait of Rowena Cade founder of Minack Theatre
Rowena Cade, pictured at age 80 at the Minack Theatre. This photograph is one of a collection which was used in a London-published magazine feature in 1975, written and illustrated by Richard Angove.
Dolcoath Copper Mine Engraving Surface Working
PHOTO OF AN ENGRAVING DATED 1831
One of Cornwall's oldest, biggest and richest mines. Mineral recovery started on the site started in the C16 and continued until the 1920 earning many fortunes for its shareholders. Over £6 million of Copper & Tin…
One of Cornwall's oldest, biggest and richest mines. Mineral recovery started on the site started in the C16 and continued until the 1920 earning many fortunes for its shareholders. Over £6 million of Copper & Tin…
Primrose Court St Peters Hill Newlyn cobbled stree
Primrose Court St Peters Hill Newlyn cobbled street with washing on line lady /costume slide. now site of car park the Archway over the door behind washing line can still be seen in wall of car park
Street view.Mousehole. women carrying pails ,
Street view women carrying pails washing pegged on line against the wall . patchwork apron or skirt felt hats shoes.
Mining St. Ives Consols.
A Group of workers above ground. (posed)
Showing bal maidens.
The print is glued to a piece of an old Admiral Benbow ,Chapel Street restaurant Menu with prices in old pence.
Showing bal maidens.
The print is glued to a piece of an old Admiral Benbow ,Chapel Street restaurant Menu with prices in old pence.