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Background imageLabourers Collection: Quarry in Mabe or Constantine, Cornwall. 1903-1904

Quarry in Mabe or Constantine, Cornwall. 1903-1904
A view of the quarry face showing two workers with sledge hammers standing by a granite block that is being dressed. Part of the Freeman & Sons, Penryn Collection. Photographer: Unknown

Background imageLabourers Collection: Polkanuggo Quarry, Stithians, Cornwall. September 1902

Polkanuggo Quarry, Stithians, Cornwall. September 1902
A view of the quarry face showing workers sitting on a granite block weighing an estimated 2, 738 tons. It was claimed to be the largest single block ever quarried

Background imageLabourers Collection: The Gullet, Stafford Street, Birmingham

The Gullet, Stafford Street, Birmingham
Under the Artisans and Labourers dwellings Improvement Act, 1875, slum areas like the gullet were cleared and improved. Date: 16 December 1876

Background imageLabourers Collection: Polkanuggo Quarry, Stithians, Cornwall. 1903-1904

Polkanuggo Quarry, Stithians, Cornwall. 1903-1904
A general view of Polkanuggo Quarry with steam traction engine BETA No 483 and workers posing for the camera

Background imageLabourers Collection: Brunels Thames Tunnel

Brunels Thames Tunnel
Brunels Thames tunnel - the method of work, whereby a number of labourers could work side by side

Background imageLabourers Collection: Raleigh / Potatoes / Ireland

Raleigh / Potatoes / Ireland
SIR WALTER RALEIGH English navigator supervising the first planting of potatoes in Ireland

Background imageLabourers Collection: Trade Union March 1874

Trade Union March 1874
Trade Unionists marching through Manchester in support of locked-out farm labourers

Background imageLabourers Collection: Production of the Golf at the VW plant on 10

Production of the Golf at the VW plant on 10. 05. 1979 in Wolfsburg, Germany, Europe

Background imageLabourers Collection: Freeman & Sons dressing floor, probably Penryn, Cornwall. 1903-1904

Freeman & Sons dressing floor, probably Penryn, Cornwall. 1903-1904
Classical granite columns on the dressing floor of Freeman & Sons works. The man pictured is either Bernard Freeman or his brother. Part of the Freeman & Sons, Penryn Collection. Photographer: Unknown

Background imageLabourers Collection: Transporting granite blocks for King Alfreds statue to Penryn Station

Transporting granite blocks for King Alfreds statue to Penryn Station
Fowler traction engines 7974 and 9016 are pictured hauling blocks of granite from one of the Mabe quarries to Penryn Station, for onward transportation by train to Winchester, Hampshire

Background imageLabourers Collection: Labour Union Poster - Great London Dock Strike

Labour Union Poster - Great London Dock Strike
Labour Union Poster Commemorating the Great London Dock Strike of 1889

Background imageLabourers Collection: Tresahor Quarry, Constantine, Cornwall. 1903-1904

Tresahor Quarry, Constantine, Cornwall. 1903-1904
A general view of the quarry with the crane used for moving the granite blocks. Part of the Freeman & Sons, Penryn Collection. Photographer: Unknown

Background imageLabourers Collection: Polkanuggo Quarry, Stithians, Cornwall. Around 1900

Polkanuggo Quarry, Stithians, Cornwall. Around 1900
A view of the quarry face showing workers holding the tools of their trade while dressing stones. Blocks of granite are ready to be moved using the cranes based at the edge of the quarry

Background imageLabourers Collection: WW1 - Pekin Camp, Camp for Chinese Labour Corps, Mont Kemmel

WW1 - Pekin Camp, Camp for Chinese Labour Corps, Mont Kemmel
WW1 - Pekin Camp - Camp for The Chinese Labour Corps on the Western Front. The camp was near The Kemmelberg (also known as Kemmel Hill or Mont Kemmel), Heuvelland, West Flanders, Belgium

Background imageLabourers Collection: Sugar Cane field - Barbados

Sugar Cane field - Barbados
A Sugar Cane field in flower ( in arrow ) and local Bajan workmen in Barbados, West Indies

Background imageLabourers Collection: Kaiser Wilhelm II at Kiel shipyard, Germany, WW1

Kaiser Wilhelm II at Kiel shipyard, Germany, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), German Emperor, visiting Kiel shipyard, Germany, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 2 October 1918

Background imageLabourers Collection: Sugar cane workers resting at the noon hour

Sugar cane workers resting at the noon hour, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

Background imageLabourers Collection: Sorting and packing tomatoes at the Yauco Cooperative Tomato Growers Association

Sorting and packing tomatoes at the Yauco Cooperative Tomato Growers Association, Puerto Rico

Background imageLabourers Collection: Wootton Basset Incline

Wootton Basset Incline

Background imageLabourers Collection: Interior of a Dorsetshire Labourers Cottage

Interior of a Dorsetshire Labourers Cottage
Interior view of a peasants cottage in Dorset in 1846, accompanying an article reporting on the poverty and squalor of some villages in the county

Background imageLabourers Collection: Busy Fleet Street

Busy Fleet Street
Two labourers lift a box crate onto the back of an open carriage parked on busy Fleet Street

Background imageLabourers Collection: Labourers, 1781. Creator: George Stubbs

Labourers, 1781. Creator: George Stubbs
Labourers, 1781

Background imageLabourers Collection: Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire

Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire
Sketch of granite rocks at Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

Background imageLabourers Collection: Medieval Workers 15C

Medieval Workers 15C
Labourers & Artificers

Background imageLabourers Collection: Vietnam, Tourist Goods, Painting of Vietnamese woman carrying goods in baskets on pole across her shoulders

Vietnam, Tourist Goods, Painting of Vietnamese woman carrying goods in baskets on pole across her shoulders

Background imageLabourers Collection: Tea drying at Mancotta Tea Estate near Dibrugarh, Assam, India, Asia

Tea drying at Mancotta Tea Estate near Dibrugarh, Assam, India, Asia

Background imageLabourers Collection: Settlers working the land, 12th century. Engraving

Settlers working the land, 12th century. Engraving after a miniature in a manuscript called de la Sainte-Chapelle

Background imageLabourers Collection: The Australian prison hulk Success, pub 1934 (print)

The Australian prison hulk Success, pub 1934 (print)
MOR5614419 The Australian prison hulk Success, pub 1934 (print); (add.info.: The Australian prison hulk Success)

Background imageLabourers Collection: Picture series French provinces

Picture series French provinces, France, Savoy, olive harvest, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from ca 1900, public domain, exact date unknown

Background imageLabourers Collection: Picture series French provinces

Picture series French provinces, France, Champagne, champagne cellar, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from ca 1900, public domain, exact date unknown

Background imageLabourers Collection: Picture series puzzle, selling firewood

Picture series puzzle, selling firewood, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from about 1900, public domain, exact date unknown

Background imageLabourers Collection: Picture series The sugar factory

Picture series The sugar factory, refining and packaging, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from around 1900, public domain, exact date unknown

Background imageLabourers Collection: Picture series The sugar factory

Picture series The sugar factory, crushing sugar beets, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from around 1900, public domain, exact date unknown

Background imageLabourers Collection: Picture series The sugar factory

Picture series The sugar factory, the boiling, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from ca 1900, public domain, exact date unknown

Background imageLabourers Collection: Picture series The sugar factory

Picture series The sugar factory, rolling sugar cane, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from around 1900, public domain, exact date unknown

Background imageLabourers Collection: Picture series Treasures of the Earth

Picture series Treasures of the Earth, marble quarry in Carrara, Italy, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from around 1900, public domain

Background imageLabourers Collection: Picture series Treasures of the Earth

Picture series Treasures of the Earth, hard coal, workers on site, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from around 1900, public domain, exact date unknown

Background imageLabourers Collection: Picture series Treasures of the Earth

Picture series Treasures of the Earth, salt mine, entrance to the shaft, salt, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from around 1900, public domain

Background imageLabourers Collection: Picture series Production of dolls

Picture series Production of dolls, 1, Production of the ball joints and stuffing of the doll's bellows, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collective picture from ca 1900

Background imageLabourers Collection: Picture series The gold, the stone masses ground and mixed with water in the panning mill pass over copper plates

Picture series The gold, the stone masses ground and mixed with water in the panning mill pass over copper plates, where the gold is separated by amalgamation with mercury, Liebig picture

Background imageLabourers Collection: Picture series The Gold, mining operation in Transvaal with compressed air

Picture series The Gold, mining operation in Transvaal with compressed air, stone drill, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from around 1900, public domain

Background imageLabourers Collection: Picture series The glass industry

Picture series The glass industry, manufacture of window glass, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from around 1900, public domain, exact date unknown

Background imageLabourers Collection: Picture series The Glass Industry

Picture series The Glass Industry, The Melting Furnace, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from ca 1900, public domain, exact date unknown

Background imageLabourers Collection: Picture series Scenes from Cuba

Picture series Scenes from Cuba, tobacco plantation, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from ca 1900, public domain, exact date unknown

Background imageLabourers Collection: Lunch, lunch break, distribution of polenta in a labour camp

Lunch, lunch break, distribution of polenta in a labour camp, Italian workers building a railway in Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Background imageLabourers Collection: Spring, Priest sits in the garden and works on his sermon

Spring, Priest sits in the garden and works on his sermon, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Background imageLabourers Collection: Guillaume Farel, 1489, 13 September 1565

Guillaume Farel, 1489, 13 September 1565, a reformer in France and in French-speaking Switzerland as well as predecessor and collaborator of John Calvin, Historical

Background imageLabourers Collection: Sawmill, woodworking, band saw from 1880

Sawmill, woodworking, band saw from 1880, historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Background imageLabourers Collection: A frame saw from 1880, sawmill

A frame saw from 1880, sawmill, woodworking, historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Background imageLabourers Collection: Worker in the lamp industry in Berlin

Worker in the lamp industry in Berlin, fitter, Germany, 1890, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Europe

Background imageLabourers Collection: Wooden servant from Bavaria, Germany

Wooden servant from Bavaria, Germany, 1887, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Europe

Background imageLabourers Collection: Japan in the late Middle Ages, day labourers

Japan in the late Middle Ages, day labourers, workers, illustration from 1870, historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Background imageLabourers Collection: Gold worker, goldsmith, in Japan

Gold worker, goldsmith, in Japan, in 1870, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Background imageLabourers Collection: Pine processionary moth, Thaumetopoea pinivora

Pine processionary moth, Thaumetopoea pinivora, Traumatocampa pinivora, Burning of the spun bales by forest workers to control the forest pest, Historical

Background imageLabourers Collection: Pine processionary moth, Thaumetopoea pinivora

Pine processionary moth, Thaumetopoea pinivora, Traumatocampa pinivora, Cutting of the spun bales by forest workers to control the forest pest, Historical

Background imageLabourers Collection: Scene from everyday life in England around 1810

Scene from everyday life in England around 1810, The miner in front of the colliery, Mine, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Date unknown

Background imageLabourers Collection: Scene from everyday life in England around 1810

Scene from everyday life in England around 1810, farm labourers working in the fields, historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, date unknown

Background imageLabourers Collection: Labourer, Plain of Esdraelon, Holy Land

Labourer, Plain of Esdraelon, Holy Land, (i.e. Plain of Jezreel, Israel, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated, Asia

Background imageLabourers Collection: The Allies in the First World War

The Allies in the First World War, France, Annamese worker, Le Naplong of Hanoi, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated, Europe

Background imageLabourers Collection: Tinsmith, sometimes also called tinsmith

Tinsmith, sometimes also called tinsmith, tinsmith, tinsmith, tin worker, Der Kandelgiesser, Kannengiesser, woodcut from the, Das Staendebuch, a famous series of woodcuts of the craft of Amman, 1568

Background imageLabourers Collection: Printers and workers in a book printer's workshop in the 17th century

Printers and workers in a book printer's workshop in the 17th century, Germany, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, original date unknown, Europe

Background imageLabourers Collection: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - 9 June 1892) one of the last great masters of the classical Japanese colour woodcut

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - 9 June 1892) one of the last great masters of the classical Japanese colour woodcut, here the work Moon of the Pleasure Quarters

Background imageLabourers Collection: Miners using dynamite for blasting

Miners using dynamite for blasting. Wood engraving, Paris, 1879, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Background imageLabourers Collection: Workers position dynamite cartridges in underground tunnels in preparation for the blasting of Flood Rock

Workers position dynamite cartridges in underground tunnels in preparation for the blasting of Flood Rock

Background imageLabourers Collection: Panama Canal from the west bank

Panama Canal from the west bank, excavation, workers with shovels at work, around 1885, Panama, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Background imageLabourers Collection: Ernst Gustav Benjamin von Bergmann

Ernst Gustav Benjamin von Bergmann, 1836, 1907, Surgeon and professor of medicine at the University of Dorpat, the University of Wuerzburg and from 1882 at the University of Berlin, ca

Background imageLabourers Collection: Laundry, Industrial laundry, In the steam laundry of the Berlin Charite

Laundry, Industrial laundry, In the steam laundry of the Berlin Charite, Women at work, Washing clothes, around 1885, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Background imageLabourers Collection: Digitally restored, Die Entwicklung der geistlichen Gewaender

Digitally restored, Die Entwicklung der geistlichen Gewaender, Kleidung im Mittelalter, gezeichnet von August von Heyden, Veroeffentlichung aus dem Jahr 1882, Digitally improved

Background imageLabourers Collection: Worker in a spinning mill, spinner at the machine on the top floor of Glenallen Mill in Winchendon

Worker in a spinning mill, spinner at the machine on the top floor of Glenallen Mill in Winchendon, c. 1890, England, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Background imageLabourers Collection: Fermenting flasks and workers in a whiskey distillery

Fermenting flasks and workers in a whiskey distillery. Wood engraving, late 19th century. Distilleries. Alcoholic beverage industry. Whiskey

Background imageLabourers Collection: Woodcutter working in the forest in winter

Woodcutter working in the forest in winter, c. 1860, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Background imageLabourers Collection: Stamp vintage 1923 of the Deutsche Reichspost

Stamp vintage 1923 of the Deutsche Reichspost, German Reich, Surcharge stamps for the Rhine and Ruhr Aid, Miner, 5 Marks plus 100 Marks, Historic, digitally restored Reproduction

Background imageLabourers Collection: Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke

Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke, from 1870 Count von Moltke, 26 October 1800 -24 April 1891, was a Prussian Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff, Germany

Background imageLabourers Collection: Tobacco Workers, Workers hanging tobacco leaves to dry on a line

Tobacco Workers, Workers hanging tobacco leaves to dry on a line, America, Photo by Lewis W. Hine, 1916, Historic, Digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Background imageLabourers Collection: Italian migrant workers in front of their accommodation during the construction of the Panama Canal

Italian migrant workers in front of their accommodation during the construction of the Panama Canal, 1910, Panama, Photo by Juan Grande, Historic



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EDITORS COMMENTS

"Unsung Heroes: The Grit and Resilience Through Time" Polkanuggo Quarry, Stithians, Cornwall. 1903-1904: In the heart of Cornwall's rugged landscape, labourers toiled tirelessly at Polkanuggo Quarry, shaping the region's stone heritage with their unwavering determination. Stithians, Cornwall. September 1902: Amidst the picturesque beauty of Stithians in Cornwall stood a group at Polkanuggo Quarry, exemplifying strength and unity as they harnessed nature's resources for progress. The Gullet, Stafford Street, Birmingham: Within the bustling streets of Birmingham's historic Stafford Street lay an indomitable spirit embodied by hardworking labourers who built foundations for a thriving industrial city. Farmers Ploughing a field on Lealholm Hall Farm, Whitby. C. 1889 (photo): Captured in time through an old photograph from Whitby's Lealholm Hall Farm stands a testament to agricultural labourers whose sweat and dedication nurtured fertile fields that sustained communities. Wallingford Castle in 1810 During Bridge Repairs engraved by Robert Havell the Younger: As Wallingford Castle underwent bridge repairs in 1810 under skilled hands guided by Robert Havell the Younger’s engraving prowess; it was ordinary labourers who laid each brick with precision and craftsmanship. Brunel's Thames Tunnel: Beneath London’s bustling streets lies Brunel’s Thames Tunnel - an engineering marvel brought to life by countless unsung heroes who risked their lives digging deep into darkness to connect two worlds above ground. Raleigh / Potatoes / Ireland: From Sir Walter Raleigh introducing potatoes to Ireland centuries ago till today – generations of tireless Irish they have cultivated this humble crop, nourishing nations and shaping the island's agricultural landscape.

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