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WW2 - Land Girls working the land. Date: circa 1943

Waifs and Strays Society Map of Home Locations
A map of the locations of Waifs and Strays Society operating in 1907. Date: 1907

Dirty Furring Potatoes With Wooden Plough, Mourne - a view of two men in a furrowed field, one operating a horse drawn wooden plough and in the background is the sea

Pollan Fishers Twisting Lines for Nets, Lough Neagh
Pollan Fishers Twisting Lines forNets, Lough Neagh - a view of a man operating a large wheel to twist a net for a man in the background in a field

Handloom Carpet Weaving, Killybegs - a view of a woman in a factory operating a handloom. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Donegal; Killybegs). Date: circa early 1900s

Winding Pirns for Weaving Donegal Homespun, Inishowen
Winding Pirns forWeaving Donegal Homespun, Inishowen - a view of a family group outside a cottage with a woman operating a spinning wheel and a reel

Winding Yarn Off the Swifts, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view of a lady outside operating a spinning wheel unwinding yarn off the swifts. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge)

Hackling Yarn in a North of Ireland Spinning Mill - a view in a linen factory of a man operating a hackling machine. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Flax Breaker in a Co. Antrim Scutch Mill, Toome - an interior shot showing a man operating a flax breaker. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Double Damask Napkin Power Loom, Waringstown - an interior shot of a lady operating a power loom. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Waringstown). Date: circa early 1900s

10 1 / 4 Double Damask Power Loom, Waringstown
10 1/4 Double Damask Power Loom, Waringstown - an interior shot of a man operating a power loom. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Waringstown). Date: circa early 1900s

Irish Linen Industry, Winding - an interior of a factory with women operating the winding machines. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Weaving a Damask Tablecloth on Cottage Handloom - showing a man operating the loom inside. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Waringstown). Date: circa early 1900s

Handloom Weaving, Walpole Bros. Waringstown - an interior picture of a man operating a handloom inside a house. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Waringstown). Date: circa early 1900s

Linen Bleaching, Passing Through the Blueing Frame - a barefoot worker is operating between two roller machines in the spinning mill. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Linen Bleaching, Rub Boards - a view in the spinning mill of a man operating a machine to rub the linen after bleaching. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Calendering Damask - a view of a man operating a calender machine in the spinning mill. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

N. of Ireland Linen Industry, Calendering Linen - an interior view in the spinning mill and two people operating a machine to calender the linen sheets. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Linen Bleaching, Ironing the Web - an interior view of the spinning mill and a man operating a machine for ironing the sheets of linen. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Linen Bleaching Process, Beetling Linen - an interior view of a man in the spinning mill operating a machine for beetling linen. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Linen Bleaching Process, Breadthing - an interior view of a man operating a machine in the spinning mill for bundling linen sheets. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Continuous Bleaching Linen By the Chemical Process - an interior view in a spinning mill of a man operating a machine for the chemical bleaching of linen. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Linen Bleaching By Continuous Chemical Process - an interior view in a spinning mill of a man operating a machine for the bleaching of linen. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Linen Bleaching, Damping and Blueing - an interior view in the spinning mill of a man and woman operating a machine for the further bleaching of linen. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Poster, The Telephone in Business, showing a female telephone operator and a map of England. 20th century

Canadian Pacific Steamers and Trains
Canadian Pacific is the only line operating its own Steamers and Trains -- The Empress of Scotland (above), a Canadian Pacific Transcontinental Train leaving Montreal (below). Date: circa 1930s

Industry / Rope 1827
A rope maker reels out newly made rope across his garden with the help of an assistant operating a wheel at the other end. Date: 1827

Futuristic machine for reading human thought waves
A futuristic machine which registers and translates human thought waves, even if the subject is unconscious or unable to speak. Date: 1928

The Dartmouth Ferry, Devon
The Dartmouth Ferry (also known as the DartmouthKingswear Floating Bridge, a vehicular cable ferry), operating between Dartmouth and Kingswear, Devon Date: circa 1920s

Theatre nurse at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall
Theatre nurse in an operating theatre at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall. Date: 1980

Two theatre nurses at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall
Two theatre nurses in an operating theatre at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall. Date: 1980

Doctor and nurses treat a patient in the operating room, Brooklyn Naval Hospital, Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, USA Date: circa 1900

Planes of a British submarine, WW1
The planes of a First World War submarine - horizontal rudders to regulate the angle of ascent and descent. Date: 1914

National Childrens Home, Canada - One of Our Boys Ploughin
A emigrant to Canada from the National Childrens Home (NCH) is operating a horse-drawn plough

WW1 - French air reconnaisance, 1914
WW1 - French air-scouts on a Breguet biplane. A Sergeant of Engineers is piloting, one passenger is observing the country below, the other throws out a cylindrical case containing a message

Vultee Model 72 Vengeance IA -this one operating with the Australian forces in the Pacific

North American P-51A Mustang-this earliest version, with its Allison engine, is seen in service with US forces operating out of Burma in 1942

Grumman JF Duck -very useful light transport capable of operating from either land or water

Arado Ar 196A seen here operating from a Mediterranean base proved to be a very effective convoy shadower

WW1 River Don Steelworks, Sheffield, Yorkshire
World War 1 River Don Steelworks, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Captioned Hydraulic Press operating upon Armour Plate Date: 1910s

Garden in Baslow, Derbyshire Peak District
Ted Ellis on the left and Ernest Battersby beside him with sherry and cigarettes. A third drink waits onthe tray for whoever had been tasked with operating Ernests camera. Date: circa 1906

German boy scouts with camp loom
German boy scouts operating a camp loom

Engraving of firefighters in action at a burning building
Engraving of firefighters in action at a fire, operating hosepipes and attempting to rescue a woman from the upper window of a burning building. Date: 1836

Blitz in London -- demonstrating deluge set, WW2
Blitz in London -- as part of a war weapons week, a firefighter on the Embankment in Central London, 20 May 1941, demonstrates the deluge set

A Munitionette, Munition worker, WW1
A woman operating an automatic cartridge machine in a munition factory during the First World War. Date: 1917

Scammell pump in Orange Street, London W1, WW2
Scammell 65-gallon pump in operation, supplying water to four hosepipes, at a fire in Orange Street, London W1, 21 September 1942. Date: 1942

Leyland dual purpose monitor appliance
A Leyland dual purpose monitor appliance with monitor at work

LFB monitor on dual purpose appliance
LFB monitor at work on a dual purpose appliance

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