Workman Collection (page 10)

Construction of the St Gotthard Tunnel beneath the Alps, 1880. The tunnel was built to link Italy and Switzerland by rail

Completion of the St Gotthard Tunnel beneath the Alps, 1880. The tunnel was built to link Italy and Switzerland by rail. Workmen from the two ends of the 9 1/4 mile-long tunnel broke through the last

Casting cannon, 1751-1780. Drying clay patterns which would be used to produce a mould into which molten metal would be run. From Denis Diderots Encyclopedie. (Paris, 1751-1780)

Using bellows to increase the draught in a furnace, 1540. Woodcut showing a workman using bellows to increase the draught in a furnace for refining copper

Rule Britannia, 1882. Britannia is not sure whether or not she has jurisdiction over the proposed Channel Tunnel. From Punch, or the London Charivari, July 15, 1882

Fire and Smoke, 1871. Artist: Joseph Swain
Fire and Smoke, 1871. A Mephistophelean French communist points the way with his petrol bomb as he urges the British workman to fight with him in the cause

Corn versus Chaff, 1860. John Bull represents the agricultural worker in the heat of the day working to gather the harvest so that the people may be fed through the coming winter

How Dirty Old Father Thames was Whitewashed, 1858. A British workman in overalls and boots holds a large brush in one hand, and a handkerchief to his nose with the other

The Cottage. The man warming his hands at the fire is a rural worker. This one room has to provide living and sleeping accommodation for his wife and large family

Men standing in the cutting shield, Rotherhithe Tunnel, Stepney, London, August 1907. Front view of the shield with workmen standing in compartments where the shield partly emerged into Shaft 4

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