The Victorians and Edwardians at Work (Shire Library)
John Hannavy
Language: English
Pages: 128
ISBN: B01BY305DS
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A picture can say a thousand words and the images caught on camera during the Victorian and Edwardian periods provide a fascinating insight into the lives of Britons during this time. Take a step back between 1840 and 1910 and explore the world of work and working conditions experienced by the Victorians and Edwardians through the rich variety of photographs and vintage postcards in this beautiful album. A world we usually see in monochrome or sepia, is presented here in vivid colour, bringing the Victorian and Edwardian people a little closer to us. 128 pages are packed with images of shipyards, factories, bakeries, and life in the forces. We see the men and women who made cutlery in Sheffield, the women who gutted and packed the herring in the east coast fishing ports, and the women who worked the coal screens in Lancashire's many collieries, as well as some 'tongue in cheek' Victorian images of domestic life, visiting the dentist, and many other themes and subjects, all of which tell the story of working life 100 to 160 years ago. Go on, take a look!
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Kent Housework Manning The Lifeboat Life, Death and the Medical Professions Livestock Trading Miners & Mining In The Navy Newspaper Boys Photographers Pit Brow Lasses The Police Force Postmen Working on the Railways Removals Road Transport Shepherds Shipbuilding Shops and Shopkeepers Street Traders Trams and Tram-drivers PREFACE The idea of compiling a book about the Victorians and Edwardians at work has been with me for several years, and it is especially pleasing to see it.
Could not resist sending this for your album. Is it worthy of a place? He’s got such a Kent-like face, hasn’t he?’ From the ‘Farm Life’ series of views, this 1905 postcard is entitled ‘Farm Life – Carting’. The dried sheaves of corn being loaded on to the cart by the four farm hands would probably have had only a very short journey. At the edge of the field, there would have been a mechanical threshing machine, driven by a long belt connected to a steam traction engine. Steam engines had been.
Postcard c.1906. The daily task of bringing the fish ashore, gutting and cleaning the catch and repairing the nets employed large numbers of men and women. On the back of the card, the sender, David, notes: ‘This is a picture of the girls – there are hundreds of them here!’ Unusually, the barrels seen here seem to have just one metal band rather than two, and two ash bindings. Herring gutters and packers, Great Yarmouth, 1904. Like the Scarborough girls above, these were Scots girls who.
‘Halfpenny Ices’, this animated picture of an ice-cream seller in London’s East End, surrounded by happy customers, featured in John Thomson’s book Street Life in London, published in 1877. Thomson’s studies of East End characters were immediately popular. The ‘Independent Shoe Black’ was another of the East End street traders photographed by John Thomson in 1876 or 1877 for his book Street Life in London. The Friday morning market was a feature of the Market Square in Wigan, Lancashire, for.
The Canal Lock at Gravesend, from a postcard sent in 1906. The Gravesend & Rochester Canal linked the Thames with the Medway but was not a commercial success. The Gravesend canal basin is now being renovated and redeveloped, having been allowed to deteriorate since the canal closed in 1934. DOCK AND HARBOUR WORKERS Dockers unloading bales, perhaps of cotton, from a cargo steamer on to a waiting barge in the Pool of London, 1908. This postcard, ‘chromotyped in Germany’, was specially produced.