Professions Collection (#24)

Cookery contest between the famous "men only"
Cookery contest between the famous " men only" cookery class and a team of girls of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) taking place at Sailsbury, Wiltshire during the Second world War

Men of the Merchant navy are now being trained as cooks in the school where many world famous Chefs started their careers, the Westminster Tech College, School of Cookery

Women of Leningrads fire fighting service keep watch over their city during the Second World War. January 1943

Miss Joyce Richardson, aged 21 of Rotherham, South Yorkshire at work as a junior chemist in a great steel works laboratory

Optician with Visual Survey Telebinocular, Newcastle, 22nd July 1971

Molten metal draining from one of the furnaces at Ford Motor Factory in Dagenham, Essex. July 1939

Interior view showing the new central crossing in Worksop Priory Church following restoration work. October 1935

The warm climate of West Cornwall, with its coast near the Gulf Streams influence, can grow sub tropical plants and vegetation

A female butcher seen here at work in her shop. Yapton, West Sussex. 1963

Chimney sweep in London with with brush and rods, May 1937

Hot Chestnut hawker in Leicester Square, London. 9th October 1963

A maid polishing a silver tray, March 1938

A maid standing by a dresser mirror polishing the silver, March 1938

A maid in service, March 1938

A maid stoops to sweep up dirt from the floor, March 1938

Eva Snyder, front of house girl at the Prince of Wales Theatre. 23rd July 1958

Mini Pearl from America who is both a cabaret star and a successful boss of 100 fried chicken restaurants, last night was appearing with Liberace on his TV show

Finals of the Army Cookery Competitions. The Army Catering Corps Training Centre at St. Omer Barracks Aldershot saw the Armys top cooks in an annual event which began 70 years ago

Busy scenes showing crowds of traders in a hurry at the London Stock Exchange shorlty after opening for business, 21st November 1967

Busy scenes showing crowds of traders in a hurry at the London Stock Exchange shorlty after opening for business, 21st November 1967

A shopkeeper serves children sweets at their local corner shop in Cardiff May 1977

Professor Christian Barnard South African surgeon who carried out the first heart transplant operation on Louis Washkansky December 1967

Nurses pushing a child in a wheelchair around Barts Fair, circa 1938

A Damascus cobbler Circa 1935

An employee of the Knockando Whisky Distillery checks the casks in the bonded warehouse. The whisky is left a minimum of three years but usually between 8 and 25 years in wooden barrels to mature

Barrels being tested in the bonded warehouse at the Knockando Whisky Distillery, Moray, in the Strathspey whisky producing area of Scotland. January 1972

A cobbler at work in Jerusalam Circa 1935

Nurses hitting a metal structure with a hammer at Barts Fair, circa 1938

A painter painting the mast of an old sailing ship. Circa 1955

Nat Lofthouse Bolton Wanderers. Photographed in 1946 when he was a miner at Mosley Common Pit, Lancs. April 1946 P007178

English referee jack Taylor weighing a joint of meat in his job as a butcher May 1970

Butcher Bert Sibbet cutting joints in his shop. November 1974

A female butcher seen here at work in her shop with her colleague. 1963

A female butcher seen here at work in her shop, serving a customer at the counter. 1963

A female butcher seen here at work in her shop, using the mincer. 1963

Butcher William Barnard gives meat away to OAPs in Camden town. Every Saturday morning he gives away approximately five shillings worth of meat to each of over 100 pensioners

Butcher William Barnard gives meat away to OAPs in Camden town. Every Saturday morning he gives away approximately five shillings worth of meat to each of over 100 pensioners. July 1957

A female butcher seen here at work in her shop, cutting up a joint of meat. 1963

A female butcher seen here at work in her shop. 1963

Pop group The Honeycombs have responded to the Minister of Healths appeal for more blood doners. The blood transfusion service was arranged for them to fit in with their recording

Servants. August 1937 P009171

Oh, miss! You are a shocker. This is probably not the first time a science teacher has finished a lesson with her hair standing on end

Lady Barber Vernet
A (French) lady barber wet shaves her customer Date: 1814-1824

A Visit to the Shoemakers Shop, 1885. Creator: Ring, Laurits Andersen (1854-1933)
A Visit to the Shoemakers Shop, 1885. Found in the Collection of Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Leisure and Labor, 1858 (oil on canvas)
496678 Leisure and Labor, 1858 (oil on canvas) by Mayer, Frank Blackwell (1827-89); 39.5x57.9 cm; Corcoran Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C

Daily Mirror Staff Photographers from 1960 to 1980 meet at camera club in Holborn, London taking photographs of a model. Circa 1980

Europe. Middle Age. Construction of a gothic Cathedral. Illustration by Lluis Bargall󮠗 atercolour

Orchestra, instrumental ensemble arranged with percussion, string, brass, and woodwind sections, with conductor, elevated view

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