Workforce Leaving Cartwright & Warner Hosiery Works, Loughborough (1900)

Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.

Bicycles and broomsticks at the ready as workers finish shift at a marine engineering works in Victorian Hull.

Workers at a Lancaster linoleum factory leave and the gate is firmly shut behind them.

Dinner time at a textile mill in Victorian Lancashire.

Cheery child workers, averaging around 10 years old, leave the cotton mill after a shift.

Lancashire cotton workers hurry to lunch after morning shift.

A last gasp for the British Army's cavalry: the skilled horsemen of the Leicestershire Yeomanry perform for a local audience.

Through blazing sun and monsoon rain new British built diesel locomotives keep communications open on the far off island of Ceylon.

A well-staged exit of workers from a Leicestershire manufacturer for the transport industry.

An Edwardian Bolton Wanderers football team file onto a threadbare pitch

Workmen clean an oversized bottle perched on a factory chimney. At lunch, two beers are delivered to them by helicopter.

Liverpool students run riot for the annual rag race

PM David Lloyd George gets outdoors, hoeing potatoes in Criccieth, Wales

Travelogue following the historical route taken by Pilgrims from Winchester to Canterbury.

A terrible beauty: impressive early TV history programme looks at Ireland 1913-23.