Britain at Work
A Pictorial Description of Our National Industries

______ VI _____ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. His Majesty’s Mails page The Travelling Post Office _______________________..... 89 The Most Northerly Post Office in the Kingdom . . 90 A Great Provincial Post Office (Leeds) . . . . 90 Getting Ready for the Mail_______________________91 Delivering the Mails on Board a Fishing Smack . . 92 The Soldiers’ Post Bag ___________________________...... 93 A Rural Postman . . . . . . . 94 Shipping the Mails at Dover_______________________95 How Gas is Made :— Drawing the Retorts___________________________96 Quenching the Coke . ... . . .97 Charging Retorts by Machinery__________________98 “ Washer and Scrubber ” 99 Sifting and Picking the “ Breeze ”, . . . . 100 The Manufacture of Biscuits and Cakes:— Breaking Up the Lard and Butter __________________.... IOI Dough Coming Out of the Mixer__________________102 Rolling the Dough and Laying Out Hand-made Biscuits Ready for Baking___________________________103 Baking Biscuits ....................................... 104 Cutting I ce Wafers................................105 Icing Biscuits................................. 105 Sorting and Packing Biscuits_______________________106 Railway Enginem,en and Their Work :— Ready to Start . __________....._______________107 On the Journey from London to Taunton . , . . 108 Firing Up ........................................... 108 Oiling an Engine when Running at Express Speed. . 109 Picking Up Water at the Goring Troughs . . . IIO Rushing Past a Station_______________________no An Express Locomotive Receiving its Fuel . .111 A Goods Locomotive being Hauled into the Sheds . . ill Overtaking a Goods Train • . . . . . 112 Over the Bridge to Glasgow___________________113 The Cutlery Industry :— A Forger at Work..........................114 Marking Makér’s Name on Blade and Setting the Blade 115 Making the Bolster in the “ Prints " .... IK Grinders at Work . . ' , , . . . no Grinding Table Knives _______________________...... 116 Cutler at Work__________________________117 Hafting Table Knives . . . . . . .118 An Ivory'Store ...........................119 Barge Life :— A Young Bargee.................................. 120 Barges in the “ Pool ” of London_______________121 Barges on the Thames . . . . . . .122 Passing under London Bridge. _______________.... 123 Five Minutes’ Gossip _______________________...... 124 Passing through a Lock _______________________...... 124 A Familiar Canal Scene _______________________...... 125 How Paper is Made (continued) :— page The Paper Machine, Croxley Paper Mills . . . 143 Paper Machine Room, Old Mill, Sittingbourne . . 144 Paper Sorting House, Croxley Mills .... 145 Ready for Use. A Big Store of Paper .... 146 Omnibus and Tramway Traffic:— A Veterinary Surgeon Examining Horses . . . 147 The Forage Depöt of the London General Omnibus Co. 148 The London General Omnibus Company's Stables . . 148 Work at the Forge of the Road Car Company . . 149 Sacking Forage a* Tilling’s_______________________150 The Building Shop of the London .General Omnibus Co. J 51 Omnibuses at Piccadilly Circus__________________151 Glasgow Corporation Tram _______________________..... 152 A Shepherd's Bush Tram_______________________152 A London County Council Tram : The Rush for Seats 152 Electric Tr^m at Hull____________________ . 153 A Familiar Scene in London. Policeman Regulating the Traffic . ............................153 A Chair-making Town Sawing Logs for Chair Legs , . . ■ • T54 Splitting Logs for Chair Legs_______________________x55 Turning Chair Legs in a Cottage___________________J5^. Machine Room ________________________________....... 157 ................................ Framing Room . . . . . • • On the Road to London . . . . . . *5^ Beer-Making :— The Malt Room (Messrs. Whitbread’s Brewery) . . 159 Exterior of Mash Tun (Messrs, ßarclay, Perkins and Co.’s Brewery) . . . , . , • ■ • • I^)0 Interior of Mash Tun (Messrs. Watney’s Brewery) . 160 The Big Copper (Messrs. Whitbread’s Brewery) . . 161. The Copper Stage (Messrs. Barclay’s Brewery) . . 162 The Cooling; Loft (Messrs. Barclay’s Brewery) . . 102 Cleaning Out Interior of Fermenting Vat (Messrs. Barclay’s Brewery) . . . ■ • • Men Skimming Vats (Messrs Truman, Hanbury, Buxton and Co.’s Brewery) . ___________________ The Ponto Room (Messrs. Watney’s Brewery) . • 104 Racking Machine (Messrs. Watney’s Brewery) . . 165 The Racking Floor (Messrs. Truman, Hanbury, Buxton and Co.’s Brewery) ____________________________...... 166 The Match-making Industry in Great Britain Filling Frames Ready for Dipping ___________________.... 167 Filling Frames with Wax Strands . . . . . 169 Dipping Matches : Phosphorus Workers on the Roof . 1,0 Sifting Wooden Matches . . . . . . • I71 Making Wooden Boxes for Matches . . . .172 Home Workers: Match-box Makers Taking Away Work 173 Welsh Cottage Industries: i.Quilting, Knitting, The Manufacture of Woollen and Worsted:— Arrival of the Wool . Wool Sorters at Work Washing Wool Preparing the Wool. Combing ...................... .................................... “ Drawing ” “ Roving " .... Weaving Operators at Work in Factory . . . Spinning __________________.... Warping __________________.... a Great Yorkshire 126 126 127 128 128 129 130 I3I 132 133 Butter and Cheese Making:— Irish Farmers Bringing Milk for Butter Making . . 134 Filling a Milk Tank_________________________________134 Milk Passing through Refrigerator. Butter on Revolving Worker. Working a Large Churn .... 135 Devonshire Butter-Makers at Work .... 136 Irish Farmers Delivering Milk for Butter Making, Cappamore________________________________137' Cheese Making in Cheshire_______________________138 The Cheese in the Presses_______________________139 Corner in Store-Room. A Factor Testing Cheese . . 139 How Paper is Made ;— Rag Sorting House, Croxley Paper Mills . . . 14O Sheds where the Pulp is Stored . , , . 141 Arrival Wharf, Sittingbourne _______________________..... 141 Beater House, Croxley Paper Mills___________________142 and Netting:— Quilters at Work................................r74 Machine Knitter at Work _______________________..... 175 Hand Knitter . . ... . • • J75 Stocking Stall in a Welsh Market .... • • J 7” Making Agricultural Nets x77 Needle and Pin Making:— Rubbing Needles Pointing Needles Stamping Needles . Piercing Eyes of Needles Scouring Needles , . Machine Handing and Finishing Pin Making : Wire Drawing . Pin-making Machine Whitening . Sticking Pins .... 178 178 i/9 179 180 181 182 182 183 184 London’s Docks :— The West India Import Dock______________________ Unloading Corn . . • • . • • • • At the London Docks : Buyers Sampling Wool . . 187 Landing Wines and Spirits . _________.... • . 188 Unloading in the London Docks ... . . . 189 St. Katharine’s Dock__________________________IQO Ivory Store at the Docks__________________________I9I A Dock Ferry . . ________________________]92 Women Toilers in the Black Country. Among the Nail, Chain, and Brick Makers:— Girl at the Bellows : Chainmaking__________________193 Bending the Rod : Chainmaking . .... 193 _____________