Britain at Work
A Pictorial Description of Our National Industries

______________ viii .................................. .............................. ............................. _______________________________________________________ _______________ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Everyday Life in the Army :— PAGE Raw Material for the British Army : Recruits at St. ' George’s Barräcks ‘ ‘ ' Engineers Laying ii Siege Railway . In a Military Riding School ' . In the Gymnasium . , Gordon Highlanders making Kilts Lecture on the Anatomy of a Horse Interior of Bakery, Army Service C01 Outpost Signalling . * . • 305 • 306 • 307 • 307 • 308 • 309 • 3jo • 311 The Preparation of Tea and Coffee:— Bulking Tea (Cutler Street Warehouse) . . . . Re-nailing Tea after Sampling _______________________..... Weighing the Tea and Inscribing the Weight . Cutting and Mixing Machine at Messrs. Traver’s Wharf Filling, Weighing and Pacing Tea at Messrs. Traver’s Wharf . -.................. Automatic Weigher at Messrs. Traver’s Wharf Husking Coffee at the London Docks Hand-Picking Coffee Berries at the London Docks Coffee Roasting and Cooling (Messrs. W. Field and Sons, Southwark) _______________________..... Grinding Coffee. . .... Carpet Manufacture Brussels Carpet: Perforating the Cårds . . . . Crompton’ Axminster Loom . ' . The “ SettingDepartment of the Crompton Axminster Carpet Plant...................... Working the Crompton Axminster Loom Shed-with" Brussels Looms . Large Hand Loom for Axminster Carpets The Cab Industry:— Building Cabs . Testing Cab Drivers Cab Washers at Work “ Changing Horses " . Cleaning Lamps A Cabman's Shelter . A Familiar Street Scene . On tKe Rank With the Salt Workers in a Cheshire Mine Subsidence of a House at Northwich Brine Running into Cistern Salt Pan . . . . . , Drawing Salt Out of Pan Making Salt Squares Palling Hard Salt in Warehouse Warehousing Salt . Bagging Salt for Shipment Loading Salt__________________ The Making of Watches and Clocks Escapement Maker . A “Jeweller” .... A “Finisher" .... Pinion Cutting . Making Cases for Clocks-. ............................ ............................ Wheel-Cutting Machine . Putting the Movements Together Bell-casting Room . . .. 312 313 313 3M 314 315 316 316 3'7 318 319 320 321 323 324 325 326 327 327 328 329 330 330 331 332 333 334 334 335 336 336 337 338 339 340 340 342 343 • 344 • 345 I'he Milk Industry :— Milkers at Work . . • Loading Up at a Dairy Farm . ... ' Arrival in London . ■ . At Work in the Laboratory Despatching Milk At the Railway Station .... The Docks of Liverpool:— I he s.s. Campania at Liverpool Bird s-eye \ iqw of the Liverpool Docks from the Waterloo lower . . Electric Qverhead Railway Waterloo Grain Houses . Unloading Sand at the Docks . Liverpool Docks I he Oil Sheds «nd the Electric Railway The Landing Stage, Liverpool A Liverpool Cargo Boat ’ Welsh Cottage Industries—II. Spinning anp Weaving PAGE 345 347 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 353 354 355 356 357 35« 359 359 Old Welsh Spinning Wheel . Machine Spinner (Old Style) . Cottage Hand Loom .... Spooling Machine . ... . Carding Machine ...................... Drying Wool and Yarn on Bushes '. Welsh Manuel Stalls, Carmarthen Market I he Engineering Industry:— 361 362 363 The Manchester Ship Canal Swing Bridge over the Weaver The Steam Navvy at Work Calico Printing Machine . A Great Steam Dynamo . I he New floating Dock for Bermuda Two Views of the Forth Bridge London and North-Wéstern Railway Compound Passenger Engine . Constructing a Ra:lway . Scenes in a Great Engineering Works The Eddystone Lighthouse Four-Cylinder Street Industries of London :— A Street Musician ____________________________...... Greengrocer .................................. Flowers and Salt ............................ Sunday Morning Scene in “ Petticoat Lane ” . Firewood _________________________ Chairmenders ............................ Street F'lower Seller __....................... ..................................... “ Shoeblack Street Newspaper Stall Everyday Life in the Royal Navy In the Barber’s Shop “ Britain’s Might ” Semaphore Signalling In the Engine Room of H.M.S. Majestic Sword Drill : Attack and Defence At Dumb-bell Exercise Firing Machine Guns . ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ A Room in the Naval Barracks, Whale Island, Ports- mouth • , . Bluejackets in Summer Dress ’ . . . _______________ 366 372 372 373 373 374 374 375 376 376 377 377 37« 379 380 381 382 383 3S4