19 eye-catching vintage photos showing workers over the past 100 years in Derbyshire and the Peak District
Derbyshire workers over the last century are depicted in this collection of retro photographs.
These photos provide insight into how the workforce and the workplace have changed over the past century.
Pictured are miners, farmers and workers in a thriving engineering industry that provides many jobs because of machines.
1. Building the site
Royal Engineers and civilians working together construct the steel framing for Iris’ cottage at a construction site in Derbyshire, as part of work building a new town, almost overnight on October 8, 1942. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Photo: Keystone
2. Roll Royce
The Rolls Royce RB 211 three-shaft turbofan power unit was built in the Aero Division of the Derby factory as used in Lockheed L-1011 TriStars. The fan module is described as balanced on the extraordinarily large Schenck HL50 engine and measures ‘unbalanced’ forces rather than displacement. Photo taken on January 7, 1971. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
Photo: Fox Photo
3. Railway work
Workers carry sleeping mats onto a caravan in London Midland and Scottish Railways working in Derby in preparation for the rush of the season, pictured February 23, 1937. (Photo by Hudson/Getty Images)
Photo: Hudson
4. Controlled explosion
A controlled explosion at a mining safety research station in Harpur Hill, Derbyshire, where a handful of people continue to fight against the causes of the coal mine disaster. Coal dust, under certain conditions is as dangerous as high explosives and these people are experimenting every day to find effective methods to combat this threat. A four-foot-wide tube to represent a mine shaft was filled with coal dust and deliberately detonated, then the burning dust known as fireamp, a highly toxic gas, was analyzed. More deaths were caused by the gas than the actual explosion. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Photo: Hulton Archives
