by Andrew Gill | Aug 15, 2021 | Gallery, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
Britain was once a world leader in construction and heavy engineering. We built ships, railways and bridges throughout our Empire and all of them needed steel. This photograph of a steel works was probably taken in the 1930s. Even in the 1960s, when I worked in one... 
by Andrew Gill | Aug 3, 2021 | Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
In Lancashire, factories producing textiles were known as mills. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, thousands of them existed to process wool and cotton and make finished products ranging from military uniforms to bed linen, dresses to curtains. Why... 
by Andrew Gill | Jul 20, 2021 | Gallery, I didn’t expect that!, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus, Transport
This photograph was probably taken in the 1930s and shows the proud drivers of the Shredded Wheat fleet. Perhaps these were new lorries and this was a publicity photo. Industrial photographs from this period are relatively rare and this one reminds us that some of our... 
by Andrew Gill | Jul 12, 2021 | Gallery, NFT Photo-Art, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
During the First World War, factories all over the UK made ammunition for British soldiers fighting on the front line. A few were armaments manufacturers prior to the war but most were private companies making a range of consumer products and were contracted by the... 