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Friday 10 March 2023

Men at Work - Sepia Saturday

This week's Sepia Saturday prompt photograph features a group of workmen emerging from a tunnel, with bloggers  being asked to follow a theme of "Down".

Down tools for these  Greek workmen,   taking a break  - my husband encountered this group  whilst on holiday in 1971 and when he took a photograph, they wanted some money!

 
 
Arthur Stuart Ingram Smith (1908-1979) was my cousin's father,  here  emerging from down under a manhole cover,  during his work as a linesman for the General Post Office in Blackpool, Lancashire. 
 
 

 Sitting down is my grandfather William Danson (1885-1962) of Poulton-e-Fylde, Lancashire.  He worked as a general labourer at the ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries) Works  at nearby Thornton,.  Was there  a reason why he was given pride of place here?  
 
 
Quite a contrast, but more sitting down  - by this costumed city guide in Vienna. Austria.



Bending down -  men working with the heavy machinery  in the textile mill in Earlston in the Scottish Borders.   From the mid -19th century through to 1969, the mill was the chief employer and main stay  of the local economy.


Coming down -   Steeplejacks climbing the mill chimney at Simpson and Fairbairn Textile Mill in Earlston, Scottish Borders - early 1900s. 

 

More bending  down by these sheep shearers, hard at work in Earlston in th Scottish Borders  where I live. 


Staff and visitors at Earlston Railway Station, c.1920, posed in front of, not a tunnel, but  the station footbridge.  The Berwickshire Railway reached Earlston in the Scottish Borders  in 1863, but following severe flooding in 1948,  the line only continued with freight traffic not passengers and was finally closed  in 1965. 

Earlston photographs courtesy of the Auld Earlsotn Heritage Group 
 
 
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5 comments:

  1. Did your husband pay them for posting? Lots of downs here.

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  2. Great way to look for those "down"! And mostly hard working men no less! Thanks for posting a SS again!

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  3. Many different forms of "down" here - and cleverly pulled from your collection of photos to meet the prompt. :)

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  4. Some great matches for the theme

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  5. Very clever! I liked the steeplejacks photo because I've been a fan of Fred Dibnah's videos for several years. That kind of up and down work takes real courage and great skill!

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