Vintage work crew photos

[Jon]

Railway personnel. Torre Pellice, Italy. 1910s.

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[Ralphxyz]

Gee, I would have loved to have one guy playing the mandolin on my work crews and they get two.

[stillldoinit]

I been workin on the railroad all the live long day.

[IntheGroove]

Some of those men haven't got their stars...

[Jon]

British sappers train to defuse bombs blindly. 1943. Largest image size available.

[Scrounga]

WTF? As if it’s not scary enough defusing a bomb the poms add even more excitement by making them do it blindfolded. ; )

[Frank S]

WTF? As if it’s not scary enough defusing a bomb the poms add even more excitement by making them do it blindfolded. ; )

The point in having them learn to defuse the explosive blind is to build a confidence in their abilities so they won't freeze when the time comes to defuse a real explosive device

[Frank S]

One time while I was in Spain near the country of Gibraltar I stopped at this one smaller village to visit their beach it happened to be fishing day though. Over in a cove the people of the town had hauled their nets out by boat the previous day and were in the process of hauling them back to shore. This scene reminds me of how they were doing it. Almost every able bodied person was helping to drag the long laden nets to shore Later they cut the fish into strips and hung the strips on fences walls lines almost everywhere that the sun shown on them to dry the strips of fish. so the practice of yesteryear still in used in modern times

[Quinton 357]

Practice makes perfect.

[Quinton 357]

Correct sir.