These nostalgic photos capture men and women toiling away at sites in and around Nottingham and the wider county during the 60s and 70s.
From factories, caves and coal mines to roads and the railway network, these employees are seen working hard to bolster the region’s economy and keep things flowing smoothly.
Conditions could be brutal back then, as these images show, with back-breaking labour often carried out amid fierce heat and the deafening roar of machinery.
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9. Footballers doing their own laundry
Football players of Nottingham Forest FC and Irish manager Johnny Carey (1919 - 1995) doing their laundry at a launderette, UK, 14th January 1967. | Getty Images
10. Apprentice at work
Globe & Simpson auto electrical workshop, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 1961. Sheffield-based Globe & Simpson ran an auto electrical engineeing and fuel feed service on a national level. This photograph shows the Nottingham workshop with an apprentice working on a fuel feed pump. | Heritage Images/Getty Images
11. Scene in Globe & Simpson's auto electrical workshop, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 1961.
An Austin Cambridge having its headlights set with a Lucas beamsetter. In the background can be seen an Austin A40. Sheffield-based Globe & Simpson ran an auto electrical engineeing and fuel feed service on a national level, dealing with suppliers that included Lucas, Delco and Bosch. | Heritage Images/Getty Images
12. Auto electrician changing a light bulb on a Morris Minor, Nottingham, 1961.
Scene in the workshop of Globe & Simpson in Nottingham. Based in Sheffield, Globe & Simpson ran an auto electrical engineeing and fuel feed service on a national level, dealing with suppliers which included Lucas, Delso and Bosch. | Heritage Images/Getty Images