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Dock labourer carting sugar C.1925.
 Dock labourer carting sugar  c.1925

 

The photographs in this section extend the quotes by showing the conditions at places of work. Although most are from between the wars there was very little change from the industrial revolution until the late 1940s. As a result these photographs can be used for stimulus in several areas of history and Citizenship such as
KEY STAGE 3
HISTORY scheme of work
Year 8 Unit 11: Industrial changes action and reaction
Where the quotations show the gulf between middle class families and the poor was enormous until after the Welfare State was set up in the late 1940s.