Sujet

Harold Watkinson, shaking hands with labourer J. Singh, during a visit.., 07/09/1959. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

Harold Watkinson, the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, shaking hands with labourer J. Singh, during a visit to the London to Yorkshire Motorway (the M1). The October 1959 edition of the company's newsletter Team Spirit states that J. Singh worked on Section A of the motorway.

Date

1959

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM21A84_189

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

80,0Mo (3,5Mo) / 44,8cm x 44,8cm / 5286 x 5292 (300dpi)

Mots clés

motorway England people male work job man men religious meeting politics engineering worker country religion guy occupation British English political location infrastructure century handshake Britain profession greeting shaking hands labourer labourers concept civil engineering B&W politician fifties Sikh minister 1950s m1 Conservative Construction Industry black & white black and white Salutation B W politicians 20th century Sikhism workers Conservative party decade Tory Minister of Transport photograph road building Harold Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc roadbuilding Harold Watkinson Watkinson