Person employed in the physical work during construction

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A street scene with building work going on: an old man holds his cap out to a well-dressed man who refuses to help him. Lithograph by Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé.

The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: frontage during final stages of construction by Trollope & Colls, 1931. Photograph.

The British Museum: the reading room under construction. Wood engraving by J. Brown after C. W. Sheeres, 1855.

South Gate House, New Reservoir, New York. Coloured lithograph by A. Brown & Co., 1862.

A painter on a crane, eating a meal, while a cleaner tells him to eat his food elsewhere; advertising the value of cleanliness for safety in the building trades. Colour lithograph after L. Fries, 192-.

St Thomas's Hospital: when temporarily in Surrey Gardens, viewed from the ornamental lake. Wood engraving by T. H. Wilson, 1862.

Pugin's builder : the life and work of George Myers / Patricia Spencer-Silver.

Men building Hadrian's wall, being reprimanded by a Roman centurion. Photograph after W.B. Scott.

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Construction workers

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Pugin's builder : the life and work of George Myers / Patricia Spencer-Silver.

A street scene with building work going on: an old man holds his cap out to a well-dressed man who refuses to help him. Lithograph by Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé.

The British Museum: the reading room under construction. Wood engraving by J. Brown after C. W. Sheeres, 1855.

South Gate House, New Reservoir, New York. Coloured lithograph by A. Brown & Co., 1862.

Men building Hadrian's wall, being reprimanded by a Roman centurion. Photograph after W.B. Scott.