Just a Moment: Titshall photographs of working lives : David Kindred and Roger Smith

Just a Moment:
Titshall photographs of working lives

Paperback book , 243 x 169 mm,
128 pages inc 200 photographs

David Kindred and Roger Smith

First published 2007

Price £9.95

ISBN 978-1-905523-69-6

The photographs in this collection were taken in Suffolk between 1925 and 1935. The majority of the shots are of workmen paused for a moment in the course of their normal days.

Farm scenes include horsemen with their teams at plough, carting roots, drilling corn or returning from a day’s labour. Town scenes show carriers and deliverymen.

At the period of these photographs the internal combustion engine was making a strong impact. Here we see motorbikes and their owners, buses, charabancs and a wide range of commercial freight and motorised vans. The pictures also include sections of general work such as the Ipswich docks, road-building and the railways.

A final section shows cottagers at their doors and some commercial premises such as rural pubs and post offices.

The photographs are supported by informative captions.

Farm Machinery - Farming Book by Brian Bell


		A nice, open winter’s day in which to enjoy working in the sunshine.

Freeman Stannard of Wickham Market spent his winters hunting rabbits, rats, mice and moles. He and his wife, Mary, raised ten children.

		In the late 1920s all sorts of conversions were tried out on car bodies. This builder’s lorry belonged to William Brown’s of Ipswich.

George and Mary Ann Hill lived at Earl Stonham, Suffolk. They had eight children.