To most people, the past is glowingly referred to as the good old days. This pie-in-the-sky idyll never existed apart from people’s imaginations. The overwhelming majority of people a century ago – 92%+ in the case of Britain – what work entailed was back-breaking manual work whether in foundries or as reflected here in a logging operation.
Hard grinding physical labour was the lot of these workers. What was more iniquitous was the pittance that they were paid for these long hours of toil.
Main picture: Lumberjacks besides their handiwork. The height of the man is indicative of the diameter of the tree
The chain saw is merely a metaphor for machinery