A photograph of a laughing tinplate worker in a South Wales factory, taken by Harold Tomlin for the Daily Herald newspaper on 28 January, 1940. Dai Ward picks up tinplate sheets as vapour billows dramatically in the background. This photograph is one of a series taken to illustrate a Daily Herald feature story by Dudley Barker on workers in wartime.

A photograph of a laughing tinplate worker in a South Wales factory, taken in January 1940 by Harold Tomlin for the Daily Herald.

Dai Ward picks up tinplate sheets as vapour billows dramatically in the background. Wales was the centre of the British tinplate industry due to the quantity of iron works and easy accessibility to Cornish tin. This photograph is one of a series taken to illustrate a Daily Herald feature story by Dudley Barker on workers in wartime.