Title

County Hall, A6352, Aykley Heads, Durham, County Durham, 24/09/1963. Creator: John Laing plc.

Caption

County Hall, A6352, Aykley Heads, Durham, County Durham, 24/09/1963. Office workers operating IBM 056 card verifier machines in the new County Offices at Durham. A keypunch was a device used for precisely punching holes into cards at specific locations, determined by the keys struck by a human operator. The verifier operators entered exactly the same data as the keypunch operator, and the machine then checked to see if the punched data matched. The IBM 056 machine was the verifier companion to the IBM 024 Card Punch and IBM 026 Printing Card Punch.

Date

1963

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Reference

HRM22A00_081

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

103,3Mb (3,6Mb) / 22,6in x 17,8in / 6783 x 5325 (300dpi)

Keywords

building England female women woman people interior work office offices job technology government industry worker country desk desks occupation British English industrial machine machinery location century Britain profession inside furniture company concept county hall seated B&W office building office worker metaphor Durham Sixties Construction Industry Indoors black & white black and white B W desk job 1960s 20th century IBM workers County Durham local government TGN working photograph Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc John Laing & Co John Laing and Company John Laing & Company John Laing and Co county council Durham County Council card verifier machine