Barrels Collection

Coopers at work making wooden barrels
Four coopers hard at work in their workshop making traditional wooden barrels. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Workshop of a cooper (barrel maker)
The workshop of a cooper or barrel maker, with examples of the finished product out in the street

Holmes / Hound / Baskerville
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES Holmes shoots the sinister hound: " Holmes emptied five barrels of his revolver into the creatures flank"

Trams causing havoc on a Belfast street
Horses, carts, wagons and pedestrians in an almighty crash involving two trams in Donegal Place in Belfast. The card caption reads: " Our Trammelled Streets" Date: 1905

Smugglers Unload Goods
A band of smugglers unload their cargo of contraband into a secluded coastal cave, constantly checking for any nearby customs men

Glenlivet Scotch Whisky distillery 1890
Six thousand barrels of whisky in a bonded warehouse on the ground floor, Edinburgh, Scotland, proprietors Andrew Usher and Co. 1890

Tug of War winning team, Demosthenes, Aberdeen
Tug of War winning team on board the Demosthenes, belonging to the Aberdeen White Star Line

London Gin Palace 1820
Tom and Jerry at a London Gin Shop, drinking Blue Ruin with a variety of fellow-customers

Wine shipping poster
Ste Navale de L Ouest, transport des vins - poster for a French wine shipping company showing men on the dock waiting to load barrels of wine on to a steamship

Scotch Fishwives at work - Eyemouth
Scotch Fisher Lassies at work - Eyemouth in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders. Standing by the herring barrels Date: circa 1907

1927 Ice Skating Girl
A vivacious ice skating girl jumps over some barrels

Fishing boats and barrels in the harbour at Wick, Scotland

The Harbour - Wick, Scotland
The Harbour - During the Fishing Season (in the summer) - Wick, Scotland Date: circa 1910s

Neyland Fish Market, Neyland, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
View inside the Fish Market in the coastal town of Neyland, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. The Ice Factory and Fish Market were opened on 16 November 1908

Oil Tankers of the Manchester Oil Refinery. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Shire horse drawn dray
Shire horse drawn brewery dray passes through a village, delivering beer to The Lamb and Flag pub. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

The Cellar Quartetto: Dr Syntax and companions in the wine cellar

Cooper Making Barrels
A Coopers workshop

The Brewer 1827
Brewers sweat and toil as they stir and brew beer and haul heavy barrels up and down a ladder next to the sweltering heat of a kiln

London Gin Shop 1836
A London gin-shop

Cider maker, Somerset, England
A cider maker wearing a trilby hat and an apron, leans on an old wooden wagon and drinks a pint of cider among the casks and barrels in the outbuilding of a cider works in Somerset

Watneys Happy Families - card back design. circa 1930

Gallo-Roman low-relief. Ferrying wine barrels and amphorae. Roman art. Early Empire. Relief on rock. FRANCE. PROVENCE ALPES CԔ E D AZUR. VAUCLUSE. Avignon. Mus饠 Calvet (Calvet Museum)

Blitz in London -- Winkleys Wharf, Millwall, WW2
Blitz in London -- Winkleys Wharf, Millwall, 22 March 1944. Showing firefighters in action on barrels of paraffin wax. Date: 1944

View outside a leather factory, Bermondsey, south London
View outside Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

Comic postcard, Scotsman with whisky barrel bagpipes. Date: circa 1900s

Unloading Ships at London Docks, 1908
Illustration showing various cargoes coming ashore at London Docks, in the East End of London, 1908. Elephants tusks, barrels

Thomas Topham, Strongman
Thomas Topham, the strong man, performing one of his astonishing feats of strength in Spitalfields on 28 May 1741, by lifting barrels weighing 1386 lbs (!)

Herring fishing station, Lerwick, Shetland Islands, with women packing fish into barrels for export

Norwich
The old fish market at Norwich, Norfolk, at the close of the 18th century. Date: circa 1800

Poe / Cask of Amontillado
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO Fortunato, dressed as a clown, is duped into a trip to the vaults

Advert / Goblin Whisky
Goblin Scotch Whisky

North Berwick Witches casting spells
The North Berwick Witches -- Satan lures Dr Fian and other misguided people to indulge in evil practices such as causing shipwrecks by casting spells

Royal Fusiliers marching in Peckham, SE London, WW1
Men of the 4/1st City of London Regiment, Royal Fusiliers, seen here marching along a road in Peckham Rye, SE London, in the autumn of 1915. At the front on the left is Albert Auerbach (1894-1918)

Poster advertising Matthew Gloag & Son of Perth, Scotland -- famed for ports -- with a scene of port being loaded on the River Douro in Portugal

Advertisement for Moores Maltine Vinegar from the Midland Vinegar Company, available in five gallon sealed barrels direct from the brewery and ideal for pickling, salads and as a table condiment

Allsopps pale-ale brewery 1853
Interior of Samuel Allsopp & Sons, pale-ale brewery in Haydon Square, London. Date: 1853

Theo Gier, Pure California Wines & Brandies
Compliments of Theo Gier, Pure California Wines & Brandies, as seen at the International Exposition in San Francisco, USA, 1894. 1894

Group of working men with a dog, France
Group of working men sitting on barrels, with a dog, France. Date: circa 1920s

From Cellar to Bar
How the beer gets from the barrels in the cellar to the beer-pull on the bar counter, thanks to carbonic acid gas in Hermann- Lachapelles apparatus

Whisky / 1890 Transport
Whisky barrels are transported from distillery to railway station by steam traction engine

Royal Navy Seamen practice mine laying using weighted barrels. Date: circa 1907

Wine bottles and casks, D Oliveiras Lda, Madeira, Portugal
A display of wine bottles and casks at the firm of D Oliveiras Lda in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

Steamship harbour at Algiers - the wine export section
The steamship harbour at Algiers - the wine export section. Thousands of barrels of wine awaiting transportation to Europe

Rendering Whale Oil
Rendering whale oil in Holland

Brewer Takes Samples
A brewer takes samples from his barrels

Sir Walter Raleigh laying his cape over a puddle for Queen Elizabeth I at Greenwich. She wears a bonnet, huge lace ruff collar, puff sleeves and hoop dress

Crookedholm, Hurlford, Kilmarnock, Scotland. circa 1910s

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