Buckets Collection (page 2)

A young Russian Country woman at the village well
At the Well - A young Russian Country woman goes to the village well to collect water - beautiful postcard design by Bilibin. Date: 1901

Fire drill, NIPRCC East Harling, Norfolk
A fire drill at the East Harling, Norfolk, branch of the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control, an organisation privately run by the Rev Harold Burden to house feeble minded

Young men from Marlborough College in OTC camp, Farnborough
Young men from Marlborough College in an Officers Training Corps camp, Farnborough, August 1910. Albert Auerbach (1894-1918) is 3rd from left, in profile. 1910

Three tabby kittens with a pink bucket
Unusual Friends - three tabby kittens with a pink bucket. 1950s

Rubber Factory workers, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1910

Mayford School, Woking - Farmyard
Farmyard at Mayford School, near Woking, Surrey. Boys with pitchforks work at a haystack. Another carries buckets. Date: circa 1930

The Netherlands - Volendam - Ferry Service & Windmill circa 1910s

Three young children at the seaside - kitsch postcard Date: 1909

Group of people in a street, Netherlands
Group of people in a street, somewhere in the Netherlands. Shop signs advertise an onion market and a Little Berlin. circa 1910s

Japanese Scene - Labourers take a break in a paddy field. Date: circa 1908

Morecambe Tourist Shop
A shop at Morecambe caters for the holiday trade with buckets and baskets, postcards to send Auntie and perambulators for hire, folding chairs and hoops in all diameters... Date: circa 1905

London water carrier in Hampstead
A London water carrier in Hampstead. He is carrying two wooden buckets hanging from a yoke across his shoulders. Date: 1850

Advertisement, Improved Earth Closets and Commodes
Advertisement, O Brien, Thomas, & Co, Upper Thames Street, London -- Improved Earth Closets and Commodes (Toilets). 1898

Seaside silhouette
Children in silhouette playing on the seashore with buckets & spades.Date: circa 1938

Two boys in the harbour, St Ives, Cornwall
Two boys paddling in the harbour, St Ives, Cornwall, near a boat called Josephine. Date: 1970s

Family celebrating with birthday cake and champagne
Family of four celebrating with birthday cake and champagne. Date: circa 1980s

Children at the seaside on a New Year card. Two boys in sailor suits play with a large model sailing boat. circa 1890s

Apple Bobbing, Quex House garden
Seven patients are gathered around at least one chair and some buckets. Five amused nurses are watching. The men are apple bobbing - trying to grab, using only their mouths

Children at the seaside on a Christmas card
Children building a sandcastle at the seaside on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Illustration, Fundevogel -- She did not go once, but many times backwards and forwards to the well. Date: 1909

French Theatre -- Farce du Porteur d Eau
Farce du Porteur d Eau (Farce of the Water Carrier). A water carrier with two buckets suspended from a metal ring says how much he likes to see pretty girls as he walks along the street. Date: 1632

Scene on a dairy farm, Netherlands. Date: early 20th century

Pumping Well, Findon, Sussex
Pumping Well, Findon, Worthing, Sussex, England. Showing man with Yoke and Buckets Date: 1911

Dromedary a One-humped Camel - being milked (Camelus dromedarius L.). Karahoudan village - in foothills of Kopetdag mountains - Turkmenistan. Spring - April

French boy scout and leader carrying bucket
A French boy scout and leader carrying a bucket

Tub manufacturing, Stana, Romania
Men making wooden buckets or tubs in a shed at Stana (Stina), Romania. Date: circa 1910s

Old fire engine and other equipment in a museum: an ancient fly wheel manual fire engine from Windsor Castle, built by Merryweathers predecessors, Hadley & Simpkin, in 1735; fire apparatus of 1666

Early firefighters wih hoses
Colour engraving of early firefighters wih hoses, tackling a house fire. Date: circa 1684

Boy and girl on the sea shore
Traditional concept of children with buckets & spades in sailor suits and sun hats. Date: circa 1897

Water cart, Tientsin (Tianjin), China. Date: 1861

Woman war-time window-cleaner, WW1
A girl window cleaner dressed in khaki jacket and trousers during the First World War. Date: 1915

British soldier carrying water, Western Front, WW1
A British soldier using a yoke to carry two buckets of water on the Western Front during World War One. The man behind him is carrying two cans. Date: circa 1916

Girls from St Chads Home, Leeds, at Filey
Girls from St Chads Home, Weetwood Lane, Headingley, Leeds, on the beach with buckets and spades at Filey. The home was opened in 1889 by the Waifs and Strays Society. Date: 1920s

Floods at Hankow (Hankou), China. Date: circa 1890

On the beach 1895
Brother and sister sit on the beach filling up their buckets with pebbles. Date: 1895

Two toddlers paddling in the sea, each one with a bucket in hand. The one on the right also carries a small watering can

French Watercarriers
French water carriers, some with a horse-drawn cart, others with buckets slung from a shoulder-yoke. Date: circa 1845

Japan - Women collecting mussels on the beach at low tide. Date: circa 1910s

Gathering water in the Vietnamese Countryside
Villagers gathering water in the Vietnamese Countryside Date: circa 1910s

Two young Moroccan Girls with buckets on their heads Date: circa 1930s

Washing Day, Shanghai, China - hanging clothes out to dry on a pole at the front of the house. Date: circa 1906

Japan - Woman buying food from a street vendor, possibly rather grateful to be able to rest his heavily-laden yolk of wares. Date: circa 1906

Japan - Women drawing water from a well Date: circa 1906

National Professional School at Armentieres - Fire Drill
The National Professional School at Armentieres in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in northern France. The boys undertaking a fire drill with buckets ladders and a hand pump Date: circa 1908

British Empire Exhibition - St Ivel Cheese - Milkmaid
A trade card (featuring a pretty young milkmaid) from the St. Ivel Cheese Company stand at the British Empire Exhibition, held at Wembley in 1924. Date: 1924

Home Chat front cover by H. L. Oakley
Front cover of Home Chat magazine featuring a lovely image by silhouette artist H. L. Oakley of a group of children holding hands as they skip along a beach, buckets and spades at the ready

Sea Scouts bailing out water from boats, Lower Thames
Sea Scouts bailing out water from boats on the Lower Thames. circa 1950

Cub scouts washing police car, Surrey
Cub Scouts washing and cleaning a Police Triumph Herald car in Surrey during Scout Job Week. 1974

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