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French WatercarriersFrench 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 CountrysideVillagers 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 DrillThe 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 - MilkmaidA 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. OakleyFront 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 ThamesSea Scouts bailing out water from boats on the Lower Thames. circa 1950
Cub scouts washing police car, SurreyCub Scouts washing and cleaning a Police Triumph Herald car in Surrey during Scout Job Week. 1974
Tub Manufacturing - StanaMaking wooden buckets/tubs at Stana (Stina) Romania Date: circa 1910s
Beach AnimalsA rabbit holds a parasol while his kitten friends play with their buckets and spades in the sand. Date: early 1930s
Tapping for pine resin - Arcachon, FranceTapping for pine resin - Arcachon, Gascony - West coast of France Date: circa 1910
Southwold, Suffolk - Scottish fisher girls at work Date: circa 1910s
Tapping for pine resin - Landes, France Date: circa 1910
Venetian Water CarriersA couple of female water carriers, who carry their metal buckets over their shoulders with a wooden yoke, Venice, Italy. Date: 1870s
Lighthouse Water SupplyJoyce pumps water from a pump operated tap for her bath at a lighthouse. It seems a lot of trouble, but traipsing up and down the steps with buckets of hot water sure keeps her fit! Date: 1940s
Field kitchen and staff, France, WW1A field kitchen and three staff in France during the First World War. This particular field kitchen catered for 200 men. Date: 1914-1918
Allied soldiers at a well, Salonika, WW1Allied soldiers (Russian, Italian and possibly French) collecting water from a well at Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. Date: August 1916
Scout washing on campA Scout in camp washing himself before morning inspection. The boys themselves have built the washstand cum clothes dryer for the material available on the campsite
Women gut Herring - Lowestoft, SuffolkWomen gut Herring at Lowestoft, Suffolk Date: circa 1910s
Edwardian schoolchildren dressed as milkmaids, Mid WalesA group of Edwardian schoolchildren dressed as milkmaids, with baskets and buckets. The building in the background is possibly the Old Rectory in the village of Llangattock, near Crickhowell, Powys
Part of a room to let, East End of LondonInterior of a house in the East End of London where the demand for cheap accommodation was such that even a part of a room might be sub-let as indicated by the notice on the window
House interior, East End of LondonThe interior of a house in the East End of London. A woman has her hands in a wooden wash tub and further buckets are on the floor nearby
Three workmen stop for a cup of tea on a snowy dayThree workmen stop for a welcome cup of tea on a snowy winters day. (2 of 2)
College Almshouses, Cobham, KentTimber Porch at the College Almshouses, Cobham, Kent. The card was published by the pub ( The Leather Bottle ) across the street from the almshouses!
WWII recycling: Stirrup pump bathing / W H RobinsonAn old stirrup pump and plenty of buckets of water, making an ideal outdoor shower. Please note: Credit must appear as (c)
Rouen - France - Old Houses and FountainOld Medieval houses and an old fountain on the Rue St Romain, Rouen, France
A Ryder disc brake pad machine in action in a car factory. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Newsagent & Much More - OxfordSawyers Newsagent, Stationer, Confectioner and Tobacconist in Oxford. A magnificent photographic postcard showing a General Store on an Oxford street selling pretty much anything you can imagine
Children of King Alfonso XIII of SpainThree of the six children of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife, Queen Ena. They are Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (1907-1938), the Infanta Beatriz (1909-2002) and Infante Jaime (1908-1975)
Collecting water in Kashgar, western ChinaPeople collecting water in Kashgar, western China, and carrying it in buckets on poles across their shoulders. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts
People collecting water, Kashgar, western ChinaPeople collecting water in Kashgar, western China, using buckets on poles. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts
Itinerant Coffee Vendor - Istanbul, TurkeyItinerant Coffee Vendor carrying a yoke, with two buckets containing the tools of his trade hanging from either end. Possibly standing/crouching in the grounds of a marble factory
Shadoof - Egyptian irrigation systemTwo Egyptian men operate a Shadoof - Egyptian irrigation system - the pivot arm lifts a bucket which raises water onto a higher field level
Children paddling and finding sea creaturesFour young girls paddling at the edge of the sea and examining the crabs and starfish they have found in the shallow water and placed in their buckets. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
SS Peluge, 1912Photograph showing the largest Bucket dredger then afloat, the SS Peluge, built at the Lobnitz Shipyard for the Suez Canal Company
Dance in Private HomeA private dance - the dancers sustained by champagne in buckets
Well in SenegalWomen of Goree, Senegal, (West Africa), fill their water-bowls from buckets lowered into the communal well
Water CarrierA street water seller with his buckets hanging on a circulr yoke
Lord Nelson / MidshipmenHORATIO, LORD NELSON English naval officer instructing his midshipmen in the use of compass and tiller
Washerwomen of Caen, Normandy, FranceThe Washerwomen of Caen, Normandy, northern France, washing their clothes at the communal lavoir
Woman Window CleanersA smart line of newly trained " Georginas" march in single file down a central London street, carrying their ladders and buckets and are greatly admired by a dapper young man
Germany / Water StrikeWater Strike - one of a wave od strikes
Social / Romanian MatsRomanian mat sellers
Tapping Rubber TreesA woman and young boy tap rubber trees in Malaya and collect the sap in buckets