Locks Collection (#3)

Pont-de-Briques, France - boys on the canal
Pont-de-Briques, northern France - three boys on the canal. Date: circa 1910s

Mr Sam Locks First Prize-winning Devon Steer - age 1 year, 7 months - weight 1107lbs. Date: circa 1920

Chauny, Aisne, France - River Oise
Chauny, France - locks and sluice valves in the River Oise, a tributary of the River Seine, with buildings ruined in wartime. 1914-1918

Calais, France - Vetillard bridge and lock
Calais, France - Vetillard Bridge and lock, passing over the Saint Omer Canal (Canal de Calais a Saint Omer). The Calais Lighthouse (Phare de Calais) is visible in the background. Date: circa 1910s

Bourbourg-Campagne, France - the lock at the old canal
Bourbourg-Campagne, France - two men standing on the lock at a former pool that was part of the Bourbourg-Campagne canals. Date: circa 1910s

New Year card in the shape of a padlock with a pink rose. Date: circa 1890s

New Year card in the shape of a leather briefcase -- Bag your game in the New Year. Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a padlock
Greetings card in the shape of a rusty padlock, with ivy leaves and forgetmenots. circa 1890s

Bronze Age. Hair in the form of braided locks was also sacrifice in the bogs. Sometimes several plaits were tied together. These deposits can be seen as both small and large sacrifices

Little Folk Misfitz - Curly Locks. circa 1910

Swedish Canal
A steamboat negotiates the Sjotorp locks on the Gota canal. Date: 1927

Hair Styles / Bon Ton / 1840
A selection of hairstyles, mainly women s, with elaborately curled locks and ringlets and a woman with a large muff. Date: 1840

Fanning hair to add strength and beauty
Edwardian beauty routine for the hair - using a fan to waft strength and beauty into ones locks! Date: 1904

Park Head Viaduct & Locks, Dudley, Worcestershire
Park Head Viaduct & Locks, Dudley, near Netherton, Worcestershire, England. Taken around the re-opening of the Dudley Tunnel Date: 1973

Park Head Locks, Dudley, Worcestershire
Park Head Locks, Dudley, near Netherton, Worcestershire, England. Taken around the re-opening of the Dudley Tunnel Date: 1973

Canal construction techniques, 1797
A perspective view of part of a canal with locks, 1797. Date: 1797

Rennies locks on the Rochdale canal

US submarines in locks, Panama Canal
US C-class submarines in locks, Panama Canal. They are the Octopus, Stingray, Tarpon, Bonita and Snapper. Date: circa 1910

USS Pennsylvania, American battleship, Panama Canal
USS Pennsylvania (BB38), American battleship, in Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal. Date: 1927

Regents Canal Locks Print
Print of T&M Pickford of Manchester barges City Basin and The Tiger passing through lock gates on the Regents Canal

Ladys weekend dressing case
A ladys weekend dressing case, made of rolled hide, lined with moirette, with spacious pockets, available from Messrs John Pound and Co of Oxford Street, London. Date: 1914

Method of saving submarine seamen by G. H. Davis
Our own method of saving submarine seamen. Showing two divers wearing the recently invented copper helmet and waterproof jacket

Advert fo Revelation suitcases 1938
Going away at Christmas? - Giving away at Christmas ? Going away? Then go with efficient suitcase - a Revelation!... You can pack it quickly, easily, and as full as you like

Racial / Zulu Girl Close-Up
A close-up photograph of a Zulu girl with short dreadlocked hair. Date: 1936

Plan of 18th centurary Mons, Belgium
A detailed engraving of 18th centurary Mons in Belgium, indicating how it used its system of locks to keep the city from flooding. Date: 1780

View of the Aswan Dam
Birds eye view of the Aswan Dam and locks on the River Nile in Egypt. Date: 1902

Allington Locks
On the river Medway, Kent. Date: circa 1840

Russian Street Lock Seller and Locksmith, his wares hanging across his chest. Date: circa 1901

Record Rainfall - flooding at Brentford Docks
Record Rainfall in June 1903 - flooding at Brentford Docks. Date: 1903

Passing through the locks at Fort Augustus, Scotland
The SS Cavalier passing through the locks on the Caledonian Canal at Fort Augustus (Scottish Highlands), Scotland at the south west end of Loch Ness. Date: circa 1910s

Kaman helicopters, 1947-1950, from left, K-125, K-190 and K-225. Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Date: 1947

Grecian contour hairstyle 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses

Magazine stand, Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Date 1939 Oct

Locks on a gate to symbolise love
Arkhangelsk (Archangel), Russia - Locks fastened to a gate to symbolise eternal love. 2010

Stoke Bruerne Locks
A pair of narrow boat, converted for holiday cruises by Messrs. Street of Leighton Buzzard, swinging round a bend in the Grand Union Canal, near Linslade, Buckinghamshire. Date: 1960s

Advert fo Revelation suitcases 1937
Advertisement for Revelation leather suitcases with chromium-plated locks and fittings. 1937

Locks Green Farm located in Newtimber, Hassocks, an idyllic corner of Sussex, England. Date: 1930s

Curly Locks, Curly Locks! wilt thou be mine? Thou shalt not wash dishes, nor yet feed the swine, But sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam, And feed upon strawberries, sugar and cream! 20th century

Two young ladies with feather boas. Illustrator Anon. From a contemporary colour editorial. 1926

Upper Locks and Emergency Dams - Panama Canal at Gatun, Panama Date: 1923

Britannia and Eve magazine, September 1936
Front cover illustration featuring a young woman with blue flowers in her curly blonde locks, looking contemplative

A ship in a lock of the Panama Canal

Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal

Milaflores Lock, Panama Canal

Lock closeing behind a vessel

Miraflores Locks, Looking towards Gaillard Cut, Panama Canal

Panama Canal, in a lock

Gates in East Chamber, Gatim Locks, Panama Canal

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