Pile Collection (page 8)

Captured weapons in Villers-Cotterets, France, WW1
Allied soldiers looking at piles of captured German weapons in the main square of Villers-Cotterets, northern France, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 27 July 1918

French couple in romantic scene
A French couple in a romantic scene, in evening dress. He is kissing her neck while she leans on a pile of cushions. Date: early 20th century

Gretna Green Anvil and Richard Rennison
Richard Rennison - the Gretna Green Anvil Priest 1926 - 1940, pictured with books recording over 2000 marriages overseen at the Old Blacksmiths Shop at Gretna in seven years

Collapse of the Campanile in St Marks Square, Venice
The dramatic results of the collapse of the Campanile in St Marks Square, Venice, Italy on 14th July 1902 Date: 1902

Harewood House Hallway
Harewood House, near Leeds, Yorkshire, a stately home built (1759) for the Lascelles family, whose fortune came from haberdashery and Customs work in the West Indies. Date: built 1759 - 1769

DUSTMANs STRIKE 1979
A huge pile-up of cardboard boxes and other refuse during the Dustmens Strike over pay and working conditions, central London. Date: 1979

A Man with Books
A man reads a book from a pile. Date: late 1960s

Scene in a ruined village, Western Front, WW1
Scene in a ruined village on the Western Front during the First World War. A soldier holds two horses. The remains of a church are piled up in the background. Date: 1914-1918

Sudan - Khartoum - The Grain Market Date: circa 1904

Close-up of 9. 2 inch Howitzer shells, WW1
A close-up of 9.2 inch Howitzer shells on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1916

Experimenting with tank tracks, WW1
Experimenting with tank tracks during the First World War. Date: circa 1915-1918

Collapse of Minaret in Bengaluru, India
The Collapse of one of the Jumma Masjid Minarets in Bengaluru, India Date: circa 1910s

Police Sniffer Dog
Rusty the Alsatian searches a vast pile of wreckage for the vital black box, following a plane crash. Date: 1960s

Tabby Kitten on Books
A tabby kitten climbs onto a pile of books. Date: 1936

Pupils reading aloud in geography lesson
Pupils read aloud to the class during a geography lesson Date: 1962

Untitled, steam pile driving machinery, plan, elevation and sections

Harvest - Gathering the Hay

Origin Species, CH Bennett, man of finance - shark
Alls fish that comes. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of man of finance from a shark. Shark fins have developed into a swallow-tail coat, his own tail into a pair of legs

Origin Species, CH Bennett, Office man - weasel
Catch him asleep. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of an old pen pusher, from a weasel. Sat at his office desk for a generation

Double page spread in a diary for 23-28 October
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 23-28 October. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Victorian schoolboy ready for the holidays
A Victorian schoolboy, smoking a small cigar, sits on a pile of suitcases on the platform of a railway station, ready for the long school holidays

Policeman standing guard at a traffic pileup
A policeman standing guard at a traffic pileup of three cars

View of the Castle, with timber, Haverfordwest, South Wales
A distant view of the Castle from Old Bridge Street, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, with a pile of timber in the foreground

Municipal bench, Nantlle Valley, North Wales
Close-up view of a municipal bench with a decorative iron dragon support, in the Nantlle Valley, North Wales. A pile of slate waste indicates that the bench is not far from a closed-down slate quarry

Abandoned equipment near Penyrorsedd, North Wales
A steam Blondin winder, abandoned above Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, Nantlle Valley, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales. There is a pile of broken slate in front of it

Large field gun at night
A large field gun at night, with soldiers and a large pile of shells

Laundry, Holborn Union Workhouse, Mitcham
Female inmates at work in the laundry at the Holborn Union workhouse, Mitcham, Surrey. Some women are using flat irons. Clean washing is piled on a table. A large press stands at the rear

Covent Garden Market Trader
A Covent Garden Market Trader unloads his wooden crates of fruit and vegetables

Chicago, USA - car smash
Chicago, USA - the rather spectacular wreck of a car crash, which appears to have come in close contact with a nearby tree (looking remarkably unscathed!)

Daily Mirror Advertising space advertisement - Hatter
An advertisement from the Daily Mirror looking for companies to advertise in the newspaper, using the argument that more skilled workers than ever are readers of the paper. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Cairo, Egypt - Mobile street hot food vendor
A mobile hot food vendor sells his steaming wares in Cairo, Egypt

Young boy eating a large sandwich
A young boy poses for a studio portrait on a pile of logs, eating a large (and rather appealing) sandwich. He wears a bright green flat cap. A Birthday Greetings Card

Duchess of Westminster at Church Army depot
Katherine Caroline Cavendish, Duchess of Westminster (1857-1941), second wife of the 1st Duke of Westminster, opening a Church Army Labour Relief Depot in Artillery Row, Central London

The Communist by George Studdy
Bonzo, detesting Communism in any form, takes a back seat on this occasion. Rather odd cartoon showing a red Bonzo sitting on top of a pile of bones

Anglers glut
A woman in a very chic outfit for fishing (blouse, cardigan, shorts, white shoes and crocheted beanie hat) sits with her rod beside a pile of fish

Toy bears and Alphabet Squares
Two toy teddy bears, a pile of A, B, C alphabet blocks and a solitary yellow childs shoe

Yemen - Hodeidah - English Consulate in the old Turkish Quarter of the city with its fine Ottoman-influenced architecture (note the cumba)

Scene in a timber yard, Kashgar, western China
Scene in a timber yard in Kashgar, western China, with many logs stacked up. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Street scene in Kashgar, western China
A street scene in Kashgar, western China, showing a man shovelling a pile of sand. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

A French Battery in action near Sedd-el-Bahr
This picture shows one of the guns of a French battery in action in the Gallipoli Peninsula. Throughout thr memorable landing opertaions the French troops rendered valuable assistance to the British

Date Sellers - Marrakesh, Morocco
A stall selling dates - Marrakesh, Morocco. The trader sits halfway up the immense pile of the dried fruit, which he can weigh on the suspended scales alongside his perch

The Green-grocerss Shop. A little girl examines the variety of fruit and veg for sale

Turkey - Basket Seller
A Basket Seller - Turkey

V1 bomb counter measures committee, 1944
The chairmen of the war cabinet committee on operational counter measures against the " flying bomb" or V1: Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P(centre), with leaders who directed the battle

Captured frogs bid for Freedom
A young schoolboy in his full school uniform get a nasty surprise when the frog he has captured makes a daring bid for freedom, leaping out and away as soon as the airhole-added lid has been lifted

Printing and Mind of Man
Printing and the Mind of Man: a fine example of late Twenties artwork, showing two human figures in the form of modern sculptures

L Muggleton / Wood / Kennerl
LODOWICKE MUGGLETON English Puritan, founder of the Muggletonian Sect

Sir Francis Drake (1542-1596)
Engraving of Sir Francis Drake (1542-1596), Elizabethan explorer and seafarer. In 1577 he and his crew became the first Englishmen to circumnavigate the globe

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