Pyne Collection

Pyne - Bargemen
THAMES BARGE MEN Barges are an essential part of the transport system, bringing coal for fires, hay for horses, by river and canal

Pyne - Highland Piper
A HIGHLAND PIPER Each Scottish regiment has attached thereto players upon the bag-pipes - a leathern bag filled with wind and three pipes or flutes

Pyne - Coal Heavers
COAL HEAVERS An essential trade when almost every house is heated with coal, the heaver shovels coals into sacks for delivery door to door

Pyne - Chelsea Pensioner
CHELSEA PENSIONER A survivor of one of Englands periodic wars, he wears the traditional uniform of the military asylum at Chelsea

Pyne - Drover
A SMITHFIELD DROVER Vast numbers of sheep and cattle are needed to feed the people of London, and Smithfield Market is where they are bought and sold

Pyne - Judge
A JUDGE

PYNE - MAIL COACH
THE ROYAL MAIL Our letters are carried across the country by mail coach - this one plies between London and Worcester, carrying pass- -engers as well as mail. Date: 1808

WATER MILL / PYNE
Two men by the side of a grand watermill wheel Date: 1805

Marshall single cylinder steam traction engine OD177 (msn 86265), at Upton Pyne. (Marshall, Sons & Co. was a British agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in 1848)

Marshall steam traction engine TA2758 (msn 23368), built in 1894, at Upton Pyne. (Marshall, Sons & Co. was a British agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in 1848)

Pyne - Brewers
BREWERS Two brewers men carry a cask while their horse-drawn dray stands in the background

Pyne - Tanner
LEATHER DRESSING A feltmonger (a kind of tanner) at work at an ooze- pit, while his companions are frizing, removing the hair from the skin

Pyne - Royal Carriage
ROYAL STATE CARRIAGE With all that gilt, the sovereigns coach weighs a ton, no wonder eight horses are required to pull it

Camp Scenes.Etching by and after W H Pyne, published by Pyne and Nattes, London, June 1803.Plate 4 of a series of five plates.Associated with British Army, Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). Date: 1803

Thomas Salter Pyne (1860 1921), British engineer based in Afghanistan. Date: 1900

Pyne - Trumpeter
SERGEANT TRUMPETER An official of the royal household, the Sergeant and his Trumpeters perform on ceremonial occasions

Pyne - Lord Mayor
THE LORD MAYOR He is chosen annually by the Liverymen, members of the several companies in the City of London : he is generally a wealthy merchant

Pyne - Parish Beadle
THE PARISH BEADLE A kind of policeman, whose job is to make sure everyone behaves properly in church and enforce the proper observation of the Sabbath

Pyne - Butter Churner
CHURNING BUTTER She is working a barrel churn, which makes the task of churning milk into butter relatively easy

Pyne - Halfpenny Showman
HALFPENNY SHOWMAN For half a penny, this travelling showman will exhibit his puppets or other toys, which he carries on his back from fair to fair

Pyne - Welsh Washerwomen
WELSH WASHERWOMEN Like French peasants, Welsh woman use a wooden spatula to beat their linen clean on a flat stone beside a stream

Pyne - Wardmote Inquest
WARDMOTE INQUEST Each London ward has an inspector, whose job is to check the weights and measures used by market traders and the like, to prevent cheating

Pyne - Herald
HERALD As representative of the sovereign, he makes his appearance on ceremonial occasions in a costume which dates from Richard IIIs time

Pyne - Salop Seller
SALOP SELLER She is selling gingerbread and salop (or saloop), a wholesome beverage served with milk and sugar, to passers-by in London Streets

Pyne - Fireman
FIREMAN Wearing the helmet and insignia of the Sun fire office, he holds torch and axe while a fire engine with hose is deployed behind him

Pyne - Yeoman of Guard
YEOMAN OF THE GUARD Traditionally, the sovereigns body guard : forty of them guard the prisoners in the Tower of London and pose for artists and sightseers

Pyne - Pottery
A POTTERY A potter and his assistant making red pottery, with a young boy to help

Pyne - Shrimper
A SHRIMPER -she wades barefoot into the sea and dips her net into the water, seldom raising it without some of these diminutive creatures which she transfers to her basket

Pyne - Life Boat
THE LIFE BOAT Mr Greatheads life boat rows out to a vessel in distress

Pyne - Dragoon
A DRAGOON An officer of the Tenth, or Prince of Waless Dragoons

Pyne - Mayors Coach
LORD MAYORs COACH This is how the Lord Mayor of London travels on special occasions : otherwise he uses a cab like everyone else

Pyne - Prison Ships
PRISON SHIPS Hulks moored in the Thames off the Tower of London, fitted up to receive impressed seamen for the the Royal Navy

Pyne - Highland Shepherd
A HIGHLAND SHEPHERD with his dog : he wears a pouch to hold his oatmeal or oat cakes, a mull of rams horn for his snuff, and a dirk

Pyne - Worsted Winder
A WORSTED WINDER The female figure... is employed in winding worsted upon bobbins, preparatory to its being placed ypon the loom, to weave into lace

Pyne - a Baker
A BAKER Few itinerant traders are as welcome as the baker, with his baskets of wheaten bread (marked W) and his household bread (H)

Pyne - a Baron
A BARON IN HIS CORONATION ROBES - Though he is the lowest of peers, he is still superior to you and me, and specially when togged up for a coronation ceremony

Pyne - Roundabout
THE ROUNDABOUT - Here is the merry-go-round, miserable straggling boys who receive a few half pence running within the bars

Pyne - Lord Mayors Barge
LORD MAYORs STATE BARGE When the Lord Mayor of London travels upstream or down- stream, he does it in style for which Handels Water Music is the only fit accompaniment

Pyne - Bill Sticker
BILL STICKER - One of the innumerable advantages of printing is the being enabled to advertise the public of such things as are essential to be known - and others

Pyne - Fishermen (2)
FISHERMEN - From Great Yarmouth at work among the great shoals of herrings, mackerel, pilchards, whitings, sprats, salmon, cod, oysters, lobsters found in our waters

A General on horseback
A GENERAL - He is not only entrusted with the lives of his followers in arms, but with the defence perhaps of a whole country, and with the welfare of the state

Pyne - Grass Roller
THE GRASS ROLLER Technological innovations such as the roller are improving Englands pasture lands : it can also be used on some kinds of crop

Pyne - Watering Cart
A WATERING CART - Whoever has experienced the misery of dust upon a highway crouded with carriages in the heat of summer, must acknowledge the utility of the watering cart

Pyne - Waggoners
WAGGONERS - A broad-wheeled waggon, upon a fine road, with 8 or 10 horses bearing an equal share in the draught, is an object that excites no incnsiderable admiration

Pyne - Peer of the Realm
A PEER OF THE REALM Besides his personal attrib- -utes he has many privileges, including freedom from arrest for many crimes for which you or I would be punished

Pyne - Speaker Commons
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS Chosen by his fellows, he has no vote except a casting vote should the House be exactly divided. Date: 1808

Pyne - Rabbit Woman
A RABBIT WOMAN A procession of street traders bring goods and services from house to house throughout the day : this rabbit woman also has a few ducks to sell

Pyne - Admiral
AN ADMIRAL Britannia survives by ruling the waves, and her admirals are her greatest heroes. This one wears full uniform with the Order of the Bath

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