Repair Collection (#3)

United States Navy - Destroyer DD-293 - USS Billingsley
United States Navy - Destroyer DD-293 USS Billingsley, assisting Douglas World Cruiser float-plane 23-1231 (msn 147) Boston, which was forced down near the Faroe Islands and damaged beyond repair

His Majestys Airship R34. Built by by William Beardmore and Company in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, Scotland, R34 first flew on 14 March 1919

de Havilland DH. 90 Dragonfly G-AFVJ
de Havilland DH.90 Dragonfly G-AFVJ (msn 7521) of Airwork Limited, at Heston. G-AFVJ was impressed by the RAF as X9337 in March 1940 and damaged beyond repair at RAF Old Sarum, near Salisbury

Vickers Viscount 708 G-ARER (msn 012) of Maitland Drewery Aviation at Southend Airport. Registration history: First flown on 3 July 1953

Railway enthusiast couple in Essex who ran a model railway set, doing some repair work in a workshop. Date: 1960s

Disruption in Piccadilly, London, with crowds of people watching work being done on part of the main road. Date: 1927

Men asphalting a street. Date: 1930s

Three scruffy boys watch the men digging up the road in Piccadilly

Pedestrians clamber over street roadworks in Piccadilly in a rather dangerous manner by todays standards

Men in white shirts asphalting The Strand, London, outside Boots the Chemists. Date: 1950s

A Young Indian Cobbler at work. circa 1903

Nagasaki, japan - Mitsubishi No. 3 Dry Dock Date: circa 1910s
Nagasaki, japan - Mitsubishi No.3 Dry Dock Date: circa 1910s

Telephone Technician

Port Said, Egypt
Street scene in the Native Quarter of Port Said, Egypt with a double mule-pulled tram, a cyclist and group of schoolchildren. Date: circa 1930

H M Dockyard, Bermuda - A Floating Dock
H M Dockyard, Hamilton Bermuda - A Floating Dock, containing the HMS Psyche. Date: circa 1908

Shoemaker 1855
Old shoemaker sitting on a low stool making shoes. Date: 1855

INSPIRED BY RUSKIN 1874
Inspired by their professor John Ruskin, Oxford students blister their hands making a road on a farm at Hinkney, thereby learning that work is a form of art. Or something. Date: 1874

Paviors at work, England 1867
While his mate uses a small pick to fit the paving stones in place, this pavior rams them tight with a massive paving hammer. Date: 1867

CHAIRS TO MEND SOHO
CHAIRS TO MEND A young lady offers to repair your furniture in Soho Square, London Date: circa 1800

de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter N94457 (msn 265), of the Marathon Oil Company, Findlay, OH, at Noumea-Magenta, en route to Canada after repair in Australia. Date: 1973

de Havilland Canada DHC-6-100 Twin Otter N4914 (msn 48) of Wien Air Alaska, at Fairbanks, Alaska, awaiting repair after a mishap

Beagle A. 61 Terrier series 2 G-ASAK
Beagle A.61 Terrier series 2 (msn B.604) G-ASAK at Stapleford Tawney. Converted from Auster T.7 WE591, delivered on 19 March 1951 and written off 26 January 1960

Man squats on floor of his streetside workshop, Hong Kong
A man squats on the floor of his streetside workshop in Kowloon, Hong Kong and sifts though a box of spare parts. His benches are full of old cooling fans and electrical goods awaiting repair

Fisherman and boat, Dungeness, Kent - 2
A fisherman repairs his wooden boat on the beach at Dungeness, Kent, England. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1990

Fisherman and boat, Dungeness, Kent - 1
A fisherman repairs his wooden boat on the beach at Dungeness, Kent, England. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1990

WW2 - ith the W. A. A. F. - The Boot Repairer
WW2 - With the W.A.A.F. - The Boot Repairer. Date: circa 1941

Marcilhac-sur-Cele - The Kings House - France
Marcilhac-sur-Cele - a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. It has many historic buildings, including the Maison de Roi (Kings House)

Advertising postcard - New Home Sewing Machine
The worlds greatest sewing machine is the New Home made by Gonyea and Alba of Rutland, Vermont, enabling repairs to be carried out in situ...! Date: circa 1910

WW2 - Post-war Germany - The NaFI Club in Hamburg
WW2 - Post-war Germany - The NaFI (Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes) Club ( Victory Club ) in Hamburg. Date: circa late 1940s

Bootmaker at work, Jaffa, Western Israel
Bootmaker at work in Jaffa, Western Israel, while his customer waits for a repair to be done. Date: 1920s

Skewen Colliery workmen, Glamorgan, South Wales
Workmen and apprentices of the Skewen Colliery repair shop in Glamorgan, South Wales, in a group photograph

4th Gordon Bennett Trophy, Rene de Knyff (80 Panhard 13.7 litres for France) first round, Alex Winton seen trying to repair car. Date: 2nd July 1903

Last and boots on a Christmas and New Year card
Cobbler's last and boots on a comic Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Umbrella repairs on a Christmas and New Year card
Umbrella repair shop with pedestrians walking by on a Christmas and New Year card -- It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good. Date: circa 1890s

78 rpm record cover, Saville Pianos Ltd, offering piano tuning and repairs, records and musical instruments. 20th century

Wall mural of Frederick Douglass at Belfast
Belfast. Wall mural of Frederick Douglass - It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults. Date: 2011

Soho, London - 25 Peter Street W1 - H Brahame shoe repairs (later demolished). 1973

La Crinolonomanie by Charles Vernier -- A fashionable young woman visits a blacksmith for repairs to the iron ring of her crinoline frame. circa 1850

Avro Lancastrian G-AGWJ BSa LAP
Avro Lancastrian G-AGWJ of British South American Airlines seen at London Airport on 18 May 1946, just 3 months before it was damaged beyond repair in a landing accident in the Gambia

Motorcycle dispatch riders, New Cross, WW2
LCC-LFB junior dispatch riders during training at the New Cross speedway track in South London on 22 April 1942 -- a spot of bother with a bike. Date: 1942

French Train Puncture
A railway worker changes a wheel to repair a punctured tyre on a new French pneumatic tyred motor coach. Date: 1930s

MOLLISONs PUSS MOTH
James Allan Mollisons (husband of Amy Johnson) de Havilland Puss Moth aeroplane, being overhauland at Hendon, England. Date: February 1933

Damaged heavy unit at NFS, London Regional HQ, WW2
A damaged heavy unit awaiting repair at the Lambeth vehicle and equipment workshops, Daltons Drive

Blitz in London -- Weltje Road, Hammersmith, WW2
Blitz in London -- clearing up after an air raid in Weltje Road, Hammersmith, 4 September 1940

Andrew Irvine on Everest, 1924
Photograph of Andrew Comyn Irvine (1902-24), the British climber, working on an oxygen bottle in the Everest Expedition camp, 1924

The Universe Wreckers, Amazing Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
THE UNIVERSE WRECKERS - Astronauts repair their spacecraft wearing their spacewalker suits Date: 1930

Repairing pit props, Plas y Coed Level, South Wales
A miner repairing pit props in the Plas y Coed Level, South Wales

Cornish Grandmother repairs her Grandsons Clothing
No more Flora for you my Son!. A Cornish Grandmother takes her Grandson over her knee to repair his torn shorts, the result of too much enthusiastic running through the undergrowth

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