Rods Collection

Manila Carnival, The Philippines - Miss Ilocos Sur
Illustration after Walter Dendy Sadler (18541923) of his painting Thursday (Tomorrow will be Friday) of 1880, showing a group of jovial monks out fishing. Date: 1880

Fishing Equipment suitable for the Lake District
Fishing Equipment suitable for use in the Lake District - includes two inset pictures of Derwentwater (upper picture) and Newlands Valley (lower)

Crabbing Their Style by William Heath Robinson
Cartoon, Crabbing their style. Toeing for crabs at and seaside resort during the holiday months. Men crab fishing using feet as bait

Beating Bounds, 1930
ENGLAND BEATING THE BOUNDS Cheerful choirboys pose with rods prior to beating the parish boundaries at Lincolns Inn, London Date: 1930

England / Worcester
A striking picture of Worcester, Worcestershire, with its old cathedral and the graceful spire of St. Andrews church, set beside the River Severn

Russian banya or sauna, 18th century
Russian banya, sauna or public baths, 18th century. Men and women scourging themselves with birch leaves, men throwing buckets of water on hot stones

Grumman F8F-2P Bearcat N212KA (msn D.902, ex BuAer 121528), fitted with a passenger compartment in the fuselage. This aircraft was destroyed on 12 December 1968 when the engine failed on take-off

Japan - Fishing Tackle Shop
Fishing Tackle Shop, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Steam locomotive wheel and connecting rods
Close-up of vintage steam locomotive wheels and connecting rods. Date: circa 1950s

Steam locomotive wheel and coupling rods
Close-up of vintage steam locomotive wheel and coupling rods. Date: circa 1950s

Lightning conductors and fittings, elevation rods, roof saddles and points, from Verity Electrical Supplies, Aston, Birmingham. 1903

HOME MADE CLOTHES RACK
A home-made drying rack, made from coat hangers and light rods, an ingenious way of drying underwear etc. in the days before tumbledryers. Date: 1930s

COMMUNITY / CHARITY / HOBOES
American Hoboes Riding the Rods. Date: 1882

ANGLERS VISIT INN C1800
Two anglers vist a country inn with their fishing tackle Date: circa 1800

Fishing off the Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, NJ, USA
Fishing off the Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Date: circa 1930

Hurdle making -- a range of scenes. 1899

Heliodorus beaten with rods - 2 Maccabees 3. circa 1690

Jacob and the flocks of Laban
Jacob setting rods of poplar and hazel before the flocks of Laban - Thomas Bankes Bible, Genesis 30.38. 1787

Happy Families - Mr Flue. circa 1940s

A Wire-Drawer
A wire drawer reducing rods and threads of wire to smaller sizes for use in manufacture Date: 1827

Sir Walter Scott - Abbotsford - Fishing
A man and a boy fishing in the River Tweed, near the home of Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) at Abbotsford in Scotland

Basketmaker 1827
A basket maker patiently weaves. A selection of his baskets hang above his head. Date: 1827

Group of fishermen with baskets and rods outside a pub
Group photo of fishermen and two boys with baskets and fishing rods outside a pub, Warwicks Newark Ales & Stouts. Date: circa 1910

Hat factory machinery after fire at Battersbys of Stockport in June 1906. The machinery shown is a crown finishing machine, and in the top left of the picture the drive system is visible

Edwardian gentlemen with fishing rods at Ellesmere, Shropshire. On the right is Walter Battersby, hat manufacturer, and beside him is George Potter, a friend and employee Date: 1906

A Street Hardware Stall, Japan - selling a wide array of goods including scissors, tongs, trowels, pans, hinges and metal rods. Date: circa 1910s

Newfoundland, Canada - Catch of Salmon & fishermans tackle
Newfoundland, Canada - A Catch of Salmon and associated angling tackle. Date: 1902

George Cayleys design (side elevation) for contra-rotating tandem airscrews for airship propulsion; the airscrews have curved blades mounted on rods radiating from the hubs; the whole mounting can be

Map of Madrid (1762) by Ventura Rodrez and
" Map of Madrid (1762) by Ventura Rodr ez and published in " La guic de forasteros" (1765). Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid. Museo de Historia."

City of Concord, N. H. - From the high bluff about 80 rods no
City of Concord, N.H. - From the high bluff about 80 rods north east of the Free Bridge. Date between 1851 and 1855

Fantasy Fishing
Two groups of fishermen make a couple of record catches on a North American river! These have to be the largest perch ever seen! 1903

Whoever would have thought it
Three monks go fishing, but they get more than they bargained for. 1927

Fish Supper
A fisherman stops off to buy his dinner after failing to catch anything Date: 1930s

Compleat Angler / Bank
On the river bank. Date: First published: 1653

Top of the connecting rod Date: 1795

Bear and his friends on a fishing trip
A bear and his friends go on a fishing trip, but are disappointed to see a No Fishing sign when they reach the water

Edwardian friends inspecting a catch of fish, Pembrokeshire
A group of Edwardian friends inspecting a catch of fish in a large Pembrokeshire garden. The two men, one of whom is a vicar, are holding fishing rods

Parisian Fishermen
Parisian men fishing on the banks of the Seine

Railway Sleeper - Grimsby Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing deep sea fisherman propped up against a bollard at Grimsby Station holding onto his latest catch of a giant cod! Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Catch of the day
A jolly fisherman wearing a bright yellow waterproof jacket holds on to his mighty catch - an enormous cod. His fishing companion seems less than impressed with his catch or his bufoonery!

Roasting fifty six geese at once for the inmates of the old
Man turning the handle of a large roasting spit holding fifty six geese for the Old Mens Hospital, Norwich. The spit is composed of 10 rods, each having six geese on each

Stacking Willow Rods
A man, in Athelney, Somerset, stacks bundles of dried willow rods called withes on a cart to be used for wickerwork and basket-making

Fishing / St. James Park
Young boys fish in St James Park, London

Fishing by the Mill
The Middle Mill, formerly called The Kings Mill, on the River Colne, Colchester, Essex, England, now sadly demolished forever

Surveying with a Compass
Surveying with a mounted compass

Indian Exhibit / C. Palace
Models of Ships in the Indian exhibit

Crinoline in the Rain
Another sacrifice made in the name of fashion. The breadth of poor Kittys crinoline prevents her and Adolphus, her chivalrous beau, from gaining shelter inside a carriage

Lear / Nonsense / Marseilles
There was an Old Man of Marseilles, whose daughters wore bottle-green veils: They caught several fish, which they put in a dish, And sent to their Pa at Marseilles

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