Turf Collection

Collecting Turf from the Bog, Connemara, County Galway, Republic of Ireland

The Wettest Derby on Record by The Tout, 1927
The Wettest Derby on record in 1927 with numerous well-known personalities of the turf coping with the flooded course with the help of umbrellas and rowing boats. Includes the jockey M

Turf Bog, Connemara (c.1920-40). Craig, James Humbert 1877-1944. Date: 1920-40 (circa)

Bookmaker - Turf Accountant - James Dowsett of 38 Duke Street, Brighton. circa 1950s

Another Derby Derby?
Caricatures of well known personalities of the turf caricatured by Mel before the Epsom Derby of 1928. Clockwise from top left - Sir Abe Bailey, owner of Advocate, Lord Dewar, owner of Sunny Trace

Frosses Bog near Ballymena - a view of a tree lined country road with turf stacked. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Ballymena). Date: circa early 1900s

Irish Slide Car, Glynns of Antrim, Going for the Turf - a slide car with two men outside a thatched cottage. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

Clamping Turf in a Fermanagh Peat Bog - a view of a group of workers stacking turf into piles over the peat bog. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Fermanagh). Date: circa early 1900s

Cutting the Turf in a Co. Derry Peat Bog - a view of a group of workers cutting turf from a face. There are two turf barrows being used. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim)

Shetland Islands - Cutting a peat bank
A Crofter cutting a peat bank on The Shetland Islands, Scotland. Date: circa 1920s

Pretty Polly - Queen of the Turf - sponsored by Apollinaris
Horse Racing - Pretty Polly - The Queen of the Turf - sponsored by Apollinaris, " The Queen of Table Waters". Pretty Polly (1901-1931)

A Turf Seller in Killybegs - a view of a man and horse drawn full turf cart talking to a man with an empty creel on his back in a Killybegs street

Peat carts, Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Horse-drawn carts transporting peat (cut turf) on the island of Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, northern Scotland

Cutting Turf near Oughterard, Connemara, County Galway, Republic of Ireland

A Shetland Peat Carrier
A Woman of the Shetland Islands carring turves of peat in a wicker back pack basket. She does her knitting whilst she walks (possible some distance). Date: circa 1910s

Achill Cabins - a view of thatched cottages, one with a load of turf stacked outside, on Achill island. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Mayo; Achill Island). Date: circa early 1900s

Stacking Turf in Donegal - a view of three people, one with a turf creel on his back, stacking turf into a large pile in a Donegal bog. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Donegal)

Not a Word! Personalities at the Derby by The Tout
Not a Word! Everyone know this years Derby winner. What they may be doing just before the race on June 6. Caricatures of notable personalities of the turf drawn by The Tout for The Tatler magazine

Pierce Egans Anecdotes: hopping race Clapham
Colour plate: The hopping match on Clapham Common: Jackson the runner exhibiting his agility from Pierce Egans anecdotes of the turf, the chase, the ring and the stage, 1827

Barnesmore Gap - a view along a road going to a gap in the mountains, with a composite turf cart and driver added in.. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Donegal; Barnesmore Gap)

Stacking Mountain Turf on the Ballycastle Road - a view of a man and a boy stacking a large pile of turf. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Ballycastle). Date: circa early 1900s

A Turf Seller, Co. Donegal - a view of a boy and a donkey with creels of turf at the door of a thatched cottage, with a woman there. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Donegal)

Racehorse Training 1909
A trainer watches one of his jockeys ride a horse around the turf. Date: 1909

Carrying Turf / Ireland
A girl carrying peat in baskets strapped to a donkey

Carrying turf, Arranmore Island, West of Ireland, early 1900s

Carrying turf in a creel, West of Ireland, early 1900s

Carrying turf in tea boxes, Geesala, West of Ireland, early 1900s

Carrying turf in creels, West of Ireland, early 1900s

Carrying turf, Co Mayo, West of Ireland, early 1900s

Turf Whist, playing cards scorecard, cards and cat
Turf Whist, playing cards scorecard, cat poking its head through loose cards

Angel
An illustration depicting an angel, copied from a panel of a 15th century screen located at St. Michael's Church at Barton Turf, Norfolk. Date: circa 1860

Turf, with Jockey up, at Newmarket, by George Stubbs
Turf, with Jockey up, at Newmarket, painting by George Stubbs. A sale of the painting took place in December 1943. Turf was a bay colt owned by Lord Bolingbroke, one of Stubbs early patrons

Stacking Turf
A group portrait oil painting of some women, two of which are busy gathering, the other is laying down on her back, with her hair splayed out on the ground, in the countryside. Date: circa 1918

Illustration, Bristlewoods, vegetable patch
Caricature illustration by Frank Reynolds, of a man and woman labouring on new vegetable patch, lifting turf and planting potatoes. Captioned, Bristlewoods see it through'

Gwennap Pit near Redruth, Cornwall, where Methodist John Wesley preached to massive congregations 18 times between 1762 and 1789

Dog waits for owner outside corner shop, London
Dog waits patiently while its owner shops in a corner grocery store, London. Date: 1950s

Alf Prince, bookmaker - stand at Epsom racecourse. Date: 1937

A tic-tac man at work on a soap box on Epsom Downs racecourse. Date: 1937

Lady Eliza Deane at Dundanion, 1847
Lady Eliza Deane commencing, at Dundanion, the Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway. Date: 1847

The Chetwynd and Durham turf libel case, 1889 The Chetwynd
The Chetwynd and Durham turf libel case, sketches in court. Sir George Chetwynd; Earl of Durham; James Lowther, Prince Soltykoff and Earl of March, arbitrators; C

Small stone wall and turf hut, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, used by crofters daughters for tending sheep and cattle during the summer. 1940

Items from the Folk Museum, Cambridge including an eel trap
Items from the Folk Museum, Cambridge: Clockwise from top left, a Turf Becket and spade, an eel trap, and eel gleve, horse overshoes and a sedge knife. Date: circa 1920s

Throwing peat into trailer during peat cutting, County Clare
Throwing peat into a trailer during peat cutting, County Clare, Ireland Date: 1992

Peat delivery Ireland
Ireland - Co Clare. A housewife fills a bag of peat for her kitchen fire from a street delivery man with tractor and trailer Date: 1990

Pierce Egans Anecdotes: bull-baiting by dogs
Colour plate The Grand Duke Nicholas witnessing a let-go match by the dogs for a silver collar by Olivers Game Bull at Combe Warren

Turf Cutting, Co. Fermanagh - a view of six men working at a turf face in a bog, one is using a turf barrow. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Fermanagh). Date: circa early 1900s

Turf Cutting - a view of two boys and a lady at a turf face. Both the boys have turf barrows and one is cutting turf. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

Boys Brigade at Turf Moor Football ground in Burnley

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