Barrels Collection (page 8)

Borracheiros - Madeira, Portugal
Madeira, Portugal - wine pickers ( Borracheiros ) and handlers who transport the grape juice as soon after it has been pressed as possible in a goatskin; a sight now fast becoming a rare sight

Etretat, France - working a beachside capstan
Etretat in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France - French Fisherfolk working a beachside capstan to draw in a fishing boat

Westminster Abbey, by William Marlow
Westminster Abbey with Old Westminster Bridge from Lambeth, by William Marlow RA (1740-1813). Date: circa 1770-1775

Cape Juby (petrol barrels). Miss Delphine Reynolds and her pilot, W.G. Pudney, took off from Hanworth on 1 March 1931 in Blackburn Bluebird IV, G-ABGF

ADELAIDA DE SABOYA, Maestro de(15th c. ); JEAN
ADELAIDA DE SABOYA, Maestro de(15th c.); JEAN

ferry to Namaw - Moulmein
Ferry to Namaw - Moulmein - On to Namaw, a bigger, busier landing, with cluster of tin roofed bashas and its long road across the paddy fields

German Merchants Weigh
German merchants weighing barrels on scales

Bergen, Norway - The German Quay Date: circa 1910s

Thessaloniki - Greece - The Harbour Date: circa 1910s

Inflated balloon with filling apparatus attached to barrels of gas. Date between 1783 and 1799

A bullfight in Spain From: Voyages faits en divers temps en Espagne, en Portugal, en Allemagne, en France et ailleurs Date: 1700

Venezuela, Caracas - Itinerant Bread Seller and mule
Venezuela, Caracas - Itinerant Bread Seller with his mule Date: 1930s

Bloater industry, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
A vast array of barrels used in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, when the bloater industry was at its peak. Great Yarmouths connection with the fishing trade stretches back into ancient history

Thomas Hardy Drama Festival, Dorchester
At the Thomas Hardy Drama Festival in Dorchester, Dorset, this scene shows the Excisemen discovering the concealed barrels under an apple tree

Ossetian Women and Children
Ossetian Women and children from the Caucasus. Today, the Ossetian-speaking area south to the main Caucasus ridge is recognized by most countries as within the borders of Georgia

Boiling Maple Sugar - Canada
Boiling Maple Sugar in the woods by a small log cabin - Canada. Date: 1907

Making a herring barrel, Lowestoft
A cooper making a herring barrel in Lowestoft, Suffolk. By the mid-1960s, fish catches from Lowestoft were greatly diminishing, particularly the herring. Date: 1909

Eggs / France / 18th C
The Art of making chicks hatch. Eggs are kept in barrels buried in dung. Thermometers are used to control the temperature and make eggs hatch faster. Date: Circa 1760

Southwold, Suffolk - Scottish fisher girls at work Date: circa 1910s

Wine Barrels
Barrels of French (Rouen) wine, rows and rows of them, as far as the eye can see... Date: 1930s

Trip to Jerusalem Cellar
The rock cellar of Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem inn, at Nottingham, England, which dates from c. 1165 and claims to be Englands oldest public house. Date: 12th century

Warehouse Lorry
A Long Vehicle lorry, delivering a load of barrels to a London warehouse. Date: 1960s

Benin - West Africa Date: circa 1910s

Dr Syntax made free of the cellar
Having free reign of the large barrels in the cellar, Dr Syntax makes merry with several gentlemen. Date: 1813

Guinness Brewery, Dublin - Scald Bank
Unloading empty casks at the Guinness Brewery, Dublin - Scald Bank. Date: 1920

Greek fire ship
A 13th century covered galley, equipped to drop barrels of Greek fire

Coronation Dry Sherry advertisement, 1953
Advertisement for Gonzalez Byass, sherries of distinction, featuring their special Coronation Dry Sherry, to be drunk during the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Date: 1953

Women gut Herring - Lowestoft, Suffolk
Women gut Herring at Lowestoft, Suffolk Date: circa 1910s

Algeria - Quays and Custom House
Port and quayside at Algiers, looking toward the distinctive Consulate Palace. Note the French flag flying above the Customs Building (and the Palace). Date: circa 1910s

St Bernard Rescue Dogs
A pair of Saint Bernard rescue dogs, with their barrels. Date: early 20th century

Dore / Dockers in Alley
Dockers handling barrels and other goods in a narrow alley between warehouses. Date: 1870

WARSHIP STRASBOURG
French battleship Date: 1930s

Scotch Fisher Girls
3 smiling Scotch fisher girls at Great Yarmouth. Date: circa 1915

Clerkenwell Green
The Sessions House, Clerkenwell Green. Date: 1831

Matchmakers filling frames with wax strands
Women working at a matchmaking factory fill frames with wax strands

Filling large fuel barrels - Hackney Wick
A factory employee checks progress as large barrels are filled with fuel oil at Hackney Wick, London

Italy - Transporting Grape Juice, Bologna

Croatia - Rijeka (Fiume) - The Maritime Dept
Croatia - Rijeka (Fiume) - The Governors Palace (now the Maritime and History Museum) and Palace Adria, the headquarters of one of the leading shipping companies - Jadrolinije

18th century harbour scene
An unidentified harbour in the 18th century showing numerous boxes and barrels offloaded onto the quay side while wealthy looking merchants and traders wearing frock coats

Belgium - Antwerp - Working Dock Horses
Belgium - Antwerp - working horses on the dock. Here this horse team transport a set of barrels along the cobbled quayside streets

Wapping Docks
A large steamship moored against the quay at Wapping Docks. Pen & ink drawing (with watercolour wash) by Raymond Sheppard

France - Le Faouet - Breton Men playing bagpipes
France - Le Faouet - Morbihan Departement - Binious Breton Men playing a horn and bagpipes

Bank of England, London
The Bank of England, London with much traffic in the foreground in the form of horse buses, wagons and carts and many pedestrians

The port at Oran, Algeria close to the Harbour Mole

Marseilles, France - The Quay
Marseilles, France. The Quayside with wine barrels lined up ready for export

Shanghai - porters resting by the roadside
Porters with large wooden barrels and baskets attached to their yolks, rest at the side of the road, some taking refreshment. Further down the street is a vendor of cakes or biscuits

Customs official tests imported wine
A customs official tests wine from an imported barrel of wine. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Madeira Barrels - Madeira, Portugal
Wine production on the island of Madeira is of utmost importance to the Islands economy. Prince Henry the Navigator probably introduced the first vines to Madeira during initial colonisation of

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