Barrow Collection (page 6)

A London Coster
A London street coster, with his cart of fruit. A veritable cornucopia, wonderfully displayed on a white cloth and as spectacularly opulent in its variety, as the coster is dour in face!

Grape Stall - Adelaide, Australia
A superb photographic card depicting a grape barrow in Adelaide (King William Street), Australia. The sign shows the advantage of buying 4 pounds of freshly-picked grapes which (at 3 pence)

Left Luggage
Oh, Mr Porter, what shall we do? Mummys off to Birmingham And left us in Crewe Bundled in a barrow, Crying out our eyes Oh Mr Porter, what do you advise?

Launching of Turkish Battleship Reshadieh at Vickers Works, Barrow-on-Furness in September 1913. Almost complete at outbreak of war in August 1914 - seized by British Government

Roman Antiquities
A group of Roman vases and utensils discovered in Barrow-on-Soar near Leicester. Skeletons were also discovered by labourers digging for limestone

Walney Bridge 1908
Walney Bridge which connects Barrow-in-Furness to Walney Island

Barrow-In-Furness Tram
The Biggar Bank Tram Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria

Maes-How (Scotland)
Maes-how tomb near the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar on the Orkney Mainland. The stucture dates to c.3000 BC. Nordic raiders

Gokstad Viking Ship
Excavated in 1880, a perfectly preserved Viking ship shown after its removal from a long barrow at Gokstad, Norway

Bellers Nap Quarry
Working the stone quarry at Bellers Nap, Barrow, Gloucestershire

STRAND 1748
The Strand is the principal thoroughfare westwards from the City; a carriage, a cart, a sedan chair and a barrow pass St Mary s, typifying the diversity of urban traffic

Selling Small Coals
Selling small coals from a barrow in a winter street

Potato Trader
Selling New Potatoes from a barrow, house to house. Here she is outside the Middlesex Hospital

FARMYARD, 1860
A farmyard with thatched barn, duckpond, dovecote, drinking trough, wagon, barrow, a variety of free-ranging livestock and a lad in a smock feeding the poultry

Japanese tradesman
Japanese peddler with a crowded barrow Date: 19th century

Ice Cream Seller, Paris
Le marchand de glaces - a Parisian ice-cream seller with his barrow, at the entrance to a park

French Porter
French street porter with his barrow

French Pillage Alost
The French take the town of Alost, and proceed to pillage it, carrying away their loot by the barrow-load

Cat & Dog Meat Man
All the cats and dogs in the neighbourhood flock to the barrow of the man selling cats and dogs meat

Italian Ice Cream Seller
An Italian ice cream seller draws a crowd in the East End of London

Herring Seller / 1904
" Wha ll buy my caller herrin " cries the fish seller

Italian Ice Cream Barrow
A traditional Italian ice cream seller in London Date: 19th century

Pineapples Sold by Slice
A trader selling Pineapples - a penny a slice from a barrow when this fruit was still a rarity in Britain

Social / Bringing Firewood
Two children bring home a barrow-load of firewood for the Christmas fire

Occupation / Costermonger
London barrow boy in breeches, stockings, waistcoat, short jacket, red muffler & peaked cap, shouts his wares of carrots & cabbages drawn by a donkey cart

Scissors to Grind
Mr J Lee pushes his barrow through the London streets, offering to sharpen your scissors and all kinds of cutlery

Cries O London / Potatoes
New potatoess A woman selling new potatoes door-to-door from her barrow

Builders Barrow
Builders use a brouette (wheelbarrow) as they work on a French gatehouse

Shaftesburys Barrow
Costermongers barrow purchased by lord Shaftesbury, reformer, when he was enrolled as a London costermonger

Sir John Barrow
SIR JOHN BARROW English traveller, writer and statesman

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