Break Collection (page 7)

Tatler front cover - Life in the lunch hour
Front cover of The Tatler in 1960 featuring a young woman under the dryer in a hairdressing salon, Simon of Knightsbridge, where they guaranteed a hairdo in under an hour

Village Gathering - Dutch Treat
A getthering in a Dutch village after the " Horrors of the Spanish War" (part of the Dutch Revolt). Date: circa 1610s

Social Co-operative, Leningrad
A Leningrad Socil Co-operative centre from the 1920s with the slogan on one wall that reads He who is not abel to rest is he who is not able to work. Date: 1927 - 1928

Buick and Western-Mott Motor Car Factories, USA
Noon-hour at the Buick and Western-Mott Factories, Industrial Avenue, Flint, Michigan, USA. Date: circa 1910

Womens Royal Air Force -- Dopers Tea
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women painters and dopers having a tea break, while one toasts a slice of bread at the open door of a hot stove

Womens Royal Air Force -- Lunch Time
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women during Lunch Time in the WRAF Hut. Date: 1919-1920

Nursery Rhymes -- Tom the Pipers Son. Tom with his pipe did play with such skill, that those who heard him could never keep still; as soon as he played they began for to dance

Workman in a factory - lead works - ww1
A workman in a factory, having a break from his work. The factory produced lead shrapnel for us in artillery shells - WW1 era Date: circa 1915

Group of sportswomen
A group of seven sportswomen with hockey sticks, who have stopped for a break and a bite to eat

Three men taking a break from their work in a back garden. They are sitting on planks of wood

Montengran Patrol taking a break - Lovcen, a mountain and national park in southwestern Montenegro. During the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) Date: circa 1912

Ploughmans Lunch
A ploughman takes a well- earned lunch break during the autumn ploughing season on a farm in Essex, England. Date: 1930s

Richepin Photo
JEAN RICHEPIN French writer, taking a break from having his portrait done by Bonnat, in 1901. Date: 1849 - 1926

Thomas Webster - 3
THOMAS WEBSTER artist, taking a break from his art, sitting in his porch enjoying the sunshine and reading a book. Date: 1800 - 1886

Teatime in the Pool
Four girls take a break from swimming for a pot of freshly brewed tea at the opening of Westminster Baths, London! Date: early 1930s

Advertisement for National Derv transport fuel -- group of bus conductors and drivers enjoying a tea break. 1959

Schoolmaster reacts angrily as his window is smashed by an errant cricket ball. Date: 1898

French Coutryfolk - Lunchtime for Reapers / Harvesters
French Countryfolk - Lunchtime for Reapers/Harvesters Date: circa 1905

Swiss agricultrual workers take a break from haymaking and scything and share a swift tipple. Date: circa 1910s

WWI era - French troops on manoeuvres - taking a break Date: 1916

Billiards Illustrated - A Little Too Fine
A fisherman fly fishing in a Scottish Loch is thwarted in his attempts to land a sprightly salmon by his choice of fishing line, which appears to be far too thin

Two Argentinian Gauchos resting in the field of an Estancia, surrounded by hides, hung out to dry on an old covered wagon

Stephenson?s self-acting railway break

Railway wheel turning lathe
Self-acting break lathe, arranged for boring large coils. Height of centres 40 inches

Self-acting break lathe. Height of centres 36 inches

Self-acting break lathe, light pattern. Height of centres 21 inches

Self-acting slide break lathe. Height of centres 18 inches

Hand break lathe, heavy pattern. Height of centres 18 inches

Hand break lathe, light pattern. Height of centres 15 inches

Mr. Waterhouse endeavouring to break the Spear after Govr Ph
Drawing 24 from the Watling Collection - Mr. Waterhouse endeavouring to break the Spear after Govr Phillips was wounded by Wil-le-me-ring where the Whale was cast on shore in Manly Cove

May the cord break. Plate 77 of The Disasters of War
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). May the cord break. Plate 77 of The Disasters of War. Etching

School caretaker and odd-jobs man

Scout on lunch break
A Scout on emergency duty at a telephone post near London having a sandwich break; he has a flask with him as well. circa 1940

Events / Syria / Massacre
Continual harassment of Christian Maronites by Druses leads to their taking refuge in the French Consulate at Damascus, but the Druses break in and massacre them Date: summer 1860

Firefighters playing chess during a break

LCC-LFB Shop fire in Paul Street EC2
Vast crowds gather at the scene of a large shop fire in Paul Street, City of London. The work of the Brigade always drew people to watch it at work, though this crowd is perhaps an extreme example

LCC-LFB Canteen van at Colonial Wharf fire
Hungry and thirsty firefighters gathering for refreshments at the Brigades canteen van following a major fire at Colonial Wharf

AFS Mobile kitchen in use after major exercise
AFS staff collecting refreshments from a mobile kitchen after taking part in a major exercise conducted at the Fire Services Technical College, Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire

Browns Fire Alarm: Break Glass, Pull Knob, Wait For Engine

Blitz in London -- mobile kitchen serving meals to AFS, WW2
Blitz in London -- a mobile kitchen serving meals to AFS, firefighters. These vehicles were donated to Britains fire services for the war effort by the Canadian Red Cross

Blitz in London -- tea break for AFS firefighter, WW2
Blitz in London -- an AFS woman in a canteen van pours a cup of tea for her male opposite number

NFS sub-station mess hall, WW2
NFS firefighters taking a meal break in a sub-station mess hall

Bunk beds at New Cross LFB sub-station, London, WW2
Firemen and bunk beds put up in the basement from salvaged materials, at New Cross sub-station, Monson Road, SE London. The men were getting what sleep was possible during the hectic days

Schoolboys 1904
Schoolboys, 1904 Date: 1904

Tea poster
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, And We ll All Have Tea, two elderly women drinking tea at teatime Date: 1927-1933

Family drinking coffee at breakfast
A Fragrant Cup. The truly blest are those, Who scorning drinks pernicious, May here refresh their souls, With Coffee so delicious. Family drinking coffee at breakfast Date: 1884

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