Bucket Collection

Bolsover Miners
Miners from the Bolsover branch of the National Union of Mineworkers, Derbyshire, collect money for the strike fund Date: May 1984

Keep a Pig poster
Poster from the Small Pig Keepers Council encouraging the keeping of pigs during wartime - save waste and make food - illustrated by a man in cardigan and hat with a bucket of slops for the pig

Twenties flapper girl sitting at a cocktail bar
A flapper girl from the 1920s sitting at a cocktail bar on a high stool. She is slim, wears a slinky dress, and has a cigarette in a holder in her mouth. On the bar is her glass of champagne

Advertisement for Morses distemper with a decorator lying flat while painting the walls. Date: c.1924

Llewellin Churn Works, Haverfordwest, South Wales
A group of employees, mostly women, of the Llewellin Churn Works at North Gate, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Wassailing Apple Trees
In Devon and Somerset, apple growers wassail orchards on 17 January, with songs and a bucket of hot cider; a tree is lightly sprinkled, then the wassailers drink the rest

Lyme Regis Promenade
An old man with a bucket over his arm walks along the sea front at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England

Retro poster, Gilbert & Sullivan, D Oyly Carte
Retro poster for Gilbert & Sullivan, D Oyly Carte, character from HMS Pinafore. 1960s

Sand Pies by Muriel Dawson
A small blonde girl in a sunsuit and sun bonnet studiously mixes sand in a bucket

Young Uyghur Girl - Kashgar, Xinjiang
Young indigenous Uyghur girl of Kashgar. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Children / Paddling 1922
Three children paddling in the sea; one carries a bucket, another inspects a toy boat

Range of bakery tools and ingredients
A range of bakery tools and ingredients, including a pair of scales, a bucket, a sieve, mixing paddles and a sack of flour

Advert / Calverts Carboli
CALVERTs CARBOLIC SOAP for floors

Comic postcard, Outside the builders merchants - man with bucket and toilet seat Date: 20th century

Stunt woman rides through flames on motorbike
Sue, 23, one of a team of stunt women, rides her motorbike through a twenty-foot long tunnel of burning hay bales. Wearing only a T-shirt and hot pants she entered the tunnel at 60 mph

Poster advertising Norway, showing a pretty milkmaid with a yoke and two buckets. 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl at the seaside, marooned on a pile of sand. Date: 20th century

English Royalists 1640-9
English Royalist soldiers: doublet & breeches, lace falling collars, lace-edged boot hose tops, bucket-top boots, plumed hats, cloak

Buckets and spades at the seaside
Two little girls on the beach at an unidentified British seaside resort, carrying their buckets and spades. Date: 1950s

Cottage on Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
A cottage on the island of Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, northern Scotland, with inhabitants and cattle. Date: 1936

Prams on Brighton Beach
A mother and her young children play on the pebbled beach at Brighton, almost hidden behind three large prams Date: Early 1960s

Children Play at Seaside
Rather than entrust their boat to the waves which might sweep it away, these children construct an inshore pool where it will be safe though its voyages will be short

Women Window Cleaners
A group of newly trained Georginas set off for their first job, carrying their ladders and buckets. Date: 1940s

Ritemp Washing Machine
A housewife prepares to drain her English Electric Ritemp washing machine, simply and rapidly, into bucket or drain, according to the instruction book

Shire horse and foal, Trewey Farm, Zennor, Cornwall
Shire horse Bluebell with her week-old foal at Trewey Farm, Zennor, Cornwall

English Village Well
A mother and child fetch a pail of water from the well in the village of Old Basing, Hampshire. England. Date: 1930s

Opening of the Anglesey Hunt
An opening custom of the Anglesey Hunt, whereby hot coppers or small change (heated in a bucket by the fire) are thrown from the balcony of the Bulkeley Arms Hotel following the hunt ball

Scrubing Doorstep / 1920S
A Charwoman, who goes to work in her motorcycle and side car, kneels whilst scrubbing the steps of no. 47

Shelling Mussels / 1906
Shelling mussels, Cromasty, Scotland Date: 1906

Girl and goose on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Frontispiece illustration, Peter, the fox terrier. Date: 1912

Off to the Sea by Muriel Dawson -- a little child ready for the summer holidays. Date: 1940

Children Run on Sand
Two children and their dog scamper across the sand, carrying their spade and bucket. Date: 1913

Pembrokeshire fisherman and family
A Pembrokeshire fisherman and his family outside their cottage. The woman on the left is washing clothes in a wooden bucket

Cleaning Day, by Ethel Parkinson. A little Dutch girl wields a mop, while a little boy kneels down and scrubs the floor

Elephant Washing Aldin
An elephant washing itself with water from a bucket

Beach Dress
A perfect outfit for the seaside: sleeveless dress with fitted bodice, bow detail, 3/4 length skirt with contrasting fringing, strappy sandals, straw hat & bucket bag

Woman Feeds Chickens
An older woman in a long dress and wide-brimmed hat throws handfuls of chicken feed on to the ground for the chickens to peck at and scratch in the straw

Couple / Pink Champagne
Passion and pink champagne: a heady mixture

Children on Beach 1 of 4
Four children on the beach, wanting to make friends but feeling a bit shy

Christmas card in the shape of a boy in a sailor suit with bucket and spade. Date: circa 1890s

Comic postcard, Large woman in red swimsuit on the beach Date: 20th century

Young women taking bath at home, late 19thc. Japan
Young women taking a bath at home, late 19th century Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Young girl preparing chips - Fish & Chip Shop, Morecambe
A young girl (likely the daughter of the shop owner) prepares chips at a Fish & Chip Shop in Morecambe Lancashire. Note the wonderful chipper machine on the counter

Rubber Plantation - Malaysia - Overseer and Coolies. Date: circa 1910s

Agnes Reston (1771-1856), known as The Heroine of Matagorda, wife of Sergeant Reston of the 94th Regiment of Foot. In 1810, during an early phase of the Siege of Cadiz by the French

Lord Howes Victory off the French island of Ushant, 1 June 1794, Fourth Battle of Ushant, also known as the Glorious First of June, during the French Revolutionary Wars. Date: 1794

Young man in fashionable outfit with top hat and cane, 1912. Mise d un jeune homme. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching after an illustration by Bernard Boutet de Monvel from Tommaso Antonginis

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