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Shaftesbury Home, Ealing - Household WorkShaftesbury Home, Ealing - a girls scrubs the floor with brush and bucket. Date: 1890s
Young girl in remarkable woollen ensemble on beachYoung girl in remarkable woollen ensemble (dress and hat with white fur trim) on a sandy British beach with bucket and spade in hand Date: circa 1920s
Windmill with platform, Sluis, Netherlands, with two local women in the foreground. Date: circa 1920
Paddling suit for boys and girls 1907Young infant holding bucket and spade on the beach, wearing jersey, short-kilted serge skirt and knickers. Date: 1907
Advertisement, Improved Earth Closets and CommodesAdvertisement, O Brien, Thomas, & Co, Upper Thames Street, London -- Improved Earth Closets and Commodes (Toilets). 1898
Boy & girl fishingSilhouette of boy & girl with net and bucket fishing on the seashore.Date: circa 1930
Boulogne-sur-Mer - The washing of the days catch of fish on the quayside. Date: 1913
Classic Seaside Family snap - Broadstairs. Date: 1938
Two boys in the harbour, St Ives, CornwallTwo boys paddling in the harbour, St Ives, Cornwall, near a boat called Josephine. Date: 1970s
Family celebrating with birthday cake and champagneFamily of four celebrating with birthday cake and champagne. Date: circa 1980s
Comic Hamlet scene on a New Year card -- Hamlet thinks he has seen his fathers ghost on the battlements of Elsinore, but it is only the water pump covered with ice. Date: circa 1890s
Three men with wooden horse on a Christmas cardThree men with a large wooden horse on wheels on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Children at the seaside on a New Year card. Two boys in sailor suits play with a large model sailing boat. circa 1890s
Little boy at the seaside on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Children at the seaside on a Christmas cardChildren building a sandcastle at the seaside on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Cartoon, On the eve of repatriation, WW1Cartoon, On the eve of repatriation. A German patient in a French hospital asks an orderly if he will be ok with his reconstructed chin containing silver
Cartoon, The tall story, WW1Cartoon, The tall story. Showing a rumour circulating, from two men at the top of the Eiffel Tower down to two women at the foot of a staircase
Cartoon, A sensitive man, WW1Cartoon, A sensitive man. A group of French soldiers are sharing a bucket of Pinard (cheap wine or plonk). Do you know that our ancestors the Gauls drank mead from the skulls of their enemies
Woman scrubs paving stones in front of her houseA woman scrubs the paving stones in front of her house, watched by her little Scottie dog! Date: circa 1977
Cartoon, How to get hold of some plonk, WW1Cartoon, How Herbinet used System D to get hold of some plonk. Showing how a soldier gradually extracts wine from a large barrel in a stable. Date: 1916
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Black Billy, in the Letter Book Series. Showing Black Billy feeling rather pleased that he is the only black puppy in a litter of four
Illustration, Smiler and ScampIllustration, Scamp rolls on his back in an attempt to get Smiler to play with him. Date: 1930
Bobby the dog playing with the chicksBobby the dog playing rather boisterously with some young chicks. Date: circa 1933
Bobby the dog and Fluff the cat in the dairy, stealing the milk and butter. Date: circa 1933
Wishing well, Agua Caliente, Tijuana, MexicoThe wishing well at Agua Caliente, a popular leisure centre in Tijuana, Mexico, with a woman drawing water. Date: 1930
The A. B. who asked for a light! By H. M. Bateman" Shocking! The A.B. who asked for a light!" Two high-ranking naval officers are aghast when an able seaman asks if he can borrow a light. Date: 1917
Illustration, Shaving a horse -- an event which led to an entertaining court case. Date: 1832
Illustration, Cecil Aldins Painting Books, Our Animals. Showing two cows in a barn. Date: circa 1909
Illustration, Fundevogel -- She did not go once, but many times backwards and forwards to the well. Date: 1909
French Theatre -- Farce du Porteur d EauFarce du Porteur d Eau (Farce of the Water Carrier). A water carrier with two buckets suspended from a metal ring says how much he likes to see pretty girls as he walks along the street. Date: 1632
Scene on a dairy farm, Netherlands. Date: early 20th century
Little boy and his dog on a sandy beach. Date: circa 1920s
Two children at the seasideTwo children sitting on a pebbly beach at a seaside resort. Date: circa 1920s
Children with toy pram, Balham, SW LondonChildren playing with a toy pram on a Balham street, SW London. A small girl and a teddy bear are in the pram. Date: circa 1961
Three boys playing with sand in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961
Woman in the anonymous letter costume.. Lithograph with pochoir stencil handcolouring from Our Fancy Dress Costumes, Paris, 1928
Womens costumes of the first half of the 16th century.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century
Men camping with a dogEight young men camping with a dog in a field. Date: circa 1900s
WW2 birthday card, cat and posterWW2 birthday card, showing a cat on a ladder putting up a poster expressing birthday wishes. Date: circa 1942
WW2 Christmas card, Civil Defence scene with policeman. Date: circa 1942
Young woman and dog in back yardYoung woman holding up a treat for a dog in a back yard. Date: circa 1910s
Women, boys and dog on a beachTwo women, two little boys and a dog on a beach. Date: circa 1920s
History of Wells in silhouette by H. L. Oakley -- second page (entitled THEN) of a leaflet published by LeGrand Sutcliff & Gell Ltd, Artesian Well & Hydraulic Engineers of Southall, West London
Milkmaid in a long blue dress carrying a stool and a bucket of milk on her head. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: 1901
Men with camels at a cistern, BethlehemMen with camels, drawing water from a cistern near the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem. Date: 1920s
Bucket Shower. spartan campsite near the Ngonye Falls / Waterfalls - Zambesi River
Dromedary a One-humped Camel - being milked (Camelus dromedarius L.). Karahoudan village - in foothills of Kopetdag mountains - Turkmenistan. Spring - April
Dutch boy scout feeding two calves in a field