Buckets Collection

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

Eritrea - Water Carrier
Eritrea - Female Water Carrier Date: 1936

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

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

Unemployed miners, Cilfynydd, Pontypridd
Unemployed miners at Cilfynydd near Pontypridd in South Wales. They watch the buckets tipping slag in case any lumps of coal can be found. Date: circa 1936

Fire Fighting 1666
Hand squirts, leather buckets, axe and helmet from the period of the Great Fire of London (in the Merryweather Collection)

C17th Fire Engine / Dutch
An early fire engine in use in Holland. The first flexible hose was invented by Jan van der Heijden in 1672 in the Netherlands, and a pre-cursor of this may be shown here

The Gravediggers
A painting depicting some worn gravediggers, with buckets and shovels, having made a deep, square hole. Date: circa 1916

Price's rotary digger and greathead shield
Front view of Price's combined rotary digger and greathead shield with six revolving arms and removal buckets Date: 1909

A Cornish Milkmaid
A portrait oil painting of a Cornish milkmaid, carrying a yoke, a bar in which two buckets are suspended by chains at each end, to be carried over the shoulders. Date: circa 1924

The Cooperage
This etching shows a cooperage, the premises of a man, seen in the shadows, who specialises in the manufacture of wooden casks, barrels, buckets and other similar containers. Date: circa 1918

Collection for South African rail strike
Two men brandish collection buckets for the South African rail strike to support Rail Against Apartheid. Signs show that the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR)

Local Women fetching drinking water from a well - Venice, Italy. Date: circa 1901

Hardware store selling buckets and baskets, Japan, late 19th century

Scotch Herring Women Workers 1902
Towns of Yarmouth and Lowesoft in the East Anglian ports were full of women from Scotland, coming down to help with the herring harvest in October and November

King of the Castle by Margaret Tempest. 1942

Family group - Studio portrait at the seaside for two sisters and their four children (complete with buckets and spades!)

Cultivation of the tea plant, China. (1 of 4) Date: 1832

Tin-plate worker in apron beating tin on an anvil with a mallet surrounded by tin buckets, pots, urns and utensils. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades

Advert, Brown & Co, Glasgow, Scotland
Advert for Brown & Co, Iron Packaging, Cisterns, Casks, Pails etc, Wigton Street, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Children feeding calves on a farm. circa 1920

Cries of Paris - water carrier

Greetings card in the shape of a well, with a bucket full of gold coins. Date: circa 1890s

Girl at the seaside on a New Year card
Girl at the seaside on a diamond-shaped New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Suburban Water-Carts, London, 1875
Two watercarts, delivering supplies in Londons suburbs in 1875. Several people bringing buckets out to the cart to purchase fresh water. Date: 1875

VENETIAN WATER CARRIER
A female water carrier carrying metal buckets of water on her shoulders with a wooden yoke, Venice, Italy. Date: 1870s

SOCIAL / COTTAGE C1880S
A picturesque country cottage, with cottager carrying two heavy buckets Date: circa 1880s

PARIS FLORIST SHOP
Flowers in buckets outside a florists in Paris Date: 1929

Dustman and cart collecting refuse
The dustman calls out to householders to bring out their refuse, while his mate tips the buckets into the cart. Date: circa 1840

Staffordshire farmer in farmyard
A Staffordshire farmer carries buckets of water through his farmyard for the cattle on a cold winter day. First published The Times Date: 1990

Staffordshire farmer with cup of tea
A Staffordshire farmer prepares to feed his calves after breakfast, he is holding a mug of tea while looking out through the door of a farm building. Animal feed buckets are at his feet

Two boys playing in a pool on a sandy beach. Date: circa 1960s

Four children on a beach, playing with a boat
Four children -- three girls and a boy -- on a beach, playing with a boat. They are all happy and smiling

Two girls and three geese on a cutout greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Two girls at the seaside on a palette-shaped New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Handmade card in the shape of a wishing well
Handmade greetings card in the shape of a wishing well, with a handle to turn to make the red bucket appear. Date: circa 1890s

Spitsbergen, Norway - Adventfjorden (Advent Bay). Depicted here is the former mining camp of Longyearbyen (located on its southwestern shore)

London Trade Card - John Brailsford, Cutler, St Martins Court, Leicester Fields. 18th century

Japanese Water Carrier ( Coolie ). Note the traditional costume of a rice farmer. He wears a reed cape (Mino), a traditional Japanese garment, a raincoat made out of straw

Buckets & Spades Home, St Leonards on Sea, Sussex
The Buckets and Spades Home, St Leonards on Sea for mentally handicapped Jewish children

Poor Macedonian Beggar Woman and her dog
Poor Macedonian Beggar Woman sitting on the pavement with her dog beside her. Date: circa 1920s

A young Russian Country woman at the village well
At the Well - A young Russian Country woman goes to the village well to collect water - beautiful postcard design by Bilibin. Date: 1901

Fire drill, NIPRCC East Harling, Norfolk
A fire drill at the East Harling, Norfolk, branch of the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control, an organisation privately run by the Rev Harold Burden to house feeble minded

Young men from Marlborough College in OTC camp, Farnborough
Young men from Marlborough College in an Officers Training Corps camp, Farnborough, August 1910. Albert Auerbach (1894-1918) is 3rd from left, in profile. 1910

Three tabby kittens with a pink bucket
Unusual Friends - three tabby kittens with a pink bucket. 1950s

Rubber Factory workers, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1910

Mayford School, Woking - Farmyard
Farmyard at Mayford School, near Woking, Surrey. Boys with pitchforks work at a haystack. Another carries buckets. Date: circa 1930

Malaysia - tapping rubber trees Date: circa 1920s

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