Buckets Collection (page 3)

French Watercarriers
French water carriers, some with a horse-drawn cart, others with buckets slung from a shoulder-yoke. Date: circa 1845

Japan - Women collecting mussels on the beach at low tide. Date: circa 1910s

Gathering water in the Vietnamese Countryside
Villagers gathering water in the Vietnamese Countryside Date: circa 1910s

Two young Moroccan Girls with buckets on their heads Date: circa 1930s

Washing Day, Shanghai, China - hanging clothes out to dry on a pole at the front of the house. Date: circa 1906

Japan - Woman buying food from a street vendor, possibly rather grateful to be able to rest his heavily-laden yolk of wares. Date: circa 1906

Japan - Women drawing water from a well Date: circa 1906

National Professional School at Armentieres - Fire Drill
The National Professional School at Armentieres in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in northern France. The boys undertaking a fire drill with buckets ladders and a hand pump Date: circa 1908

British Empire Exhibition - St Ivel Cheese - Milkmaid
A trade card (featuring a pretty young milkmaid) from the St. Ivel Cheese Company stand at the British Empire Exhibition, held at Wembley in 1924. Date: 1924

Home Chat front cover by H. L. Oakley
Front cover of Home Chat magazine featuring a lovely image by silhouette artist H. L. Oakley of a group of children holding hands as they skip along a beach, buckets and spades at the ready

Sea Scouts bailing out water from boats, Lower Thames
Sea Scouts bailing out water from boats on the Lower Thames. circa 1950

Cub scouts washing police car, Surrey
Cub Scouts washing and cleaning a Police Triumph Herald car in Surrey during Scout Job Week. 1974

Tub Manufacturing - Stana
Making wooden buckets/tubs at Stana (Stina) Romania Date: circa 1910s

Beach Animals
A rabbit holds a parasol while his kitten friends play with their buckets and spades in the sand. Date: early 1930s

Tapping for pine resin - Arcachon, France
Tapping for pine resin - Arcachon, Gascony - West coast of France Date: circa 1910

Southwold, Suffolk - Scottish fisher girls at work Date: circa 1910s

Tapping for pine resin - Landes, France Date: circa 1910

Venetian Water Carriers
A couple of female water carriers, who carry their metal buckets over their shoulders with a wooden yoke, Venice, Italy. Date: 1870s

Lighthouse Water Supply
Joyce pumps water from a pump operated tap for her bath at a lighthouse. It seems a lot of trouble, but traipsing up and down the steps with buckets of hot water sure keeps her fit! Date: 1940s

Field kitchen and staff, France, WW1
A field kitchen and three staff in France during the First World War. This particular field kitchen catered for 200 men. Date: 1914-1918

Allied soldiers at a well, Salonika, WW1
Allied soldiers (Russian, Italian and possibly French) collecting water from a well at Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. Date: August 1916

Scout washing on camp
A Scout in camp washing himself before morning inspection. The boys themselves have built the washstand cum clothes dryer for the material available on the campsite

Women gut Herring - Lowestoft, Suffolk
Women gut Herring at Lowestoft, Suffolk Date: circa 1910s

Edwardian schoolchildren dressed as milkmaids, Mid Wales
A group of Edwardian schoolchildren dressed as milkmaids, with baskets and buckets. The building in the background is possibly the Old Rectory in the village of Llangattock, near Crickhowell, Powys

Part of a room to let, East End of London
Interior of a house in the East End of London where the demand for cheap accommodation was such that even a part of a room might be sub-let as indicated by the notice on the window

House interior, East End of London
The interior of a house in the East End of London. A woman has her hands in a wooden wash tub and further buckets are on the floor nearby

Three workmen stop for a cup of tea on a snowy day
Three workmen stop for a welcome cup of tea on a snowy winters day. (2 of 2)

College Almshouses, Cobham, Kent
Timber Porch at the College Almshouses, Cobham, Kent. The card was published by the pub ( The Leather Bottle ) across the street from the almshouses!

WWII recycling: Stirrup pump bathing / W H Robinson
An old stirrup pump and plenty of buckets of water, making an ideal outdoor shower. Please note: Credit must appear as (c)

Rouen - France - Old Houses and Fountain
Old Medieval houses and an old fountain on the Rue St Romain, Rouen, France

A Ryder disc brake pad machine in action in a car factory. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Newsagent & Much More - Oxford
Sawyers Newsagent, Stationer, Confectioner and Tobacconist in Oxford. A magnificent photographic postcard showing a General Store on an Oxford street selling pretty much anything you can imagine

Children of King Alfonso XIII of Spain
Three of the six children of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife, Queen Ena. They are Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (1907-1938), the Infanta Beatriz (1909-2002) and Infante Jaime (1908-1975)

Collecting water in Kashgar, western China
People collecting water in Kashgar, western China, and carrying it in buckets on poles across their shoulders. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

People collecting water, Kashgar, western China
People collecting water in Kashgar, western China, using buckets on poles. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Itinerant Coffee Vendor - Istanbul, Turkey
Itinerant Coffee Vendor carrying a yoke, with two buckets containing the tools of his trade hanging from either end. Possibly standing/crouching in the grounds of a marble factory

Shadoof - Egyptian irrigation system
Two Egyptian men operate a Shadoof - Egyptian irrigation system - the pivot arm lifts a bucket which raises water onto a higher field level

Children paddling and finding sea creatures
Four young girls paddling at the edge of the sea and examining the crabs and starfish they have found in the shallow water and placed in their buckets. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

SS Peluge, 1912
Photograph showing the largest Bucket dredger then afloat, the SS Peluge, built at the Lobnitz Shipyard for the Suez Canal Company

Dance in Private Home
A private dance - the dancers sustained by champagne in buckets

Well in Senegal
Women of Goree, Senegal, (West Africa), fill their water-bowls from buckets lowered into the communal well

Water Carrier
A street water seller with his buckets hanging on a circulr yoke

Lord Nelson / Midshipmen
HORATIO, LORD NELSON English naval officer instructing his midshipmen in the use of compass and tiller

Washerwomen of Caen, Normandy, France
The Washerwomen of Caen, Normandy, northern France, washing their clothes at the communal lavoir

Woman Window Cleaners
A smart line of newly trained " Georginas" march in single file down a central London street, carrying their ladders and buckets and are greatly admired by a dapper young man

Germany / Water Strike
Water Strike - one of a wave od strikes

Social / Romanian Mats
Romanian mat sellers

Tapping Rubber Trees
A woman and young boy tap rubber trees in Malaya and collect the sap in buckets

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