Carpentry Collection (page 3)

Learning carpentry at St Dunstan s
A blind ex-serviceman learns carpentry at St Dunstans hostel in Regents Park, London. The hostel was established to rehabilitate soldiers and sailors blinded during the Great War. Date: 1915

Boy doing carpentry, Ghana, West Africa

St Dunstans Hostel advertisement, WW1
A full page of The Tatler devoted to reporting on the work of St. Dunstans Hostel for Blinded Soldiers and Sailors in Regents Park, London

Brunei scouts at camp, Borneo, south-east Asia

Six-sided offertory or collecting box, WW1
Six-sided offertory or collecting box belonging to West Kent Regiment - stamped Arras 1917, No. 140535. Trench Art

Tools for making musical instruments, c. 1750
Various tools for the manufacture of musical instruments, c. 1750. Date: c. 1750

Girls Learning Carpentry
A class of German girls learning carpentry. Date: early 1930s

Garden scene with children (with hidden objects)

London Fire Brigade HQ workshop, Lambeth
Men at work in the London Fire Brigade HQ workshop, Lambeth

Sea Scouts building a kayak
A group of Sea Scouts building a kayak. circa 1960s

Carpentry Workshop at St Pancras Schools, Leavesden, Hertfor
Boys saw and plane wood in the carpentry workshop at the St Pancras Schools at Leavesden In Hertfordshire. The schools were opened in by the St Pancras Board of Guardians to house pauper children

Technical School, Royal Normal College for the Blind, Norwoo
Girls at work in a carpentry workshop at the Technical School of the Royal Normal College for the Blind, Norwood, south London Date: 1895

Chinese Carpenter building a house
A Chinese Carpenter building a house using traditional techniques. Date: circa 1910s

Women Upholsterers
Young women carpentry students at the London County Council Trade School learning how to upholster a chair. Date: 1930s

Monastic Carpenter
A Carthusian monk carpenter at work at the monastery of La Valsainte, Switzerland. Date: early 1940s

Carpentry Lesson 1930S
A class of boys learning carpentry. Date: early 1930s

Apprentice cabinet maker, Shoreditch, London
An apprentice learning his trade at a cabinet makers in Shoreditch, London. c.1947

Portslade Industrial School - Carpentry Workshop
Boys at work in the carpentry workshop at Portslade Industrial School near Brighton in Sussex. The school opened in 1902 to house children aged 7-15 placed there by magistrates for reasons such as

Workshop of H. Trauffer - Davos, Switzerland
The carpentry workshop of carpenter H. Trauffer of Davos, Switzerland, pictures carving a fabulous life-size Saint Bernard dog. Date: circa 1920s

Welsh Cabinet Makers with prams
The shop of W. Davies, a Cabinet Maker and Undertaker, of Station Road, Llanelli who was known as Davies the Celfi (Davies the Furniture)

Girl Takes Doll to Shop
A young girl takes her doll to a carpentry shop and asks them if they would mend her doll, whose head has fallen off. Date: 1879

Ark of Covenant is Built
The Ark of the Covenant is built according to the exact instructions of the Lord, passed on to Moses

Child labour in carpenters shop
Carpenters apprentice, France 1841

Carpenters yard, NIPRCC East Harling, Norfolk
Boys making beehives in the carpenters yard at the East Harling, Norfolk, branch of the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control

Boys in training at a Borstal institution
Boys in training in a carpenters workshop at an unidentified Borstal institution

Inuit Camp at Hudson Bay in summertime. A Canoe is being built by the side of a hide-covered tent

Wood Turning, Tunisia
A carpenter turns wood supported using his feet

Carpenters saw a large log
A team of carpenters use a long two-person saw to split a large trunk log into planks. Watercolour Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Sawing a large plank
Two carpenters use a large upright saw to split a large wooden plank. A colleague is signalling a break with the arrival of a cup of tea, whilst two boys look on with keen interest

Carpenters building a wagon
Three carpenters working on a wooden wagon, using traditional tools and techniques. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Arab Carpentry Shop, Cairo, Egypt, making screens, furniture, bookstands and Mother-of-pearl inlay

The Duke of Edinburgh opening the Seamens Orphanage in Live
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, opening the Seamens Orphanage, Liverpool in 1870. The Liverpool Seamens Orphan Institution was established in order to provide care

Building Operations 1882
Men build a house while two children play on a seesaw

Carpenter at Work / Sawing
A carpenter uses a large frame saw to split a thin piece of wood held tightly to his bench

Cultural Activities 16C
Mercury rides over in cockerel-driven chariot as citizens practice arts & sciences: painting, sculpture, music, medicine, astronomy & others

British Female Soldiers
British women soldiers do some carpentry. Date: 1917

Jesus the Chiseller
Young Jesus wields mallet and chisel, helping his father in the family carpentry business

15th Century Carpenter
A companion carpenter at work with an axe

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