Draught Collection

Thames Sailing Barge
A Thames sailing barge is a type of commercial sailing boat once common on the River Thames in London. The flat-bottomed barges with a shallow draught and leeboards

A pair of chestnut Suffolk Punch working horses in harness with blinkers, Suffolk, England Date: 2010

Jesus and Fishes
Jesus enables his disciples to obtain a miraculous draught of fishes in the sea of Galilee

Samuel Plimsoll MP (1824-1898) - English politician and social reformer, now best remembered for having devised the Plimsoll line (a line on a ship's hull indicating the maximum safe draught)

Tower of London and surrounding area 1597
True and exact draught of the Tower Liberties, surveyed in 1597, by Gulielmus Haiward and J. Gascoyne. 1597

HUNDING'S DRAUGHT
Act One : Siglind prepares Hunding's draught

Dynamometers designed by McDougale and Robert Salmon
Dynamometers for measuring force or torque designed by McDougale and Robert Salmon. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J

Tower of London and surrounding area 1597
From a print published by the Royal Antiquarian Society and engraved from the survey made in 1597. Date: 1597

A woman on the north promenade at Blackpool
A woman looks out to sea across the sands from the north promenade at Blackpool, Lancashire, England. The wind catches and blows her skirt up. Date: 2011

Customer and barman, Halfway House, Rame, Cornwall
Customer and barman at the Halfway House pub, Rame, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Dartmouth Road, Forest Hill, south-east London, with The Bird in Hand public house and shops. Date: circa 1930s

At work in the English Army Remount Camp Depot, WW1
Scenes at a British Army Remount Depot where horses were trained, broken in and reconditioned for service during the war. 1. hard at work at the forge. 2. trimming a draught horse, 3

Draught board with ships and aeroplanes - WWI
The Favourite Game of our Soldiers in the Trenches and our Sailors at Sea. Shows a draught board with ships and aeroplanes, Scottish soldiers in a trench playing draughts and an artillery team

Man filling a bucket at a water pump
A man filling a bucket at a water pump, outside an inn called The Plume of Feathers, recommended by the Automobile Association, serving lunches and teas as well as draught cider

In Marble Halls - Jobbing actors chatting in a theatre bar
" In Marble Halls" - Jobbing actors standing in a theatre bar discussing their fortune, both successful and not

Customer and barmaid, Halfway House, Rame, Cornwall
Customer and barman having a cosy chat at the Halfway House, Rame, Cornwall. circa 1980s

Greetings card in the shape of medicines
Greetings card in the shape of a bottle of medicine (labelled black draught) and a box of little blue pills. circa 1890s

Barman in a pub, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Date: 1969

Convoy with mules. 15th century. Miniature

No Harm you Say ?
No harm, you say ? When my girl catches cold at the slightest draught ! Date: 1904

Breaking light draught horses at Army Remount Depot, WW1
The First Time in Harness - breaking in light draught horses at an Army Remount Depot during the First World War. Date: 1915

Lost tooth causes sleeping difficulties for Kitty
Kitty - " Aunty, I can t sleep at night since I lost my front toof for the draught blowing down my throat." Date: circa 1890s

LCC-LFB Fireboat Alpha, River Thames
From 1912 the previously used rafts, towed by tugs, were replaced by Londons first fireboats. These steam driven self-propelled shallow draught craft were based on the Royal Navy gunboats

Patent poster for Shand, Mason & Co
A patent poster for Shand, Mason & Co, fire engine makers and hydraulic engineers, advertising three types of firefighting equipment

Galliot on the Lower Rhine, Germany or Holland
Watercolour sketch of a galliot (a shallow-draught ketch) on the Lower Rhine in Germany or Holland, by Henrietta Grace Baden Powell (nee Smyth, 1824-1914), mother of Robert. November 1840

Caught out by the draught, c. 1909
Photograph showing the problem faced by women trying the cross the gratings above the Berlin Underground railway, 1909. Date: 1909

The Crimean Tartar Saloon, SY Livadia, 1880
Engraving of the Crimean Tartar Saloon on Czar Alexander IIs steam yacht Livadia, built at John Elders shipyard, Govan, in 1880

The Imperial Saloon, SY Livadia, 1880
Engraving of the Imperial Saloon on Czar Alexander IIs steam yacht Livadia, built at John Elders shipyard, Govan, in 1880

The Duplex Catamaran, 1880
Engraving of a Duplex Catamaran, built in Rhode Island USA, for Mr. Henry N. Custance, honorary treasurer of the Corinthian Yacht Club, August 1880

The Czars Bedroom, SY Livadia, 1880
Engraving of Czar Alexander IIs bedroom on his steam yacht Livadia, built at John Elders shipyard, Govan, in 1880. Extremely lavishly fitted out, this yacht was given a radical design

SY Livadia, 1880
Engraving of Czar Alexander IIs steam yacht Livadia, built at John Elders shipyard, Govan, in 1880. This yacht was given a radical design, supposedly based on the shape of a turbot

Draught of Fishes
Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering unto him, Master, we have taken nothing

Dutch & Emperor Ceylon
A Draught of the most Splendid Audience given by ye Emperor of Ceylon, King of Candy, to Gerard Hulst, ye Dutch General. (The Dutch land 1602, take Colombo 1603)

Warship / 3rd Draught
Third Draught of a First Rate. A profile cross-section of a warship showing the layout of the sails, masts & rigging & including crows nests

Warship / Ist Draught
First Draught of a Ship of the First Rate. A profile cross- section of a warship showing the structure, framework, layout of decks, canons & how provisions are stowed

Pyne - Waggoners
WAGGONERS - A broad-wheeled waggon, upon a fine road, with 8 or 10 horses bearing an equal share in the draught, is an object that excites no incnsiderable admiration

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