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Family Shower / LeechA family prepare to partake of a shower. The servants fill up the shower head with hot water as the family members don conical hats and towels - some require encouragement! Date: 1850
Aerial Battle 1507Warriors and weapons fill the skies, terrifying the German ppulace with their menace of terrible things to come... as indeed they did Date: 1507
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
Potez 6311 -the French built over 700 to fill various roles including fighters, light bomber and reconnaissance Underpowered they were ready prey to German fighters
These War Sensations by Bruce BairnsfatherInsoluble A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Christmas Number 1916, offering a competition to fill in the blanks of a sentence uttered when Old Bill realises that his rum jar
WWI Poster, Help fill the War ChestDesign by B A Osnis, Help fill the War Chest. Humanity Calls. American war loan poster. Date: circa 1916
Suffragette Badge 1911 Census BoycottBadge representing the 1911 Resistance to the Census movement. Members of the W.S.P.U, Womens Freedom League and the Womens Tax Resistance League
Women Munitions Work WW1. Rather glamourous munitions worker in purple dungarees standing next to 2 shells, with caption, You should see how the girls fill them! Date: circa 1916
Suffragette Male Suffragist Bravo. A man carrying a large votes for women petition is praised for his support for the cause. Entitled, Male Suffragist
WW1 Recruitment Poster -- A ResolutionRecruitment poster, printed by A Thom and Company, Dublin. A Resolution passed in the Trenches. By an Irish Regiment (2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment)
British band playing in the square of a French town. On reverse of postcard - Saturday. Dear Hubert, Am enclosing a few rough sketches. Mind you they are rough
Recruitment poster for the Public Schools Brigade, Royal Fusiliers, 118th Infantry Brigade. Hurry up, boys. Fill the ranks. Apply Central Recruiting Depot, Great Scotland Yard, Whitehall, SW
British soldiers filling water cans, Western Front, WW1British soldiers filling water cans at a supply point on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916
TOM - Popular Male name illustrated by lady-filled lettersTOM - The ever-popular name, illustrated by large letters filled with lovelies from the 1900s! Date: circa 1908
Gathering water in the Vietnamese CountrysideVillagers gathering water in the Vietnamese Countryside Date: circa 1910s
Count Zambeccaris BalloonPlate showing Count Zambeccaris Balloon. Which was to have taken up himfelf, Rear Admiral Sir Edward Knt. and Mifs Grice from Tottenham Court Road
A boy ties a large basket to the mantle-pieceA small boy ties a huge basket to the mantle-piece, instead of the traditional stocking, in the hope that Father Christmas will fill it up with presents. Date: c. 1910
Peasant home near Ayuthaya - Thailand - Peasant home Most of the bamboo and frame cottages are built on a mound of fill above the flooded land
Girls in Class / Iln 1911East London schoolgirls are taught how to fill in census returns for parents who are unable to read or write English. Date: 1911
Le Suffren balloon ascent, NantesView of the Le Suffren balloon ascending from the garden of the orphanage, Nantes, France. Including the equipment used to raise and fill it. 14 June 1784
Help fill the war chest Humanity calls you, May 20-27. Poster showing hands casting money into a trunk. Date 1917
Fill that cell!. Illustration shows a throng of petty criminals in a prison pointing to a small cell labeled For the Incorporated Law Breaker, insisting that white-collar crime goes unpunished
Teddy waiting for SantaTeddy in bed waiting for Santa to come and fill his stocking. From 1950s Christmas card. c.1950
Refilling engine tender during rail strikeDuring the rail strike a platform inspector and guards help to fill an engine tender with coal. 1911
Flooding near the Pyramids, Egypt. People bring containers to fill with water. Date: early 20th century
Hanging the Christmas stockingChildren hanging their stockings at Christmas for Santa to fill. Date: c.1907
Advert for Ewarts Geyser hot water 1927A contented housewife is about to fill her hot water bottle from her Ewarts Geyser water heater. Date: 1927
Christmastime. Artist: Susan Beatrice Pearse. 3 children watch Santa fill their stockings with toys Date: circa 1916
Chinese labourers filling sandbags near Arras, France, WW1Chinese labourers filling sandbags near Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 13 June 1918
Santa filling the stockings by Hilda Dix Sandford. Illustration from a postcard by Hilda Dix Sandford (1875-1946). She specialised illustrating children at play. circa 1909
Matchmakers filling frames with wax strandsWomen working at a matchmaking factory fill frames with wax strands
Filling Oil Cans - Hackney WickA female employee fills BP Oil Cans at a plant in Hackney Wick, London
Filling large fuel barrels - Hackney WickA factory employee checks progress as large barrels are filled with fuel oil at Hackney Wick, London
Filling Sandbags - WW2 Home Front (4 / 4)World War Two - British Home Front - London. Young men, boys and women of all ages fill sandbags in the street. The sandbags were piled against buildings
Egypt - River Nile - Water carriers fill their water skinsSlightly before Mr Evian, Mr Volvic and Mr Malvern took a firm grip on the market, this is how visitors to Egypt were supplied with fresh drinking water
Jcp Bonaparte / Punch 1879JOSEPH-CHARLES-PAUL BONAPARTE Prince Napoleon, nicknamed Plon-Plon, feeling sure that he can fill his great ancestors boots
Automatic Milk MachineA little girl demonstrates how easy it is to fill up a jug with milk from an automatic milk machine!
The Fish & the CormorantTHE FISH AND THE CORMORANT An elderly cormorant, unable to see, tricks the fish into being borne by him to a safe place, a shallow pond from where he can eat his fill
Ritchie and Mcalls Preserved Meat Establishment, HoundsditcScene showing Ritchie & M Calls preserved meat establishment in Houndsditch, London. Various workers wearing caps and aprons are tending vats while meat cuts and carcasses fill the tables and worktops
Sugar Fill-HouseSugar is normally sold in the form of large loaves, shaped like dunces caps : these are prepared in the fill-house before baking in the oven
SUGAR OVENHousehold sugar is normally sold in the form of large loaves, shaped like dunces caps : these are prepared in the fill-house then baked in the oven
Pin-Up in Bathrobe 2 / 5Smiling brunette model, dressed in blue slingbacks & a bathrobe kneels on the bed next to a Christmas tree. Is she waiting for someone to come & fill her stocking?
Pin-Up in Bathrobe 3 / 5Smiling brunette model, dressed in blue slingbacks & a bathrobe kneels on the bed next to a Christmas tree. Is she waiting for someone to come & fill her stocking?
Well in SenegalWomen of Goree, Senegal, (West Africa), fill their water-bowls from buckets lowered into the communal well
Mammoth TusksMammoth tusks are imported from Siberia to Britain, enough of them to fill a warehouse at London Docks
Keeping Watch EtcThe Tchenomorski keep watch on their Circassian neighbours from lofty observation posts : they fill their homes with smoke to drive away their other enemies, mosquitoes
Crowd on Oxford St 1960SPedestrians fill the pavement on one side of a busy Oxford Street, London
Egyptian ClepsydraThe CLEPSYDRA, used throughout the Near/Middle East in ancient times, measures time by how long it takes the upper bowl to fill the lower one