Filling Collection

Coal miner filling truck, South Wales mine
A coal miner (Billy Hurland) filling a dram (coal truck) at Baldwins Level (nicknamed Clog and Legging) in a coalmine near Pontypool in South Wales

Picking coal from waste tip during 1921 strike, South Wales
Three men picking coal from a local colliery waste tip during the 1921 strike, South Wales

Girls filling penny tins of mustard, Norwich, Norfolk
Girls at work filling penny tins of mustard at the firm of J Colman Ltd, Norwich, Norfolk

Women working during the First World War. Above: in a weapons factory, filling shells with explosives. Below: an outdoor scene with a woman bus conductor

San Luis Potosi - Mexico - Public water fountain
San Luis Potosi - Mexico. A very fine decorative public water fountain

Filling a Tooth
A rather bored-looking young dentist fills his clients tooth with the aid of a small dental mirror

Scene at a petrol station, with an attendant filling up a car

Advertisement for Pratts petrol and motor oils
Advertisement for Pratts high test petrol and motor oils, the essence of refinement. Date: circa 1930s

Filling the Air with Fairy Forms -- a little girl blows a dandelion clock and in her imagination it turns into a flight of fairies. Date: circa 1920s

Street scene in Corfe Castle, Dorset
Street scene in the picturesque village of Corfe Castle, Dorset, with the Purbeck Garage on the left. Date: 20th century

A group of people hop picking in Kent. Date: circa 1910

Jealousy by H. M. Bateman
A dental patient sits prone in a the dentists chair with his mouth wide open while his dentist is momentarily distracted by the sight of workmen with much bigger drills across the road

Wassail, c. 1650
Wassail. A man gleefully fills a large wine jug with wine from a barrel. c.1650 Date: C.1650

Advert / Onoto Pen 1920S
Onoto - the Pen with Self-Filling Safety

Darts Team celebrate with a jug of ale, Walton, Essex
Members of the Pier Hotel Darts Team celebrate their victory with a jug of ale. 1947

Loading Churns at Farm
Loading milk churns onto a horse-drawn milk cart at a dairy farm : the cart will go from house to house, filling cans or jugs from the churns

Filling shells with nitro-glycerine for shooting oil wells Pennsylvania USA early 1900s

Southern Railway locomotive filling with water

Cask filling in a brewery Date: circa 1900s

Brewing Industry cask filling early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Advert, Co-Operative Tea is filling the Nation's Teapot

WW2 - Filling A Barrage Ballon
A photograph of some British WW2 Royal Air Force ground crew filling a barrage balloon with gas. Date: circa 1940s

Maison Ruinart, Reims, Marne, France
Pouring the champagne by hand, in the winery at Maison Ruinart, the oldest champagne house in the world, founded in Epernay in 1729 by Nicolas Ruinart, in Reims, Marne, Grand Est, France

Void
This painting depicts a landscape terrorised by war, with broken trees filling the background, and a savage mess of guns, ammunition and a military vehicle making up the foreground

Advert, Bowser, the Premier Petrol Pump Date: 1927

Filling saggers with glazed ware, Alfred Meakin
Filling saggers with glazed ware before re-firing in Glost oven Date: 1913

Filling saggers with clay ware, Alfred Meakin
Filling saggers with clay ware and placing in position in the Bisque oven Date: 1913

James Sandy & Co Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for James Sandy & Co. Ltd, a fashionable wallpaper house in Sydney. Image shows the Woodstock wall decoration, with self toned filling with cut-out under the rail

Fish
The influence of Western naturalism upon the Japanese tradition of calligraphic drawing is shown in this water colour and one can also trace in it the influence of Western composition

Advert, Schweppes Table Waters Date: 1911

Salt Workers Droitwich
Droitwich in Worcestershire was the centre of extensive works producing salt from brine. Conditions in the brine boiling sheds were arduous

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Legionnaires in the front of the Sierra chopping pines and filling sandbags to make barricades against the enemy aviation

Comic postcard, Couple doing the football pools Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Couple discussing the football pools Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Father and son doing the pools Date: 20th century

Porter filling water containers, India, c. 1880 s
Porters filling water containers, India, c.1880 s

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Wot a fing to have
The Caption is Wot a fing to have to go to bed wif. The message on the card begins Hello Darling and later continues What do you think of this card? When I saw it I just had to get it

Advertisement for Skippers Sailor Savouries sandwich filling with a poem illustrated by Gladys Peto. Date: c.1924

Water carriers filling their skins in a well, India
19th century vintage photograph: Water carriers filling their skins in a well, India

Turkish water carriers filling bags, Constantinople, Istanbu
Vintage 19th century photograph: Turkish water carriers filling their bags, Constantinople, Istanbul, turkey

A blood donor at a Civil Defence First-Aid Station operated by the Army. Blood Tranfusion became a widespread practise from the late 1930s onwards Date: circa 1939

Ceramics artist filling in outline print on china
Ceramics artist filling in outline print for enamelling china. 1953

Cartoon, Mr Charles Godfrey, His Newest Character
Cartoon portrait, Mr Charles Godfrey, music hall singer and songwriter, seen here as a barman - His Newest Character. 1885

Steve Coughlan filling LOX pots
Steve ?Will Carling? Coughlan filling LOX pots on detachment at Seeb North near Muscat in Oman Date: circa 2000

4th Special Service Brigade HQ Memorial, Sallenelles
The Brigade was made up of Royal Marine Commandos Nos 41, 46, 47 and 48. Like the other Special Forces it was charged with filling the gaps between the major landings

WWII September 1939 Holiday makers filling sandbags
Holiday makers filling sandbags at a beach on the East Coast of Britain in the week following the declaration of war in September 1939. Date: 1939

Filling her dance card, or first dance. 1870

Beefex makes the ideal sandwich
Advertisement for Beefex, a beef extract, promoting its use as a nourishing and delicious sandwich filling. Date: c. 1920s

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