Fixing Collection

DIY mechanic fixing car, Eccles, Manchester
A DIY mechanic fixing a car in front of his Eccles house. He doesn t appear to have any shoes on, only socks! Date: circa 1981

Just Wright by David Wright showing a glamorous woman fixing her shoe. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940s

Huntley, Aberdeenshire - repairing a flat tyre
Huntley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland - repairing a flat tyre. The number plate, identifies this fine vehicle as from Liverpool (" K" ) and it was vehicle number 388 registered

David Wright woman in white evening dress
Elegant woman in a white evening dress, fixing her stocking near her dressing table. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour

Lance-Corporal Jarvis in Great War Deeds, WW1
Lance-Corporal Charles A Jarvis of the Royal Engineers, winning the Victoria Cross by fixing a firing charge for the demolition of a bridge, under heavy fire

Fixing a canoe to the top of a veteran car, early 1900s

Three steam engines clearing a snow drift in Scotland and a man fixing the telephone wires, probably 1930s

Billy Fixed The Wheel Of His Bicycle
An illustration for a wartime children's short story book, Adventures! The image shows a boy named Billy, fixing the wheel of his bicycle. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - Fixing Blenheim Engine Cowling
This photograph shows some British WW2 Royal Air Force mechanics fixing the cowling of the engine of a Blenheim aircraft. Date: circa 1940s

The Channel Crossing
A tempera painting of some figures tightly fixing themselves to seats and rails of a boat, travelling across the Channel Crossing, on a somewhat turbulent sea. Date: circa 1920

The end of the Afghan War featured on the cover of The Graphic, 12th July 1879 - photographing the Ameer Yakoob Khan (Emir Mohammad Yaqub Khan) at Gandamak where the treaty of peace was signed

Curly mesquite, Hilaria cenchroides, Ilaria cencroide. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science

Woman fixing her stockings, era of Marie Antoinette
Woman in dress a la Polonaise fixing her stockings, era of Marie Antoinette. Femme en robe ?? la Polonaise remettant sa jarretiere

Glass blower fixing a handle on a jug. 1953

Processing photographs
A man processing photographic images within a small workshop/workroom. He is surrounded by all the equipment he requires to create prints. Date: 1880

Newhaven fishermen and fishwives 1862
A group of fishermen and fishwives in typical clothing worn at that time. 1862

Front cover, The Electric Guide, 8th Edition
Front cover, The Electric Guide, 8th (Abridged) Edition, by Arthur L Golding. Date: circa 1930s

Violet Cordery, Queen of Motorists
Violet Cordery, whose successful driving earned her the title of Queen of Motorists, showing her sister Evelyn how to tune up a car

Waiting for the mail train 1890s
Two officers of the Post Office fixing the mail-bag to the post outside Bletchley station on for the London and North Western Railway

WW2 - Canadian Trooper repairing his bicycle in Normandy following the D-Day landings - June 1944. Date: 1944

First day of the Somme - fixing bayonets
The Lancashire Fusiliers in a trench seen fixing bayonets, ready for action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme (1 July 1916). 1916

Princess Elizabeth as an ATS officer
Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II), seen far right, in training as an ATS officer at an ATS training centre in Southern England during 1945

Two boys playing in old washing machine
Two young lads fooling about with (and inside!) an old washing machine. Perhaps they were harbouring dreams of a career in plumbing at this stage?!

Watch Repair
A suited man concentrates very hard as he fixes a wrist watch

The Absent-Minded Owner of Two Babies, Joyce Dennys
A woman gets a little muddled when fixing her car in charge of her baby. She attempts to add milk to the engine while the baby takes a swig of oil. Date: 1929

Istanbul - Turkish Street Cobbler. Date: circa 1910

Hurdle making -- a range of scenes. 1899

Illustration, Mending the Dolls Head. circa 1900s

Staring at Wheel-Change
- I don t know why everyones staring, just because I m changing a wheel ! Date: 1928

The Debutante 1850
A debutante in a beautiful white satin dress and a rosette in her hair, fixes her hair in the mirror. She is admired by her proud mama and servants. Date: 1850

Humorous Dutch card - pumping up a car tyre. Sent as a Mother and Fathers day card from the sender to his/her parents! Date: circa 1910

A man works beneath a car, beneath a car poster, in Eccles
An advertising poster up on a house wall for the new Ford Sierra car (estate and saloon) looks down on a man trying to fix his old car! Date: circa 1980

Envelope, Paget photographic paper
Envelope containing twenty sheets of Paget self-toning paper, price eightpence, from Paget Prize Plate Co Limited of Watford. Date: circa 1920s

Envelope, Seltona photographic paper
Envelope containing twelve sheets of Seltona self-toning paper, price sixpence, from Leto Photo Materials Company Limited of London and Edgware. Date: circa 1920s

Couple trying to fix a car on a London street. They have the bonnet up and are looking into the engine. Date: circa 1960s

London in 1919 - rebuilding roads outside John Lewis
After a number of London thoroughfares were badly neglected during the First World War, many roads and famous streets were repaired by workmen in 1919

Girls at work making ammunition boxes, WW1
Young women manufacturing ammunition boxes, fixing together the dovetailed pieces at an unidentified British factory during the First World War. Date: 1915

Some people can always get help
A attractive woman stands helplessly next to her broken down car, while a man helps. Date: 1923

Indian non-combatants in France during World War I
Manipuris from the Burmah border assisting behind the lines: exploring a motor-car on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1917

LFB Engineering Workshop - Hose couplings tied Date: circa 1930s

LFB Engineering Workshop - Vehicle repairs Date: circa 1950s

Boys of the 10th Calgary Scout Troop, Canada, fixing up home-made nest boxes in a tree

Food panic at the outbreak of World War One
Illustration depicting the sad fate of a family stricken with war panic which was so prominent during the first week of the war

Fixing obi sash, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Mending household items 1944
Make Do and Mend. During World War Two women became very resourceful, they tackled repairs and maintenance of many clothing and household items, that today we would just throw away and replace. 1944

Mending household items 1943
Make Do and Mend. During World War Two women became very resourceful, they tackled repairs and maintenance of many clothing and household items, that today we would just throw away and replace. 1943

Fixing the Propeller - Hamburg-America Line
Fixing the Propeller for a vessel of the Hamburg-America Line, Germanys largest shipping company at this time. Date: circa 1910s

A courtesan fixing her hair

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