Grinders Collection

Hurdy-Gurdy Man 1867
Victorian hurdy-gurdy man entertaining children

Street Trade / Grinder
A grinderx sharpens a knife in Whitehall, London

A London knife grinder on the street
A London knife grinder at work on the street

Advert for Wm. Corns & Son, combination Coffee Mill 1888
Combination mill for coffee and spices. Date: 1888

Interior of French Cutlery Factory, Thiers - Knife Grinders
Interior of French Cutlery Factory (Coutellerie), Thiers, France - Knife Grinders (Emouleurs). Date: circa 1920s

Advert for W. & T Avery, Duplex Coffee Mill. 1888
Patent Duplex Coffee Mill grind twice as fast. Date: 1888

Organ Grinder (Anon)
An organ-grinder and his monkey. Date: circa 1880

FRENCH KNIFE GRINDER
A knife grinder in a French street, watched by children and a dog Date: circa 1920

KNIFE GRINDER / WHEATLEY
Knives, scissors and razors to grind?; a knife grinder operating in a London street. Date: 1795

FRENCH KNIFE SHARPENER
A knife and scissor sharpener touts his business Date: Early 19th century

Sheffield Steel manufactures 1866
Sheffield : scythe-grinders. Date: 1866

A really very bizarre silhouette postcard depicting a man with a dancing monkey, entertaining a young couple, the gentleman in a suit, the lady in the sheerest of sheer negligees

Two boys sharpening knives - Medenine, Tunisia, North Africa Date: circa 1910s

Organ Grinder 1886
Schoolboys stop to admire the monkey who solicits a financial contribution to the upkeep of himself and his organ-grinding partner

Organ Grinder
An Italian organ-grinder in the streets of London Date: 1905

Organ Grinder (Petherick
London characters: the ORGAN GRINDER and his monkey come from Italy, and the songs he sings in our fog-grey streets are warm with nostalgia for their sunny homeland

Tinker sharpening a knife for a maid 1894
A tinker sharpening a knife for a waiting maid. Date: 1894

Hurdy-gurdy organ player
A hurdy-gurdy (orgue de Barbarie) player and his daughter in a French village Date: 1866

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- O, showing an organ grinder with a group of children. Date: circa 1860

The Mummy and the Humming Bird by Isaac Henderson
Promotional postcard for The Mummy and the Humming Bird by Isaac Henderson. First produced at Wyndhams Theatre, 10th October 1901

Street organist in silhouette
A street organ grinder, his back bent, trundles his old instrument on wheels - a once familiar sight in London. Date: 1926

Saw Grinders at Sheffield Grinding Mills, Yorkshire
Saw grinders place sheets of metal against a rotating cutter at Sheffield Grinding Mills. Date: 1844

Street music: organ grinders quarter, 1875
An Italian colony in London: the organ grinders quarter near Hatton Gardens. Date: 1875

Balinese Flour Grinders
Girls grinding sago flour, Bali, Indonesia. Date: 1930s

Industry / Cutlery
Sheffield : razor-grinders at work in the hull Date: 1866

Knife-Grinder / Belgium
A knife grinder working at Tournai market in Belgium Date: 1950

Childrens Strike of 1894
Procession of children, heading to Hyde Park in London, to demonstrate against their treatment by organ grinders. These children were part of the Organ Dancers Union

Mobile Grinder 1970S
Henry Jones, mobile grinder with his grindstone on a trolley, Horley, Surrey, England

Victorian Knifegrinder
A Victorian knifegrinder at work

Dance to Organ London
Children dancing to barrel organ in Drury Lane, London

Knife Grinder in Paris
A man grinding knives and scissors in Paris

Knife-Grinder at Butcher
A man working away sharpening knives at the back of a butchers shop or possibly an abattoir

Knife Grinder in London
Knives and scissors to grind? : a knife grinder hard at work in a London street sharpening a cleaver for a customer

Monster Organ 1846
Barefoot street children and a girl with her hoop admire the Monster Organ paraded in the streets of London by Lodovico di Modena (Italy), while other buskers can t compete

Scissors to Grind
Mr J Lee pushes his barrow through the London streets, offering to sharpen your scissors and all kinds of cutlery

Knife Grinder
Knife grinder

C17 Knife Grinder / 44
A grinder sharpens a knife on a grindstone

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