Hammering Collection

Dry Stone Walling
Two working class men in flat caps build a dry stone wall together at Galashiel, Selkirkshire, Scotland

Coopers at work making wooden barrels
Four coopers hard at work in their workshop making traditional wooden barrels. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Blacksmith at work in his forge
An elderly blacksmith hammering a horseshoe on his anvil. The owner of the horse awaiting a new set of shoes looks in at the window, while the blacksmiths cat scratches an ear on the work bench

Wheelwrights making cart wheels
Wheelwrights or wainwrights making large wooden wheels in a traditional rural workshop. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Craftsmen making besom brooms and wooden rakes
Two craftsmen sit on narrow benches, making besom brooms and wooden rakes. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Craftsmen make besom brooms and wooden rakes
Two craftsmen sit on narrow benches, making besom brooms and wooden rakes. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Ancient metal workers, Kazakhstan
Two Kazakh craftsmen (blacksmiths) shaping metal by hammering. In the background are a yurt, horses, camels and camel keeper. BCE

Iron processing in Bronze Age, Kazakhstan area
Bronze Age craftsmen (blacksmiths) processing iron with special tools, shaping the metal by hammering. In the background are yurts and a mountain landscape. 3000-1200 BCE

View inside a copper and lead factory, London
View inside the Pontifex and Wood copper and lead factory, Shoe Lane, London. Date: 1842

Santa Claus in his workshop on a Christmas postcard
Santa Claus making a sled in his workshop on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Blacksmith hammering at a lump of metal with a long hammer
Blacksmith in his forge hammering at a lump of metal with a long hammer. Date: 1887

INDIAN IRONWORKERS
Metalworkers in a bazaar in Delhi, India, hammering out fine ironwork, including railings and window grills etc. Date: 1930s

Prince of Wales riveting bolt of Alexandra Railway Bridge
Royal tour of India: the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) riveting the last bolt of the Alexandra Railway Bridge in the Punjab. 1876

Snap Playing Cards - Tinker - Peter Pan. circa 1930s

Interior of the forge. Engraving. 19th century

Book of Trades, The Cooper. 1841

Book of Trades, The Wheel Wright. 1841

Book of Trades, The Trunk Maker. 1841

A Wheelwright
A wheelwright hammering on red-hot pieces of iron to form the tyre of a wheel Date: 1827

Industry / Smith 1827
" A smith is one who works on iron, and who from that metal manufactures a vast variety of articles useful in the arts of life, and of great importance to domestic comfort". Date: 1827

Shipwright 1827
A shipwright hammering rivets into a ships hull. Date: 1827

Pewterer 1827
A pewterer hammering mugs, jugs, plates etc in his studio. Date: 1827

Boy scouts building a wooden jetty, Mauritius
Boy scouts building a wooden jetty in Mauritius

Workers with hammers

Workmen hammering rivets into a vessel

The Last Armourer
Mr. Rex, the last armourer, hammering a helmet into shape. Date: 1930s

Hammering Gold
Extracting gold in a factory in London, England. Date: early 1930s

Farrier - Blacksmith preparing horseshoes Date: circa 1910s

Making a herring barrel, Lowestoft
A cooper making a herring barrel in Lowestoft, Suffolk. By the mid-1960s, fish catches from Lowestoft were greatly diminishing, particularly the herring. Date: 1909

Silhouette, To Hit the Nail on the Head
To Hit the Nail on the Head -- silhouette showing three children watching their father hammer a nail into the wall

Farmyard Dogs
Dogs sleeping in a Devon (England) farmyard, happy to be beside the farmer, hammering in his outbuilding. Date: early 1930s

Hammering a Wheel
A wheelwright hammering a tyre into a cartwheel in his workshop, Berkshire, England. Date: 1930s

Armourer at Work
An armourer hammering a metal helmet. Date: 1930s

Preparations for the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, 1852
The Nelson Monument in St Pauls cathedral, as preparations for the funeral of the Duke of Wellington get under way. Date: 1852

Paris Exhibition - Great Indian Exhibition (2 / 3)
People from the Malabar region of southern India (lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea) at the Grande Exposition Indienne held in Paris in 1902

A Turkish Tinker
A metal utensil manufacturer in Constantinople in his workshop. A Turkish Tinker, a mender of metal objects

Man at work in Kashgar, western China
A man at work in the open air in Kashgar, western China. He is hammering a wooden contraption with rope attached, perhaps a primitive agricultural implement

Carpenters building a wagon
Three carpenters working on a wooden wagon, using traditional tools and techniques. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

The solution to the Turkish Question
French cartoon - the solution to the Turkish Question. A huge fist falls on the Sultans head

Immigrant Bootmakers at Work, London, 1904
Engraving showing young male immigrants hard at work making shoes; stitching, sewing and hammering at a work table, London, 1904

Building from Wood

The Brazier 1827
A brazier hammers kettles, pans, candlesticks and other utensils from brass, a metal which is compounded from copper and zinc

Gold-Beater 1827
A gold-beater and his assistant hammering gold into ingots with special hammers

An Iron Foundry C19Th
The interior of an iron foundry with men hammering on an anvil, working at a furnace and using a vice

German Goldsmiths / C16
The workshop of German Goldsmith Hans Brosamer von Fulda (1506 - 1554)

Goldsmith / 16th Century
Goldsmiths at work

Tinsmith in Workshop
A tinsmith at work fashioning useful household objects such as watering cans out of tin; his children help in the workshop

Buildings / Construction
Laying bricks

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