Hammers Collection

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

Various shoemaking tools
Various tools used by a shoemaker or cobbler, including scissors, pliers, hammers, a skewer, a ruler and strong thread

Geologists Equipment
A geologists equipment includes hammers, a sieve, tweezers and a strong satchel

Hardy Patent Pick Co. mining tools 1890s
Selection of solid steel mining hand tools made by Hardy Patent Pick Co, in Sheffield. Date: 1890s

Boys making a pigeon loft
School children at the school Abbotsholme building a pigeon loft. The school was set up by Mr George Allen. Who published a volume entitled Abbotsholme, 1889-99; or

Music cover, The Jolly Blacksmiths March-Twostep, written by E T Paull and E Braham. 1905

Music-box mechanism with cylinder and hammers to play chimes on a bell, and music score to Ignace Joseph Pleyels German Hymn

Chime engine in the clock room of St. Margaret s
Chime work with engine and hammers located in the clock room of St. Margarets Church, Westminster Abbey. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey Jr

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

Flint grinding, Staffordshire Potteries 1843
A steam-powered vertical hammers breaks up flint into small fragments, pieces are then finely ground in a mill and mixed with clay for use in pottery. Date: 1843

TOOLS / HAMMERS ETC / 1889
Various types of hammer and scythe Date: 1889

17th century Blacksmith
Two blacksmiths work with hammers at an anvil, while behind them their furnace roars. Date: 17th century

SAI KZ VII Laerke OY-aZ
SAI KZ VII Laerke (Danish: Lark) OY-aZ of Hammers Luftfart, somewhere in Denmark. (SAI- Skandinavisk Aero Industri) Date: 1950s-1960s

Ancient Gem Cutter and Apprentice - Sri Lanka
Ancient Gem Cutter with his cutting and polishing tools and (his middle-aged!) Apprentice - Sri Lanka. Date: circa 1908

Masonry Tools 18th C
Various tools used by builders in the 18th century : trowels, spades, saws, baskets, spades, wheelbarrows, hammers, etc. Date: Circa 1760

Statue of Jack Blandiver in Wells Cathedral, Somerset. The Cathedral Clock was installed in 1390. Inside, Jack Blandiver, the quarter-jack, strikes the bells at his heels at every quarter-hour

Anti-Suffrage Cartoon Votes for Women
A girl sneaks in to the offices of the militant suffragettes to see piles of newspapers, hammers, whips and stones. All part of the W.S.P.Us arsenal

Quarrymans Tools 18th C
Various tools including pickaxes and hammers, used by quarriers in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Renault Power Hammers
More than 70 power hammers press metal into shape in the Renault moror works

Blacksmith (Series)
Le marechal ferrand - BLACKSMITH - hammers a horseshoe on his anvil

Women WW1 Work Carpenters
A group of women working as carpenters making ammunition boxes or wooden storage cases. Most hold tools such as drills, planes and hammers

Bruges, Belfry of Le Carillon St - Belgium
The belfry of Bruges is a medieval bell tower in the historical centre of Bruges. This image is of the interior of the bell tower showing the bells and striking hammers in position

Borstal Smiths Shop
A smiths at an unidentified Borstal. Inmates work with hammers and anvils around a furnace. Date: circa 1926

Anglo Saxon banquet and tools.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. 1798

Workers with hammers

Suffragette Hammer in Pocket Policeman. Wily suffragette with half concealed hammer sees her chance as policeman sleeps whilst on duty. Although the suffragettes have nt votes

British troops in India pretend to be rock-breaking convicts
British troops stationed in India having a bit of fun playing at being convicts! The caption " Ah (sic) we downhearted - roll on Oct"

Norwegian Miners / 1540
Medieval depiction of Norwegian miners, with axes and hammers Date: 1540

Shear and Tilt Hammers at Fitzalan Steel Works, Sheffield, Y

Forging Razor Blades at a Sheffield Steel Works, Yorkshire

Workshop of H. Trauffer - Davos, Switzerland
The carpentry workshop of carpenter H. Trauffer of Davos, Switzerland, pictures carving a fabulous life-size Saint Bernard dog. Date: circa 1920s

French Soldiers-Bridge
French civil engineering corps construct a temporary wooden bridge out of staves and brushwood on a training mission. Date: 1886

Stoneworkers Tools 18Th
Various tools including pickaxes, hammers and measuring instruments used by stoneworkers and masons in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Indian Goldsmiths at work

Education, boys, metal work
A well equipped metal work class. A boy hammers a metal handle which he has just forged, upon the face of an anvil

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

Nasmyths Steam Hammer
Interior of factory showing Nasmyths steam hammer in action

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

Creusot Steam Hammer
Visitors to the Paris Exposition admire the massive Creusot steam hammer, a fitting symbol of French engineering

1798 Rebels Destroy Home
Rebels destroying a house and furniture : property smashed with hammers and axes, floorboards ripped up and set on fire, piano danced upon

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