Heap Collection

Cub Scouts taking part in Operation Shoeshine
Two Cub Scouts taking part in Operation Shoeshine, a seven-day campaign during Scout Job Week. Their first customer was an actress, Caroline Munro

Pressing Cider Apples
The Pound-House of a Devon cider farm : on the right is the mill, and on the left is the press where the mock of crushed apples is built into a square heap for pressing

The Way of an Eagle by George Studdy
A litter of enthusiastic but accident-prone puppies crash into a fence and fall in a heap on top of one another after chasing a chicken across a farm yard

Street fighting in Stalingrad
Photograph: Street fighting in Stalingrad. A picture from Axis sources shows German soldiers, glad of the shelter of a crater in a Stalingrad street

Escalator Trials
A couple misunderstand the instructions for stepping off a new fangled moving staircase and land in an undignified heap on the floor of the underground station

Gold Mine Headgear - Witwatersrand (East) - South Africa. Date: circa 1910s

Cast of Hiawatha at the open-air Theatre, Scarborough
The touring cast of The Song of Hiawatha by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at the open-air Theatre, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England

National Coal Strike of 1912 - searching through slag heap
The National Coal Strike of 1912 - searching through slag heap for pieces of coal to burn.. The national coal strike of 1912 was the first national strike by coal miners in the United Kingdom

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 11
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A view of some of the makeshift buildings that have grown among the rubbish tips. This is where the better off Zabballeen people live circa 1995

Man on coal spoil tip Blaenavon, South Wales
A man walks along the edge of a coal spoil tip above council houses in Blaenavon, South Wales. 1988

The Oven or Kiln, Chepy Brickworks, Marne department, France
The Oven or Kiln, Chepy Brickworks (Briqueterie) - Marne department in north-eastern France. Date: circa 1907

Ottoman Empire. Turkish books. Engraving by Lemaitre. Historia de Turquia by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844) and Jules Van Gaver, 1840

GOLD FOR ITALY
John Bull delivers a sack of gold to the king of Italy to keep him in the war despite the mounting heap of dead. Date: July 1915

Comic postcard, Cockerel and hens, egg production, WW2 Date: 1940s

Comic postcard, Cockerel scratching for a living Date: 20th century

Circumstantial Evidences by John Hassall
Oh you naughty boy! I saw you throw it! Falling snow from a nearby roof has suddenly landed on top of a bemused woman in a large heap, as a innocent boy passes by. Date: 1909

Sorting a dust-heap at a County Council depot 1900
Men turn over the heaps of rubbish, while women look for a honest penny collecting bottles and empty and sardine tins in the County Council depot. London. 1900

Illustration, White-Ear at night with his prey. Date: 1912

FALL / SEALYHAM / 1943
Four Sealyhams sitting on a bench owned by Heap. Date: 1943

BELA KUN organises a communist revolution in Hungary - the Germans depict him rising to power on a heap of corpses Date: 1919

Pits and pitmen - night-shift 1871
Night-shift down the pits, half an hour before the shift starts at five-thirty in the evening, the miners meet on the pit-heap for a chat by a fire, this engraving was took from Seaham

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 10
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A man catches a pig. It will be eaten. There is little time for religious niceties among the poverty and filth of the rubbish tip

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 8
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A cart pulled by two donkeys stops in the rubbish-strewn streets Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 9
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A man catches a pig by the leg. It will be eaten. There is little time for religious niceties among the poverty and filth of the rubbish tip

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 6
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A small girl child dodges past a donkey cart in the rubbish-strewn streets Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 7
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A cart pulled by three small donkeys carries rubbish and three men from the tip Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 5
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. Three young girls sift though the smoking rubbish Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 2
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A femae child wearing what might once have been a pretty pink dress. It is now ragged and filthy Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 4
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A small boy carries a tin can into which he will put small metal items he finds among the rubbish Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 3
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A small boy scrabbles in the rubbish with his bare hands. More children work behind him Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 1
Zabbaleen children on the rubbish tips of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A ragged child finds a piece of bread among the rubbish and offers it to her sister, who clings to her brother Date: circa 1995

Filthy streets, Mokattam, Cairo
The filthy street of Mokattam in the middle of the rubbish tips of Cairo, Egypt Date: circa 1995

A scrapyard for cars, St Erth, Cornwall
A scrapyard for cars at St Erth near Hayle in Cornwall. A crane is about to drop another car on the heap

Carpenter?s repair shop of the Electrical and Mechanical Eng
Lantern slide showing the carpenter?s repair shop of the Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 8th Army, Italy 1943; pictured are Corporal E B Heap, of Manchester, and Craftsman T E Jenkinson

Slag heap and mining complex around Loos February 18
Slag heap and mining complex around Loos. February 18. 313870 Gunner Vivian John Cummings, Born 31.07.1875, 3Rd Canadian Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force

Aberfan: the desolate village
The front page of The Illustrated London News, reporting on the Aberfan disaster. An aerial view of the path of destruction left by the rain-soaked coal tip that slipped 500 yards down

SOLON Greek lawgiver : with a heap of documents containing his laws. Date: 630 ? - 560 ? BC

Bermuda - Packing Onions
Packing onions into wooden crayes ready for international export - Bermuda. Date: circa 1910s

WW2 poster, Scrap Heap
WW2 poster by Fougasse, Scrap Heap -- When you scrap a job, you scrap all the labour thats gone on it. Please don t add to the heap! Date: circa 1942

All time heap much trouble, wow!!. Illustration shows a group of senators dressed as Native Americans in a war dance around a totem pole with the face of President Theodore Roosevelt carved at

An east prospect of the city of Philadelphia; taken by George Heap from the Jersey shore, under the direction of Nicholas Scull surveyor general of the Province of Pennsylvania

Shacks condemned by Board of Health, formerly (?) occupied by migrant workers and pickers, Belle Glade, Fla. Photograph shows automobiles. Date 1941 Jan.?

Boys playing cricket
The boys play cricket, ignoring Jack Sparrows request for help. Date: 1937

St. Johns - Newfoundland - Huge Snowdrift
Forest Road on Signal Hill - St. Johns - Newfoundland and Labrador. The occupants of this fine wooden house have burrowed through an enorous snowdrift to provide front access to their home

Cheshire Muck Heap
Farmers Gold - a muck heap on a farm in Cheshire, England, proving that where theres muck, theres brass ! Date: 1960s

The boys recover their cricket score sheet
Jack Sparrow opens his beak to speak, and the boys recover their cricket score sheet. Jack flies off. Date: 1937

House and slag heap near Swansea
A house near Swansea is becoming overwhelmed by a nearby slag heap. A man clambers up the heap to inspect its progress. Date: circa 1936

Men searching for coal on slag heap
A line of unemployed men carrying sacks search for lumps of coal on a slag heap in South Wales. In the background are railway lines and clouds of smoke and steam rising from the engines

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