Helping Collection (page 8)

Refilling engine tender during rail strike
During the rail strike a platform inspector and guards help to fill an engine tender with coal. 1911

A Short Stop at a Weigh Station. The Polite Conductor helping a woman board a railway train Date: 1875

An American Ship Rescuing the Officers and Crew of a British Man of War. Date: 1868

Policeman helping a young boy cross the road
A Metropolitan Police officer from the Holborn Division, helping a young boy cross the road safely. The white arm sleeves show that the officer is on point duty. Date: circa 1930s

A victorious young lady
Every Time we win - A lady runs through a series of scenes where she is the ultimate victor of the situation. From the left, she assists with a kiss to the head (" Damn, I have a crush)

Metropolitan Police officer and child
A Metropolitan Police officer helping a little boy who is temporarily lost. (2 of 3) Date: 1970s

Everybody works but Father - Unemployment
Father enjoys his paper and pipe in front of the fire, whilst Mother does the washing, Sister Ann also helps and the young narrator of this social comment carries a paint pot. Date: 1906

Metropolitan Police officer and children crossing road
A Metropolitan Police officer helps a group of children cross the road. Date: circa 1960s

Metropolitan Police officer and lost boy
A Metropolitan Police officer holding a little boy lost. Date: circa 1930s

Policeman helping an old lady cross the road
A policeman helping an old lady cross the road. In the background is a corner pub, The Bird in Hand. Date: mid-20th century

Metropolitan Police officer and crying child
A Metropolitan Police officer, PC Newell, holding a crying child who is temporarily lost. Date: February 1939

Wounded soldier on muddy road, Macedonian Front, WW1
A wounded soldier is helped along a muddy road by two colleagues on the Macedonian Front during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1917

A Helping Hand
A helping hand - mother helps her young daughter to get down from a motor boat on the River Dee, Chester, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

Lady in blue and white dress by Philippe et Gaston
Lady in a blue and white crepe visitors dress trimmed with fringes, by Philippe et Gaston. Her maid is helping her get dressed. 1924

Susan helps Dunderpate walk on his hands, to prevent the grass growing under his feet. Date: 1938

Dunderpate in various poses, working at school and at home. Date: 1938

Cat in Hat Shop
A doggy shop assistant helping a catty customer to select a new bonnet. Date: early 1930s

Boys Helping Glider
A group of boys with ropes, attempting to guide a glider plane down to a safe landing. Date: 1930s

good Samaritan Cyclist
The Helping Hand : A male cyclist helps three distressed females to mend a punctured bicycle tyre! Date: 1930s

Helping Daddy Date: circa 1949

Wallingford Farm Colony
Wallingford Farm Training Colony was set up in 1911 by William Henry Hunt. It took unemployed young men off the streets and trained them on the land prior to helping them emigrate to one of

Scouts helping elderly man
American Scouts assisting an elderly person from his wheelchair onto a bus. circa 1930s

Sea Scouts helping at Olympics
Sea Scouts assisting with the boats at Torquay during the 1948 Olympics. 1948

Sea Scouts helping at 1948 Olympics
Sea Scouts assisting with the boats at Torquay during the 1948 Olympics. 1948

Children helping mother in the kitchen
Three children helping their mother in the kitchen, washing each other from a large bowl on a chair. 1900

From Cinderella by Katharine Cameron. Cameron was a Glasgow born illustrator and an associate of Jessie M King and the Mackintoshes. 1904

Helping Mother hang up the washing
Two children Helping Mother hang up the washing. 19th century

Putting on a corset - with assistance
A lady requires some assistance in the tightening of the laces of her corset. The rather caustic caption reads: " Reducing the Surplus" !! Date: circa 1905

How they helped in Hyde Park and Whitehall during the strike
Typical volunteer workers in Hyde Park and Horse Guards, helping in the canteens and hanging out the washing

Kitchens, Lambeth Schools, West Norwood, London
Staff and inmate helpers in the kitchens at the Lambeth Schools for workhouse children on Elder Road, West Norwood, South London. Kitchen fittings include a large cooking range and two coppers

Her Good Deed by Muriel Dawson
A tiny little girl charmingly dressed in a red dress with a bow in her hair, helps out by podding a large number of freshly picked peas

Little Crossing Sweeper by Muriel Dawson
A small child in a blue coat and hat assiduously sweeps up autumn leaves with the help of an old-fashioned broom and a wheelbarrow

Washing Day by Millicent Sowerby
Two jolly girl guides and a little Brownie hard at work on washing day. One washes clothes in a soap sud filled wash tub while another hangs gleaming sheets on a line

A Good Turn a day
A good boy scout should always be on the look out to lend a helping hand, from posing as Father Christmas to filling up the bird bath

Kind Thoughts, by Ethel Parkinson
Kind Thoughts -- a Christmas Greetings card by Ethel Parkinson, showing a little girl and an elderly gentleman walking down a snowy street. He is carrying a few parcels, and is using a walking stick

Flanders 1918
Old women refugees in a farm cart near Bethune with British soldiers in Flanders on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1918

Winter supplies 1917
British troops helping push a horse and wagon through the snow near Hesdin on the British Front in France during World War I on 20th December 1917

Retreat to Hindenburg Line 1917
German retreat to the Hindenburg Line. Military cyclists passing through the village of Vraignes in France on the British front during World War I in March 1917

Turkish gallantry
A Young Turkish man helps his pretty girl into his rowing boat for a jolly row across the Golden Horn, Constantinople

London Policeman and children
A London Bobby on the beat holds the hands of some school children, possibly prior to guiding them safely across the busy road

The General Strike - volunteers

The General Strike - peeling potatoes in Hyde Park
A Snap-Shot of Striketime Society: Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper and Lady Carmichael-Anstruther peeling potatoes in Hyde Park. Front cover of The Sketch emergency issue produced during the General Strike

The General Strike
Cartoon sketch of a society lady helping out during the General Strike, accompanied by her pet poodle. In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts

War in Italy
Street posters tell Parisians that Napoleon has decided to go to war in Italy, helping Vittorio Emanuele to boot out the Austrians. They will get Savoie and Nice as a reward

Helping the Homeless
Homeless children of Petrograd receive free dinners at a canteen

Samuel Smiles Sambourne
SAMUEL SMILES Scottish author, best known for his book Self-Help of 1859, helping himself to a large glass of champagne

Folding Ballots in a New York Politicians House, 1872
Engraving showing a drawing room in a New York politicians house with a group of young ladies helping to fold ballot papers for the 1872 Presidential election

Helping to Cross Street
A man earns some money by helping people to cross a Paris street in wet weather

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