Hook Collection (page 10)

Three visitors, Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Three visitors, including Mr Vickerman (the boss) at the Margaret pithead, Hook Colliery, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Men at Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A group of men at Hook Colliery, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. They are standing near the aerial ropeway connected to the Margaret shaft, which opened in 1911

Cauldron and kettle at a gipsy encampment
A cauldron and a kettle heating over a log fire in the open air at a gipsy encampment

Pouring Molten Metal
A metalworker wearing protective eye goggles pours molten metal in to a mould from a huge crucible container, attached to an immense hook, into a small mould. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Molten metal is poured in to a mould
Two factory workers pour molten metal into a small mould. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Woman moors boat at Geldeston
Picturesque scene showing a woman using a boat hook to moor a boat on the Norfolk Broads in East Anglia during the 1930s

Poster advertising Miss Hook of Holland, an English musical comedy by Henry Dallas and Louis Casson, at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London. The stars were Harry Grattan and isabel Jay

Lear / Nonsense / Wales
There was a Young Lady of Wales, who caught a large fish without scales; When she lifted her hook, she exclaimed, Only look! that ecstatic Young Lady of Wales

Lear / Nonsense / Man North
There was an Old Man of the North, who fell into a basin of broth; But a laudable cook, fished him out with a hook, which saved that Old Man of the North

On the Nose! - a mosquito hits the jackpot when encountering a fine hooter

Number Engaged by Fleming Williams
Pencil drawing by Fleming Williams showing two office workers engaged in a kiss while a telephone, in the foreground, rings off the hook

Charles Laughton as Captain Hook
Charles Laughton playing Captain Hook in Peter Pan at the London Palladium. Elsa Lanchester, his wife, was Peter

G H Hirst - Cricketer
George H Hirst - cricketer for Yorkshire and England and a fine all-rounder

Denton - Yorks Cricketer
David Denton - cricketer for Yorkshire Date: 1905

Feeding a Camel
How to feed your camel - hook down a branch of a tree so that it can nibble on it

Salmon Flies
Method of making a salmon fly

Advert for hairbrushes
An advertisement for a range of hairbrushes in ivory and erinoid from Harrods toilet brush department

God Reproaches Adam
God is not at all pleased with the First Couple when they disobey him : Adam blames it on Eve, Eve blames it on the serpent, but that doesn t get them off the hook, out they go

Gertie Millar / Holland
GERTIE MILLAR Actress as she appeared in Miss Hook of Holland - seen here with a young fellow-thespian

Criqui V Ledoux 1922
A punishing left hook sends Ledoux to the canvas and gives victory to Criqui

SPREAD EAGLE, HOOK
The Spread Eagle at Hook, Surrey, a well-known posting inn

Arquebusier 17th Century
An Arquebusier insert the powder into his Arquebus, a portable long-barrelled pre- cursor to the musket, which had a wheel or match-lock action and a hook-shaped butt

Harvesting in India - 1
INDIA - Primitive methods are still in use. The reaping hook has not been superseded by modern harvesting machines, owing to the multitudes of penny-a-day laborers

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