Hooks Collection

Smithfield Market
Carcasses hanging from hooks and butchers wearing their traditional white overalls at Smithfield Market, London. Date: 1950s

French and English artificial fishing flies. circa 1900

Smithfield Market
The vast interior of Smithfield meat market, with carcasses hanging from hooks all down the central aisle

Fishing Flies (American)
Fishing flies Date: 1913

Woman Butcher 1920S
A young British female butcher proudly displays her freshly slaughtered pigs, hanging from their hooks. Date: 1920s

The Butchers Shop. A young girl in red dress and bonnet looks at the variety of cuts of meat available at the Butchers Shop

Fishing Equipment suitable for the Lake District
Fishing Equipment suitable for use in the Lake District - includes two inset pictures of Derwentwater (upper picture) and Newlands Valley (lower)

Sheringham, Norfolk, viewed from Hooks Hill - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Lourdes - Praying at the Grotto and the Basilica
Three porters at the Piscines (Baths) - Lourdes, France. These gents were employed to assist the transportation of sick and disabled pilgrims to this site of miraculous healing where water from

Beef Carcasees
Butchers removing intestines from cattle carcasses, part of the Argentinian meat (beef) production process. Date: 1930s

(Goat) Meat Stall - New Market, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal state, India. The two gentleman on the right are clearly Muslim and therefore practising Halal Butchery. Date: circa 1910s

Herculine strongwoman
Herculine, known as the female Samson as she lifted weights by her hair. Hooks can be seen in this photograph attached to her hair

Tuaghs (from the Gaelic, tuagh-chatha), also known as Lochaber axes, a type of poleaxe, Scottish battle axes used in medieval times, preserved at Edinburgh

Body suspension festival of Mariatal or Chidi Mari, India
Festival of Mariatal, Churrack-Pooja, Carak Puja or Chidi Mari, near Pondicheri, India. Hindu devotees are suspended by hooks in the skin from long poles

W Heath Robinson - The Lullaby Bed, to save getting out of bed to rock baby when he is troublesome at night

Three people in a tailors workshop. Date: circa 1960s

Tailor at work on a garment. Date: circa 1960s

Thomas Samuel & Sons British needle Mills in Redditch, Worcestershire. Men making spring steel needles and fish hooks. Date: 1862

Two overcoats and a feather duster, hanging from three hooks behind a bedroom door. Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

Atlantic mackerel, and fishing methods with line and net
Atlantic mackerel, Scomber scombrus 45, and fishermen on a large boat fishing for mackerel with long lines and hooks, and in a small boat with a mackerel net, 18th century

Roanoid bakelite curtain rings, flange ends and tassel hook
Roanoid Bakelite button curtain rings in five sizes (in dark red), two flange ends for a curtain rod, and a tassel hook (in marbled brown). Date: 1930s

Roanoid bakelite hat and coat hook in dark red. Date: 1930s

Roanoid bakelite wardrobe hooks in marbled brown. Date: 1930s

Lockheed U-2G N808X
Central Intelligence Agency - Lockheed U-2G N808X. One of several U-2s procured by the CIA, for operations from aircraft carriers, fitted with lift-dumping spoilers

Royal Aircraft Factory B. E. 2a
Royal Aircraft Factory (R.A.F.) B.E.2a, (B.E. - Bleroit Experimental), flown by Wingfield Smith, powered by an air-cooled 70hp Renault V-8 engine

Elizabeth, Duchess of York winning a bottle of Champagne by hooking a wooden bottle with a fishing rod and line at a Garden Party in July 1933 held at Portman House

Advert for Fitu corsets 1934
Controlled curves. A wraparound figure form designed for large hip figures. Boned underbelt for extra control of abdomen and hips. Hookside fastening. 1934

National Childrens Home, Sheringham, Norfolk
Children and staff stand in front of the National Childrens Home at Sheringham, Norfolk. The home, at Westcroft, Hooks Hill Road, Sheringham, was established in 1916

Blue Maids Orphan Asylum, Bristol
The Blue Maids Orphan Asylum at Hooks Mills, Bristol. Date: circa 1907

Wooden fishing hook on palm of a Siberian shaman /
Wooden fishing hook on palm of a Siberian shaman/ sorcerer / wizard / healer / medicine man / foreteller. Polar Circle, Siberia, Russia. April

Advertisement for Felco products. 1946

Putting up Curtains
Curtains can make a room. Material and pattern are foremost, followed by hanging technique. Be sure to have plenty of hooks or rings and a generous amount of material Date: 1940s

Cornice Poles and Ends
Cornice poles and ends; brass curtain hooks; cleats; and other items Date: circa 1900

Fakir with Hooks in Back
Placing hooks in the back of a fakir : not only is the process painful, but the wounds will fester and lead to further pain, apart from the discomfort Date: circa 1900

Iraq / Archaeology / Nineveh
Iron artifacts found in excavations at the site of ancient Nineveh. These include a chain, a socketed pick head and ring-mounted hooks. Date: 1874

Advert for Twilfit underwear 1928
Girdles and corsets for women, English made and fully guarenteed. 1928

Cartoon, Neglected sailor, WW1
Cartoon, A neglected sailor asks a group of civilians in a restaurant what is the point of being masters of the sea, if people only give you one sardine to eat? Date: 1916

WW2 Christmas card, The Weeks Ration
WW2 Christmas card, showing a butcher in his shop, a reproduction of a painting entitled The Weeks Ration. The verse inside reads: When we queue for our chop in the butchers shop

A Useful Knitting Case, WW1
A useful knitting case from J. C. Vickery fitted with excellent bone and steel needles, crochet and wool hooks - the ideal gift for Christmas 1914

Suffragette Votes for Women Hooks & Eyes
A tiny cardboard box, packaging for Votes for Women (Trademark!) hooks and eyes. Guaranteed rust proof. An absolute necessity for the dressmaker in keeping garments closed

Loot by William Heath Robinson WWI
An unsuspecting gentleman walking his dog is being robbed by a group of Germen soldiers in a zeppelin using a hook and some rope. 1916

Theodore Hooks Grave
THEODORE HOOKs grave Date: CIRCA 1840

Theodore Hooks Home
THEODORE HOOKs home Date: CIRCA 1840

WW2 - Bomb Damage in London - Coats and Hats left on hooks
WW2 - " Wheres George?" - Bomb Damage in London - Coats and Hats left on hooks while the floor has disappeared. Date: 1940

Vietnam - Chinese Butcher
Vietnam - A Chinese Butcher Date: circa 1910s

Arrester gear hooks on the undercarriage of a Sopwith Pup. The curved strip was an airscrew guard

Arrival of Meat at Smithfield Meat Market, London, 1870
Engraving showing the arrival of meat at Smithfield Market, London, in 1870. The meat had just arrived by steam train (which can be seen in the background)

Aborigine woman in a canoe
Engraved title page, showing an Aborigine woman in a canoe, fishing. Book: An account of a voyage to New South Wales by George Barrington

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