Laying Collection (page 6)

Palmerston and Stone
HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, third viscount PALMERSTON statesman, depicted laying the foundation stone of the Melbourne Athenaeum, in Derbyshire. Date: 1784-1865

Sunlight Treatment
A group of nurses laying down three babies for sunlight treatment. Date: early 1930s

Air Pageant 1930S
Planes apparently laying colour screens (unfortunately, since this is a black and white photograph!) at an air show. Date: early 1930s

Crazy Paving Vicar
This vicar and his pretty little girl assistant are laying paving in a church yard in Hampstead, North London, England. Date: early 1930s

Laying the Cloth - Illustration for Goldsmiths The Vicar of
Laying the Cloth (1899) (Illustration for Oliver Goldsmiths The Vicar of Wakefield, 1890). Thomson, Hugh 1860 - 1920. Date: 1899

Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms awake from hibernation
Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms during second hibernation phase. Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms feeding on mulberry leaves Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms begin to construct cocoons Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Gathering silkworms from egg paper
Japan - Silk Industry - Gathering the silkworms from the egg paper using a delicate feather brush. Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Bombyx mori Moths lay eggs on paper Date: circa 1909

South Korea - Chosen - Playing traditional local board game Date: circa 1920s

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - A little bit behind
" A little bit behind!" - A kind young girl helps her boy chum who has torn his shorts and requires an urgent spot of patching-up! Date: circa 1942

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Can it be true? Churchill Quote
" We shall continue steadfast in faith and duty till our task is done." - Winston Churchill, The Prime Minister A little farmers boy is delighted that a reluctant hen has finally produced

The Cable Ship Faraday in the mouth of the River Thames. Built by Siemens Bros. in circa 1874 and spent 50 years laying cable

French patriotic WWI postcard - Debt owed to those who die
(transalation) To you who give your life - the flowers that you are owed from your Fatherland. Date: circa 1916

An old actor lays down the law to a journalist
Old actor (laying down the law to Journalist) - " And let me tell you that when I speak, I know what I m talking about, I ve seen the world - Peckham - everywhere!" Date: 1900

Egypt - Heliopolis - Laying Foundation stone St Michael s
Egypt - Heliopolis - Laying Foundation stone for St Michaels Church on Seti Street off Baghdad Street. British dignitaries arriving in a fine Rolls Royce! Date: 1925

California, USA - drying prunes in the hot sun Date: circa 1910s

French sappers undermining a German trench - WWI Date: circa 1916

Calliphora, bluebottle
A bluebottle laying eggs on carrion

Pseudorhyssa sp. ichneumon fly female
A female ichneumon fly laying eggs on the parasite of a wood wasp grub

London Fire Brigade -- recruiting for the AFS
The hose laying lorry at Lambeth (Fire Brigade HQ) being pasted with Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) recruitment posters as part of a countrywide recruitment campaign before the outbreak of the Second

LCC-LFB The hose laying lorry at Southwark HQ
The Brigades first high speed hose laying lorry, seen at the then Brigade headquarters at Southwark, SE1

GLC-LFB appliance fleet -- hose laying lorry
The GLC-LFB was created on 1 April 1965. A series of photos was commissioned of each type of fire engine, either within or absorbed into the enlarged London Fire Brigade

LCC-LFB hose laying lorry (HLL) at Lambeth HQ
Lee Greens (C49) hose laying lorry on display in Lambeth headquarters station drill yard. The 3.5 inch hose is stored in such a way that the mile of hose carried can be fed from the rear of

NFS firefighter rolling out fire hose, WW2
A London Region NFS firefighter in an instructional photograph demonstrating the correct method of rolling out a line of hose

LCC-LFB Lee Green hose laying lorry at Lambeth HQ
Lee Green fire stations hose laying lorry at Lambeth HQ. The side roller shutter doors are open, showing the stored hoses which can be easily layered out from the rear access door while the lorry is

LCC-LFB hose laying lorry
A hose laying lorry from Lee Green fire station, SE London, with its side roller shutters closed

Laying the pontons at Fredericksburg. Date c1887 May 16

Advertisement for railway equipment
Advertisement for W B Dick & Co of London, Manufacturers of Light Railways and Tramway Materials. Showing various railway items, with a depiction of Kerrs Patent Portable Railway at the centre

A dead German, lying symbolically in a field of wheat
" The Harvest" Caption: " And with mine own hand labour d it to grow, and his as all the harvest that I reap d" The moralising quote, from the Rubaiyat of Omar Kyyam

A young flapper woman reclining on a snow leopard pelt. Date: 1928- 1929

The Whale Fishery Laying On
Whale Fishery. Date: 1852

Silhouettes from the Somme, WW1
When following on the heels of a retreating enemy, there is increased work for all. Here we have a squadron of cavalry returning from close contact with the enemy

Entry of the King of Bulgaria into Turkish territory
Entry of the King of Bulgaria Ferdinand I (1861-1948) into Turkish territory. The greeting soldiers are laying down their arms before him

Workmen laying an oil pipeline in Persia for the BP company. Date: circa 1925

Australian Signals laying telephone cable, France, WW1
Australian Signals laying telephone cable near Eaucourt l Abbaye, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1917

Sphere front cover: Queen on Remembrance Sunday 1952
Front cover of The Sphere showing Queen Elizabeth II laying a wreath of poppies at the Cenotaph in Whitehall on Rembrance Sunday 1952, shortly after her accession to the throne. Date: 01/11/1952

Whoever would have thought it
Three monks go fishing, but they get more than they bargained for. 1927

Reclining Oriental Beauty with Hookah Pipe - sprawled across a divan covered witha beautiful patterned fabric. Date: circa 1902

American soldiers under cover, France, WW1
American soldiers of a Signal Corps detachment, 102nd Infantry, 26th Division, under cover before laying wire near Chateau Thierry, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 19 July 1918

Mine laying submarine, WW1
An illustration showing a mine-laying submarine during the First World War, and the different stages involved -- the mine leaving the submarine, the mine rising and reaching the surface

British troops laying light railway, WW1
British troops laying a light railway in preparation for the advance during the First World War. Date: 1916

1950s DIY Date: 1959

Australian Signals laying cable near Albert, France, WW1
Australian Signals laying cable in a muddy area near Albert, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 21 September 1917

Water Shrine close to Venice, Italy
A Scene in Venice A Water Shrine near Venice, Italy - a boat carries a family who bring offerings of flowers to place at the feet of the Madonna in the shrine

British Signal Corps laying subterranean cable, WW1
Men of the British Signal Corps laying a subterranean cable during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

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