Lock Collection

Goblin Market by Pauline Baynes
Illustration by Pauline Baynes depicting a scene from Goblin Market, the poem by Christina Rossetti, where a terrifying crowd of assorted goblins plying a girl with ripe fruit in return for a lock of

HULL DOCKS
The Entrance Lock of St. Andrews Dock, Kingston-upon- Hull, East Yorkshire, England

Indian Smoothbore. 656 in musket, Pattern 1858
Indian Smoothbore.656 in musket, Pattern 1858, lock dated 1856.Converted from a Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle-musket in India 1858 (c), this exceptionally rare item was part of an original issue of 10

Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown, rapping at the window, crying through the lock, Are the children in their beds...?

Pedro Miguel Locks, Panama Canal

Ullapool - view from the hill
Ullapool, Cromarty, Highlands, Scotland on the banks of Loch Broom - panoramic view from a nearby hill

Teddington Lock, Teddington, London, near Ham, County of London, England. Date: 1910s

Bank Vault
The Diebold Safe & Lock Co. Vault at The New Britain Trust Co. Bank Vault

Canal / Panama / Gatun Lock
American submarine chasers in Gatun Lock

Boulter's Lock, River Thames, Maidenhead, Berkshire
Entrance to Boulter's Lock, River Thames, Maidenhead, Berkshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Thos. Brett Cleveland, O. Diebold Safe & Lock Company. Date c1879. Thos. Brett Cleveland, O. Diebold Safe & Lock Company. Date c1879

Gatun Locks, Panama, Canal

1903-Trouble; 1930-Reliability: The Motor cars wonderful ad
Six photographs illustrating the development of the motor car over a period of 27 years starting with the old Siddeley of 1903 next to its latest descendant of the time

Coal Narrow Boats
A pair of laden narrow boats, with their cargoes of coal, passing through a lock on the Grand Union Canal near Watford, Hertfordshire, England

Mapledurham Lock, Berkshire. Date: 1906

Silhouettes of hunting field scenes

The Savings Bank of Utica, New York
Diebold Safe and Lock Co. The Savings Bank of Utica. Exterior of the Savings Bank of Utica building, Utica N.Y

Grand Union Canal
Narrow boats passing through the locks on the Grand Union Canal at Rickmansworth, in the Colne Valley, Hertfordshire, England

Typewriter Keys / Fortune
Typewriter keys on the cover of a magazine

Boats at Molesey Lock
Boats and boaters at Molesey Lock on the Thames at Surrey. Though larger vessels must use the lock on the right, smaller boats can be hauled over the rollers, to the left

Panama Canal and Carrier
The United States aeroplane carrier Saratoga passes through Pedro Miguel lock. Date: 1914

East Farleigh Lock, near Maidstone, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Bank Vault
The Diebold Safe & Lock Co. Vault in The Bank of Montreal, New York. Bank Vault

Gentlemans courtesans
Close up detailing the lock of a gentlemans private book of photographs of courtesans, some of whom he may very well have visited

Mississippi in Panama C
One of many ships bearing this name, this is a pre-world-war- one warship, photographed as she passes through the recently completed Panama Canal

Boulters Lock
A lovely scene of boats passing through Boulters Lock, a beautifully wooded section of the River Thames, between Marlow and Maidenhead, Buckinghamshire, England. Date: circa 1950

Sleeping Beauty by Arthur Rackham
Princess Briar Rose, aka Sleeping Beauty turns a key in the lock of a door, where she is about to meet the wicked old fairy, whose spindle will prick her finger sending her, and the royal household

The River Thames - Ankerwyke, Wraysbury, Bell Weir Lock. Close by is the The Ankerwycke Yew, an ancient yew tree close to the ruins of St Marys Priory

Borenshult Locks, Gota Canal, Motala, Sweden
Borenshult Locks (there are five in total), on the Gota Canal, Motala, Ostergotland, Sweden. Date: circa 1905

Shame Flute - German punishment for being a poor musician
A Shame Flute ( Schand Flote ) - German punishment for being a poor musician - you had to face the public wearing (around the neck) a heavy iron flute

Escape System for British Submarines, 1933
Illustration showing the air-lock system, built into British submarines of the 1930 s, that was designed to allow submariners to escape if their submarine failed

Molesey Lock, East Molesey, Surrey Date: circa 1910s

Cookham Lock, River Thames, Buckinghamshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Grand Union Canal Lock
The motor cruiser Jemima, in the lock at Stoke Bruerne, on the Grand Union Canal, Northamptonshire, England. Date: 1960s

Lower lock under construction, looking South, Miraflores, Panama Canal

The river steamer " Cliveden" on the Thames at Abingdon

Boats at Boulters Lock, Berkshire, 1907
Photograph showing the crowd of boats queuing for Boulters Lock, Berkshire, on Ascot Sunday, 1907. The day this picture was taken 1300 boats passed through the lock

At the Second Locks on the Lagan, Belfast - a view of a barge (the VIOLET) in the lock with people on board and to the side, on the Lagan. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast)

Battle of the Beaux and Belles, Aubrey Beardsley
The Battle of the Beaux and Belles by Aubrey Beardsley, one of his series of illustrations to Alexander Popes The Rape of the Lock. Date: 1896

Two Gents in Bowler Hats
Two fine gentlemen in bowler hats

Opening a lock at Brentford, 1930
A smiling woman opens a lock on a canal at Brentford, Middlesex in 1930

Lock on the River Thames
A lock on the Thames is opened by a man and small child to let through an approaching barge pulled by a horse on the river bank

Sunbury Lock, River Thames

Houdini & Daily MIrror Challenge - handcuffs 1904
The handcuffs with which the Daily Mirror challenged Harry Houdini at the London Hippodrome in March 1904. The cuff was allegedly made by a Birmingham blacksmith, Nathaniel Hart

Erie Canal Locks at Lockport, NY State, USA
circa 1910s

Boy fishing - Silhouette depictinga boy fishing. From The Book of Games published by Ward Lock. Date: 1920

Girl & boy blowing bubbles - Silhouette depicting girl & boy blowing bubbles. From The Book of Games published by Ward Lock. Date: 1920

Steamboat passing through lock near St. Louis. Missouri, USA Date: circa 1910s

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