Lock Collection (page 9)

Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada
Cargo steamers await the opening of Navigation at Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada. The name of two cities on the Saint Marys River

An early Egyptian Private Banker
Pop in and speak to your own personal banker at Egypts first fully staffed cash machine doorway! A wonderful postcard depicting a money changer seated in front of his unlocked safe alongside piles of

Iffley Lock, Oxfordshire
Iffley Lock, on the River Thames, near Oxford

Adverts for Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management
Two pages of advertisements for Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management and other Cookery Books, still going strong in the early 20th century

Boats at Boulters Lock, Berkshire, 1906
Photograph showing the crowd of boats and people at Boulters Lock, Berkshire, on Ascot Sunday, 1906

Debutante Learns Curtsey
Mrs Ruby Peeler instructs a debutante in the art of the curtsey. She balances a box on her head and practices the knee lock, which should prevent her overbalancing

Men Working on Water
An impressionist-style painting by Max Martin showing two river, canal or boat men at work

Foot in Chamber-Pot
Ragotin, a careless child, gets his foot stuck in a metal chamber-pot. Break the pot or amputate the foot ? A lock- smith is called in to cut the pot, to everyones relief

Wizard of Ox / Guardian
The Guardian of the Gate

Advertisement for L Stringer, fish, game and poultry dealer
Advertisement for L Stringer, Lock-Up Yard, Derby, Market Hall Entrance, Fish, Game and Poultry Dealer, Rabbit Salesman, Fresh Fish Daily

Social / China Junks C1840
Junks passing an inclined plane on the Imperial canal in China; citizens mill around, one man smokes a pipe on his boat, others buy and eat rice from a stall

Wrestling / Cornwall Style
Cornwall and Devon style of wrestling showing two men demonstrating the Inside Lock or Click

Handwriting / Garrick
English actor, famous for his Shakespearean roles, enclosing a lock of his hair for use in a portrait

Money Box Safe
A useful money box safe with a combination lock is a good idea for a present for kiddies and an ideal way to teach them to save

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

Boats on the Thames
Pleasure boats on the river Thames below Whitchurch Lock, Pangbourne, Berkshire

Erie Canal, Newark
ERIE CANAL A boat leaves the lock at Newark, New York

Canal Tow Path & Horse
An industrial narrow boat laden with coal is towed by a horse (encouraged with a feeding nosebag) on the tow path (entering a lock), Grand Union Canal, England

Lock on Kiel Canal
Kiel Canal linking the North Sea and the Baltic : Hollenau Locks

Dartmoor Warders 1910
Group photograph of warders at Dartmoor Prison, outside the front entrance. We trust the inmates were safely under lock and key at the time

Cambridge Lock
Jesus Lock, on the Cam, Christs Meadows

Nautilus Swim Club 2
Members of the Nautilus Swimming Club, based at Camberwell Baths in south-east London, pass through a lock on the Thames on their way to their River Picnic

Gatun Lock and Liner
The American Dollar Line steamship President Van Buren passes through Gatun Lock

Gatun Lock Aerial View
Birds eye view of the Gatun sequence of locks

Red Flood Let Loose 1931
The Red Flood let loose Workers are swept through an open lock

Pistols Breech-Loading
Breech-loading wheel-lock pistol, with an ivory stock - it was used in the time of Henry VIII

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