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Aveling Porter Steam Roller, England. Showing men mending the road Date: 1900s
WW1 - Russian trench scene - Eastern Front Date: 1916
Sunday Work in the Tunnel of a Great Main Line, MataniaLabour and railway efficiency: Renewing the Permanent Way of a Great Main Line. Sunday work in the tunnel of a great main line outside London - gangs of navvies relaying the permanent way. Date: 1914
Three men repairing fishing nets, Holy Land. Date: 1920s
LFB Engineering Workshop - Vehicle repairs Date: circa 1950s
Darn It by Edmund BlampiedA pretty sketch of a young woman darning a stocking - a fine example of war economy. 1916
Cobblers at work, Naples, Italy. Date: late 19th century
Mending Atlantic cables by G. H. DavisMending earthquake-torn Atlantic cables: methods and tools. How the Atlantic cables broken by the submarine earthquake (18 November) are repaired: perilous work in winter. Date: 1929
Fisherman making and repairing lobster potsA fisherman making and repairing lobster pots. Date: circa 1930
Repairs to Petrograd Tramways, 1923Repairs underway on tramlines in central Petrograd (St Petersburg) in 1923. Date: 1923
Silhouette Calendar -- January, New Year Resolutions. Showing a little girl sewing at a table. Date: 20th century
Mending household items 1944Make Do and Mend. During World War Two women became very resourceful, they tackled repairs and maintenance of many clothing and household items, that today we would just throw away and replace. 1944
Fisherman repairing lobster potsA fisherman repairing lobster pots. Date: circa 1930
Repairing a junk - Vietnam / China border - Xi RiverRepairing a junk near the Vietnam / China border on the banks of the Xi River, the western tributary of the Pearl River in China
Underground home - Kamchatka - Far Eastern Russia - used in the harsh winter. Date: circa 1800
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 - Austerity - Getting by with Shreds and ThredsWW2 - Austerity - Getting by with Shreds and Threads. Lovely card by Evelyn E Morris, relating to the need for austerity during wartime and hence a lack of available cloth for new clothes or repairs
Why Get Married?" Why Get Married?" The Joys of Bachelor Life illustrated quite clearly in this humorous German postcard illustration! Date: circa 1910s
Mending household items 1943Make Do and Mend. During World War Two women became very resourceful, they tackled repairs and maintenance of many clothing and household items, that today we would just throw away and replace. 1943
Poster: How to make your household linens last longer
She didn t know what to doThere was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children, she didn t know what to do -- an illustration to the nursery rhyme, showing the old woman not knowing where to start
Silhouettes from the Somme, WW1When 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
The Fish Market, Folkestone, Kent Date: circa 1910s
Dog MechanicA dog car mechanic mending a female dog clients car. Date: early 1930s
Mending a Puncture
New York Road RepairsWorkmen mending roads, New York, U.S.A. Date: 1960s
Dunderpate and his mother with the darningDunderpate and his mother at home -- she is doing some darning and mending. He tells her what his teacher said: if I can find him a bigger dunce than myself he ll change places with me! Date: 1938
Pas-de-Calais, France - EquihenFishermen mending their nets at Equihen, Pas-de-Calais, France. Date: circa 1910s
British gun repair, ordnance workshop, WW1A British heavy gun in for repair at the gun hospital, an ordnance workshop in Flanders during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918
Sierra Leone - Making a Seine netSierra Leone - Fishermen making a Seine net. A seine is a large fishing net that hangs in the water due to weights along the bottom edge and floats along the top
Street trader mending chairsIf I had as much money as I could spend, I never would cry old chairs to mend; old chairs to mend, old chairs to mend; I never would cry old chairs to mend
Man fixing an aeroplane
Double page spread in a diary for 23-28 OctoberA double page spread in a young persons diary for 23-28 October. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event
Shoe mending class, NIPRCC East Harling, NorfolkBoys in a shoe mending class at the East Harling, Norfolk, branch of the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control
Part of a room to let, East End of LondonInterior of a house in the East End of London where the demand for cheap accommodation was such that even a part of a room might be sub-let as indicated by the notice on the window
Close-up of fishermans hands, mending a netA close-up of a fishermans toil-worn hands, as he sits mending a net
Georgia - Abkhazia - Cobbler in SukhumiTurkish Cobbler in Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia, a disputed region on the Black Sea coast, which has been recognized (from 2008) as an independent state by Russia, Venezuela and Nicaragua
Fisherman mending nets at Hastings, SussexA fisherman mending nets at Hastings, Sussex -- there is black pitch on the net and on his hands
Rug Seller - Grand Bazaar, ConstantinopleRug shop in the Grand Bazaar, Constantinople, with the proprietor examining a rug
Turning a Cam shaftAn engineer turns a cam shaft on a large piece of complex mechanical and elctronic machinery. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
A Group of CobblersA Group of Turkish Cobblers repairing shoes
Old Sailor and his GrandchildrenTwo circular watercolour paintings by Malcolm Greensmith depicting and old sailor with his grandchildren. In the left-hand picture the old salt points out a fine sailing yacht approaching the harbour
British soldiers mending trenches
A German communication trench, mending an underground cable
Three Victorian Cyclists Mending a Puncture, 1901Illustration of three Victorian cyclists, gathered around a bicycle with a puncture. It would appear that the man has stopped to offer his assistance with the puncture
Three Frontiersmen Mending their Canoe, Canada, 1883Engraving of three frontiersmen mending their canoe with hot wax or gum, in the Canadian back woods
French Street TradersA man pulls a water cart, a minstrel sings along to his hand-cranked music box and a lady sits mending socks, on a street with a dentist, upholsterer and oyster shop
Indian Weaver - 2An Indian weaver mending broken threads