Mends Collection

Scotland - Lossiemouth Fisherman mending his lines
Moray, Scotland - Lossiemouth Fisherman mending his lines Date: circa 1905

Advert for Le Pages liquid glue 1884
Sold in a tin can, can mends everything from wood, leather, paper, ivory, glass, china, furniture, bric-a-brac. Date: 1884

OLD CHAIRS TO MEND
A man with a wooden leg mends chairs on the street, rebinding the seats with new rushes Date: 1804

Trade - Mending a Chair
A man mends a chair for two women customers Date: 1795

Monks Mending Sandals
Monks from the Franciscan monastery of Gorheim, Germany. One mends his sandals with a hammer while another watches

Istanbul - Turkish Street Cobbler. Date: circa 1910

Tinker Mends Pot 1894
A travelling tinker mends a pot in the street. Date: 1894

WW1 - French Aeroplane Hospital. Date: 1918

WW1 - Russian trench scene - Eastern Front Date: 1916

Cobblers at work, Naples, Italy. Date: late 19th century

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

German Bavarian Mother mends her young sons sock
Jolly German Bavarian Mother mends her happy young sons sock Date: circa 1910s

Street trader mending chairs
If 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

Rug Seller - Grand Bazaar, Constantinople
Rug shop in the Grand Bazaar, Constantinople, with the proprietor examining a rug

Old Sailor and his Grandchildren
Two 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

Les Invalides, Paris
A retired soldier mends his clothing in his room at Les Invalides, a hospital and retirement home for war veterans

Tramp Mending Clothes
Visible mending - a tramp shows a bit of leg as he mends his clothes on a bench in Hyde Park, London, England

Dickens / Cricket / Hearth
Caleb Plummer and his blind daughter sit in his workshop where he makes and mends toys. Artist: Frederick Barnard

Boy Mends Fishing Net
A boy gets a lesson in net mending

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