Mud Collection

Sketch map of Hook, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A sketch map of the village of Hook, including the various mining shafts of the colliery, on the Western Cleddau near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Welsh women road builders, South Wales
A group of twenty Welsh women road builders in Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, holding their spades. They built the road to Hook in 1903-4 to facilitate transport to the colliery

Scene on Conwy Harbour, North Wales
A wonderful, atmospheric view of Conwy Harbour, North Wales, with the silhouette of the Castle in the background. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd 1960

Fishing boats in the harbour, Fowey, Cornwall
Fishing boats in the picturesque harbour at Fowey, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Australian soldier with motorcycle and sidecar, WW1
An Australian soldier examining a motorcycle and sidecar, possibly to repair a puncture, on a muddy road during the First World War. Date: 1916

Pulling a field gun stuck in mud, Western Front, WW1
Men pulling and jacking a field gun stuck in the mud during bad weather on the Western Front in Flanders during the First World War. They are trying to get it into a new position for firing

Man with mechanical digger in a muddy field
A man working next to a mechanical Hy-Mac digger in a muddy field. Perhaps the digger has got stuck in the mud, and he is trying to dig it out

Farm scene - Painting by Raymond Sheppard
A winding muddy track leading toward a farmyard, barns and farm buildings. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Walter Raleigh lays his cloak at Queen Elizabeth Is feet
Sir Walter Raleigh lays his cloak at Queen Elizabeth Is feet to prevent her from getting muddy feet. The fanciful, romantic tale of the cloak

Low Tide on the Medway
A collection of moored vessels on the mud banks of the River Medway, at Cuxton< near Rochester, Kent, England. Date: 1950s

Dog and owner reunited in the trenches, France
Private Brown of the North Staffordshires, in the trenches in France, is found by his pet terrier dog which has made its way, alone, from his home in Hammersmith, West London

Gunners in sheepskin coats, Bazentin, France, WW1
Gunners wearing sheepskin coats at Bazentin-le-Petit, northern France, during the First World War. They are sitting on a stack of artillery shells. Date: November 1916

Woman washing clothes in a river
A woman washes clothes in a river, using a washboard

Adobe House - Mexico - Bake Ovens and Mules
A rather smart Georgian style sash window rather remarkably set into the wall of an Mexican Adobe mud brick house with a pair of bake ovens (and a pair of mules) in front. Date: circa 1910s

Blitz in London -- damage to tanks, Thames Haven, WW2
Blitz in London -- damage to tanks, Thames Haven, near Thurrock, Essex, 7 September 1940. Firefighters trying to push a fire appliance (open topped pump)

Sudan - Lado - Capital of the Lado Enclave Date: circa 1910s

Dirty Dog on Bed 1909
A white puppy sleeps on a bed: he is covered in mud, and has left dirty pawprints all over the covers and pillow

Syria - Village Street near Aleppo Date: circa 1920s

Ww1 / Moving a Heavy Gun
British soldiers move a heavy gun up to the front by manpower, hauling it through the mud Date: 1914 - 1918

Smelting Furnace - Sierra Leone, West Africa
Smelting in a bloomery-type furnace in Sierra Leone, West Africa. circa 1910s

Mud Therapy at a spa in Italy
Mud bath (bed!) therapy treatment at a Spa at Acqui Terme, a city and comune of Piedmont, northern Italy, in the province of Alessandria (see: 10644815) Date: circa 1910s

English Touring Motorcyclist at Dojran, North Macedonia
An English Touring Motorcyclist - stopped off at Dojran, a city on the west shore of Lake Dojran in the southeast part of North Macedonia. circa 1909

Cattle wade in the River Dee at low water in Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The low tide has exposed the muddy banks. A church spire can be seen in silhouette

Moving a gun in the Flanders mud during the First World War

A British tank in mud and shell holes during WW1

Fresco depicting an archangel with sword. Detail. Porch of the southern entrance. Cathedral of Faras. 12th-13th centuries. Faras Gallery. National Museum. Warsaw. Poland. Date: 2018

WW1 poster, Pour le dernier quart d'heure aidez moi! (For the last quarter of an hour help me)
WW1 poster, Pour le dernier quart d'heure... aidez moi! (For the last quarter of an hour... help me!) Les souscriptions a l'Emprunt National (subscriptions to the National War Loan)

Comic postcard, Two women having breakfast - postcard from the vicar Date: 20th century

Wreck of the ship Gipsy at Bristol
The stranded Waterford Steam Navigation Companys steamer, the Gipsy, on, May I2th, 1878. The boat left Cumberland Basin for Waterford in the early morning. It was then high water

Comic postcard, Sewage worker and boss in the street Date: 20th century

Street scene in Peking, Beijing, China, c. 1860 s
Street scene in Peking, Beijing, China, c.1860 s

Street in Peking (Beijing) China, 1870 s

England v Wales rugby match at Cardiff Arms Park. A heavy defeat for England explained in this cartoon: to cut the story short, mud - AND the Welsh XV defeated England. Date: 1922

The Funeral, the Charity Children and Highgate Tunnel. Two children mourning their mother in a funeral procession 73, parish beadles leading a parade of children from a charity school 74

Woman about to fall over with her shoes caught in the mud during a walk after the rain. Miseries of the Country. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Barber cutting his thumb trying to shave a customer
Barber cutting his thumb with a razor trying to shave a customer with soft cheeks. More Miseries. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Passengers slipping and falling into the river mud when debarking from a rowboat. Miseries Miscellaneous. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Men falling on ice skates, another falling through the ice, woman falling off her chair, on a frozen pond. Miseries of Games, Sports, etc

English lady receiving surprise visitors in breakfast room, 19th century. Mrs Lucy Somerville curtsies to Mrs Watkins, Mr Willie Watkins, and Miss Watkins. A maid in torn apron opens the door

Gentleman on an old nag and lady on a pony meet up during a fox hunt, 19th century. Rosa McDermott sidesaddle on her pony and Jack Bunting shake hands

Mud lobster and mud shrimp
Mud lobster, Thalassina anomala 1, and mud shrimp, Upogebia stellata 2. Talassina scorpionoide, Gebia stellata. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario

Slipper lobster and butterfly fan lobster
Slipper lobster, Thenus orientalis 1, and butterfly fan lobster, Ibacus peronii 2. Scillaro orientale, Ibaco di Peron. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus

Mr and Mrs Gillingham with son Anthony at St Andrews day - Eton College. Date: 1935

Australian Road to Passchendaele Marker Stone
The Third Battle of Ypres, generally referred to as Passchendaele began on 31 July 1917 and staggered on in dreadful weather conditions until it floundered in mud and resulted in some 300

Shell of the Eastern mud turtle, Kinosternon subrubrum (Pensylvanian tortoise var. Testudo pensylvanica) from the Leverian Museum

Indian flap-shelled turtle and mud turtle
Indian flap-shelled turtle, Lissemys punctata (la Chagrinee, Testudo granulata) and common mud turtle, Kinosternon subrubrum (Pensylvanian tortoise, Testudo pensylvanica)

Scorpion mud turtle and endangered loggerhead sea turtle
Scorpion mud turtle, Kinosternon scorpioides (Tricarinated tortoise, Testudo tricarinata) and loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, endangered

European pond turtle and Indian star tortoise
European pond turtle, Emys orbicularis (mud tortoise or la Bourbeuse), and Indian star tortoise, Geochelone elegans (elegant tortoise)

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