Operations Collection (page 12)

Digging Garden 1970S
A suburban housewife digging the garden. Date: 1975

Trainee Miners / 1966
Young trainee miners working at a National Coal Board training centre. Date: circa 1966

Stukas Bomb Norway
Norway : German Junkers JU-87 Stukas dive-bomb Norwegian railway installations in order to hamper resistance to the German invasion Date: May 1940

Italians in Kenya
East Africa : the Italians continue their successful advance through East Africa and attack the British base at Mojale, Kenya Date: August 1940

Laying Foundations 18Th
Examples of how to lay foundations according to the standards of 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Gear Lift for Stones
A gear lift for stone blocks in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Stonework in the 18th C
Stoneworkers engaged in various activities in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Coal Wagons
Coal wagons Date: 19th Century

Gardener Staking Plants
A smartly-dressed lady in her garden stakes some tall plants. Date: 1889

Chatham siege demonstration 1868
The annual field day and exhibition of siege operations at Chatham, Kent. Watched by a large crowd of spectators, Royal Engineers

WWI Transport ship
A transport approaching a French battleship engaged in the operations at the Dardanelles during World War I

Cleaning Grandpas car
Cleaning Grandfathers pride and joy, his Armstrong Siddeley motor car. Sir directs proceedings from inside the car, poking his head through the sunroof!

Operations on the Ancre 1917
Working party of the Manchester Regiment moving up to the trenches near Serre in France on the British front during World War I in March 1917

Howard Carter at the excatvation of Tutankhamun
Howard Carter directing operations as a chain of natives remove items from the cave

Duncan Sandys(1908-1987) in helicopter
Leaving Kuala Lumpar by helicopter to see operations in the Malayan Jungle: Mr Duncan Sandys, Minister of Supply. En route to his visit to Australia

Agent and eviction party, Country Kerry, Ireland
This landscape view illustrates a scene during the Rent War in Ireland. Here an agent and eviction party consult their operations plan at Glenbeigh, Country Kerry

RAF Operations Room; Second World War, 1940
Drawing showing a Royal Air Force Operations Room in 1940. At the top of the image a number of WaFs are shown moving counters and models across a large map of Southern England

Truck sunk during the Anzio landings; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a three-ton truck sunk alongside a pontoon, during the Allied landings in the Nettuno-Anzio area, 1944

Enlarging a Room / Leech
Enlarging a room - a tableau representing further improvements in Mr Briggs house - destruction of the wall which separates the parlour from the passage

Gun Drill on board a British battleship, c. 1896
Illustration showing a typical scene on board a British battleship as the gun crew of Royal Navy seamen hoist a cartridge towards the breech of their gun

Pigeon Container on a British Paratrooper, Second World War
Photograph showing a pigeon container strapped to the stomach of a British paratrooper, 1944. Pigeons are one of the oldest and most reliable forms of military communication

Sledge party leaving an invalid in an ice cave, British Arct
Engraving showing a sledging party leaving an invalid, and a carer, in an ice cave; then heading back to base to fetch help, British Arctic Expedition, 1875-1876

Nine Anchors
Six different kinds of anchor, a mooring block and a grapnel

Gardening Tasks
Digging - Hotbed - Dibbling - Pruning and nailing - Grafting - Raking - Edging - Tying up

Nationalist soldiers assaulting a house near Irun; Spanish C
Photograph showing Nationalist soldiers assaulting a farmhouse near Irun, northern Spain, 1936. These soldiers were engaged in mopping-up operations

Sailors and Gals
Our photograph girls show that all the nice girls love a sailor - happy days in the U.S. navy!

Making Apricot Jam
Home made jam, made from fresh apricots and lemons, sugar etc, beautifully preserved in well-labelled jars

Military Camels
MEHARISTES MILITAIRES - French troops mounted on camels for operations in southern Algeria (Sahara). [Note that the lower pair are suplicates.]

Malta Bombed by Italians
The defence of Malta : the islands strategic value makes it the target for intense bombardment by the Italians and Germans, but they fail to dislodge the Allies

St Elmos Fire in Air
German Heinkel aircrews over Western Europe report St Elmos Fire - an electrical phenomenon - on the wings of their aircraft

British Tankers Sunk
Italian bombers destroy a British tanker carrying essential fuel to the Allied forces in North Africa

Paper-Making Machine
The paper mix passes through a sequence of operations on the paper-making machine

Lifeboat Drill, Germany
Lifeboat drill on a German warship

Thatching a Cottage
A thatcher at work, thatching the roof of a cottage at Great Comberton, Worcestershire, England

Building Operations 1882
Men build a house while two children play on a seesaw

Indian Troopship Sunk
East Africa : a ship bringing Indian reinforcement troops to support the Allied campaign against the Italians is destroyed by the Italian navy in the Red Sea

Germans in Ukraine
The German advance into the Ukraine overwhelms the Soviet opposition - and so it will till they reach Stalingrad

Italians at Tobruk
North Africa : in Libya, the British attempt to defend Tobruk against Italian air attacks

German Tank in Snow
A German tank in the snow- covered Russian countryside. The caption claims that the Germans are successful in all weathers, but events were to prove otherwise

Fighting for a Bridge
As the Germans advance into Russia, the Red Army resists them every step of the way : the Germans take this bridge, but only after dealing with fierce opposition

Germans Attack Pill-Box
German infantry advancing into Russia attack a Soviet pill-box

Cavalry Versus Tanks
Poland : German tanks invading Poland are confronted by gloriously heroic but sadly ineffectual cavalry

Woman Mixing
A woman pours wine into a mixing bowl, perhaps in preparation for making a sauce of some kind

Navigation by Blome 1685
Richard Blomes pictorial representation of Navigation

Clearing Rubble
A domestic building site is cleared of rubble and wreckage by a mechanical digger and two haulage trucks

Woman in Country Garden
A woman working in a country garden

German Garden C1910
A lady tends her cottage garden in a German village

Woman in Cottage Garden
A woman working in an idyllic cottage garden

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