Packing Collection (page 4)

The epic of Bournville
Bournville Factory in Birmingham, England, with women packing half-pound packets of famous Bournville chocolates. Bull Street, with original Cadbury shop in the Eighteen-twenties

Advert for Dunlop 1936
Christmas scene with a family packing their car full of presents. Date: 1936

Packing Lettuces
Workers packing early lettuces in a market garden greenhouse in Essex, England. Date: 1930s

Apple Inspector
Boxes of freshly harvested and boxed English apples are inspected as they come in from the orchards, before being sent to the packing stations. Date: 1950s

Packing Poppies
Packing artifical poppies of linen or silk, at the British Legion, for Remembrance Day, in memory of those who so bravely gave their lives during World War One. Date: 1940

Argentina - Berisso. Workers leaving the Swift refrigeration faciity or the preservation of chilled beef. Date: circa 1930s

Loading Shells - New Zealand Troops in France
Loading artillery shells - Anzac New Zealand soldiers in active service in France during World War One. The postcard shows the artillery shells being packed into their limbers from a large open-air

Girls on road trip in a Jowett Jupiter
Just about to start in their Jowett Jupiter car, these girls are dressed by Simpsons of Piccadilly. The girl on the left pointing at the map wears a double-breasted three-quarter coat of Donegal

Packing Warehouse at Biskra, Algeria
Champagne Freres Packing Warehouse at Biskra, Algeria - taken over by E. Vinatie. Date: circa 1910s

Packing Kelloggs Flakes
KELLOGGs CORNFLAKES In the packing room at Battle Creek, the cereals are packed in the inner sealed Waxtite cartons to insure (sic) their crisp freshness Date: 1930s

Packing Beer Bottles
Women packing bottles of beer in an East London brewery. Date: 1965

Packing Tea, Ceylon
Packing tea on a Ceylon estate. Date: 1905

Malvern Water Cure (12)
(12 of 12) Water Cure at Malvern. Preparing for the packing. " Why my nearest and dearest friends wouldn t know me. I m a perfect mummy"

Filling, weighing and packing tea, Bankside, London
Workers filling, weighing and packing chests of tea at Messrs Travers Wharf, Bankside, London. Date: circa 1902

Tea merchants cutting and mixing machine, London
Workers with a tea merchants cutting and mixing machine at Messrs Travers Wharf, Bankside, London

Press for packing Indian cotton
Indian workers operate machinery for compressing cotton into neat bales

Fishmarket - Lowestoft
Lowestoft, Suffolk - The fishmarket

Selection and packing of dates at Nefta, Tunisia
The sorting / selection and packing into cases of dates at Nefta, Tunisia

Parcels for the troops WWII
A customer and shop assistant pack a parcel to go to the British troops in France during World War II

Army Comforts Depot WWII
Women working in the Army Comforts Depot where gifts are packed and despatched to British troops during World War II

Packing Bananas - Las Palmas - Gran Canaria
Packaging bananas on the street at Las Palmas, the principle city of the Spanish Municipality of Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands

Filling Sandbags - WW2 Home Front (3 / 4)
World War Two - British Home Front - London. Men and young boys fill sandbags in the street. The sandbags were piled against buildings

Tatler Travel Number front cover, 1956
Bright and jolly front cover design for The Tatler Travel Number by Lowen featuring, rather inexplicably, a red squirrel, who is packing various bits of sporting equipment

Tea Culture in India: 1. Bridge over the River Ool, on the Road to Kulu. 2. Rolling the leaves by hand. 3. Weighing and packing for the London market. 4

British Paratroops on exercise in England; Second World War
Photograph showing a group of British paratroops readying themselves after landing, during an exercise taking place in England in 1944

Professional Packer
A professional packer at work carefully laying clothing and linens into a trunk of a wealthy client

Fig Industry in Smyrna
Series of five images showing the fig industry of Smyrna (modern day Izmir in Turkey). 1. Sorting. 2. Weighing. 3. Packing. 4. Waiting for Loads. 5. Making Boxes and Cases

The London Office of the Society for the relief of the sick
A sketch of volunteers sorting and packing linen bandages for the sick

Red Cross food parcels
Voluntary workers packing some of the 70, 000 parcels of food dispatched each week by the Red Cross to the British prisoners of war

Preparing Red Cross food parcels
Packing and despatching; the duties of volunteers at the Red Cross headquarters. Acres of cardboard and miles of string were used each week in the distribution of 70

Packing Toys 1890
Female workers pack toys in a factory

Fur Collar 1930S
A stylish woman sits on the edge of a bed resting before she finishes her packing. She wears either a fur stole or a coat with a deep fur collar

French Diligence / Loading
A French diligence coach is prepared for departure

Packing Fish in Ice
Men packing fish with ice in crates at Lowestoft Harbour, Suffolk, England

Goodall, Backhouse & Co
Packing the Hassall Food at Messrs Goodall, Backhouse and Cos manufactory, no doubt located somewhere in Yorkshire

Hagar Expelled
Because Ishmael (Hagars son by Abraham) ill-treats Isaac, (Saras son by Abraham) Sara insists the concubine and her bastard be sent packing : so off they go into the desert

Children Packing
Children pack for their holiday - little sister wants to pack the kitten

Packing Tea, India
Packing tea in India

Little Women / Meg / Packing
Meg goes to Vanity Fair - packing her things

Malvern Water Cure (1)
(1 of 12) Water Cure at Malvern The Packing " Don t I look very like a Mummy!"

Gdansk in 1700
General view of the port, with a merchant superintending the packing of his merchandise

Motorways Coach - 2
See Europe from an Armchair - exterior of a Motorways pullman saloon, rear and side views. Each passenger was given their own trunck for convenience in packing

Packing House: Packing the Dynamite Cartridges into Boxes
Manufacture of Dynamite at Nobel works, Ardeer, Scotland: putting Dynamite cartridges into boxes

Travel / Luggage / Trunk
Packing a trunk to go on a journey

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