Piles Collection (page 3)

Forest control officers, Western Front, WW1
Forest control officers sitting on a truck at a forest lumber works on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Forest lumber works, Western Front, France, WW1
Forest lumber works on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

German stores left behind, Western Front, WW1
German stores of bombs, helmets and other items left behind when they were driven out of Pierre St Divion on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

With the high browse 1923
A customer enters a disorganised bookshop to have a browse. Date: 1923

Japanese shop selling pots and pottery Date: circa 1910s

Bananas for Export
Piles of freshly picked bunches of bananas, ready for export, probably in the West Indies. Date: 1930s

Clothing - Air Raid Victims - Queen Elizabeth & Lady Reading
Inspecting a clothes distribution scheme for Air Raid victims (which have arrived in Britain from New Zealand) - a visit by Queen Elizabeth & Eva Violet Isaacs (neaMond), Marchioness of Reading

WW1 - Palestine - Destruction of Nebi Samuel Mosque by Turks
WW1 - Palestine - Destruction of Nebi Samuel Mosque (An-Nabi Samwil also al-Nabi Samuil - The Tomb of Samuel) by Turks in 1917 - this act of sacrilege allegedly cost the lives of many Muslims

Chinese Timber Yard. Date: circa late 1920s

A Nomadic family group from Turkmenistan - inside their yurt
A Nomadic family group from Turkmenistan - inside their fantastic yurt, seemingly piled high with blankets and trade goods. Date: circa 1905

South Africa - Brickmaking. Date: circa 1908

Turfing on the Somerset levels. This bears the caption: " The weather is terrible with rain, snow, thunder etc." - rather a neat link to 99 years later

18, 000 farthings for London Slum Childrens Breakfasts
18, 000 farthings collected in 1907 by R Arnold of 15 Mount Pleasant, Tunbridge Wells, Kent for the charitable purchase of London Slum Childrens Breakfasts. Date: 1907

200, 000 bushels of Oyster Shells, Hampton, Virginia, USA - adjoining an oyster packing plant Date: 1914

The Grain Market - Omdurman, Sudan on the banks of the River Nile. Date: circa 1910s

Russian Stocking seller. Date: 1905

Making Mud Bricks, Cyprus Date: circa 1910s

Paris, France - View toward Notre Dame
Paris, France - View down the River Seine Toward Pont de la Tournelle and Notre Dame Cathedral Date: circa 1909

Drying coffee beans in the sun - Costa Rica Date: circa 1910s

Bananas awaiting transporting by rail - Costa Rica Date: circa 1910s

Packing Tea in India - Indian Tea Association. Date: circa 1910s

Bermuda - Post Office and Sessions House
Bermuda, a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean - the Post Office and Sessions House. Date: circa 1908

Singapore - Piles of freshly harvested pineapples, hot off the plantation... Date: circa 1910s

Transporting Sugar Cane - Madeira, Portugal
Transporting Sugar Cane by Ox-pulled sled - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal Date: circa 1910s

Weapon. Basaltic stone ax. Neolithic art. SPAIN. Vic. Vic Episcopal Museum. Proc: SPAIN. CATALONIA. Les Piles

Santa Clauss toy factory

GLC-LFB Refuse collection strike and rubbish fires
The extended refuse collection strike in the early 1970s resulted in piles of rubbish and uncollected waste lying for weeks in London streets

Driving piles. Drawing shows a group of workmen standing on a platform on scaffolding driving a post into the ground; also shows device for driving piles. Date 1878 Dec

Albert I of Morocco - Parody
" The Supreme law is the Kings Purse" " Roulette is the Source of my Strength" French parody souvenir postcard from Monte Carlo, depicting Albert I of Morocco (1889-1922)

Piles of Bags of Wheat - Argentina. It is almost as if the construction of the sacks was a mimic of a great building!! Date: 1906

Coloured Cloth Hall, Leeds, Yorkshire
The Coloured Cloth Hall at Leeds in Yorkshire. Large bales of coloured cloth are arranged in piles with the producers negotiating prices with customers. Date: 1844

Flood Damage in Madeira
Debris and mud deposited in the streets of Funchal, Madeira as a result of severe flooding in February, 2010. 2010

Train at Portage, Peninsula Lake, Muskoka (1 / 2)
Train at Portage, Peninsula Lake, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada (1/2) Date: circa 1910s

Romanian food market
Scene in a Romanian food market. Date: circa 1910s

Flood damage in Funchal, Madeira
The damage causes by severe flooding to the narrow streets of Funchal, Madeira in February 2010. 2010

Train at Portage, Peninsula Lake, Muskoka (2 / 2)
Train at Portage, Peninsula Lake, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. Date: circa 1910s

Civil Service Christmas Fair - Ministry of Health
Toys collected for Childrens Charities at the Civil Service Christmas Fair - Ministry of Health section. An incredible assemblage! Date: circa 1930s

Captured weapons in Villers-Cotterets, France, WW1
Allied soldiers looking at piles of captured German weapons in the main square of Villers-Cotterets, northern France, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 27 July 1918

Trimming Sponges, Nassau, Bahamas Date: circa 1910s

Gathering seaweed for fertiliser - Channel Islands
Gathering seaweed ( wracking ) for use as fertilizer at a low spring tide - Channel Islands Date: 1907

Italian Munitions Factory - Naples
Finishing Shop for an Italian Munitions Factory - Naples, Italy. Date: circa 1915

Vegetable Vendor - Bombay, India
Vegetable Vendor - Mumbai (Bombay), India Date: circa 1930s

Malay House - Pasir Panjang - Singapore Date: circa 1910s

Sudan - Khartoum - The Grain Market Date: circa 1904

Charles Humbert with munitions for Verdun, France
Charles Humbert (1866-1927), French army captain, tax collector, senator and newspaper proprietor. Seen here with piles of munitions destined for Verdun, France, during the First World War

Froebel Lake & Grove - Roehampton University
Froebel Lake and Grove, Roehampton, West London - now part of Roehampton University. The Lake is named after Friedrich Froebel

Census tabulation in former Lambeth workhouse
Data from the 1931 census being transferred to punched cards in the former Lambeth workhouse - presumably the one on Princes Road (now Black Prince Road), Lambeth, south London

Laos - Sacks of cardamom being weighed. A very superior French overseer takes down the details in a jotter

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