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Piling Collection

Background imagePiling Collection: Keep smiling! Sheels are piling, Men are joining, Women toiling, All are working

Keep smiling! Sheels are piling, Men are joining, Women toiling, All are working, Nothing shirking, So.... Thumbs Up! Date: circa 1916

Background imagePiling Collection: WW2 - Land Girls piling hay onto a wagon

WW2 - Land Girls piling hay onto a wagon (2/4). Date: circa 1943

Background imagePiling Collection: Elephant piling Teak - Myanmar

Elephant piling Teak - Myanmar. Date: circa 1910s

Background imagePiling Collection: Osaka Castle, Osaka, Japan

Osaka Castle, Osaka, Japan
Osaka Castle, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan Date: circa 1910s

Background imagePiling Collection: Piling Onto a London Bus

Piling Onto a London Bus
A mad scramble to get onto a London Routemaster bus, which is offering a 25p Fare Deal. But will there be enough seats for everyone? Date: circa 1980

Background imagePiling Collection: Turfing on the Somerset levels

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

Background imagePiling Collection: Rice - paddy workers stacking ricks - Rangoon

Rice - paddy workers stacking ricks - Rangoon - They were still in process of cutting and piling and preparing threshing floors for the stacked paddy bundles. Date: 1952

Background imagePiling Collection: Piling arms

Piling arms. Group portrait showing six soldiers posed, as two of them stand rifles into a tripod. Date 1855

Background imagePiling Collection: He is piling up his Thrift Stamps, are you? Buy Thrift Stamp

He is piling up his Thrift Stamps, are you? Buy Thrift Stamps. Poster showing a squirrel hiding nuts in a tree. Date 1918

Background imagePiling Collection: Harvest - Gathering the Hay

Harvest - Gathering the Hay

Background imagePiling Collection: Engineer installing dock pilings

Engineer installing dock pilings
An engineer installing dock pilings, to facilitate the loading and unloading of cargo

Background imagePiling Collection: Bullion Office. Bank of England. Compartment in the Bullion

Bullion Office. Bank of England. Compartment in the Bullion
Engraving of vauly in the Bank of England used for storing sacks full of Mexican Silver Dollars. A Bank official in uniform with tricorn hat is unloading a cart stacked with sacks

Background imagePiling Collection: TITANS

TITANS
The Titans - a race of giants - seek to scale the heavens by piling mountains upon one another, but Zeus hurls his thunderbolts and they are thrown into the Underworld


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