Plank Gallery

Shirley Kellogg at the London Hippodrome

A caricature of the revue star, Shirley Kellogg walking among the audience on the gang-plank (or joy-plank') during WW1-era revues. Famously she would throw flowers to the gentlemen in the stalls. Date: 1929

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Audience, Caricature, Entertainment, Flowers, Gang, Gentlemen, Hippodrome, Joy, Kellogg, London, Men, Nov19, Plank, Revue, Revues, Shirley, Show, Stalls, Theatre, Throwing, Walkway

Sawyers cutting timber into planks with a

Sawyers cutting timber into planks with a large saw in a saw-pit. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Tabart, London, 1810. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

Apprentice, Arts, Book, Carpenter, English, Engraving, Handcoloured, Labour, Large, Library, Occupation, Plank, Saw Pit, Sawyer, Skilled, The, Timber, Trades, Useful, Wood, Woodcut, Work, Workshop

Scene in a timber yard, Devon

Scene in a timber yard in Devon, with a man standing on a pile of tree trunks, and another tree trunk being lifted above him. In the foreground are piles of cut planks. Date: circa 1960s

© Mary Evans Picture Library/ANDREW BESLEY

1960s, 60s, Chains, Country, Crane, Cut, Cutting, Devon, Historical, History, Industrial, Industry, Labour, Lift, Lifted, Lifting, Log, Logs, Man, Manual, Men, Pile, Piles, Plank, Planks, Ropes, Sixties, Stack, Stacks, Standing, Timber, Tree, Trunk, Trunks, Vest, West, White, Wood, Work, Working, Workman, Workmen, Workshop, Yard