Planks Collection

View of Meiringen, Berne, Switzerland
View in the town of Meiringen, Berne, Switzerland

Grand Surrey Canal
Men loading large planks of wood onto (or off) a barge on the Peckham (London) branch of the Grand Surrey Canal, England. Date: early 1930s

Playing a piano amid the destruction - The Blitz
One of the men working on debris clearance in London succeeded in wresting a tune from this battered piano - circa late 1940

People on the beach at Salcombe, Devon. circa 1960s

Wreck of old wooden fishing boat on banks of the River Dee
The wreck of an old wooden fishing boat at low water on the tidal banks of the River Dee at Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland

Workmen
An illustration which shows a procession of workmen crossing a crude platform which bridges an intimidating gap below. A man with a wheelbarrow filled with rubble leads the group, behind which

Japan - Timber Dealer
Timber Dealer, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Sawing Timber - India. Date: circa 1910s

Timber stacked at the docks awaiting transportation. Date: circa 1930s

A man warms himself by brazier in woodyard
A man in a woodyard taking a break and warming himself by a brazier on a cold day. Date: circa 1950s

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - A thing of duty - no joy whatever
The Caption is A thing of duty is no joy whatever. The concept of Duty was impressed upon the population during the war as one of the planks of morale. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: circa 1944

Drystone Walls of the North - First-class drystone walling beside the River at Langdale in the Lake District: Many of the stones for the wall have been picked from the river-bed - a frequent

Elephant lifting wooden logs - Rangoon, Burma
circa 1910s

Wooden Basin Date: 1880

Sailors swab the decks after refuelling their ship
Sailors, many in bare feet, clean the decks after coal has been put into the hold. Coal was known by the sailors as black diamonds

Floods Paris, France - Pedestrian bridge - Avenue Montaigne. Date: 1910

Arab porters in Iraq carrying long planks of wood through a palm grove. Date: 1910s

Shearing shed, Burrawang Station, Australia
Shearing shed, Burrawang Station, New South Wales, Australia. Date: circa 1890s

Soldiers in trench with fixed bayonets
A group of soldiers in a trench with fixed bayonets, during the First World War

Father Christmas with tree and presents, in a street at night, with people gathered round him. Date: circa 1970s

Boys on the beach at Salcombe, Devon
Four boys on the beach at Salcombe, Devon. Date: circa 1960s

Trying to drive a car off St Ives beach
People trying to drive a car off St Ives beach. circa 1950

Mexico - Seller of Wooden boards (which he is carrying on his back). He certainly looks a little bored, his face set with a plank expression... !! Date: circa 1910s

Hanoi, Tonkin, French Indochina (Vietnam)
Chinese boats at Hanoi, Tonkin, French Indochina (now Vietnam). Date: circa 1908

SAWYER 1827
A sawyer using a huge saw to cut through planks of wood. Date: 1827

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

Two boys with boats on a pebbly beach, Devon
Two boys with boats on a pebbly beach in Devon. Date: circa 1960s

Two girls playing on planks, Balham, SW London
Two girls playing on planks of wood, with a washing line and a bicycle behind them, on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Chldren on a wall, with washing, Balham, SW London
Two girls sitting on a brick wall with a washing line behind them, on a Balham street, SW London. Two boys stand on the pavement, looking up at them. Date: circa 1961

Rough-scaled Brown Skink basking on planks of a wooden platform at Sukau Rainforest Lodge (Mabuya rudis). in lowland rainforest of Kinabatangan river floodplain; Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia; June

French scouts carrying planks of wood in a mountainous area

The defences of the village of Caestre
Scale 1/2500 of the defences of the village of Caestre - April 1918, showing 11 machine gun positions, trenches and barbed wire produced by 286681, E. North, 90th Field Coy, Royal Engineers

Saw Mills, Woolwich Arsenal
View of the saw mills at Woolwich Arsenal, south east London, with tree trunks about to be cut into planks. Date: circa 1905

Planks of wood being lifted during transport. Date: 20th century

British soldiers near Peronne, Somme, WW1
British officers and men, the first to cross the Somme near Peronne on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Soldiers constructing Bailey Bridge across river
Soldiers constructing a Bailey Bridge across a river

Three men taking a break from their work in a back garden. They are sitting on planks of wood

Two men sawing wood in a workshop

Blitz in City of London -- bomb crater, WW2
Blitz in the City of London -- devastation caused after a heavy explosive bomb caused a vast crater and opened up underground workings after an air raid during the night

Timber at Hull Docks
Loading timber onto a lighter at Victoria Dock, Hull, Humberside, England. Date: 1960s

Austrian troops in trench, Eastern Front, WW1
Austrian troops in a trench on the Eastern Front during the First World War. Some are holding rifles, others have hand grenades ready to throw. Date: circa 1914

Mexico - Carriers loading wood
Carriers loading wood onto mules Mexico Date: circa 1905

WATERFRONT RESIDENCE
An interesting Waterfront Residence at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, which probably would not comply with todays stringent building regulations! Date: 1930s

Romanian soldiers retreating, WW1
Romanian soldiers retreating during the First World War. They are crossing a river by means of a makeshift wooden bridge. Date: 1916

Inside the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps
View inside the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps, at a height of 2300 metres. Wooden planks have been laid down for tourists to walk on. Date: circa 1940

Building a fishing boat, St Ives, Cornwall
Andrew Besley, boat builder, building a 20 foot traditional wooden fishing boat at St Ives, Cornwall. It is designed to work off a steep pebble beach of the kind found in East Devon

Woman with nine children, Mid Wales
A woman with nine children, posing for a group photo in the photographers studio. There is a painted backdrop with a curtain draped at the side

The exact spot Admiral Nelson fell
The exact spot at which Admiral Horatio Nelson fell during the Battle of Trafalgar on 21st October 1805 is marked on the deck of HMS Victory by this small brass plaque

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