Plumbing Collection

Trades union membership certificate
A trades union membership certificate for the United Operative Plumbers Association of Great Britain and Ireland, with Defence and Defiance as their motto

Advert, Doultons improved hooded baths, London, Paisley and Paris. circa 1890

Gibbs Happy Families - Mr Pipe the Plumber. Date: 20th century

Sanitary ware, Plate 42, showing wash basins, urinals and toilet bowls in a range of styles. Date: circa 1880s

Carpentry & plumbing, Training Ship Wellesley, North Shields
Boys learning carpentry and plumbing on the Training Ship Wellesley, on the River Tyne at North Shields, Northumberland. In 1868

Advert, Davis & Bennett, heavy fireclay urinal stalls
Advert, Westminster Sanitary Works, Davis & Bennett, Heavy Fireclay Urinal Stalls. Date: 1903

Comic postcard, Couple arrive in hotel room Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Plumber and maid in kitchen Date: 20th century

Cartoon, boarding house landlady and guest. 1923

Plumber heating lead in a fire to fix lead pipes on a building site. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Tabart, London, 1810

Advert, William Stevenson & Co, Glasgow
Advert for William Stevenson & Co, bathroom fittings, Brown Street, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Stationery, Walter Llewellyn & Co, Eastbourne, Sussex
Stationery, Walter Llewellyn & Co, Carpenters, Joiners, Plumbers, Painters, Glaziers, Paper Hangers and House Decorators, Ceylon Place, Eastbourne, Sussex. 1900

Advertisement - The Naiad Bathroom, made by Shires & Co of Guiseley, Leeds, Yorkshire. 1964

Gibbs Happy Families - Mrs Pipe the Plumbers wife. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, I heard you re back! Date: 20th century

Granpop does a bit of plumbing by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood depicting his orang utan character, Gran pop embarking on a bit of plumbing by trying to fashion a shower (perhaps)

Two boys playing in old washing machine
Two young lads fooling about with (and inside!) an old washing machine. Perhaps they were harbouring dreams of a career in plumbing at this stage?!

Gibbs Happy Families - Miss Pipe the Plumbers daughter. 20th century

Gibbs Happy Families - Master Pipe the Plumbers son. 20th century

Buildings / Plumber 1827
The original occupation of plumbing, which involved melting lead into drainpipes etc. Date: 1827

Rudkin Bros, 4 Paddington Street, London W1
The shop window of Rudkin Bros, 4 Paddington Street, London W1 -- house repairs and decorations. Date: circa 1910

River dwellings - Thailand - People living in houses on stilts out over the water and houseboats below washing, drinking, cooking, plumbing, making use of the muddy water. Date: 1952

Brockton, Mass. Dec. 1940, second-hand plumbing store. Date 1940 Dec

Advert for Ewarts Geyser hot water 1927
A contented housewife is about to fill her hot water bottle from her Ewarts Geyser water heater. Date: 1927

Hopeless Plumber - Flooded House
" What is home without a Plumber." He leaves the water tap runnning... A family wakes up in the morning to discover that the rather hopeless plumber

Plumber at Work, 1820S
The Plumber was, originally, the man who provided the lead for use in gutters &c

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