Plying Collection

Fruit Stall Traders
An Aquatint showing some fruit stall merchants at a market, plying their trade. Date: circa 1929

La Turbie, France - the Trophy of the Alpes (Trophy of Augustus), a Roman monument built by the emperor Augustus to celebrate his victory over the Ligurian tribes which lived in the mountains of

A hot potato seller
Hot potatoes. A hot potato salesman plying his trade on a London street. Date: 1885

Man selling ginger beer, 1870
Man selling glasses of ginger beer from a stall in the street in London, 1870. Date: 1870

River boat, Rangoon (Yangon)
Illustration of a river boat plying the Rangoon River at the beginning of the 20th century. Artist: Anon. Date: 1905

Martin XPB2M-1R Mars -this giant flying boat started life as a patrol bomber, but the handful built were converted to transports, plying the Pacific

Cartoon, three views of Recruiting, WW1
Cartoon, showing three views of Recruiting at the start of the First World War. As It Was (plying men with drink during the Napoleonic era)

Students on Canal
Students plying private hire motor cruisers on the Oxford Canal, near Napton, Warwickshire, England. Date: early 1960s

Regent Street in 1907
Only one motor-car to be seen among the cabs, carriages, horse-vans and wagons plying up and down Regent Street

LONDON ENGINEER (COL)
A celebrated Thames steamer plying between London and Margate Date: circa 1819

Mexico Chalco
General view of Chalco from the canal on which a steamboat and other river craft are plying to and fro

Tuscania Steamship
Passenger liner of the Anchor Line, plying between England and India, on one occasion carrying the writer of this caption as a small boy

Holyhead-Howth Crossing
Passengers on the deck of the steam packet plying between Holyhead (Wales) and Howth (Ireland) : note that two private carriages are also being carried

Bristol Paddlesteamer
Paddle steamer of the Fall River Line, plying between New York and Boston

COLUMBA STEAMER
Paddle steamer of Macbayne Line, plying between the Scottish islands

Laguna Belle
Express paddle steamer plying the Thames between Tower Bridge and Clacton

C17 Craftsman
A craftsman stands at his workbench plying his useful trade, and no doubt doing it very well, but what it is we do not know

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