Pokes Collection

Hoisting Hops
Hoisting pokes of hops onto a drying platform. Despite modern advances such as mechanical hop presses, horses were still being used for hoisting the pokes (sacks). Date: 1930s

The Latest Spelling Test by William Heath Robinson
A desperate effort to instil good luck into a five-franc plaque before returning to the Casino. Illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944)

Lifebuoy
Come down and have the time of your life, boy! Young lady in her eye-catching bathing outfit pokes her head through a lifebuoy. Artist: W Stocker-Shaw. Date: circa 1910

Golf caddie inadvertantly pokes fun at man golfing Date: 1910

Stoking the fire before heading to bed on Christmas Eve
A young boy in nightshirt and nightcap stokes the fire with his Mother before heading to bed on Christmas Eve, to dream of the joy, fun and raft of surprises the morrow may bring... Date: 1912

Egyptian street knife grinder - Port Said. A young boy is fascinated and has popped his head out of a small window to watch the grinder grinding away. Date: circa 1902

Two children tend to a fire. The girl kneels down and pokes at the fire with a stick while the boy brings fire wood. the caption reads she poked away with a stick. Date: early 20th century

Playing with the garden hose
Classic 1930s family illustration, depicting a young boy sitting with his sisters and Mother in the garden in the summer sun and fixing the blocked nozzle of the garden hose sprinkler

Origin Species, CH Bennett, Naughty boy - monkey
A Monkey Trick. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a naughty boy who pokes a stick at a caged parrott, from a monkey

Horses Feeding Time
An old man in a flat cap fetches a hungry horse a bucket of meal as it pokes its head in anticipation over the stable door!

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