Queue Collection (page 5)

Men Cutting Wood at a Church Army Relief Depot
Unemployed men queue for work at a relief depot run by the Church Army. Location unknown. Date: Early 1900s

Men Queue at a Church Army Relief Depot
Unemployed men queue for work at a relief depot run by the Church Army. Location unknown. Date: Early 1900s

Salvation Army Hostel - getting a bed ticket

Schneefernerhaus Station
A queue at the ticket office of Schneefererhaus electric railway station, Bavaria, Germany. Date: early 1930s

Paying Taxes / 1903
French people paying taxes at a post office Date: 1903

London Fire Brigade canteen van at a fire
Firefighters of the London Fire Brigade queue at the canteen van for lunch, after dealing with a commercial fire

Why you no cuttee off your queue?. Illustration shows an Asian, possibly Chinese, soldier offering scissors labeled Enlightenment to Uncle Sam so that he can cut off his long braid labeled Partisan

West Southwark Slate Club paying out, London
Scene showing people collecting their money on paying out day of the West Southwark Slate Club in London. A Slate Club was a society whose members contributed small sums weekly or monthly to a fund

SIII Wolseley 18 / 85 traffic car
A 1947 SIII Wolseley traffic car, complete with radio transmitter and loudspeaker, parks up alongside a huge queue of people. Date: circa 1947

Metallurgique Motors advertisement, 1911
Advertisement for Metallurgique Ltd of Manchester encouraging visitors to come to their stand at the Olympia Motor Show in 1911 where their cars bodywork would be attracting attention. Date: 1911

National Amusement - The Bus Kitchen 1918
If the ministry of food carries out its latest scheme, there should be plenty of excitement in getting ones dinner from the travelling food kichens

Inniskillings at Chinese railway station
The Inniskilling Fusiliers, stationed in China, are ordered back to Europe to die on the western front : a scene in transit at Tientsin (now Tianjin)

Gentlemen prefer blondes
A group of brunette girls queuing outside the hairdressers, to get their hair dyed blonde because they are not getting the attention from the boys that they would like. 1926

Shopping queue 1948
Lining up to get some fresh fruit, Malmo, Sweden 1948. Date: 1948

Animal Ticket Queue
A rabbit, a cat and a dog queueing for tickets sold by a cat. Date: early 1930s

London Bus Queue
A miserable scene at a London bus stop, showing a crowd of people waiting for a bus during the Rush Hour. Date: 1979

Wimbledon Queue
A long queue for tickets for the Wimbledon tennis tournament, with only a Hot Dog stand to stave off the hunger and boredom! Date: 1979

British Museum Crowd
A very long queue for a popular exhibition at the famous British Museum, central London. Date: 1980

People queueing for the Fun Fair, Battersea Park
A huge crowd of people queueing for the Fun Fair in Battersea Park on a Bank Holiday, at 4pm, not put off by the cold weather. It was part of the Festival of Britain. Date: May 1951

Queue for a tobacconists, London 1940s
A queue outside a tobacconists shop in an unidentified London street during the 1940s. To the right are the Oxford Tea Rooms, and to the left, what appears to be a pawn shop. circa 1947

Have You Searched Yourself?
Four soldiers lining up for inspection, below a sign which reads: Have You Searched Yourself? circa 1940s

British Industries Exhibition, Olympia 1947
An orderly queue forms at the bus stop outside Olympia, in Kensington, Olympia where the 1947 British Industries Fair is being held. 1947

Queuing place for the 1931 Colonal Exposition, Paris
A place to queue for transportation to and from the French Colonial Exposition of 1931 - Montparnasse, Paris, France. Date: 1931

Queue for Dome of Discovery, Festival of Britain
A long queue of people patiently waiting to enter the Dome of Discovery at the Festival of Britain on Londons South Bank on Whit Monday. Date: May 1951

Poster, Join the Thrift Column (a play on words -- not the Fifth Column!). Advertising the Post Office Savings Bank. Showing a long queue of people waiting to open their accounts. 20th century

The Food Queue
Four hungry mouths to feed, sitting on the branch of a tree. Date: early 1930s

Dining Room, Rowton House, Hammersmith, London
View inside the dining room of a Rowton House in Hammersmith, West London, with male inmates eating at tables and queueing to be served

Female surface workers queueing, South Wales
A line of female surface workers queueing up at a mine in South Wales, probably for their wages

London County Council Night Office, Charing Cross Bridge
Applicants waiting outside the London County Councils Night Office at Charing Cross Bridge, Central London. The Office had telephone links to the citys casual wards, as well as to the Salvation Army

Whitechapel Workhouse Casual Ward, East London
A line of men gathers near the Whitechapel Workhouse casual ward (vagrants ward) on Thomas Street, East London, waiting for its opening time

And Never a Cross Word by Howard K. Elcock
A nonchalant young woman in crossword themed pyjamas leaves a hotel bathroom. She smokes a cigarette and swans off oblivious to the waiting queue of other hotel guests who have obviously been there

Dunkirk evacuation WWII
Photo shows British troops on a beach near Dunkirk forming into long winding queues ready to take their turn to board the small boats which took them to larger vessels

Crowd at Grotto at Lourdes, France
The crowd awaiting access to the Grotto at Lourdes, France

Funny Postcard - Urgency
A superb humourous postcard depicting a young man taking a long time over his telegram, which has a lot to do with the pretty young girl behind the counter

The Main Post Office, Istanbul. There are different counters for local/ interior post and for International post. A clock above the counter unusually shows the time in two different time zones

Gas Masks, World War II
Group of men queuing to register, probably for the ARP, wearing gas masks during World War II

Education, Schoolchildren, playground
A junior prefect lines up a group of infants in the school playground

How to Brighten Hotel Life: Preventing the Bathroom Boredom
Maid and shoe cleaner dancing to entertain the guests who are waiting to use the bathroom. One of a series specially drawn for The Sketch by Joyce Dennys

Senegal - West Africa - Dakar - The Theatre
The Theatre (French building) at Dakar, Senegal, West Africa

Last Presentations
Debutantes and their familes queue outside Buckingham Palace for the last court presentations to the Queen in March 1958

Night scene outside the gates of Buckingham Palace. Crowds w
Night scene outside the gates of Buckingham Palace during the illness of King George V, showing a queue of people waiting to read the latest bulletin

A Derby night
Illustration by S. Begg showing a long queue of men lining up to enlist. Lord Derby, Director General of Recruiting in 1916 introduced the Derby scheme which encouraged men from the same offices or

Theatre Queue 1930S
A huge crowd of theatre goers queueing outide the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, England, which opened in 1932

Tea for Queue
A kind tea lady hands out cups of hot tea to a crowd of people waiting outside No. 10 Downing Street, London, the official residence of the British Prime Minister of the day

Queueing in Playground
A group of young children queue to climb the ladder in the playground

London Zoo Llama Cart
A llama cart at London Zoo, Regents Park, London. A young Overseer stands in front of the cart and visitors queue to get on the elephant rides in the background

Homage to Louis
When 11-year old Louis returns to Paris, a splendid trosne is built for him at the Porte Saint-Antoine, where people queue to pay him homage. It will all go to his head

Slide Queue
A crush on the steps of a playground slide, as one little girl chickens out and decides to get off!

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