Removals Collection

Robinsons Ltd removal vans, Cricklewood, NW London
Two Robinsons Ltd removal vans, Cricklewood, NW London, also at Knolls House, Manchester and Moseley Road, Birmingham, offering a weekly road service. Date: circa 1920s

Removal Men and their vans
A pair of early motorised removal lorries and their teams of removal men - the company is P. W. Caswill of Acton Lane, Chiswick, London - they also offered warehousing

ROBINSONS REMOVAL MEN
Employees of Robinsons Removals unload a lorry in Felpham, nr. Bognor, Sussex. Date: 1960s

Advert for Hatt and Billings, Auctioneers and Valuers, Bath
Advert for Hatt and Billings, Auctioneers and Valuers, House and Estate Agents, Burton Street, Bath Date: 1902

Advertising Postcard - Pickfords Foreign & General Express Travel Tickets. Pickfords is a moving company based in the United Kingdom, part of Pickfords Move Management Ltd

J Frost & Sons, removals lorry, London
J Frost & Sons, removals lorry, 39 Chiltern Street, London W1. Date: circa 1940

Newsagents Notice Board
An assortment of notices on a newsagents shop notice board, including Flats to Let and Light Removals. Date: 1970

Buying A House by H M Bateman is an illustration on the dangers of buying a house. The couple dance in the big rooms and run up and down the stairs and buy impulsively

WWI Poster, Group System, Removals
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Group System, Removals. Inviting men who have moved into a new district to register for war service. Date: 1916

Jelks in wartime, second hand furniture merchant, WW1
Advertisement for Jelk s, W. Jelks & Sons of Holloway Road, London, with fifty years experience in house removals and second hand furniture

James Sutton Removals
A removal van belonging to James Sutton Removals. Storage is also offered

Police and strikers during railway strike, Dublin
Police holding strikers back to allow non-union men to pass to Kingsbridge Station (now known as Heuston Station) in Dublin, Ireland. 1911

Moving home
Moving to a new home. Scene from the Swedish every day life Date: 1850s

People coming out to see what is happening
Mrs Bobbity and her neighbours coming out to see what is happening -- the van driver gets hold of Dobbin. Date: 1937

Removal man running after the horse and van
One of the removal men (the van driver) running after the horse and van, surprised that steady old Dobbin would run off like that. Date: 1937

Removal men with horse-drawn van
Removal men filling their horse-drawn van with furniture. The horse is having a rest, eating from a nosebag. Date: 1937

Horse charges off with van
The removal men are surprised when Dobbin the horse charges off after Jack Sparrow, leaving pieces of furniture scattered on the ground. Date: 1937

A Huddersfield Horse cab
A fine photograph of an equally fine horse-drawn cab, with an open soft top, driven by the proprietor of the firm, W Haigh. Mr Haigh specialised in furniture removals, cabs and as a Daily Carrier

Pickfords Removers and Storers - Highgate
A removal van pulls up in front of a row of houses in Highgate Village, London. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Steam Furniture Removal vans, Pimlico, London
Bishop & Sons Steam-powered Furniture Removal van, Hugh Street, Pimlico, London

Advert / Overalls 1926
WK (or KW) overalls (Canadian) - every pair full of wear

Folding Furniture
Everything in this furniture range from Mannstein of Vienna folds into easily transportable cases, making removals a doddle and emigration a joy

Moving House by Air
Household removals will be faster and easier by air, though one must expect the occasional mishap

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