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Advertising Card for Whiteleys Electric Shop, 84 John Street, New York, USA - featuring the smiling visage of a pretty model
Natives repair tailplane (McCarthy Island). Miss Delphine Reynolds and her pilot, W.G. Pudney, took off from Hanworth on 1 March 1931 in Blackburn Bluebird IV, G-ABGF
The Repair and overhaul of Dutch Air Force Airspeed Oxfords
View from Kipling Pagoda - Moulmein - The site has been occupied by a pagoda since 700AD. Gold pagoda under repair. Wide terraces with dipping roofed steps leading down the steep hill
Mending household items 1943Make Do and Mend. During World War Two women became very resourceful, they tackled repairs and maintenance of many clothing and household items, that today we would just throw away and replace. 1943
Learning to Mend ShoesA class of London County Council schoolboys being taught how to repair shoes. Date: early 1930s
Television Repair ManPeople You See: The TV Man. From Teddy Bear (29 February 1964)
Accident AvertedWhile under repair, a locomotive runs away but mechanics succeed in halting it before it can do any damage to itself or others. Date: 1924
NFS Heavy Unit vehicle appliance awaiting repairNFS Heavy Unit vehicle which has been in an accident, awaiting repair
NFS (London Region) repaired LFB fire engine, WW2The former red fire engines of the London Fire Brigade were painted grey in WW2 and during the time of the NFS. Here a previously damaged dual purpose pump has been repaired and repainted
NFS (London Region) damaged LFB fire appliance, WW2The former red fire engines of the London Fire Brigade were painted grey in WW2 and during the time of the NFS. Here a damaged dual purpose pump has been delivered to the Regional headquarters
NFS (London Region) pump repairs, Lambeth workshopsA damaged LCC London Fire Brigade fire engine, after repair, at the Headquarters station, Lambeth. The appliance is without its ladders and equipment and painted in a wartime battleship grey colour
Blitz in London -- clearance and repair of bomb damage in King Street, Hammersmith, West London
Russian businessman talking to two workmen attempting to repair a damaged Russian battleship. Date 1904
Dusting plane hedge-hopping after spraying swath on beanfield. These planes can spray 100 acres an hour, can usually fly one or two hours unless it rains or storms in an average day
Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people
Poster: Pots and PansPoster giving advice on looking after Pots and Pans so that they last as long as possible. 20th century
Railway workers
Repairing a windmillRepair of a windmills sails, Sabyholm, Sweden. 1964 Date: 1964
Highway Building, U. s. AHighways under construction, U.S.A. Date: 1960s
Belgian Air Force 4Michel Donnet and Leon Divoy, after the German defeat of Belgium, find and repair an old aeroplane and make a daring escape to England where they fight with great success. Date: 1916+
Road collapse, ParisA collapse at Place Saint Philippe du Roule in Paris on 15th June 1910 as a direct result of prior damage caused during the severe flood which hit the capital in January of the same year. Date: 1910
good Samaritan CyclistThe Helping Hand : A male cyclist helps three distressed females to mend a punctured bicycle tyre! Date: 1930s
New York Road RepairsWorkmen mending roads, New York, U.S.A. Date: 1960s
Building SuperhighwayHighway under construction, U.S.A. Date: 1960s
Sailors repairing a boat on a ship, WW1Men of the British Royal Navy undertaking repairs on a boat on board a ship during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918
Damaged plane on an airfield, WW1Men examine a damaged plane on an airfield during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918
Women refugees sewing army clothing, Baghdad, WW1Women refugees sewing army clothing in Baghdad, Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War. One woman is using a Singer automatic sewing machine. Date: 1917
British gun hospital in Flanders, WW1A British gun hospital or workshop in Flanders for the repair of Howitzers, with artillerymen, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918
British gun repair, ordnance workshop, WW1A British heavy gun in for repair at the gun hospital, an ordnance workshop in Flanders during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918
Boy repairing a clock -- Something Wrong with the Works
Howitzer beyond repair, Calais, France, WW1A 4.5 inch Howitzer beyond repair at the Ordnance Depot, Calais, France, during the First World War. Date: 19 April 1917
Interior of tank repairing workshop, WW1View inside a tank repairing workshop during the First World War, containing a large number of captured British tanks. Date: September 1918
Canadian armourers repairing rifles, Salisbury Plain, WW1Canadian armourers repairing Ross straight-pull rifles on Salisbury Plain at the start of the First World War. Another man in the background is repairing a bicycle. Date: 27 September 1914
Diving Bell (Card)A twentieth century bell used for underwater repair work and investigation. Date: 1915
Clarendon HousePiccadilly : built for 50, 000 by Lord Clarendon, using stone intended to repair St Paul s, it was both a scandal and a financial embarrassment, and sold, became Albemarle House Date: 1660s
Rowing boat, the Kathryn Anne, in a boatbuilders workshopA rowing boat, the Kathryn Anne of Exmouth, in a boatbuilders workshop. (1 of 2)
Street repairs in Dublin, IrelandThree men busy doing street repairs in Dublin, Ireland. The man on the left is laying a paving slab. There are some rather ornate advertisements on the hoarding behind them, one for a family chemist
Road repairs during World War TwoA group of American service personnel, together with a few civilians, watch a man doing road repairs during World War Two
City of Paris ship at Milford Haven Docks, South WalesView of the City of Paris ship in for repair at Milford Haven Docks, South Wales, with a railway track in the foreground
Small tank undergoing maintenanceA small tank on a country road, undergoing maintenance during the First World War
Locomotive construction at SwindonVarious scenes depicting the construction of the Great Western Railway at the Swindon Works
Close-up of fishermans hands, mending a netA close-up of a fishermans toil-worn hands, as he sits mending a net
Car with broken wheel in the desert, Middle EastA car with a broken front wheel in the desert, somewhere in the Middle East. The driver, wearing a fez, stands alongside, not looking too pleased
Bootmakers Shop at Barnardos Home, Stepney CausewayBootmakers shop at Barnardos Home, Stepney Causeway, East London. In 1870, Thomas Barnardo set up a home for destitute boys at 18-26 Stepney Causeway
Post war reconstruction / W H RobinsonRestoring a shattered sign post. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library
The Zeughaus (German Historical Museum), BerlinThe Zeughaus, Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany. Completed in 1730 in baroque style, it was originally used as an artillery arsenal
Car trouble / W H RobinsonThe cause of all the trouble: The mouse in the Magneto. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library Date: 1939