Repairing Collection (page 3)

Tinker, Tailor playing card - Tinker, Peter Pan. 20th century

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Putt the Golfers Wife. circa 1930s

National Childrens Home, Harpenden - Shoemaking
Boys making and repairing shoes and boots at the National Childrens Home (NCH), Harpenden. Date: Date unknown

National Childrens Home, Harpenden - Carpentry
Boys at work in the carpenters workshop at the National Childrens Home (NCH), Harpenden. One boy is repairing a table. Date: Date unknown

Barnardos Emigrants in Canada - repairing a fence
Barnardos emigrants repairing a fence. A horse and wagon carries lengths of timber. Barnardos began sending children to Canada in 1872. Date: circa 1914

Humorous Dutch card - pumping up a car tyre. Sent as a Mother and Fathers day card from the sender to his/her parents! Date: circa 1910

Scene in Brixham Harbour, Devon, with people enjoying the sunshine. circa 1960s

Two men repairing fishing nets, Bideford, Devon
Two men standing in a rowing boat, repairing fishing nets at Bideford, Devon. Date: circa 1960s

Friedmans Music Shop, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Friedmans Music Shop, 73 Springfield Avenue, Newark, New Jersey, USA. Date: 1932

London in 1919 - rebuilding roads outside John Lewis
After a number of London thoroughfares were badly neglected during the First World War, many roads and famous streets were repaired by workmen in 1919

WW1 - French Aeroplane Hospital. Date: 1918

Thought to be a Gladiator Vintage Car, Southend on Sea, Essex, England. Croxson & Sons Motor Repairing Shop, the bike is possibly a Rex Motorbike Date: 1900s

Boy and dog on a pavement, South London
Boy and dog on a pavement, Coldharbour Lane, South London, outside O Hughes tailors shop. Date: circa 1910s

Three men repairing fishing nets, Holy Land. Date: 1920s

Suffragette Militant Broken Windows. Worksmen repairing windows at Messers Bakers Regent Street, London, after they were smashed by Militant Suffragettes Date: circa 1914

LFB Engineering Workshop - Vehicle repairs Date: circa 1950s

St Dunstans Hostel advertisement, WW1
A full page of The Tatler devoted to reporting on the work of St. Dunstans Hostel for Blinded Soldiers and Sailors in Regents Park, London

Earlswood Asylum, Redhill, Surrey - Inmates Cobbling
Inmates at the Earlswood Asylum at work making and repairing shoes. Date: circa 1904

Boys Repair Boots at the NCH Childrens Home, Harpenden, Her
Boys in aprons repairing boots in a workshop at the National Childrens Home in Harpenden. Date: Date unknown

Fisherman repairing nets
Fisherman attending to his nets on a jetty as large sailing boats pass by. Date: 1907

The Open Road in Italy by H. L. Oakley
A series of silhouette vignettes showing the various modes of transport encountered on the open road in Italy during World War One, captured by the silhouette artist, Captain H. L

Indian soldiers repairing roads in France, WW1
Indian soldiers repairing roads on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Mending Atlantic cables by G. H. Davis
Mending earthquake-torn Atlantic cables: methods and tools. How the Atlantic cables broken by the submarine earthquake (18 November) are repaired: perilous work in winter. Date: 1929

Fisherman making and repairing lobster pots
A fisherman making and repairing lobster pots. Date: circa 1930

Mending household items 1944
Make 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. 1944

Man with motorbike in a field
A man with his motorbike in a field. He is either repairing the bike or picking flowers!

Fisherman repairing lobster pots
A fisherman repairing lobster pots. Date: circa 1930

Man repairing a jeep
A man repairing a jeep

People repairing a vehicle
Two women and a man repairing a large vehicle

Two men repairing motorcycles
Two men in a garage, repairing motorcycles

Two women working in a garage, repairing vehicles

Re-building Menai Suspension Bridge
The Menai Suspension Bridge - built by Thomas Telford, opened in 1826. Reconstruction started in June 1938. Date: 1938

A Zapatero (Itinerant Street Cobbler), Mexico City, Mexico. Date: 1904

Taiwan (Formosa) - Essential house repairs taking place
Siraya People, Taiwan (Formosa) - Essential house repairs taking place (during the period of the Japanese occupation of Formosa following the First Sino-Japanese War). Date: circa 1910s

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - A little bit behind
" A little bit behind!" - A kind young girl helps her boy chum who has torn his shorts and requires an urgent spot of patching-up! Date: circa 1942

A Cosy Diner - Workmen have lunch amid the air raids
Keep Calm and Carry On. A quite fantastic photograph showing two workmen engaged in repairing air raid damage in the London area continue with their private luncheon although the sirens have sounded

Albania - Vlore - Plaza del Comando - Minaret and Stork
Albania - Vlore - Plaza del Comando - Minaret (under repair) with a (lucky) Stork taking up residence at the top. Date: 1917

Venice, Italy - Gondola Boatyard and workshop
The gondola workshop and Boatyard - Squero di San Trovaso in Venice, Italy. Date: circa 1910s

Why Get Married?
" Why Get Married?" The Joys of Bachelor Life illustrated quite clearly in this humorous German postcard illustration! Date: circa 1910s

Repairing Bluebird at Bathurst. Miss Delphine Reynolds and her pilot, W.G. Pudney, took off from Hanworth on 1 March 1931 in Blackburn Bluebird IV, G-ABGF

Mending household items 1943
Make 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

Blitz in London -- clearance and repair of bomb damage in King Street, Hammersmith, West London

Repairing Ushiwakamarus high clogs (takageta)

Sewing and repairing Metropolitan Police uniform
A long line of tailors sewing and repairing Metropolitan Police uniforms at a police clothing store in Lambeth Road, south east London

Cornish Fishermen
A corner of the harbour of the typical Cornish fishing village of Mevagissey, England, showing fishermen repairing their nets in preparation for the next tide. Date: 1940s

Sailors repairing a boat on a ship, WW1
Men 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, WW1
Men examine a damaged plane on an airfield during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Women refugees sewing army clothing, Baghdad, WW1
Women 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

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