Repairs Collection (page 4)

HMS Marlborough in dry dock in Malta. HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

HMS Marlborough - Starboard Quarter viewed in dry dock in Malta. HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill

War Wounds Slowly Mending - repairs to towns in France
Restoring the devastated towns of Northern France. Montage of sketches by Helen McKie showing the careful rebuilding and restoration of towns in France devastated during the First World War

Advertisement for British Tailoring and Repairing, WW1
Advertisement for British Tailoring and Repairing, advising on the economies of repairing or renovating old clothes during wartime. Date: 1917

French Happy Families - Cobbler
French Happy Families - La Famille Lebouif, Grandmother, Cobbler. early 20th century

Car repairs in street, Havana Cuba Date: 1980s

Snap Playing Card - Chairs to Mend. circa 1900s

House Repairs / Bellows /
General house repairs - one man is up a ladder and another is using bellows. Date: 18th century

Maid Stitching Stocking
The maid does some last-minute repairs to her mistresss stocking before she leaves for a ball Date: 1908

Tinker sharpening a knife for a maid 1894
A tinker sharpening a knife for a waiting maid. Date: 1894

Laid up for repairs
Young Dutch boy laying across mothers lap gets his trousers darned. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1915

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

The east end of Walton Street, London Date: circa 1910s

Rudkin Bros, 4 Paddington Street, London W1
The shop window of Rudkin Bros, 4 Paddington Street, London W1 -- house repairs and decorations. Date: circa 1910

Lightship in dry dock, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

The West India Docks, London - Opening of a new Dry Dock Date: 1878

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

Man working on road repairs, Liverpool Road, Eccles
A man working on road repairs in Liverpool Road, Eccles, Manchester. Date: circa 1977

Two men doing maintenance on Tower Bridge, London. Date: 1957

Face in garage window, Sale, Greater Manchester
A face peeps out through a garage window in Sale, Greater Manchester. Date: circa 1979

Man repairs puncture on upturned bicycle, Eccles
A man repairs a puncture on his upturned bicycle, in front of a row of shops in Peel Green, Eccles, Manchester. Date: circa 1977

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

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

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, with reconstruction to the stonework taking place. The Floral Hall is just visible on the left

Japanese cruiser Asama, British Columbia, Canada, WW1
Japanese cruiser Asama at Nanaimo (British naval base) for repairs, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, during the First World War. Date: 1915

HMS Exeter, British heavy cruiser, WW2
HMS Exeter (68), British York class heavy cruiser, returning home in February 1940 after repairs following the Battle of the River Plate (December 1939)

Soldiers as munitions workers
Having enlisted early in the war, and been sent back from the front, many British soldiers found work in factories producing war munitions. Date: 1915

LFB Engineering Workshop - Vehicle repairs Date: circa 1950s

Women wanted for War Work, WW1
Advertisement by the Motor Drivers Licensed Employment Bureau calling for women to train as engineers during the First World War. Full training in machinery and car repairs offered. Date: 1918

Old Belgian soldier working on Road Repairs. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Man with his Austin car, parked at the roadside for repairs or maintenance

Repairs to Petrograd Tramways, 1923
Repairs underway on tramlines in central Petrograd (St Petersburg) in 1923. Date: 1923

Womens Royal Air Force -- Running Repairs
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing three women fixing their makeup at a small mirror -- Running Repairs. Date: 1919-1920

Silhouette Calendar -- January, New Year Resolutions. Showing a little girl sewing at a table. Date: 20th century

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

Jeep undergoing repair
A jeep in a yard, undergoing repair

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

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

Advertising Card for Whiteleys Electric Shop, 84 John Street, New York, USA - featuring the smiling visage of a pretty model

Part of the Nash Collection undergoing repairs in the BEA hangar at London Airport

Floating bazaar - Thailand - Water bazaar and repairs to river walls Date: 1952

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

The Road Digger
People You See. From Teddy Bear (artwork dated 4 March)

The Clock Repairer
People You See. From Teddy Bear (date unknown)

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