Sacks Collection

Cats enjoying a party on a Christmas card
A family of cats enjoying a party on a Christmas card, by Louis Wain. Date: circa 1900s

Old Towngate - Holmfirth, West Yorkshire
Old Towngate, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. Holmfirth has become well known as the location of the situation comedy Last of the Summer Wine

Picking coal from waste tip during 1921 strike, South Wales
Three men picking coal from a local colliery waste tip during the 1921 strike, South Wales

St Georges Square, Pimlico, London - with a coal delivery (from the wagons in the middle distance) in operation

Harvesting barley with a combine harvester, Suffolk
Harvesting barley with a combine harvester on a farm in Suffolk, England

Warehouse / Liverpool Dock
Stock is unloaded from horse- pulled wagons and drawn up into the warehouse by rope

Covent Garden Market
COVENT GARDEN A view of the market setting up early in the morning with piles of crates and sacks lying around. Date: Spring, circa 1930

Hoisting Hops
Hoisting pokes of hops onto a drying platform. Despite modern advances such as mechanical hop presses, horses were still being used for hoisting the pokes (sacks). Date: 1930s

Cats enjoying a dinner party on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

London Life - The Busy Docks of the Port of London Date: circa 1940

Coal Men 1960S
Two coal men, young and old, lift heavy sacks of coal off their lorry. Date: early 1970s

Silhouette, Sending Coals to Newcastle
Sending Coals to Newcastle -- silhouette showing a mining landscape and three men carrying sacks of coal up a slope

Music cover, In the Quartermasters Stores (My Eyes are Dim I Cannot See), words and music adapted by Box, Cox and Bert Read. 1940

Blitz in London -- salvaged mail, Calthorpe Street, WW2
Blitz in London -- following the bombing of Mount Pleasant Post Office on 18 June 1943, salvaged mail was temporarily piled up in nearby Calthorpe Street. Date: 1943

Delivering Flour to the Queen Mary
Josph Rank Ltd. Millers - delivering Flour to the RMS Queen Mary, then Britains largest ship. She sailed primarily in the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line. Date: 1936

Cuba - A Native Fruit Seller in Havana. His wares are carried in panniers on the flanks of his mule including a few strands of sugar cane. Date: 1899

Morgan sacks Panama
Admiral Sir Henry Morgan (1635-1688) and his English buccaneers sack the Spanish city of Panama, looting immense wealth and returning to Jamaica a hero

Bosnian Market Scene - Sarajevo
Market Scene in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina

Joseph Yates Ltd - 33 Vauxhall Bridge Road
Joseph Yates Ltd - Timber Merchant - 33 Vauxhall Bridge Road, Pimlico, London

Baa Baa Black Sheep / 1884
Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool? Yes Sir, Yes Sir - three bags full. One for the master and one for the dame, and one for the little boy who lives down the lane

Poster of Niger steamers loading groundnuts
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, showing Niger steamers loading groundnuts. Date: C.1930

Oasthouses at Whitbreads Hop Gardens, Paddock Wood, Kent. Date: circa 1930s

Rostov on the Don River, Russia - Unloading grain
Unloading of grain on the banks of the Don River - Rostov-on-Don - the administrative center of Rostov Oblast, Russia. Date: 1903

Mail Aeroplane 1970S
First Class mail being unloaded from a plane into a General Post Office (Royal Mail) van, Britain

Pyne - Coal Heavers
COAL HEAVERS An essential trade when almost every house is heated with coal, the heaver shovels coals into sacks for delivery door to door

Cart pulled by a horse, cow, bullock, donkey at same time
Vintage 19th century photograph: heavy cart with sacks, being pulled by a horse a cow / bullock and a donkey at the same time. Sommer studio, southern Italy

Postcard booklet, workers in the cotton fields, USA
Postcard booklet, workers in the cotton fields, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

Bagging up salt - Aden, Yemen. circa 1920s

Iskenderun, Turkey - Alexandretta - Place de la Douane
Iskenderun, Turkey - Place de la Douane (Customs Square). Also known as Alexandretta in Greek and in English Alexandrette. Turkish city at the far eastern end of the Mediterranean coast

WW2 Birthday Card, Tons Of Luck
A WW2 birthday greetings card, the illustration shows a large delivery of good fortune, in the way of sacks of horseshoes, provided by a pair of cats and two horses, wearing tin hats and satchels

Lunch
An illustration of a pair of horses, black and white, feeding from some sacks at rest, one is ready to pull a two wheeled cart. Date: circa 1901

Hauling Sacks
An etching which shows two women haulking some heavy sacks over their shoulders. Date: circa 1922

Food for the Maharajah's Ponies
A food delivery for the Maharajah of Jaipur's thirty six polo ponies, being stabled in Malmesbury during a visit to England by the All-Indian polo team. Date: 1933

Porter pulling a loaded cart at a market, 20 July 1970. Date: 1970

Pool of London - Tower Bridge - River Thames
circa 1910s

Gas works, Horseferry Road, Westminster, London
Scene outside the gas works in Horseferry Road, Westminster, London, at a time when the streets were lit by gas. Date: 1842

Securing a house against air raids, WW1
Securing a house against air raids with sacks of earth to cover the rafters during the First World War. 1914-1918

The New System of Delivering Coal. circa 1840

The Debarkment of Provisions in American Colonies
French sailors move provisions on shore, carrying sacks and barrels towards where more men are building houses. A group of Native Americans stand in the middle, directing people. Date: circa 1700

Women workers loading cart at London Gas Works, WW1
Women workers loading a coke cart at a London Gas Works during the First World War. 1914-1918

Making sacks and warm clothes for the troops, WW1
Women making sacks and warm clothes for the troops in a YMCA hut during the First World War. 1914-1918

Nieces of Duchess of York selling RNLI flags
Jean and Elizabeth Elphinstone, nieces of the Duchess of York, selling Royal National Lifeboat Institute flags. 1935

Coal-porters 1850s
Coal-porters on board a ship filling waggons at the coal-wharf. Date: circa 1850s

General scenes at the Post-Office 1875
Sketches showing scenes in a general Post-Office. Date: 1875

View of the beach at Funchal, Madeira, with boats. Date: circa 1900s

Cows Raid Grain Sacks

Herring boats in Yarmouth 1861
Early morning arrival of the first herring boats in Yarmouth. Date: 1861

Old Clothes Exchange, Phils Buildings, Houndsditch 1882
The court of Phils buildings was found directly opposite St Mary Axe. A barrier was placed across steps leading up to the court, as there was an admission fee of one penny

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