Sacks Gallery

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. A wagon of corn merchants and millers Gledhill & Brook can be seen on the left, waiting for a large truck to pass through a (rather narrow) street. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Delivering Flour to the Queen Mary

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

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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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

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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