Smock Collection (page 4)

Nursery Rhymes -- Little Bo Peep, Simple Simon
Nursery Rhymes. Little Bo Peep with her sheep (above). Simple Simon fishing in a bucket (below). Date: early 20th century

Cover design, Mother Goose Rhymes -- a cute little girl and boy, sitting by a potted plant with a plate of strawberries. Date: circa 1920s

Greetings from Normandy
" I send you greetings from Normandy". A Norman man in white smock, puffing on a thin pipe and doffing his remarkable hat. He carries a small wicker basket - I wonder what it contains

Girl and toddler in studio photo
A young girl holding a toddler in a studio photo, with a painted backdrop. circa early 20th century

Advert for Gorringes childrens clothing
Clothes of character for the wee man. Date: 1930

The Milkwoman on Her Rounds
This photograph, specially taken for The Sphere, shows a milkwoman, wearing a smock and breeches and a leather pouch and carrying a milk pail

Drunk Yokel protests his innocence to local landowner
" What! drunk again Mick?" " Well, I ve just had a toothful, yer Honour." " I think we shall have to get that tooth stopped." Date: 1892

An Old Herdsman, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Date: 1892

Old soak yokel in smock claiming not to have been drinking
The Squire Daughter - " Jerry, a little bird told me you had to much to drink yesterday!" Jerry - " Wel, my lady

A Newlyn Fisherman, Cornwall. Date: 1904

Lacey Green Windmill - a Smock Mill in Buckinghamshire
Windmill at Lacey Green (a village connected to Loosley Row), Buckinghamshire - the oldest surviving smock mill in England

French country gent with a large red umbrella
" I always take my umbrella when I go shopping!" A French country gent from Normandy with a large red umbrella. (top line is the likely translation of the French pattoir on the card)

Horse artist. A horse painting a picture of a cart

The Mill at West Blatchington, near Brighton, East Sussex
A fine photographic Judges postcard showing the Mill at West Blatchington, near Brighton, East Sussex. The windmill is a " smock" windmill

Fiddler in Thomas Hardy Drama Festival, Dorchester
At the Thomas Hardy Drama Festival in Dorchester, Dorset, Henry Bailey, the old fiddler, played the College Hornpipe in the play The Three Wayfarers

Milkmaid and Milk Seller at Hennebont, Brittany
Milkmaid and Milk Seller at Hennebont, in the Morbihan department of Brittany, France. Date: circa 1910s

The Carter - a rustic cart driver in his smock and carrying a whip Date: 1905

Maori Chief - New Zealand, with a spectacular tattoo on his face and wearing a smock made of tiny seashells. Date: 1904

Little girl standing at a garden gate
A little girl standing at a garden gate, rather disappointed that her day hasn t been more exciting. first published 1879

Gibraltar Mill, Essex
Winter snow at Gibraltar Mill, Great Bardfield, Essex, England. Built as a smock mill c. 1704-5 (during the Siege of Gibraltar), then raised as a tower mill in the 1750s. Date: 18th century

Three little girls in straw bonnets on a village green, with a shuttlecock and battledore, a skipping rope and a ball. Their names are Polly, Peg and Poppety. first published 1879

Three boys chatting at a water pump. first published 1879

Miss Zena Dare blowing a large bubble
Miss Zena Dare (Actress) blowing a large bubble out of a long clay pipe Date: 1905

Pyrenean Goat Shepherd and his Flock. He certainly seems to have a hand on the situation... Date: circa 1910s

Girl Minds Baby C1900
A little girl minds the baby. Date: circa 1900

Four young inmates, Wigmore Schools, West Midlands
Four young inmates (two boys and two girls) at the Walsall and West Bromwich District School on Pennyhill Lane, Wigmore. The boys are in band uniform and hold a trumpet or cornet

Group of girls at Wigmore Schools, West Midlands
A large group of girls at the Walsall and West Bromwich District School on Pennyhill Lane, Wigmore. They are sitting on a grassy bank wearing identical smock dresses, pinafores and straw hats

Man fishing by a river with an improvised rod
A man fishes by a river with an improvised rod -- he has tied his line to the end of a broken branch

Edwardian mother and four children
An Edwardian mother and her four children pose for their photo in the photographers studio. The three girls are dressed in identical smock dresses

Father with two daughters, Mid Wales
A father with his two young daughters, in the photographers studio. There is a painted backdrop with a curtain draped at the side, and they are standing on a large furry rug

Edwardian children outside a shop
A group of Edwardian children outside a shop -- one of the boys has bare feet

Girls at Crickhowell School, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
A group photo of the girls class at Crickhowell School, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales. There are two teachers, one male, one female

Girls outside a (clothes-making?) workshop
A group of working-class girls stand outside a workshop, possibly connected to the clothing trade. A note on the back of the picture reads These are a few of our girls from the workshop

Two children with dolls on a beach, Scotland
Two little children with their dolls on a beach, somewhere in Scotland

Two little girls on a beach, Scotland
Two little girls on a beach, somewhere in Scotland. The girl on the left is investigating something in a rock pool

Two children with toys on a beach, Scotland
Two little children with their toys on a beach, somewhere in Scotland

Rural Shepherd Boy - Salomko
A rural shepherd boy and his pet dog. Painting by Serge Salomko (1859 - 1926)

Old Beggar - Tours, France
Old beggar in Tours, France. He stands, head bowed, wearing a long smock and a fantastic pair of wooden clogs

Town folk back from country / W H Robinson
An absent minded man fresh back from the countryside after the war, forgets that he is back in town and set off to work with a pitch fork and farmers smock

Woman and child with dog
A woman, a little girl and a shaggy dog

A motor plough
An old farmer in a traditional smock stands forlornly watching a new, motorised plough make quick work of a field. Behind the motor plough is an old hand or horse driven plough

Bird shoot at Gate Aldin
A man at a five-bar gate, enjoying a days shooting

Cardamine Pratensis
LADYs SMOCK

Father & Children
A Father sits in a garden with his three daughters, one holding a toy doll and wearing a wide-brimmed hat

Cotswold Shepherd
A picture of Sam Bennett(1866- 1951)a Cotswold shepherd. A fruit farmer, Morris dancer and fiddler

Costume / Navvy
A London navvy wearing a white smock, peaked cap & stout boots, smokes his pipe as he digs a ditch. A lantern alerts passersby to mind the hole

Boy and squirrels
A small blond boy wearing a smock and shorts sits under a tree watching a group of inquisitive squirrels feed from a bowl

FARMYARD, 1860
A farmyard with thatched barn, duckpond, dovecote, drinking trough, wagon, barrow, a variety of free-ranging livestock and a lad in a smock feeding the poultry

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