Soaking Collection

Blackpool Log Flume
These holidaymakers are getting wetter than they bargained for on the Log Flume at the famous Pleasure Beach funfair, Blackpool, Lancashire, England! Date: late 1960s

Street music: organ grinder rejected, 1858
Repelling foreign invasion: paterfamilias tries the cold water cure in a case of organ grinding. Date: 1858

Deck chairs Tenby, Wales
Two elderly men sat in deckchairs either side of an elderly lady. They watch her and smile as she snoozes in the afternoon sunshine on the beach at Tenby, Wales

Performers emerge from the water tank, London Hippodrome
Horses and riders, performing in the water jump hunting scene at the London Hippodrome, emerge from the tank to cheers from the enthusiastic audience. Date: 1901

Drawing goatskins at a leather factory, south London
Two men drawing goatskins at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. The process involves repeatedly soaking the skins in a solution of lime and water over a number of weeks

Circus Elephant / Chaos
A circus elephant runs amok with with one of the performers sitting astride his trunk. The ring-masters top hat gets a soaking. Date: 1928

Water Therapy at Bourbonne-les-Bains, France
Water Therapy at Bourbonne-les-Bains - a commune in the Haute-Marne department in northeastern France. A lady lies naked on her side

Clothes Soak in Rinso
Clothes soaking in Rinso in the washtub of an American home : more than a million packages are used every week ! Date: 1924

Playing with the garden hose
Classic 1930s family illustration, depicting a young boy sitting with his sisters and Mother in the garden in the summer sun and fixing the blocked nozzle of the garden hose sprinkler

A Good Rainfall
A delightful postcard illustrated by Lance Thackeray, entitled A Good Rainfall from the Amateur Gardening series. A girl watering her high hedge soaks her male companion and then tells him to go

Incendiary by W. Heath Robinson
Sequential cartoon by Heath Robinson showing some rather over exuberant ARP wardens spraying a hose into the window of a house where they see smoke

A Showery Day on the River
Various examples of what a rainy day means to different people. A couple have a slight tiff on a boat, a man punts across a stream wearing his rain hat and coat and in the boat house

A Sovereign Remedy
John Bull holds the hand of a rather unhealthy looking pound note in a satirical illustration which alludes to the falling value of sterling against the dollar in 1920

Crinoline in the Rain
Another sacrifice made in the name of fashion. The breadth of poor Kittys crinoline prevents her and Adolphus, her chivalrous beau, from gaining shelter inside a carriage

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