Spade Collection (page 3)

TRUFFLE HUNTING PIG 1939
A man with his truffle-hunting pig. He digs with a spade where the pig has found truffles - the hardest part is stopping the pig eating them before he can dig them up! Date: 1939

ADVERT / TRAVEL / BLACKPOOL
Blackpool Date: early 20th century

CHILDREN ON BEACH 1 OF 4
Children on the beach - wanting to make friends but feeling a bit shy Date: 1930s

Brother and sister have built a snowman
Our Snow Man - a brother and sister smile with a sense of achievement, having built a snowman. Date: 1911

British girl with a bucket and spade - waters edge
A little girl with a bucket and spade standing at the waters edge on a British seaside resort beach (unidentified location). circa 1920s

Items from the Folk Museum, Cambridge including an eel trap
Items from the Folk Museum, Cambridge: Clockwise from top left, a Turf Becket and spade, an eel trap, and eel gleve, horse overshoes and a sedge knife. Date: circa 1920s

beach shadow, Aberdaron
The silhouette shadow of a holidaymaker falls on his windbreak as he sits reading a book on Aberdaron beach. Other holidaymakers are in the background. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1990

St. Mildreds Promemade - Westgate on Sea - Grandmother
St. Mildreds Promemade - Westgate-on-Sea, Medway, Kent - Grandmother and two Grandchildren strolling along the seafront. Date: circa 1930

Extended family group at the seaside - photographed with their backs to a fishing boat (perhaps to act as a windbreak?!) - note the News of the World bucket held by the middle child - perhaps an

Father and daughter bury son (brother), British seaside
A Father and daughter bury their son/brother in the sand - British seaside scene Date: 1938

Little girl building patriotic sandcastle
Sweet little girl building a patriotic sandcastle on this Birthday Greetings postcard. Date: 1910s

Iraq War Most Wanted Playing Cards - fan of all the Spades, with the face of Saddam Hussein (c.1937-2006) as the Ace of Spades. circa 2003

Farm tools. Wooden spade and wodden potato hoe. The National Museum of Finland. Helsinki

St. Fiacre. Irish hermit monk born in 7th century. Patron of gardeners. Nineteenth century colored engraving

WW2 poster, Grow more food, dig for victory -- wanted 500, 000 more allotment holders, for plots of land apply to your council. Date: circa 1940

Diamond mining in German south west Africa (now Namibia). Date: circa 1910

Alice in Wonderland, Alice and the gardeners
Alice in Wonderland, Alice meets some playing card gardeners painting the white roses red. Date: early 20th century

Masonry Tools 18th C
Various tools used by builders in the 18th century : trowels, spades, saws, baskets, spades, wheelbarrows, hammers, etc. Date: Circa 1760

Four children on a beach, playing with a boat
Four children -- three girls and a boy -- on a beach, playing with a boat. They are all happy and smiling

On Margate Beach 1920S
On the beach at Margate: three ladies sit in deckchairs, while two boys in bathing costumes sit, one on the sand, one astride a toy bulldog

Comic postcard, Boy on the beach with bucket and spade Date: 20th century

Two girls at the seaside on a palette-shaped New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Quarry workers, Boma, Belgian Congo, West Africa. Date: circa 1905

Membership certificate, Labour Party 50th Anniversary
Membership certificate, In commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Labour Party (1900-1950), for use during the Jubilee Year, with quotations from Keir Hardie and Clement Attlee. Date: 1950

The Orphan Boy. 19th century

Players Navy Cut Snap Game - The Digger - holding a large pack of Players " Digger" Flake - Empire Grown pipe tobacco. Date: 1930

Stone-breaking cell in a workhouse
Illustration showing a workhouse stone-breaking cell. Tramps and vagrants broke stones in return for a nights accommodation Date: circa 1909

Illustration, The Cotters Saturday Night
Illustration to The Cotters Saturday Night, a poem by Robert Burns. Date: 1866

Fraulein Feldgrau on a WW1 postcard. She was a popular pinup for German soldiers. The red touches to the uniform have been added by hand. Date: 1914-1918

British Army issue entrenching tool (spade). Firearms & Equipment

Two little boys making sandcastle on beach
Two little boys making a sandcastle on the beach. Date: circa 1960s

Having Fun by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl at the seaside with bucket, spade and pet dog. Date: 1943

People in a bomb damaged street during WW2
People in a bomb damaged street in Germany during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s

Repeating Pattern - Alice and Gardeners. *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Arch Druids planting Coronation Oak, Crystal Palace
To commemorate the coronation of King George V, the Arch Druid of England planted a Coronation Oak sapling at the Crystal Palace, London. The ceremony was attended by many foreign delegates

Dig For Victory
British wartime poster encouraging the public to grow their own food

Girl with baby in pram, Cornwall
A girl smiles down at a baby in a pram, while on holiday at a seaside town in Cornwall. The baby is playing with a bucket and spade. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Snow in Prospect Park, Niagara, NY State, USA Date: circa 1890

Building a sand castle
Two children build an impressive sandcastle atop which their little dog decides to sit. Date: c.1920

Boy on the beach at Bigbury Bay, Devon
A little boy playing on the beach at Bigbury Bay, on the south coast of Devon. Date: circa 1960s

HRH George, The Prince of Wales - The Volunteer Stoker
HRH George, The Prince of Wales (1865-1936) - as a Volunteer Stoker! The photograph was taken in 1909 on board the HMS Indomitable with the Officers and Members of his suite

Two men playing draughts - The Veteran Defeated. circa 1820

Elsie Janis working on the land, WWI
American actress, Elsie Janis posing for a picture looking very fetching in a land workers outfit during the First World War

Family on holiday in Margate, 1936
A smartly turned out family enjoying a seaside outing in Margate. Mother is fashionably dressed in a white sporty dress with beret and the little boys are wearing identical outfits of berets

Little girl on a shell-shaped greetings card
Little girl with a spade on a shell-shaped greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

WW1 - Land Army Girls proudly display their crop of potatoes. Date: circa 1917

Two men with bulldog in a back garden
Two men with a bulldog in a back garden. Date: circa 1900s

Two cats clearing snow on a movable Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

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