Spade Collection (page 5)

Music cover, Lets Have A Basinful of the Briny, song by Ralph Butler and Harry Tilsley. Showing a family of three having fun on the beach. 1934

Road worker with cement and wheelbarrow
Road worker in a residential street with spade, cement and wheelbarrow. Date: 1970s

Father and Daughter / Sand
A Father (or possibly Grandfather) and his daughter have a fun time playing in the sandpit. Date: 1950s

Family on Beach, C. 1910
A family group, including dog, enjoying sitting in the sun on a sandy beach against a backdrop of beach huts Date: circa 1910

L abbe De Rance
Armand Jean de Bouthillier, abbe de RANCE French re-founder of La Trappe (Trappist Order of monks) Date: 1626 - 1700

De Lesseps Vanity Fair
FERDINAND DE LESSEPS French diplomat and engineer responsible for the Suez Canal Date: 1805 - 1894

Christmas / Tree Dug Up
Lifting the tree Date: 1851

Playing card caricatures of Wilhelm I and Otto von Bismarck
Otto Eduard Leopold Bismarck(1815-1898), Prussian statesman, depicted in a satire showing Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm I on a playing card. Date: 1874

Good Luck card with pipe and playing cards. Date: circa 1890s

Cover design, The Dressmaker magazine
Cover design, The Dressmaker family fashion magazine, May 1973. 1973

Family fashion in The Dressmaker magazine
Family fashion for the summer holidays in The Dressmaker magazine, May 1973. 1973

Young girl in remarkable woollen ensemble on beach
Young girl in remarkable woollen ensemble (dress and hat with white fur trim) on a sandy British beach with bucket and spade in hand Date: circa 1920s

Family (and pet dog) on holiday in Weymouth, Dorset - candid seaside photograh taken as they strolled along the front (Brunswick Terrace)

Paddling suit for boys and girls 1907
Young infant holding bucket and spade on the beach, wearing jersey, short-kilted serge skirt and knickers. Date: 1907

Little boy playing in a garden, digging the soil with a trowel. Date: circa 1970s

Two children sitting on large snowball on a Christmas card
Two children sitting on a large snowball under a red umbrella on a Christmas card, watched by a robin. Date: circa 1890s

Children at the seaside on a New Year card. Two boys in sailor suits play with a large model sailing boat. circa 1890s

Little boy at the seaside on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Three children with a large snowball on a Christmas card
Three children with a large snowball in a garden on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Four cats with parasol on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Children making a snowman on a Christmas card. circa 1890s

Boys clearing snow on a Christmas card
Boys clearing snow from the front of a house on a Christmas and New Year card. circa 1890s

Children at the seaside on a Christmas card
Children building a sandcastle at the seaside on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, Older soldiers round the campfire, WW1
Cartoon, a group of old and middle aged French soldiers sit round the campfire near Verdun as the snow falls. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Childhood memories, WW1
Cartoon, Childhood memories. An old soldier says he feels young again, invigorated by the fresh air of the Western Front. Another man says its more to do with the lice. Date: 1916

Cartoon, His Last Card... Its a Knave, WW1
Cartoon, His Last Card... Its a Knave, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II with bloodstained hands, playing his last card of the war

Little boy and his dog on a sandy beach. Date: circa 1920s

Men engaged in roadworks with a lorry alongside. Date: circa 1930s

Two boys exploring rock pools at the seaside
Two boys with spades, exploring rock pools at the seaside. Date: circa 1920s

Two children at the seaside
Two children sitting on a pebbly beach at a seaside resort. Date: circa 1920s

Three boys playing with sand in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Little boy and dog in pool of water, West Country
Little boy and dog playing in a pool of water, West Country. Date: circa 1970s

Studio portrait, two boys with Jack Russell terrier
Studio portrait, two boys in sailor suits with a Jack Russell terrier, photo by F M Thomson, Ryde, Isle of Wight. Date: circa 1910s

Men on New Stoughton Wagon, Iowa, USA
Two men on a New Stoughton Wagon with spades in their hands. Photograph by Charles Clinton Stevens of Williams, Iowa, USA. The covering on the horse is probably designed to protect it from flies

Dolly Goes Back to the Land, land girl, WW1
An attractive young woman posed with a spade on a farm, part of the female agricultural workforce during the First World War - though her outfit does not suggest shes a member of the Womens Land

Sailors camping party, Virago Sound, Canada
Sailors camping party, Virago Sound, Graham Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. They belong to HMS Egeria, a British Royal Navy coastal survey ship. Date: 1907

French cub scout digging in a field

Finnish boy scout as ARP warden, Helsinki, WW2
Finnish boy scout as ARP warden at the headquarters of the Finnish Boy Scouts Association, Helsinki. Date: circa 1940s

Finnish boy scout in wartime service, Helsinki, WW2
Finnish boy scout in wartime service, Helsinki. Date: circa 1940s

Blitz in London -- aftermath of bombing, with some people sorting through the rubble and others stopping for a refreshment break. Date: 1940s

Bronze Statuette - Sgt Grenadier Guards in Battle Order
Bronze Statuette - Sergeant, Grenadier Guards, in Battle Order, by George Edward Wade (1853-1933). Wade sculpted a Peace Memorial with Bronze Figure of Christ at Quarry Bank, Staffordshire

Mother and children making sandcastle
Mother and children making a sandcastle on the beach

Toddler playing in garden
Toddler playing in the garden with a plastic spade. circa 1970s

British working party in snow, Western Front, WW1
A British working party in the snow on the Western Front during World War One, carrying stove pipes, with a big gun nearby. Date: circa 1916

Hot Work! by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl sits on a mound of sand on the beach, and chats with her pet dog. Date: 1949

All Ready by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl in yellow coat and hat, with a green suitcase, bucket and spade, is ready to set off for her summer holidays. Date: 1936

Off We Go! by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl sets off for her holidays with her toys, and a bucket and spade. Date: 1935

Toddler with bucket and spade by Muriel Dawson
Toddler at the seaside with bucket and spade by Muriel Dawson. Date: 1920s

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