Spade Collection (page 7)

Steam Roller Driver

The Bricklayer
People You See: The Bricklayer. From Teddy Bear (2 May 1964)

Punch and Judy show at the seaside

Castles in the Sand. Poem by Marie Cleeve Dainton

Raincoat, umbrella hat, brush hook, spade, hoe, sickle. Drawings show, in top illustration, a raincoat and a traditional conical hat; and in bottom illustration, four farm implements. Date 1878 Sep

Garden tools used by the Royal children. 3 Swiss Cottage, Osborne

Silhouettes of soldiers in wartime
Some of our lads -- silhouettes of soldiers in wartime. Including a piper playing the bagpipes, men standing on guard or chatting, a drummer, men carrying tools and materials for trench digging

Gardening Equipment
Gardening tools : Wheelbarrow, gloves, spade, fork, etc. Date: 1960s

Unusual Farmyard Gate
An unusual farm gate, with a spade, scythe, axe etc, incorporated into its design, near Tring, Hertfordshire, England. Date: March 1939

American troops outside dugout, France, WW1
American troops outside a dugout nicknamed Devils Den, on the western front in northern France during the First World War. Date: early 1918

Eight children mourning a dead bird

Quaint Gate, Moulton, Northampton - A gate formed of agricultural implements. Date: circa 1940

British artillery at an outpost, northern France, WW1
British artillery with their rifles at an outpost in northern France during the First World War. Date: 1914

Three children with a snowman
Three children admiring a snowman they have just built. early 20th century

Gus Elen / The Halls
GUS ELEN Ernest Augustus Elen) Music hall entertainer Date: 1862 - 1940

The Broken Spade
A brother consoles his sister who has broken her spade while digging too forcefully in the sand. Either that, or more likely HE broke it, and he is saying sorry... Date: 1890

Washing Oysters / Photo
OYSTER INDUSTRY - fishermen washing oysters Date: 1930

Navvies building a new railway line, UK
Navvies building a new railway line at an unidentified location in the UK. A station building can be seen in the top right

Land Girl by George Ranstead
A member of the Womens Land Army during World War One is depicted in her uniform shovelling manure or soil. An impression by George Ranstead

Group of soldiers and civilians at a training camp
A group of soldiers and civilians at a training camp, posing for their photo outside a tent. The soldiers are dressed in a variety of uniforms, and two are holding bicycles, while one holds a spade

Street repairs in Dublin, Ireland
Three men busy doing street repairs in Dublin, Ireland. The man on the left is laying a paving slab. There are some rather ornate advertisements on the hoarding behind them, one for a family chemist

This Week is My Week by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in red dungarees and a huge green sun hat plays happily on the beach while on holiday at the seaside

Off We Go by Muriel Dawson
A little girl, laden with toys, bucket and spade heads off excitedly to the beach

Miners at Baldwins Clog and Legging Level, South Wales
Three miners in a coal seam at Baldwins Clog and Legging Level, near Pontypool in South Wales

Miners at Baldwins Clog and Legging Level, South Wales
Three miners in a coal seam at Baldwins Clog and Legging Level, near Pontypool in South Wales

Managers of Baldwins Level, Pontypool, South Wales
The General Manager and Manager of Baldwins Level, Pontypool, South Wales, photographed in a mineshaft

Miner working in Plas y Coed Level, South Wales
A miner working in the Plas y Coed Level, South Wales

Man shovelling manure from the back of a lorry
A man shovelling manure from the back of a lorry

Summer Holidays in the British Isles with Thomas Cook
Cover illustration for Summer Holidays in the British Isles with Cooks World Travel Service, showing a little girl in a swimsuit with a bucket and spade, playing in a rock pool on the beach

Feet First by Muriel Dawson
A toddler wearing a sunsuit ventures cautiously into the shallows at the seaside carrying a bucket and spade

Devon gardener having a rest
The gardener of a large house in Devon stops to have a rest. He is leaning on his spade, and has left a hoe leaning up against the wall

Road sweeper with his cart
A road sweeper with his cart, containing various brushes and a spade. He probably works for the St Marylebone Borough Council in London

Shovelling rubble onto a lorry
A workman bends down to shovel up some rubble from roadworks onto the back of a lorry

British Prisoners - Dardanelles - WW1
British Prisoners captured by Turkish forces during the Dardanelles Campaign. A group of three officers

British Prisoners - Dardanelles - WW1
British Prisoners captured by Turkish forces during the Dardanelles Campaign. A group of officers and privates seated on an open area in front of a group of Nissen huts

Filling Sandbags - WW2 Home Front (2 / 4)
World War Two - British Home Front - London. Men and young boys fill sandbags in the street. The sandbags were piled against buildings

Collector of Dung - Constantinople, Turkey with his pony bearing two wicker panniers to hold the gathered refuse and a spade to pick it up with!

A road sweeper
A rather ragged dustman or road sweeper with his sweeping brushes and shovel, cart and empty bottle of ale! Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Clearing Bristol Sewers
Three workers use spades and a pneumatic drill to clear/expand the tunnel space in Bristols underground sewerage system. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Tower Spade Drill
Soldiers at spade drill at the Tower

Playing on the Beach
A group of holidaying children play on the beach, making sandcastles, finding starfish and digging with a bucket and spade

Lear / Nonsense / Hull
There was a Young Lady of Hull, who was chased by a virulent bull; But she seized on a spade, and called out, Whos afraid? which distracted that virulent bull

Gardener and Baker of the Womens Auxilary Army Corp
Doing Their Bit. Gardener and Baker of the Womens Auxilary Army Corp during the First World War

Cooking Christmas dinner at the Front
British soldiers cooking two geese for Christmas dinner on a makeshift spit held by rifles, a spade and a couple of sticks

Seaside scene - Turn of the Century
A seaside/holiday scene from the turn of the 19th/20th century. Children play in the sand and in the surf while elegantly dressed parents promenade

Sledging Party cooking lunch, British Arctic Expedition, 187
Engraving showing a sledging party of the British Arctic Expedition, 1875-1876, preparing to have their lunch. In the foreground can be seen their sledge with various equipment attached

The Banns Forbidden
Doctor Syntax forbids the banns

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