Spades Collection (page 3)

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

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

Boy and girl on the sea shore
Traditional concept of children with buckets & spades in sailor suits and sun hats. Date: circa 1897

British armies launched gigantic attacks on Somme 1916
On 16 July 1916, after an intensive bombardment, the British armies launched a series of gigantic attacks on the Somme, which persisted until November

The Haven Salvation Army Home, Ramsgate, Kent
Playtime on the beach with hoops and spades for girls from The Haven - a Salvation Army childrens home at Ramsgate. Date: Circa 1910

Girls from St Chads Home, Leeds, at Filey
Girls from St Chads Home, Weetwood Lane, Headingley, Leeds, on the beach with buckets and spades at Filey. The home was opened in 1889 by the Waifs and Strays Society. Date: 1920s

Book cover design, La Vanghetta del Fante
Book cover design by Duilio Cambellotti, La Vanghetta del Fante by Giuseppe Zucca, showing an Italian light infantryman carrying a spade (the title also means Jack of Spades). Date: circa 1920

Italian postcard, infantrymens dugout, WW1
Italian postcard depicting La Casa del Fante (the home of the infantry) during the First World War. The men are lying asleep in their dugout, their spades and picks leaning up against a post

Three children with tent on a beach
Three children in Red Indian costume standing in front of a tent on a beach

Label design with girl in fancy dress
Label design featuring a girl in fancy dress, carrying a bowl containing clubs, spades, diamonds and hearts

Four children on a seaside holiday, building a sandcastle on the beach. Date: (insert)

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

Sunbathing & Working
Two men and a woman pushing a truck full of soil on rails whilst sunbathing at Physiopolis, a health club and holiday camp. Date: 1930s

Grandfather and Grandchildren at the seaside - Thackeray
Passive Resistance - A Grandfather, thoroughly enjoying his day at the seaside with the Grandchildren, curbs the speed they can reach the sea, however much they encourage him to get a move

Swiss New Years card featuring a variety of playing cards
A fun Swiss New Years card featuring a variety of playing cards including the Queen of Hearts, Ace of Clubs and Jack of Spades. Date: circa 1910s

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

Home Chat front cover by H. L. Oakley
Front cover of Home Chat magazine featuring a lovely image by silhouette artist H. L. Oakley of a group of children holding hands as they skip along a beach, buckets and spades at the ready

Liverpool Cottage Homes - snow clearing

Beach Animals
A rabbit holds a parasol while his kitten friends play with their buckets and spades in the sand. Date: early 1930s

Prince Wilhelm and Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia
Prince Wilhelm (1906-1940) and Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1907-1994) on the beach at Sopot (Zoppot) - a seaside town in Eastern Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in northern

Three Arab Gardeners - Morocco Date: circa 1910s

British troops draining marshes, Salonika Front, WW1
British troops belonging to a Labour Battalion, trying to prevent malaria by draining marshes at Danbabali on the Salonika Front during the First World War. Date: 1917

H. R Mopsey & Co Ironmongers
An advertisement for H.R Mopsey & Co Ironmongers(established 1840), of 26 and 28 High Street, Wandsworth. Saws, spades, tools and rollers can be seen in the window

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

Newsagent & Much More - Oxford
Sawyers Newsagent, Stationer, Confectioner and Tobacconist in Oxford. A magnificent photographic postcard showing a General Store on an Oxford street selling pretty much anything you can imagine

Children of King Alfonso XIII of Spain
Three of the six children of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife, Queen Ena. They are Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (1907-1938), the Infanta Beatriz (1909-2002) and Infante Jaime (1908-1975)

Izmir, Turkey - Travelling ironmonger
A travelling itinerant ironmonger with his young assistant and some of his wares at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

Dardanelles - Turkish prisoners guarded by Greek Troops
First World War - Dardanelles. Turkish soldiers guarded by Greek Volunteers at Seddul Bahr, Chanakkale

Peasants seizing potato crop, Ireland
Peasants seize the potato crop of an evicted tenant near Tralee, Kerry, in Ireland. Men, women and children dig for the unharvested potatoes with shovels, spades and their bare hands

Ace of Spades / Card
Ace of spades with three old pence duty notice printed as part of the design

Swiss Playing Card Pack
An assortment of playing cards: kings, queens and knaves

Boys building a snowman in the woods
Three boys building a snowman in the woods

Game / Winter / Snowman 19C
Five children construct a snowman with brooms and spades Date: circa 1880

King, Queen, Knave
King, Queen and Knave of Spades

Cartomancy - 1 - Spades
Cartomancy : SPADES

Candlelit Card Trick
Three young people are shown an atmospheric card trick by candlelight

Belgian Nuns
The Beguins, Belgian nuns, of the Beguinage convent of Ghent, Belgium, with hoes and spades and other gardening tools over their shoulders

Playing Cards / Aces
An ace from each suit

Children on Beach 1907
Boys and girls with their spades on the sands

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