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Man on coal spoil tip Blaenavon, South WalesA man walks along the edge of a coal spoil tip above council houses in Blaenavon, South Wales. 1988
Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth. Artists interpretation of a traditional proverb. Artist: Helen GC Marsh Lambert. Date: circa 1916
Two women cooking - near mosque, Uchisar, Cappadocia, TurkeyTwo Turkish women cook food over an open fire beneath the walls and minaret of a mosque in Uchisar, Cappadocia, Turkey Date: 1992
Coal spoil tips Staffsman walking his dog in the early morning rain below the coal spoil tips Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. Image first appeared in The Sunday Times Date: circa 1986
Currant Happy Families - box front and card back - Spare the Currants, Spoil the Cake. circa 1940s
Strip tease card game - Prudie suit - Spoil Sport. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease
Oaks Colliery / 1866The spoil heaps are used to fill in the cupola shaft, to cut off the air supply and thus extinguish the fire raging below at the pit in Barnsley, England. Date: December 1866
You ll Spoil Your Tea 3. Middlesbrough 1970s Date: 1970s
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Rough and Tumble -- Tumble pulls Aunt Janes best hat out of its box, watched by Rough from under the bed. Date: circa 1910
Bonzo spoils a perfectly good photograph by George StuddyBonzo spoils a perfectly good photograph -- he scratches his ear at the critical moment and distorts Chee-Kees image. George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948), was the creator of Bonzo
Namibia - The Consolidated Diamond Mines at Elisabethbucht. Date: circa 1930s
The Fall of the YearCartoon, The Fall of the Year. The sort of unfortunate happening that must spoil the efforts of film-makers. A leaf drops between a kissing couple
Tunisia / Carthage / ExcavTreasure-hunting excavations at the site of Ancient Carthage
Digging a Rail CuttingThe construction of the Tring Cutting. Railway navvies dig out the earth and rock by hand with the spoil lifted up to the top of the bank by horse- powered winches