Stacks Collection (page 3)

Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms awake from hibernation
Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms during second hibernation phase. Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms feeding on mulberry leaves Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Silkworms begin to construct cocoons Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Gathering silkworms from egg paper
Japan - Silk Industry - Gathering the silkworms from the egg paper using a delicate feather brush. Date: circa 1909

Japan - Silk Industry - Bombyx mori Moths lay eggs on paper Date: circa 1909

Chinese Timber Yard. Date: circa late 1920s

South Africa - Brickmaking. Date: circa 1908

Turfing on the Somerset levels. This bears the caption: " The weather is terrible with rain, snow, thunder etc." - rather a neat link to 99 years later

Making Mud Bricks, Cyprus Date: circa 1910s

Silver Slipper Casino - Reno, Nevada, USA. Gamers taking on the roulette wheel and betting against the house in Blackjack. Date: circa 1950s

GLC-LFB - Timber yard fire, Barking
Firefighters in action with hoses at a fire in a timber yard in the London Borough of Barking, East London

Smoking stacks attract attacks Don t invite disaster. Poster for Thirteenth Naval District, United States Navy, showing smoke coming from smokestack of ship, Japanese submarine in foreground

International Stores, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Interior view of The International Stores at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, showing biscuit containers (Mitre Biscuits) in front of the counter, and stacks of tins and packets on shelves behind. 1963

Lacock Abbey Courtyard
The Tudor stable courtyard of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury as an Augustinian monastery. Date: 16th century

Lacock Abbey Gateway and Clock House, Wiltshire, England. Founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury as an Augustinian monastery. Date: 16th century

Lacock Abbey Gables
Fine Elizabethan gables of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury as an Augustinian monastery. Date: 16th century

Lacock Abbey, Lacock, Wiltshire, England, was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury as an Augustinian monastery. Date: 16th century

Lacock Abbey Farmyard
The Tudor farm buildings of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury as an Augustinian monastery. Date: 16th century

Holy Cross Hospital
Holy Cross, or the Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, was founded between 1132 and 1136 by Henry de Blois and has become Britains oldest charitable institution. Date: 12th century

Cycling Peat

Painting by William Rothenstein, The Watch on the Rhine
A painting by William Rothenstein, entitled The Watch on the Rhine, first exhibited in Canada in 1920. The painting is a comment on the defeat of Germany and the triumph of the Allies

Charles Humbert with munitions for Verdun, France
Charles Humbert (1866-1927), French army captain, tax collector, senator and newspaper proprietor. Seen here with piles of munitions destined for Verdun, France, during the First World War

Aston Park viewed
Queen Victorias visit to Birmingham and Warwick. The view of Aston Park from Aston Hall, with the smoking chimney stacks of industrial Birmingham on the horizon

Elephant shifting large pieces of timber
An elephant removing a large piece of timber from a large stack, India

Niagara Peninsula - Peaches for export
Canada - province of Ontario - The Niagara Peninsula - a microclimate, where a wide variety of fruit and vegetables (which could not be grown in any other area of Canada) are grown

Faraglioni Rocks near Mareggiata, Capri, Italy
Faraglioni is the collective name for three stacks located off the island of Capri in the Bay of Naples. The stacks have been given their own names: Stella (still attached to the main island)

Moving large sacks in a warehouse
An operator uses a small picker to stack and manoeuvre piles of sacks, containing cotton or wool, into place in a large warehouse. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Scene in a timber yard, Kashgar, western China
Scene in a timber yard in Kashgar, western China, with many logs stacked up. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Almeria, Spain - Embarkation of Eggs in barrels for export

England / Albury
A glimpse of Albury, a Surrey hamlet with a delightful valley. Note the fine, intricate details on the various chimney stacks

Reed Thatched Cottages
A beautiful example of Norfolk reed-thatched cottages at Somerleyton, on the Suffolk - Norfolk border

Peat Fields / Somerset
Wedmore, Somerset. The peat is cut in squares, then slabs and then stacked into round stacks to dry. This takes about 2 months and then it is ready for fuel

Fine Haystacks in Kent
A fine stackyard on a farm in Staplehurst, Kent. The stacks are shaped like round huts which compliment the oast houses in the background

Stacking Willow Rods
A man, in Athelney, Somerset, stacks bundles of dried willow rods called withes on a cart to be used for wickerwork and basket-making

Man Writing in Ledger
A young man making an entry in a ledger with a fountain pen. He sits at a desk with a wire in-tray and stacks of card index drawers behind him

Holmes Grocery Shop
Serving behind the counter at Holmes grocery shop

Harvesting Hay, Mull
Harvesting the hay on the Scottish island of Mull. The wagon has brought the hay from the field, and now it is being built into stacks

Brit Mus Arched Room
The Arched Room is part of the Museums collection of books, not yet hidden in the stacks, less still transferred to the British Library

Brit Museum Stacks
The Book Stacks, whence books are retrieved for readers, one by one, and carried on a trolley to the Reading Room where readers await them in scholarly patience

Chalk Farm Bridge / Rail
BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY An engine & carriages pass under the Chalk Farm Bridge watched intently by onlookers intrigued by the new fangled mode of transport

Birmingham / 1830(Harvey)
A general view of Birmingham from the south. In the background chimney stacks show the rise in industry

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