Sweeper Collection

Constantinople, Turkey - Chimney Sweep

Bank of England / Busy
Busy street scene including coaches and a crossing sweeper, a figure peers out of an upstairs window and a flag flies from a tower

Advertisement for the Western Electric vacuum cleaner with a women patiently cleaning the carpet around her snoozing husband. Lets hope that cigarette falls into his lap and wakes him up. Date: c.1924

HMS Jewel, British minesweeper M390
HMS Jewel, British Algerine-class minesweeper M390. Date: circa 1960s

Bluebell in Fairyland by Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss
Flyer for the revival of the musical Bluebell in Fairyland on 26th December 1927 at The Scala Theatre, by Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss, with music by Walter Slaughter

Carpet Sweeper
A young housewife using a carpet sweeper

Snow Trafalgar Square
A man sweeps a path in the heavy snow at the base of Nelsons Column in Trafalgar Square. Note Landseers lions covered in snow

Indian Sweeper
A sweeper, Punjab

Street sweeper, Moscow, Russia

Road sweeper Victorian period

Whirlwind Suction Sweeper Advertisement
An advertisement for Stapley, Harrison and Watson Ltd. promoting the all British Whirlwind Suction Sweeper, the young lady in the illustration can be seen using the product

Brass anchor chain and propeller from WW1 period
Brass anchor chain and propeller reputedly from a WW1 Royal Navy minesweeper. 21 inches

The Crossing Sweeper, by William Powell Frith, showing Victorian wealth and poverty. Date: 1858

Thessaloniki, Greece - Street Sweepers resting after a hard day's work. Date: circa 1910s

School playground in Pimlico, London
A school playground in Pimlico, London - two road sweepers stop for a chat. Date: circa 1960s

Rue de Castiglione, Paris, France
Rue de Castiglione, Paris, on a wet day, with roadsweeper. Date: circa 1930s

Volunteer mine-sweeper trainees lowering weight, Sept 1939
Volunteer mine-sweeper trainees lowering a weight over the side of a boat to keep their paravane at the correct depth. Volunteers, most commonly fishermen

Volunteer mine-sweepers in training, Sept 1939
A scheme to train fisherman as volunteer mine-sweepers began in 1938 and was used to allow the navy to concentrate elswhere

West Ferry Road, Millwall, East London. Date: circa 1908

Minesweepers in the North Sea, WW1
Minesweepers in the North Sea, First World War. 1914-1918

Cries of Paris - chimney sweep

One-legged sweeper at Chancery-Lane, London circa 1850s

Crossing-sweeper
Bearded crossing-sweeper at the Exchange, London. Date: circa 1850s

Irish crossing sweeper 1850s
Irish crossing sweeper, in the streets of London. Date: circa 1850s

Crossing-sweepers 1849
Poor couple sweeping the streets of London. Date: 1849

Able-bodied street-sweeper
Sweeping the streets of London

Crossing-sweeper that has been a maid servant
Woman sweeping the streets of London

The Road Sweeper. People You See, from Teddy Bear magazine, 1966. Date: 1966

Crossing-sweeper nuisance Crossing-sweeper nuisance 1856
Group of young children with brooms, sweeping the ground as a gentleman walks alone, asking for a ha penny. Date: 1856

Boys crossing-sweepers, London boys asking an affluent gentlemen for a penny for keeping the streets tidy. Date: circa 1850s

The Shepherdess & the Chimney Sweep - Hans Andersens Fairy tale. Scene from The Shepherdess & the Chimney Sweeper published by Raphael Tuck. Artist: Mabel Lucie Attwell circa 1912

Household Objects Date: 1940

Tangier, Morocco - A Road Sweeper Date: circa 1905

BANK OF ENGLAND / BUSY
Busy street scene including coaches and a crossing sweeper Date: 1827

Street sweeper 1863
Young barefoot boy sweeping the streets for some money. Date: 1863

Street sweeper, Windsor
A woman street sweeper cleans the cobbles in Church Street, outside the Carpenterss Arms pub, Windsor in the early morning

Warsaw street sweeper, winter
A woman street sweeper brushes snow in a Warsaw park, Poland Date: 1987

Workmen sweeping snow on a Christmas card -- New brooms sweep clean. Date: circa 1890s

London Trade Card - William Woodward, Nightman, Carman and Chimney Sweeper, Rubbish Carted, 1 Marylebone Passage, Wells Street, Oxford Market. 18th century

Louis Wain - rich Lion and crossing sweeper Monkey. circa late 19th century

British naval convoy system by G. H. Davis
The method of safeguarding the freedom of the seas: the British naval convoy system at work. Making the high seas safe for Allied

Minesweeper trawling for mines in the North Sea, WW1
A minesweeper trawling for mines in the North Sea on the outbreak of the First World War. A wire rope attached to a weight is dragged along the seabed

Satirical cartoon, The March of Intellect, showing a street scene with balloons in the sky above. 1828

Washington Street, Antofagasta, Chile, South America
Washington Street in the port city of Antofagasta, Chile, South America. Date: circa 1910

Road sweeper with long hair. Date: 1970s

Girl Sweeper 1909
A little girl with a broom on a country lane: " Please give me a copper, Sir." Date: 1909

Disraeli / Crossing Sweep
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Conservative MP out of office, depicted as a crossing sweeper spattering Lord Aberdeens Coalition Ministry with mud Date: 5 March 1853

Variety of brooms and carpet sweepers 1929
A page from a 1929 catalogue showing a variety of brooms and lightweight carpet sweepers. Date: 1929

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