Timber Collection (page 13)

Timber supports in a South Wales mine
Timber supports in a mine in South Wales

Houses by water
Picturesque brick and timber houses in winter by the edge of a pond or lake

Parish Workhouse, Hawkhurst, Kent
A timber framed building on the Moor in Hawkhurst, Kent, that once served as the parish workhouse. Children play nearby and an older boy carries a gardening fork and other tools

Parish Workhouse, Frittenden, Kent
A large timber framed building that once served as the Frittenden parish workhouse, Kent. An oast house stands at the left

Parish Workhouse, Brenchley, Kent
A large timber framed building that once served as the Brenchley parish workhouse. It is believed to have opened in 1732

College Almshouses, Cobham, Kent
Timber Porch at the College Almshouses, Cobham, Kent. The card was published by the pub ( The Leather Bottle ) across the street from the almshouses!

Timber-framed houses, Quedlinburg, Germany
Old, renovated timber-framed houses in the Kornmarkt (Cornmarket) in the medieval centre of the town of Quedlinburg, Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony Anhalt), Germany

Felling a giant fir tree in Oregon, USA. The lower bark has been stripped and a thin cut has been made through the trunk into which two wedges have been forced

Great Yarmouth Docks
Great Yarmouth Dockyards. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Old timber-framed buildings, St Gallen, Switzerland
View of some old, timber-framed buildings with a restaurant on the ground floor in the old part of St Gallen, Switzerland

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

Poster depicting Timber Stacking
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting an elephant stacking timber

Carpenters saw a large log
A team of carpenters use a long two-person saw to split a large trunk log into planks. Watercolour Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Italy - Ox Wagon
An Ox wagon heading along a steeply-descending lane through an Italian village, transporting a large load of wood

Parish Workhouse, Steyning, Sussex
The medieval timber-framed building on Mouse Lane, Steyning, Sussex, that once served as the parish workhouse. Outside are a man with a beard

Alberta, Canada - The Edmonton to Strathcona Ferry
Alberta, Canada - The Edmonton to Strathcona Cable Ferry - bearing a horse and cart and a large amount of cut timber

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

Two men sawing a log, Madhya Pradesh, India
Two native men sawing through a large log in Madhya Pradesh Province, Central India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Ox cart on a village street - Madhya Pradesh - India
An ox cart driven through a narrow village street in Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Transporting wood - India
Wooden ox-pulled carts filled with wood pause at the roadside in the Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Ox cart and driver, Madhya Pradesh, India
A cart drawn by two oxen, and its young driver, in Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Frame work of the viaduct
Frame work of Coopers Bridge, near Greenwich. The designers, Mr Grissell and Mr Petolent lent inspiration from similar American structures

A wagon breakdown in the Redwood Forest, California, 1884
Engraving showing a wagon broken down as it carried timber from the forest to San Francisco, 1884

Seasons / December / Trees
Chopping down trees with an axe and sawing timber into logs

Timber roads on the battlefields near Verdun
Two French soldiers making their way along the log-tracks crossing the scarred landscape left by German shelling near Verdun

Mahogany, Guatemala
Felling mahogany trees in Guatemala : the enormous demand for this hard furnishing wood leads, alas, to extensive deforestation for it re-grows slowly

Timbered Houses
Timbered and plastered houses which line the streets of Saffron Walden, Essex, England

Mahogany, West Indies
Mahogany trees in the West Indies : the enormous demand for this hard furnishing wood leads, alas, to extensive deforestation for it takes many years to re-grow

Limpsfield Cottages
A row of delightful old cottages at Limpsfield, Surrey

Timber-Frame / Lincoln
A timber-frame house built on a bridge in Lincoln. The house dates from 1540, but the bridge is thought to be Norman and one of the oldest in Britain

Timber-Frame House / 1939
Timber-framed house in High Holborn, London. The ground floor has been converted into shops

Lincoln / Bridge / 1950S
The High Bridge was built upon a Norman arch dating from 1160. The house above dates from 1540

Cottages at Much Hadham
Picturesque black and white timber and plaster cottages in the street at Much Hadham, a charming Hertfordshire village

England / Tewkesbury
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, showing the Tower (the largest surviving Norman central tower in the world) of the Abbey, founded in the 11th century as a Benedictine monastery

Chapel / Ightham Mote
The Chapel doorway of the moated manor house of Ightham Mote, Kent dating from the 1340s. Through a passageway in the building a bridge over the moat can be seen

Ightham Mote Postcard
A view from one of the entrance gates of Ightham Mote showing the buildings from the road. The cottages are visible in the middle distance to the left

Felling Mahogany
Felling mahogany in central America (or perhaps Guyana)

Carpenter at Work / Sawing
A carpenter uses a large frame saw to split a thin piece of wood held tightly to his bench

Mississippi Woodcutter
A woodcutter and his family outside their modest cabin by the Mississippi river. Despite the pile of logs, they do not seem happy in their work

Timber Sawing / 1835
The Sawyer

Waterfall at Kringlendal, Norway
A waterfall at Kringlendal, Norway, showing a bridge made of pine logs, and an aqueduct carrying power to nearby sawmills

Andersen / Birthplace
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Danish writers birthplace at Odense, Denmark

Shipyards on Clyde
Shipyards and shipping on the Clyde

Elephants Loading Teak
A colonial gentleman in a white suit supervises elephants loading teak from a rail carriage

Timber Rafts / Volga
Timber rafts on the Volga. People and cows are transported on these rafts

Catalan Farmer Felling
A Catalan farmer fells trees, loading the wood onto his burro

Protecting Rail, Canada
A train emerges from a rail shed, timber-built to withstand even an avalanche

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