Traps Collection

Greyhound Racing at White City
An advertisement for greyhound racing at White City stadium with a painting by Gilbert Holiday. The caption reads: " The trap snaps open...the 30

Bystander Greyhound Racing Number
Front cover of The Bystanders special greyhound racing number, featuring greyhounds being released from the traps in front of a stadium crowd

The Mole Catcher
The mole catcher sets off, laden with his home-made traps, Burtersett, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, England

Greyhound Training
Dogs at the Greyhound Training School, Queensdown Estate, Westgate-on-sea, are trained to get out of the traps as quickly as possible

Sanitary ware, Plate 42, showing wash basins, urinals and toilet bowls in a range of styles. Date: circa 1880s

Belgrave Square, Pimlico, London

Lexham Gardens, London - issued by the local newsagent in Earls Court Road

Cat Hunts a Mouse
A ginger cat traps a mouse with its paw

Basket Trap for Salmon
A basket trap, used for catching salmon in the River Severn. Date: 1933

Successful campaign in the Libyan desert. Italian soldiers about to trigger an underground device. Date: 1941

Rat-catcher 1850s
Jack Black, was a rat-catcher and mole destroyer from Battersea. Date: circa 1850s

NFS (London Region) Boy trapped in a milk churn
Boy trapped in a milk churn is set free at Brigade HQ on 4 July 1947. The milkman had brought him to the fire station in his milk float. Date: 1947

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Comic Postcard - Don t try to enter by the Exit Door or you will get Squeezed! - A smart young Gent is trapped neither within or without this packed rush hour District Line London Underground

Bird catching by clap-net. Date: 13th century

MAN TRAPS / 1837
Chased by a bull into grounds set with man-traps and spring guns. Perils of the countryside. Date: 1837

MAN-TRAP / HEATH
Man alarmed by man-trap warning Date: 1837

Street trader, selling mouse traps
Street trader with a wooden leg selling mouse traps. Date: circa 19th century

Traditional River Severn salmon fisherman
A traditional River Severn salmon fisherman with the rows of salmon traps, or putchers that were used for thousands of years before the Enviornment Agency banned them in 2012

Tourists transport to Petra, Jordan
Tourists are carried by horse, and pony and trap, down the deep ravine leading to Petra, Jordan Date: circa 1995

Horse carriages, Petra ravine, Jordan
Horse carriages with passengers in the deep rocky ravine, or Siq, leading to Petra, Jordan Date: circa 1995

Page of Victorian adverts for household items 1888
Selection page of Victorian household hardware items for everyday use. 1888

Maginot Line fortifications by G. H. Davis
With Asparagus anti-tank defences: Maginot Line fortifications at the start of the Second World War. A typical frontier work, with galleries within a hillside, leading to pill boxes

Cat and owl as rat catchers on a Christmas card
Cat and owl as rat and mouse catchers on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Front Street, Hamilton, Bermuda Date: circa 1930s

Parisian Street Hardware salesman - Paris, France. Date: circa 1930s

Lamprey Traps. The National Museum of Finland. Helsinki
Lamprey Traps. Lampreys have been fished from at least the Middle Ages mainly in the rivers flowing in the Bothnian Gulf and the Gulf of Finland and related bodies of water

Wyoming Avenue, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA, with Jonas Longs Sons department store on the right. Date: circa 1907

Bridge End, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire, England. Showing Tram & Traps Date: 1900s

Illustration that recreates the hunting of large mammals (mammoths, woolly rhinos and elephants) using traps during the Upper Paleolithic. Painting

Search for Collared (Dicrostonix torquatus) and Siberian Lemmings (Lemmus sibiricus L.) in Russian Arctic. near Kara sea. Russian Arctic, Siberia, Russia

Fence-fishing, North Siberia, Russia. Selkup (Northern minority) fishermen pull burbots with hooks from traps, built in river Hudosey, covered with ice; winter (Polar Night), snowing

Russian Desman - caught in a snare (Desmana moschata). Okski Biospheric Nature Reserve, Central Russia, 50 km East from Ryazan town

Advert for Manfield field boot 1916
Manfield field boot (Norwegian type). One of the points in a boot which experience soldiers have learnt to insist is the facility for quickly putting on ro taking off

Advert for Manfield service boots 1916
Manfield & Sons, unlimited choice. Everything the soldier needs is at Manfield s. The choice is practically unlimited, but th name is also known to stand fro individual character

The Parcs at low tide - Dieppe, France - Trap for fish
The Parcs at low tide - Dieppe, France. These constructions of long supported poles and igh nets were arranged as a trap for fish

Fisherwomen - Vietnam Date: 1910s

Bermuda - Front Street, Hamilton - Busy mix of trade and traffic Date: circa 1903

Hunting book (15th c. ). Making traps with ropes
Hunting book (15th c.). Making traps with ropes. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. Chantilly. Mus饠 Cond頨 Cond頍 useum)

Plate showing hunters and various ways to trap birds.. From: The ornithology of Francis Willughby. Date: 1678

NFS(London Region) Boy trapped in a coal scuttle
Boy trapped in a milk churn is set free at Brigade HQ on 4 July 1947. The milkman had brought him to the fire station in his milk float

Palace of Justice, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Palace of Justice ( Placio de Justica ), Bahia Blanca, Argentina Date: circa 1910s

Medan, Indonesia
Medan - the capital of the North Sumatra province in Indonesia. Keaswan Street. Date: circa 1910s

Ongar, Essex - High Street and Council Offices Date: 1905

One seated Bullock Ekka (Taxi)
A one-seated Bullock ekka in India - a ype of carriage used in India, usually pulled by horses. Ekkas (the word is Hindi in origin) were commonly used as cabs, or private hire vehicles

Man carrying an eel trap
A man carrying a wickerwork eel trap on his back. More traps can be seen in the background

Youth who Cdnt Shudder

Lynx caught in trap
A lynx is caught by the leg in a steel jaw trap

Boat bridge on River Kabul, Nowshera, Pakistan
Boat bridge on River Kabul, Nowshera, North West Frontier Province (Pakistan)

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