Trestle Collection

French Street Conjuror
A French street magician with his trestle table set up ready to perform the cup and ball trick and con some punters out of their money Date: circa 1805

Soldiers in mess hall of army barracks, South Africa. Date: circa 1900

Penryn, Cornwall, Victorian period. Date: late 19th century

Royal Engineers building a Trestle Bridge, WW1
Royal Engineers building a Trestle Bridge during the First World War Date: 1915

Carved Oak trestle table from a furniture showroom catalogue, numbered as number 314. Date: 1940s

Medieval tilting game or quintain
Boy on rolling trestle pulled by two other boys to tilt with a lance at a fixed quintain, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports

Medieval tilting games or quintain
Boy on rolling trestle with spear tilting at a fixed quintain (top), soldier in armour attacking a pel quintain (left) and a saracen quintain (right)

Acrobat performing a backward somersault on two trestles. From a woodcut by Arcangelo Tuccaro, 1599. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse)

18th century surgeon performing a trepanning operation on a mans head, with various surgical equipment: Jean Louis Petits lever 2, trestle 3, Valets pincers 4, cauterizers 5-8, round plaque 9

Tangier, Morocco - Moors selling sweets Date: circa 1905

C17 METALWORKER
A metalworker sits on a trestle and uses his hammer on a metal item softened by heating on that nearby stove. Date: 17th century

Nordal Bridge, Ofoten Railway, Norway
Nordal Bridge (trestle style) on the Ofoten Railway, from Narvik to the Swedish border, Norway. Date: circa 1908

Queen Elizabeths Sewing Bee at Buckingham Palace, 1939
Members of the Palace household and wives of employees of the Royal Mews assembled in the Blue Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace for Queen Elizabeths Sewing Bee

Abbey Street Ragged Schools, Bethnal Green
A free breakfast is provided to pupils at the Abbey Street Ragged Schools, Bethnal Green. Children sit at trestle tables. A woman sits at a harmonium. Date: late 1800s

Fokker DII, (side view, on the ground, tail-up) on trestle

Magician performing trick on table with cup and balls
Coloured print of illustration, entitled " Escamoteur: La premiere muscade la voila" showing magician performing trick on table with cup and balls, circa 1810. HPG/8/2/1 (xi)"

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

Book of Trades, The Sawyer. 1841

Painters & Plasterers
Painters and plasterers at work Date: 1803

Phosphates Quay, Bone (Annaba), Algeria, with railway trucks and stored goods. Date: circa 1910

Dinner-time at Church Army Home, Westminster. Men sit eating at long rows of trestle tables. A uniformed officer is seated at the left. Date: circa 1920

Favourite Sayings - The leaking tap
Black and white lanter slide of a barrell on a trestle, its tap leaking.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection. A leaking tap is a great waster. Lantern slide creations of C. H

Japanese scouts eating at camp
Japanese scouts enjoying a meal at camp

Erie Railroad Portage Viaduct. The trestle wooden structure built in1852; destroyed by fire in 1875. Designed by Silas Seymour 276m long

French boy scouts enjoying meal at camp
French boy scouts enjoying a meal at camp

WRAF Mess Hut at Cranwell, WW1
Scene inside the WRAF (Womens Royal Air Force) Mess Hut at Cranwell, probably during the First World War. The Royal Naval Air Service Central Training Establishment Cranwell was commissioned on 1

B. R. S. M Tea Party
Children, attended by adults, sit at trestle tables in a small hall. Their mugs are filled from watering-cans. A hand-written caption states B.R.S.M. perhaps part of the Ragged Schools Mission

Womens Royal Air Force -- Painters Shop
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women at work in the Painters Shop, painting RAF markings on aeroplane wings. Date: 1919-1920

Turkish Mahallebi seller, Istanbul, Turkey
Seller of Mahallebi (Muhallebi), a milk pudding of Lebanese origin coated in chopped pistachios, originally made with wheat flour and flavored with rosewater

Street Baker - Cairo, Egypt - with his lovely fold-put trestle table which he has positioned in a prime spot in front of a beautiful window, with tracery screening surrounded by fantastic tiling

Austrio-Hungarian troops in Galicia, Eastern Front, WW1
Austro-Hungarian troops bringing forward wire mattresses and trestles in Galicia, on the Eastern Front, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Bohm-Ermolli command post, Czernowitz (Chernivtsi)
Soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Army at the command post of army commander General Eduard von Bohm-Ermolli (1856-1941) (seen here behind the table, wearing the darker cap)

People examining lots at an auction
A room full of people examining lots at an auction. Date: 1788

Tea for Two by Muriel Dawson
Two young children sit at a trestle table and enjoy a snack, possibly elevenses or supper

Hurunui Hotel, Hurunui, South Island, New Zealand
View of the historic Hurunui Hotel in Hurunui, South Island, New Zealand. The Hurunui Hotel is famous in New Zealand for its liquor licence, which it has held continuously since 1860

Landsberg weekend festival, Bavaria, Germany
Weekend festival on the picturesque market square of Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, Germany, with people sitting at trestle tables

The Man Who Stole the Prize Marrow by H. M. Bateman
Humorous scene showing the interior of a tent at an agricultural show, with plants, vegetables and flowers arranged on trestle tables for judging, while a cheeky chap decides to abscond with a huge

French Village Fete
Fete in a French village : two couples dance to a fiddler seated on a trestle, outside the village inn

Spinning Cotton / China
A chinese boy separate cotton thread using a bobbin and spinning device, with tension provided by a wooden spring tied to his back

Hot Eel Soup for Sale
The vendor admits that though he has made his Hot Eel Soup for fifteen years, hes never tasted it himself

Building Trestle Viaduct
Building a trestle bridge : once the woodwork has been completed, soil and rock are washed down onto the lower levels, giving it a solid base

Battery constructed at the Royal Institution, London
A large battery constructed at the Royal Institution, London, by Wollaston, for Davy

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