Trough Collection

The Fountain, Wilton, Wiltshire - Inauguration ceremony. The large circular water trough and fountain sit beside the A30, now just inside the River Wylye recreation field

Poster advertising Shaws Bacon and Hams
Poster advertising Bacon and Ham from Shaws of Limerick. A breakfast luxury, as supplied to royalty

View down the High Street, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
A view down the High Street from the Bear Hotel, in the town centre, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales, with snow on the ground. Recently installed telegraph wires can be seen above

Herring Fleet Fisher Women, East Coast of Britain, 1913
Photographs showing three views of fisher women who worked for the herring fleet on the East coast of Britain in 1913. At top, three women stand at the pickling trough, gutting and pickling herring

Down the Severn in a Sheep Trough. A boy paddles a raft he has built from a sheep trough and two barrels

Elephant Drinking
An elephant having a drink, happily dipping its trunk into a water trough in Tokyo Japan

Deer Gatecrashing Lunch
A deer in Richmond Park, Surrey, England, gatecrashes a cows lunch at its trough

Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
Notice, Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association, Victoria House, Victoria Street, Westminster, London SW. Free supplies of water for man and beast in the streets of London. 1887

Pigs at the Trough
A pig and her young at the feeding trough. Artist: Ernest Linzell

A novel village pump, this one at Steyning, Sussex, England, is approached by some steps, and the water flows down a long trough. Date: 19th century

London horse trough Date: early 1900s

Horse trough, London, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Steam train picking up water from a trough, Bushey, Herts
Steam train picking up water from a trough, Bushey, Hertfordshire

Bushey Steam Train picking up water early 1900s

Stable, Coaching inn, Launois-sur-Vence, Ardennes, France
Drinking troughs and hay mangers in the stables at the coaching inn, built 1654, in Launois-sur-Vence, Ardennes, Grand Est, France

Brentford public fountain for people and animals at Kew Bridge. Erected at the request of Mrs. Wheeler on memorial to her late husband, Samuel Wheeler at a cost of £1600. Date: 1877

Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough 1895
Carriages stopping on their journey so that the horses can get a drink on a hot summers day. Date: 1895

Advert for Metropolitan Drinking Fountain 1878
Metropolitan drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association, set up in London by Samuel Gurney, a Member of Parliament and philanthropist to supported by voluntary contributions

Decorative cast iron electric lamp pillar with drinking fountain for horses and driver, dog trough optional. Date: 1906

Cast iron circular horse trough with drinking fountain. Date: 1906

Case iron circular horse trough with drinking fountain. Date: 1906

Public cast iron water trough for horses, dogs and driver. Date: 1906

Cattle Trough
A large drinking fountain in metropolitan district, erected by the Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association in 1868, providing water to horses, oxen, sheep, dogs and humans. Date: 1868

Machinery for making cutlery, 18th century
Machinery for making cutlery: troughs of a grinding mill, tongs for pressing knife handles, pressing vice and spring drill

Court in the Kings Palace, Bhutan, South Asia. It has typically massive timberwork. The troughs in the middle are royal baths, used medicinally. Date: 1922

Costumes of Europe, Soleure, Switzerland
Costumes of Europe - Soleure, Switzerland. 19th century

The Landswoman - Christmas Number - Cover. Date: 1918

Farmyard scene with Cockerels and Peacock. Date: circa 1910s

Meal on the Road 1910
Horses outside The Plough pub drinking from a trough before their next journey. Date: 1910

Metropolitan drinking Fountain and cattle trough association, set up in London by Samuel Gurney, a Member of Parliament, and philanthropist to supported by voluntary contributions

PARABLE OF PRODIGAL SON
The Parable of the Prodigal Son

Great Eastern - Port Paddle
The view (looking aft) from the port paddle box of the Great Eastern showing the trough for cable. Date: 1865

Wessex Ridgeway - farmer feeding sheep
A farmer feeds his sheep in the early morning on the Wessex Ridgeway high above Wiltshire England Date: 1989

Two young men with horse on a farm
Two young men with a horse outside some farm buildings. Date: circa 1920s

Port Elizabeth, South Africa - The Horse Memorial - erected to honour the Gallant Animals which perished during the Second Boer War 1899-1902

Union Workhouse, Bailieborough, County Cavan, Ireland
A group of male inmates at the Bailieborough Union workhouse, County Cavan, Ireland. The men are in the workhouse dining hall with their food, probably porridge

The well at Les Echarmeaux (Rhone), France - at the crossing of the road from Chansaye and Echarmeaux. Date: circa 1906

Advertising trade card for The Alden fruit vinegar
Advertising trade card for " The Alden fruit vinegar". The card shows a donkey which throws the rider into a trough and some apple pickers in the background. Date: circa 1880

Horse Memorial, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Horse Memorial in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, commemorating the fallen animals of the Second Boer War (1899-1902). Date: circa 1908

The Non-Drinking Host by H M Bateman. This illustration has four men sat around a card table. One man is smoking a cigarette but the other three are so distracted by their lack of beverage that their

Sheep Dipping, Co. Antrim - a view of three men dipping sheep in a trough in a farmyard. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

Bringing horses to water
Horses belonging to the London horseguards are led towards water troughs for a drink. Date: circa 1960s

Horses drinking from troughs
Horses belonging to the London horseguards drinking from troughs. Date: circa 1960s

Removal of horse trough in Eastbourne, Sussex
Removal of a horse trough on a street in Eastbourne, Sussex. Date: circa 1962

Hut. XIX century
Hut. Virginia, 1848. United States. Engraving

Myanmar - Yangon - Rangoon Jail. Date: circa 1910s

Father and son with pigs
Father and son admiring two pigs eating from a trough. Date: 1859

Ruins of Mayfield Palace, Mayfield, Sussex, a medieval palace dating back to the 13th century. Date: 1809

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