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Trowel Collection

Background imageTrowel Collection: Building and masonry tools

Building and masonry tools
Various building and masonry tools, including a saw, a mallet, chisels, hatchets, a trowel and a hammer

Background imageTrowel Collection: Queen Elizabeth visits Lloyds, 1952

Queen Elizabeth visits Lloyds, 1952
Queen Elizabeth II visits Lloyds to lay the foundations tone of their new building in Lime Street. This picture shows her Majesty taking a trowel full of mortar ready to lay the stone

Background imageTrowel Collection: Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 1849

Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 1849
The Italianate exterior of the New Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch, near Friern Barnet, Middlesex (North London). The foundation stone was laid in 1849 by Prince Albert

Background imageTrowel Collection: Tools of an Architect

Tools of an Architect
A plan for a neo-classical building is rested against the tools of the surveyors architects and builders who will construct this edifice

Background imageTrowel Collection: Mr Brick the Builder

Mr Brick the Builder

Background imageTrowel Collection: Metal casting equipment

Metal casting equipment: open sand casting 1, trowel 2, ramming tool 4, lifting screw 5, sand casting between flasks 6, cog wheel casting 7-10, and moulds for loam casting 11-13

Background imageTrowel Collection: Poster, We co-operate to speed up housing

Poster, We co-operate to speed up housing
Ministry of Supply poster, We co-operate to speed up housing, National Housing Drive fitments. Designed by Raymond Davids. circa 1945

Background imageTrowel Collection: Masonry Tools 18th C

Masonry Tools 18th C
Various tools used by builders in the 18th century : trowels, spades, saws, baskets, spades, wheelbarrows, hammers, etc. Date: Circa 1760

Background imageTrowel Collection: Four men with trowels and cement on boards, USA

Four men with trowels and cement on boards, USA
Four men with trowels and cement on boards, outside a log cabin, North America. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageTrowel Collection: Watneys Happy Families - Miss Barrel

Watneys Happy Families - Miss Barrel, the Coopers Daughter. circa 1930

Background imageTrowel Collection: Sterling silver goods, Plate 207

Sterling silver goods, Plate 207, showing bells, a trowel, bouquet holders, whistles, a dram flask, cutlery and other items. Date: circa 1880s

Background imageTrowel Collection: Communion services, trowels and mallets, Plate 169

Communion services, trowels and mallets, Plate 169. Date: circa 1880s

Background imageTrowel Collection: Happy Familes Playing Cards - Mr Flower the Gardener

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Mr Flower the Gardener. circa 1935

Background imageTrowel Collection: Bedding out in June 1870

Bedding out in June 1870
An elderly gardener bedding out in June while the daughter and the lady of the house help Date: 1870

Background imageTrowel Collection: Little boy playing in a garden

Little boy playing in a garden, digging the soil with a trowel. Date: circa 1970s

Background imageTrowel Collection: Gardener woman models recycled wool jumper, 1940s

Gardener woman models recycled wool jumper, 1940s
A lady holds a trowel and models a knitted jumper, made from a rejuvenated old and stretch jersey, c. 1941. Date: c. 1941

Background imageTrowel Collection: Trowel, Baden Powell House, South Kensington, London

Trowel, Baden Powell House, South Kensington, London
The trowel used by Lady Olave Baden Powell in 1959 when she laid the foundation stone for the new Baden Powell House in Queens Gate, South Kensington, London

Background imageTrowel Collection: How Does My Garden Grow? by Muriel Dawson

How Does My Garden Grow? by Muriel Dawson -- a little boy tends his springtime bulbs, watched by a robin on a branch. Date: 1942

Background imageTrowel Collection: Gardener, 1843

Gardener, 1843
The horticultural man of business: a gardener regarding a potted plant. Date: 1843

Background imageTrowel Collection: The foundation stone of the Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum

The foundation stone of the Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum
The ornate silver trowel used on 8th May 1849 by Prince Albert to spread the mortar on the foundation stone of the New Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch, near Friern Barnet

Background imageTrowel Collection: Nursery Rhymes -- foxhunters, Mary in her garden

Nursery Rhymes -- foxhunters, Mary in her garden
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Three foxhunters find a hedgehog (above). Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? (below) Date: early 20th century

Background imageTrowel Collection: Manuscript Facts of the Romans (13th c. ). Bricklayers

Manuscript Facts of the Romans (13th c. ). Bricklayers
" Manuscript " Facts of the Romans" (13th c.). Bricklayers. Miniature Painting. ITALY. Venice. Biblioteca nazionale marciana (St. Marks Library)."

Background imageTrowel Collection: Tiling a Roof, Tools

Tiling a Roof, Tools
Tools of the roof builders from the 18th century. Date: Circa 1760

Background imageTrowel Collection: Indian Gardener

Indian Gardener working on the doorstep to a lavish residence arranging a variety of floral blooms in a variety of pots

Background imageTrowel Collection: The Trowel used by Queen Victoria, 1867

The Trowel used by Queen Victoria, 1867
Engraving showing the golden trowel used by Queen Victoria to lay the first stone of the Royal Albert Hall, London, 1867

Background imageTrowel Collection: People Gathering Ferns

People Gathering Ferns
Ladies and gentlemen engaging in the popular passtime of fern hunting. They would gather ferns for decorative purposes

Background imageTrowel Collection: Buildings / Construction

Buildings / Construction
Laying bricks


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