Turf Collection (page 3)

A Slide Car for Carrying Turf, Glynns of Antrim
A Slide Car forCarrying Turf, Glynns of Antrim - man with horse and slide car talking to women outside a thatched cottage. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

A farmyard scene with rope thatched buildings and two ladies standing outside, there is a turf stack and cart and hens in the foreground. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Wooden Creels With Hinged Base - a side view of a boy and donkey and creels in a field, showing the hinge for releasing turf, on the creels. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Basketwork Creels - a view of two boys on a country road and two donkeys, one boy is on the back of one donkey and the other is leading the donkey with creels of turf. (Location: Ireland)

Donkey With Basketwork Creels, With Hinged Bottoms for Turf
Donkey With Basketwork Creels, With Hinged Bottoms forTurf - a view of a boy leading a donkey on a mountain road with buildings in the distance, the donkey has a basketwork creel full of turf

Connemara Peat Bog and Twelve Pins near Clifden, Co. Galway - a view of a peat bog and turf stacks and buildings and the mountains behind. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Galway; Clifden)

Downtown view of Oakland, California, USA. Date: circa 1940

Counting The Winnings. Sedgefield Co. Durham 1976 1976

Ice house entrance - Black and white lantern slide. Foot ruler at entrance to ice house in turf.. Part of Box 399. Boswell Collection. Date: circa 1900

French scouts eating from earth table
French scouts at camp, eating from an earth table

Two boys with pony on country lane, Scotland
Two boys with a pony on a country lane in Scotland. The wickerwork basket contains peat (cut turf)

People on horseback, going to collect peat
Two people on horseback, a man and a woman, going with their wickerwork baskets to collect peat (cut turf). Date: 1920s

Unloading turves - Hede, Sweden
Two men unload turves from a cart in Hede, Harjedalen Municipality, Jamtland County, Sweden Date: circa 1910s

The Taking of Breda
Maurits van Nassau takes Breda, heavily fortified by the Spanish, by a Trojan- horse trick - his troops hide in a ship laden with turf, which penetrates the defences. Date: 1590

Fifth Baron Suffield
CHARLES HARBORD, fifth baron SUFFIELD soldier, courtier and devotee of the turf : ADC to Victoria 1868 - 1872. Date: 1830 - 1914

George Payne - 2
GEORGE PAYNE gambler and foxhunter, Master of the Pytchley and patron of the turf with his autograph Date: 1803 - 1878

George Payne - 1
GEORGE PAYNE gambler and foxhunter, Master of the Pytchley and patron of the turf, in riding gear. Date: 1803 - 1878

Fitzgreene Halleck - 3
FITZGREENE HALLECK American poet, member of the Knickerbocker group, author of Green be the turf above thee and other poems. in his latter years, bearded. Date: 1790 - 1867

Fitzgreene Halleck - 1
FITZGREENE HALLECK American poet, member of the Knickerbocker group, author of Green be the turf above thee and other poems. with his autograph Date: 1790 - 1867

Fitzgreene Halleck - 2
FITZGREENE HALLECK American poet, member of the Knickerbocker group, author of Green be the turf above thee and other poems. with his autograph Date: 1790 - 1867

Turfing on the Somerset levels. This bears the caption: " The weather is terrible with rain, snow, thunder etc." - rather a neat link to 99 years later

Celebrated winning horses and jockeys of the american turf. Date 1889

The queen of the turf Maud S. driven by W. W. Bair: by Harold
The queen of the turf Maud S. driven by W.W. Bair: by Harold, dam Miss Russell, by Pilot Jr. Date c1880

The king of the turf St. Julien, driven by Orrin A. Hickok: by Volunteer, dam by Sayres Harry Clay. Date c1880

The Spice of the Trotting Turf

Indus steam flotilla
Cover page of Illustrated London news documenting the indus steam flotilla, model vessel constructed by Mr Scott Russell. Above this image a wheel-barrow

Bringing home the turf
A Colleen (a young unmarried Irish girl) bringing home a wicket backpack full of cut turf. Date: 1909

Iceland - Bondaboer. A group of villagers with their dogs standing in front of their houses with turf roofs. Date: circa 1910s

Milton Abbey Turf Steps
This grass slope is probably the most remarkable in England, consisting of 111 green steps, leading up to a Saxon chapel, at Milton Abbas, Dorset. Date: 1950s

Polish Scouts carrying turf. circa 1930s

Horses at Newmarket
Horse racing at Newmarket during World War II. Nearing the stands, Sun Chariot is still clear of her field but Afterthought (second from left) and Feberion (extreme left) were on her track

Prince Arthur turning the first turf at the Hythe and Sandga
Prince Arthur turning the first turf of the Hythe and Sandgate Railway. The railway was built to accommodate holiday makers keen to travel to the seaside

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