Turning Collection (page 4)

Threshing With Flails, Turning the Sheaf, Toome, Co Antrim - two men with flails turning corn outside a thatched building. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Toome). Date: circa early 1900s

Street Organ Grinder in the East End of London Date: 1905

Cupids and hearts on nine Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card with seated couple, and a wheel to turn to change the scene. Date: circa 1890s

New Year card with turning calendar. Date: circa 1890s

Floral greetings card with turning images. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas and New Year card with turning calendar. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card with turning wheel showing different faces. Date: circa 1890s

An inquisitive Boy poses a puzzler to his Father. " Are we made of Dust Pa?" - " Certainly" - " Well, why don t we turn to mud when we drink?" !! Date: circa 1910s

British Fleet - 4th Battle Squadron on Manoeuvres - 1923
Photograph from the deck of the HMS Marlborough of three other Iron-Duke Class Battleships of the British Mediterranean Fleet (the HMS Emperor of India)

Girls band on parade, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Shankill Rangers girls marching band with Orangemen behind them, on parade in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Date: 1969

Marriage at Cana. Miracle of Jesus. Miniature. 15th century
Marriage at Cana. First miracle of Jesus. Turning water into wine. Miniature. 15th century. Live of Jesus. Chateau of Chantilly. France

Japanese Geisha looking through a picture book
Japanese Geisha turning the pages and looking through a picture book. Date: circa 1904

Quex Ambulance Q. 2 used as a selling booth
Quex Ambulance Q.2 being used as a selling booth during War Weapons Week in Birchington. Major Powell-Cotton (in Homberg hat) is speaking to one of the women at the table

Turner Working a Lathe
A turner using a treadle- operated turning-lathe to carve a piece of wood Date: 1827

Social / German Plough 20C
A farmer ploughs his field, while nearby land is bought up by developers, turning the countryside into a suburb of the city Date: 1902

Cycloscaphe 1896
The CYCLOSCAPHE gives a new meaning to the phrase three men and a boat with its adaptation of the bicycle to boat propulsion, the pedals turning the propeller. Date: 1896

Mrs A. B Marshalls ice breaker 1890s
Ice breaker with handheld lever, from Mrs A. B Marshall s, useful for hotels, confectioners, refreshments and cabins, butlers and pantries. Date: 1890s

Cartoon, Old man at the cinema, WW1
Cartoon, Old man at the cinema, watching a heroic war film. He turns round to the soldiers seated behind him, saying that they too have the chance to take part in such glorious scenes. 1917

French Potters
One old man and one young man turning pottery in a French factory. Date: circa 1900

Mrs A. B Marshalls patent ice breaker 1890s
Ice breaker with handheld lever, from Mrs A. B Marshall s, specially adapted to the wants of hotels, restaurants, confectioners and creameries. Date: 1890s

Valentin factory, Great Titchfield Street, London
Valentin Stockmans Factory, wood turning workshop, Great Titchfield Street, London. Date: circa 1910s

Advert for H. W Garrard & Son domestic equipment 1889
Domestic machinery including a rotary knife - cleaning machine and a mincer machine. 1889

Maskelyne Spiritual Play
A SPIRIT CASE A satirical play by Maskelyne and Cooke. In this scene, Dr Blade relates to Slade. Date: 1882

Illustration, boy sliding off a pony
Illustration, a boy sliding off his saddle when Joker the pony turns more sharply than expected. Date: 1932

Handley Page 0 / 100 long range heavy bomber
Handley Page 0/100 long range heavy bomber, first flown in December 1915, and operational from October 1916. Seen here is serial no. B 9446 with propellers turning. Date: circa 1915-1916

Turning basin, Houston, Texas, USA, showing ocean-going vessels loading and unloading cargoes. Date: circa 1928

A view down Oxford Street, London - looking east. The turning into James street (foreground left) can be seen.. Part of Box 35 Boswell Collection Date: circa 1895

Sphere cover - British gunners turning German gun on enemy
A British artillery team with a captured German gun (a 77), using all their strength to turn it upon the fleeing enemy. 1918

Boy scouts turning peat, Denmark
Boy scouts turning peat for drying, Denmark

Firefighters at Crabtree Lane, London SW6, 12 September 1956. They are turning over the large quantities of cardboard cartons which constituted the major portion of combustible material stored

British Information Poster, WW1
Turn Your Silver into Bullets at the Post Office, 1915. Chromolithograph poster, artist unknown, published by the Parliamentary War Savings Committee as Poster No

Engraving of worm-driven fire squirt
Engraving of people operating a large worm-driven fire squirt mounted on two wheels, to put out a fire in a burning building, reproduced from Besoni, Theatrum Instrumentorum et Machinarum, 1568

Swan pens advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Swan Pens, with photographs showing part of the factory in Weston Street, Bermondsey, South East London and a portion of the turning shop with men at work. Date: 1914

The Outflanking Machine by Heath Robinson
In this Heath Robinson cartoon, we have the steady advance of a bayonet wall bearing down on the German flank. This time, however, the bayonets are carried by a simple train engine

Water-bottle rotary by W H Robinson
Water-bottle rotary for warming the legs of scottish soldiers after a night in the trenches. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Main factory interior, Woolwich Arsenal
View of the main factory interior at Woolwich Arsenal, south east London, showing the metal turnery branch for the manufacture of fuses. Date: circa 1905

Second British action in Narvik harbour by G. H. Davis
The spearhead of the Royal Navys second attack advancing on Narvik, putting the enemy destroyers to flight. The advance of Vice-Admiral Whitworths force upon Narvik was preceded by super-destroyers

A revolving house by G. H. Davis
A revolving house the owner can turn while in his bath. Rotated like a turntable to catch the sun at any point: the Villa Tournesol

Mill house and watermill running in a stream
Colour illustration of a mill house and water wheel running in a stream

Trade catalogue for ice cream machines 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing ice cream making and freezing machines. 1911

MODERN SIGNPOST
An example of the modern RAC signpost, at the point where the road forks to either Salisbury or Basingstoke. It is placed at eye-level some distance before turning. Date: 1940s

LFB recruits taking part in escape training at HQ
LFB recruits taking part in escape ladder training at HQ -- team spirit is essential as speed can save lives

Comic postcard commenting on the length of womens skirts - " Its a funny thing, but womens skirts are looking so short that they make men look very long!" Date: 1918

Japanese Silk Industry - Reeling the Cocoons by Hand-reel Date: circa 1910

Irish Girl at her spinning wheel Date: circa 1903

Rotary hand quern for grinding corn - Palestine, Middle East. Date: circa 1920s

Drying coffee beans in the sun - Costa Rica Date: circa 1910s

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