Ware House Collection

Advertisement for linoleum manufacturers
An advertisement for M Nairn & Co, floor cloth and linoleum manufacturers of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, with premises also in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Paris. circa 1883

Ipswich Docks
A fine impression of the busy Docks at Ipswich, Suffolk, England. Date: 1950s

Advert for Jays of London Mourning for families
An advertisement for mourning clothes for all the family from Jays London General Mourning Warehouse. Date: 1888

Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Large fig factory
The scale of the fig industry at Izmir is demonstrated in this postcard showing a huge warehouse with a multitude of baskets and workers

Warehouse / Liverpool Dock
Stock is unloaded from horse- pulled wagons and drawn up into the warehouse by rope

Messrs. Cook, Sons & Co.s Warehouse, London, 1854
Engraving showing Messrs. Cook, Sons and Companys warehouse, St. Pauls Churchyard, London, 1854

Sorting Post 1930S
A postal worker at the General Post Office (GPO), at Mount Pleasant, north London, sorts out parcels on a conveyor belt in the warehouse

Giant Machnow at Taylors Depository, Pimlico, London. Feodor Machnow, (Fyodor Makhnov) was born in 1878 at the village of Kostyuks in the Ukraine

Unloading Ships at London Docks, 1908
Illustration showing various cargoes coming ashore at London Docks, in the East End of London, 1908. Elephants tusks, barrels

Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead
A view over Newcastle (on the far side of the River Tyne) and Gateshead (in the foreground) during the great fire which killed more than 50 people and destroyed many buildings

Street scene in Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Scotland
A street scene in the Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Scotland, showing people outside the shop of Allan Ramsay (not to be confused with his house, which is on Castle Hill)

Joseph Yates Ltd - 33 Vauxhall Bridge Road
Joseph Yates Ltd - Timber Merchant - 33 Vauxhall Bridge Road, Pimlico, London

Fire in Southwark, London, 1926
Photograph showing members of the London Fire Brigade tackling a blaze at Samuel Ward & Co.s paint and varnish warehouse in Great Guildford Street, Southwark, August 1926

Alabama - Cotton Compress at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama - The Cotton Compress. Birmingham was founded on June 1, 1871, by cotton gin promoters who sold lots near the planned crossing of the Alabama & Chattanooga

Advertisement for Rowlands Macassar Oil, 1892
An advertisement for Jays of London mourning warehouse, and for Rowlands Macassar Oil, as featured in the Illustrated London News 1892

William W. Canslers paper-hanging warehouse NE corner of Arch & Seventh Sts. Philadelphia. Print shows an exterior view of Canslers paper hanging warehouse on the corner of Arch

The old Philadelphia fire department. Period of 1850. Date c1883 Apr. 20

Racks full of canned peas on way to labeling room and warehouse, canning factory, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Date 1937 June

Argentina - Buenos Aires - Grain Elevators & Dock No. 2
Beautiful fold-out postcard from Argentina showing the Grain Elevators at Dock No.2, Buenos Aires. Date: 1904

Business Notes Illustrated - Receiving an Unexpected Rise A Gentleman is accidently lifted aloft by a warehouse crane outside a warehouse. Date: circa 1909

Docks and Basin at Braila, Romania Date: 1910

Barranquilla, Colombia - The Port Market
Barranquilla, Colombia - the largest industrial city and port in the Colombian Caribbean region. The Port Market (Puerto del Mercado). Date: circa 1910

Nimes Maison Carree
La maison carree, a Roman temple, subsequently used as a warehouse before becoming a must-see tourist attraction. Date: 1850

Storage Shed - Corner Brook - Newfoundland and Labrador Date: circa 1920s

Rowleys House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. It is a combination of an early 17th century mansion and a warehouse and has been a museum since the 1930s. Date: early 17th century

Warehouse Lorry
A Long Vehicle lorry, delivering a load of barrels to a London warehouse. Date: 1960s

Mersin, Turkey - Central Street. The site of Turkeys largest port today (sadly not visible here...). Date: circa 1910s

Italian Munitions Factory - Naples
Finishing Shop for an Italian Munitions Factory - Naples, Italy. Date: circa 1915

Three children in outfits by English Warehouse
Three children holding hands, wearing outfits by English Warehouse. 1924

Chile - Talcahuano - Harbour, Warehouses, Customs
Chile - Talcahuano - Harbour, Customs buildings and Warehouses of the Major Commerical concerns of the region. Date: circa 1910s

Algeria - Oran - View from the Pier Date: circa 1910s

Packing Warehouse at Biskra, Algeria
Champagne Freres Packing Warehouse at Biskra, Algeria - taken over by E. Vinatie. Date: circa 1910s

British / India 1613
The first English trading post in India at Surat. There is a warehouse and a church. This image is taken from the Voyages of Mandelslo, published in 1727. Date: 1613

Cold Storage Warehouse, New York
Building, Cold Storage Warehouse, 13th Avenue. View from opposite corner of a large cold storage warehouse at 13th Avenue, New York; decorative ironwork and shuttered arched window

Liverpool docks 1876
The corn warehouse and Waterloo dock at Liverpool

Adults and children on a London street, outside the gates of a large building, possibly a warehouse. One boy, carrying a toddler, has bare feet

Warehouse, lower quay, Haverfordwest, South Wales
View of a warehouse on the lower quay in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Circus parade, New Bridge, Haverfordwest, South Wales
The circus parades along New Bridge in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, with elephants, camels and horses. Townspeople stop and look, and some follow the parade along the pavement

Cavalry parade over New Bridge, Haverfordwest, South Wales
A cavalry parade crosses New Bridge into Victoria Place in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, probably around the time of the outbreak of the First World War

Judges carriage with police escort, Haverfordwest, Wales
A judges horse-drawn carriage with a police escort in New Bridge and Victoria Place, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Arrival of the fair, New Bridge, Haverfordwest, South Wales
The arrival of the fair, making its way along New Bridge in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. Townspeople stop and look. Lewiss Furnishing Warehouse can be seen in the background

Sangers circus procession, Haverfordwest, South Wales
View of Salutation Square during Sangers circus procession, in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, with boys following in the roadway

Crowds in Victoria Place, Haverfordwest, South Wales
Crowds of people in the roadway at Victoria Place, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, probably during a circus procession. Lewiss Furnishing Warehouse can be seen in the background

Sorting Wool - Australia
Sheep Farming in Australia - sorting the wool in a warehouse in Sydney

Great Yarmouth Docks
Great Yarmouth Dockyards. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Moored ships
Ships Moored up by a woodyard. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Cannon Street Station from the Thames
A view from the south bank of the River Thames at London (at low tide), looking toward Blackfriars Bridge and Cannon Street station. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

The Dock Labourers great strike in London
Top picture: Those who agree to this resolution hold up their hands." Bottom picture: On the contrary." A unanimous vote to strike at a meeting of dock workers outside the west India dock

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