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Mahatma Gandhi spinning at his wheelMahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist and spiritual leader, spinning at his wheel (Charakha) in 1931, demonstrating his strong work ethic
Bunny girls at the Playboy Club, London 1969Bunny girls operate gaming tables at the Playboy Club in London which opened in 1966. Date: 1969
Parade at CleethorpesThe parade at Cleethorpes in Lincolnshire, packed with parked cars and people making the most of a summer stroll along the sea front, perhaps to visit the big wheel or pier Date: 1951
Laxey, the Wheel, Isle of Man, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900
Family of pigs at play on a postcard. Date: circa 1890s
Poole Pottery - Shaping a pot on the potters wheelShaping a pot on the potters wheel. Poole Pottery was founded in 1873 on Poole quayside, where it continued to produce pottery by hand before moving its factory operations away from the quay in 1999
GLC-LFB Dennis diesel Compact PumpIntroduced into London in the mid-1970s, this narrow wheel base pump was not a dual purpose fire engine. It could only carry an extension ladder and not the 50 foot wheeled escape
Jack Johnson on his Racing Motor CarArthur John Johnson, better known as Jack Johnson, the American heavyweight boxer, pictured in 1908. Johnson was the World Heavyweight Champion between 1908 and 1915
Wheelwright makinbg wooden wheels, Blists Hill, IronbridgeA skilled wheelwright works on a wooden cart wheel in his workshop at Blists Hill Working Museum, Ironbridge, Shropshire. First published The Independent newspaper Date: 1989
Land Rover advertisement, 1960Advertisement for Land Rover showing a photograph of it in use to travel over rough terrain during the work on the new Slough - Maidenhead by-pass in 1960. Date: 1960
Welsh woman with spinning wheel, WalesWelsh woman outside a cottage with a spinning wheel, Wales. Date: late 19th century
Roulette, The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USARoulette table at The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: 1940s
Talbot Car Advertisement, 1912Advertisement for Talbots Invincible car, 1912. John Bull is shown centre, proudly telling Britannia that the car is All British. A British bulldog is shown standing at the wheel of the car
Fra Angelico (1387-1455). The Coronation of the VirginFra Angelico (1387-1455). Tuscan painter of early Renaissance, part of the Florentine school. The Coronation of the Virgin. 15th Century. Louvre Museum. Paris. France
Bank Hall Colliery, MiningBank Hall Colliery, Burnley, Lancashire, England. The Pit Wheel, in silhouette
Picking coal from waste tip during 1921 strike, South WalesThree men picking coal from a local colliery waste tip during the 1921 strike, South Wales
Crooked House, SouthendThe Crooked House, one of the attractions of the funfair in the Peter Pan Gardens at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England
Heath Robinson - Lancing-WheelRECOMMENDED TO THE WAR OFFICE (REPLY AWAITED) Patent Applied For: The New Lancing-Wheel for Teaching Young Lancers to Lance. A typically convoluted contraption created by William Heath Robinson
Penny Farthing Bicycle, Skipton, YorkshireMan with a Penny Farthing Bicycle, Skipton, Yorkshire. 19th century
The four-wheel main landing gear of a Convair B-36. Each main wheel has a diameter of 56in
Design and motto of the Royal Artillery -- UbiqueDesign and motto of the Royal Artillery, showing a crown, ornate initials RA in mirror image, a field gun, and the Latin word Ubique, meaning Everywhere
Ox-pulled wagon - Lipton Tea CompanyColombo, Sri Lanka - a wagon of the Lipton Ltd. Tea company bearing a mass of wooden tea chests and pulled by a pair of white oxen. Date: circa 1910s
Sleeping Beauty pricks her finger by Arthur RackhamThe crucial moment in the story of Sleeping Beauty when Beauty pricks her finger on a spinning wheel thus sending her to sleep for a number of years
BSA three wheeler sports car and driver, South WalesMr Jack Holt driving his 1932 BSA three wheeler sports car, bought in 1938 from Morgan of Caerphilly. Probably photographed in the Haverfordwest area, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Wheelwrights making cart wheelsWheelwrights or wainwrights making large wooden wheels in a traditional rural workshop. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
Tarot Card 10 - La Roue de Fortune (The Wheel of Fortune)
Hms Dreadnought 1906The ship that gave her name to a new style of warship - the mighty HMS Dreadnought leaves Portsmouth harbour, escorted by a paddle-wheel tug
Work in a Coal MineVarious workings of a coal mine in Northumberland, England
Scene near Mametz Wood, Western Front, WW1German ammunition wagons destroyed by British artillery fire near Mametz Wood on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916
Two young men sorting through a pile of scrap metalTwo young men, one in a top hat, the other in a bowler hat, sorting through a rather unpromising pile of scrap metal in a junk yard
Tewkesbury WatermillThis famous old watermill at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, was immortalised by Dinah Mulock Craik in her book John Halifax, Gentleman
Stagecoach and horses on an oval Christmas cardStagecoach and horses travelling through the snow at night on an oval Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Isle of Man, Groudle Glen - Water Wheel Date: 1907
Sleeping Beauty by Arthur RackhamPrincess Briar Rose, aka Sleeping Beauty, pictured in a perfect pose as she sleeps for a hundred years after pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel
Maintenance worker greasing pivots and slidesA Railway engineer, wearing no discernible protective clothing, greasing the pivots and slides with a grease gun. Photograph by Heinz Zinram. 1950s
The Wiener Riesenrad (German for Viennese Giant Wheel ), or Riesenrad is a Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austrias capital Vienna
BP employee opening the flow valvesA British Petroleum employee opens the flow valves of an oil plant in the Middle East (likely to have been in Iraq or Iran)
Orffyreus Wheel & ManThe perpetual motion wheel of Orffyreus, real name Johann Ernst Elias Bessler, is set in motion by a man
Woman spinning - IndiaWoman spinning on a traditional hand-made wheel, India
Riding a Penny Farthing bicycle
1910 SimpleX Date: 1953
Avon tyre advertisement and motoring items, GoodwoodAvon tyre advertisement with various motoring items at Goodwood, West Sussex, England. circa 1969
Despatch riders with Douglas motorcycles, WW1Two despatch riders with Douglas 349cc motorcycles during the First World War. Date: circa 1916
Tandem bicycle. 19th century engraving
Yogi on bed of nails - Serampore, West Bengal, India. Date: 1925
WW2 defence, illustration by William Heath RobinsonDefence during WW2 -- Stout members of the sixth column dislodge an enemy machine gun post on the dome of St Paul s, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J
Stela of the royal scribe Ani. Egyptian art. New Kingdom. Relief. EGYPT. CAIRO. Cairo. Egyptian Museum
NFS-London Region 50ft wheeled escape ladder, WW2An Ajax style wheeled escape ladder, wound out in its carriage, from Fire Force Area 34 Acton fire station (E1Z) located at 24 Gunnersbury Lane, Acton, West London
Great Well - Carisbrooke CastleThe Great Well at Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight, powered by a donkey in a wheel!
Great Eastern Railways Locomotive works at StratfordA view along the north side of the Great Eastern Railway
Hansom cab 1875Two-wheeled Hanson cab, waiting for a fare. Date: 1875
Young woman at the wheel of a car. 1950
In front and behind the scenes at the Coliseum, LondonA great stage and a great curtain: in front and behind the scenes at the Coliseum, London. Top centre: a diagrammatic view of the revolving stage
Pinocchio -- father in wheelchairPinocchio -- He constructed an elegant little wheel chair in which he could take his father out on fine days. Date: 1911
Woman with spinning wheel, Isle of Harris, ScotlandOn the Isle of Harris, Scotland, a woman uses an elegant old spinning wheel to make Harris tweed, while her dog sleeps beside her. Date: 1920s
Cartwrights Great Wheel - Skegness, Lincolnshire. Date: circa 1905
Capriccio Landscape, by Jean Victor Bertin (1767-1842). Date: circa 1810
LCC-LFB horse drawn 75ft turntable ladder (TL)Shand Mason (Blackfriars) supplied the London Fire Brigade with this hand operated 75 foot turntable ladder on a four wheel horse drawn carriage
LCC-LFB Recruit firemen training at Brigade HQ, SE1During the 1950s recruit firefighters were trained at the Brigade Headquarters, Lambeth
LCC-LFB Shand Mason motor steam fire engineThe motor steam fire engine with independent pumping and propelling engines was developed later than the Merryweather Fire King self-propelled steam engine
Dr Christopher Dresser on a rickshaw, JapanDr Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) - English designer and theorist - best known as a pivotal figure in the Aesthetic Movement
Great Crane at Woolwich Arsenal, south east LondonThe Great Crane at the Arsenal, Woolwich, south east London, used to lift sections of large guns
Old English Sheepdog turned into woolAn Old English Sheepdog with its enterprising owner, who has spun its coat into balls of wool for knitting
Hopi Potter 1908Nampeyo, a renowned pot-maker of the Hopi village of Tewa, northeastern Arizona : her pots are hand-made in every sense - no wheel or elaborate tools are used
Vintage photograph WW II - British Churchill tankVintage photograph World War II - British Churchill tank, Italian campaign, crossing of the Senio River
Early Motor Cars - Karl Benz aged 81Early Motor Cars - Karl Benz in 1925 aged 81, seated in his first car of 1885. 1925
Great Crane at Woolwich Arsenal, in south east London, London, laying in marsh land between Greenwich and Gravesend
Production of Gounods Faust by Carl Rosa Opera CompanyCharacters from Charles Gounods opera Faust in a touring production by the Carl Rosa Opera Company
ROMAN ART. Roman marble relief from a conmmemorative monument to the Battle of Actium (31 BC). Detail of a processional scene. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary
Drivers & personalities in the Five Hundred Miles Race, 1929Five of the leading lights in the great Five Hundred Miles Race which took place at Brooklands on 12 October 1929
Firefighters with motor fire engine, Whitefriars MFBFirefighters with a motor fire engine, Whitefriars MFB (Metropolitan Fire Brigade)
Autocar Poster -- Paris-Amsterdam raceAutocar Poster -- Charrons white Panhard fitted with wheel steering (instead of a tiller) for the first time in racing history, for the Paris-Amsterdam race. Date: 1898
Irish spinner and spinning wheel. County Galway, Ireland. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900
Communist Factory WorkerA young man, the ideal of the heroic communist worker, working at a complicated piece of machinery in a cellulose paper factory in Balakhna, Russia
Wheel worked by dog - turning roasting spit, CarmarthenshireWheel worked by a dog for turning the roasting spit - used until the end of the first quarter of the 19th century. This example was the property of the late Sir John Williams, Bart
A Corrymeela Farm Kitchen - an interior view of two ladies sitting beside a fire with griddle and pot. One of the ladies is working a spinning wheel
A Corrymeela Farm, Cushendun - a view of a thatched cottage with lady outside feeding a pig, to the left is a spinning wheel. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Cushendun)
The Improved Ladys Own Sewing Machine by Leigh & Crawford, Brooke Street, Holborn, London EC. 19th century
Who People Are Dating - Diane Ferraz and Nicky ScottMusical duo, and, at the time, romantically linked couple, Diane Ferraz and Nicky Scott who performed together in the band, The Ferris Wheel, pairing black female singers with white male performers
Boy with bicycle wheel, Balham, SW LondonA little boy with a bicycle wheel on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961
Poster design, Commercial Motor Show, Earls Court, London, 25 September to 3 October
Street scene in Corfe Castle, DorsetStreet scene in the picturesque village of Corfe Castle, Dorset, with the Purbeck Garage on the left. Date: 20th century
Huntley, Aberdeenshire - repairing a flat tyreHuntley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland - repairing a flat tyre
Garden tools used by the Royal children. 3 Swiss Cottage, Osborne