Wheeling Collection

Family of pigs at play on a postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Blenheims and Messerschmitts by G. H. Davis
The fight between Bristol Blenheims and Messerschmitt 110 destroyer planes over the North Sea during the Second World War

Metropolitan Police officers, Wapping High Street, London
Two Metropolitan Police officers wheeling a Bischoffsheim hand ambulance along Wapping High Street, East London, much to the interest of children, as there is a man lying inside

Happy Easter - German greetings card showing a young lad, his large green shorts held up by red braces, wheeling a basket of Easter Eggs passed a group of rather non-plussed chickens! circa 1910s

Boy wheeling Jack O Lantern in a cart to a dotinggirl Date: 1910

Young Princess Elizabeth with her first toy pram
Young Princess Elizabeth (Later Queen Elizabeth II) (1926-2022) with her first toy pram in the grounds of her parents home in Piccadilly with her nanny. Date: 1928

INFANTRY MANOEUVRES 1861
A Battalion wheeling from line into open column, right in front. Date: 1861

Three goblins with laughing gas on a Christmas card
Three goblins with laughing gas on a triangular Christmas card designed by Robert Dudley. Date: circa 1880s

Cartoon, Disraeli and Queen Victoria
Cartoon, Opening Parliament. Benjamin Disraeli wheels Queen Victoria to Westminster in her bathchair. 1880

Little boy with Collie dog in wheelbarrow
Unusual Friends - little boy with Collie dog in wheelbarrow. 1950s

Whats in the Box? A woman pushing a box on wheels. circa 1900s

Boy, girl and clown on three Victorian Christmas scraps
Boy with holly, girl with pudding and clown with cigar on three Victorian Christmas scraps. Date: circa 1890s

A View of a Chinese Street with all of the street furniture one might expect - lanterns, signs, children and a man wheeling a barrow... Date: circa 1910s

Old Maid card - Nanny. circa 1940s

Perambulate library 1857
A Gentleman travelling from village to village, wheeling a large box containing a supply of books to rural people. Once they had received their books he would take the next set that they had used to

Wheeling Avenue, Cambridge, Ohio, USA
Wheeling Avenue, looking west, Cambridge, Ohio, USA, with a Civil War monument on the right.. Date: 1914

General view of Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
General view (from the Hawley building) of Wheeling, West Virginia, USA. Date: 1915

Railway depot and train shed, Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
Baltimore and Ohio Railway depot and train shed, Wheeling, West Virginia, USA. Date: 1911

Roller Chairs, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
People in their Roller Chairs, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. The chairs were used to ferry tourists around the city. Date: circa 1920

Rolling Chair Parade, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. People who don t wish to walk are wheeled along a boardwalk. Youngs Million Dollar Pier can be seen in the distance. Date: circa 1910

Firefighter with breathing apparatus
A firefighter with breathing apparatus, wheeling an oxygen cylinder on a trolley

Cartoon, British father wheeling pram, WW1
Cartoon of a British father wheeling a pram past a Post Office during the First World War. He is looking at the War News of battle casualties, and comments: What a life

Nursery Rhymes -- three illustrations. A man in a room full of mice reaches for a plate of meat on a shelf. A bridegroom wheels his bride along the road in a wheelbarrow. A frog eats a worm

Farmer with Wheelbarrow
An English farmer in the Cotswolds, wheeling his wheelbarrow through a farm gate. Date: early 1930s

Sample card - works at Wheeling, W. VA. - works at Sandwich, Mass

Tour Cyclist on Rocks
A female tour cyclist with peroxide blonde hair, goes through a rough patch, wheeling her bicycle over some rocks on a path or dry river bed, Quantocks, Somerset. Date: 1930s

Two toddlers wheeling carry cots across a stretch of gravel

Woman wheeling two babies in a pram
A woman wheeling two babies in a pram, between two trees in silhouette

Met Police officer on a country lane
A Metropolitan Police officer on the beat, wheeling his bicycle along a country lane in a rural part of London

Nurse with equipment at the Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, with a nurse wheeling an oxygen cylinder

Three Red Cross Officers and a Nanny, Bosnia
Three Red Cross Officers stand with a nanny wheeling a large pram in Bosnia during the early years of the First World War

Cartoon / Grumpy Albert
A cartoon entitled Domestic Felicity from circa 1842, showing a less than impressed Prince Albert wheeling his first two children through Windsor as Victoria follows

Game / Playing Mothers
Two little girls play at mothers, wheeling their dolls in their prams through the park

Telegraph Stock Deals
Stockbrokers need high-tech communications to keep pace with their wheeling and dealing - this woman is sending coffee quotations over the ticker circuit

Margate Milkmaids
Two Margate milk girls working for E. Orchin, wheeling a cart of fresh milk along a street of fine Edwardian houses

Three little girls with a large Easter egg on a trolley
Three little girls with a large pink Easter egg, so big they have to wheel it on a trolley !

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