Winding Collection (page 5)

WW1 cartoon - Family Knitting
Great-Grandmama (ferociously to the family circle). " When I think of all the trouble that that Kaiser has brought into Europe, I could box his ears

WW1 cartoon - The Super-Patriot - knitting
A biddable gentleman is disturbed from his armchair nap and used by two ladies of the house to wind wool. Knitting comforts for troops was a nationwide activity during the First World War

British Army Issue puttee-winding machine stamped with War Department broad arrow and dated 1918. |The puttee was adopted because of its protection against snake bites in India

Knitting postcard, WW1
Humorous postcard from the First World War drawing on the theme of knitting. A soldier on leave is used to help a young girl wind her wool (no doubt used to knit comforts for troops)

Knitting women, WW1
A pair of women wind some wool during the First World War. Date: 1915

Winding country road, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s

The Multiplex Dragline by Heath Robinson
The multiplex dragline for dragging winding streams - another suggestion by Mr W. Heath Robinson. A complicated excavation machine enabling the operator to drag in curving lines. Date: c.1938

Javanese Landscape
A winding road cutting through steep hills and woodland, Java, Indonesia. Date: early 1930s

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - The Winding Machine
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto - The Winding Machine. Date: circa 1910s

Arabian Street in Algiers, Algeria
Winding (and climbing, up some steps) Arabian Street in Algiers, Algeria, with a seemingly rather staged set of local types! Date: circa 1930s

Malaga - Spain - Calle Pintoresca. Date: circa 1920s

Taxco, Mexico - Church of Santa Prisca
Taxco de Alarcon - a small city in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The 18th century Church of Santa Prisca can be seen in the background. Date: circa 1930s

20 Year Jubilee of the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II - Vienna
Jubilee Celebration Procession marking 20 years of the reign of German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II, held in Vienna, Austria on 12th June 1908

Woman descending a mountain path - Switzerland
Woman descending amountain path with a large bundle of hay balanced on her head. Date: circa 1910s

Vilnius, Lithuania - Stekliannaia Street
Vilnius, Lithuania - Stekliannaia (today Stikliu ) Street. Date: 1910

Turkey, Vezirhan, Bilecik Province Date: circa 1905

Samuel Cody manipulating the winding gear at Findon
Samuel Cody manipulating the winding gear at the Findon International Kite Competition on the Sussex Downs, 25 June 1903. Date: 1903

Huperzia phlegmaria, tassel fern
Plate 1043 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

The Industry. Two women winding the wool into balls
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). The Industry. Two women winding the wool into balls. Painted for the library

entrance to village - Inle Lake
Entrance to village - Inle Lake - A bamboo gate to guard the entrance to village. Little canals winding among homes on stilts, lovely gardens. Date: 1952

Yosemite Park - Lake Tanaya - California - We left the tourist crowds via the Tioga Road, and then the old, narrow, winding mine (dirt) road which we took for 21 miles. Built up altitude. Date: 1952

Firefighters winding up their hoses

To the right hon able the Earl of Hertford, ... this plate representing winding, warping with a new improved warping mill, and weaving; is... inscribed by... Wm. Hincks

Scene in a town on Lake Lugano, Switzerland Date: circa 1910s

Brewery - Chakrata, India
The Brewery at Chakrata (or Chakrauta) - a cantonment town in the Dehradun district in the state of Uttarakhand, Northern India, close to the border with Chinese Tibet. Date: circa 1910s

Chakrata, India - Viewed from the Kallana Neck
Chakrata, India in the Dehradun district in the state of Uttarakhand, India - viewed from the Kallana Neck. Date: circa 1910s

Chilmeri Neck and Kailana - Chakrata, India
Chilmeri Neck and Kailana - Chakrata - a cantonment town in the Dehradun district in the state of Uttarakhand, Northern India, close to the border with Chinese Tibet. Date: circa 1910s

Kailana and Bazar from Chakrata, India
Kailana and Bazar from Chakrata - a cantonment town in the Dehradun district in the state of Uttarakhand, Northern India, close to the border with Chinese Tibet. Date: circa 1910s

Winding River
A winding river, somewhere in Britain. Date: 1950s

Chakrata, India - The Cart Road Brewery
Chakrata (or Chakrauta) is a cantonment town in the Dehradun district in the state of Uttarakhand, Northern India, close to the border with Chinese Tibet. Date: circa 1910s

Warwickshire Gorse
A fine view of Gredenton Hill, near Fenny Compton, Watwickshire, England, with a mass of gorse (broom) in flower in the foreground and the winding Avon Dassett road. Date: early 1960s

England / Church Enstone
The winding road into Church Enstone, a picturesque village in Oxfordshire, England. Date: early 1960s

The River Dove
The winding River Dove, at the entrance to Dovedale, one of the many beauty spots of Derbyshire, England. Date: 1950s

Cycling Storm

Quiraing Rock
The Quiraing Road, Isle of Skye, Scotland. This is the steep, winding road that comes down from the moorland road from Uig to Staffin, taken from below Quiraing rock. Date: 1950s

Coal Mine, Hungarian Exhibition, Earls Court, London
View of a Coal Mine at the Hungarian Exhibition, Earls Court, London. Date: 1908

Romania - Turcoaia Granite Quarry
Granite Quarry at Turcoaia - a commune in Tulcea County, Romania. Date: circa 1910s

View of the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps
View of The Grimselstrasse, winding up the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps. Date: circa 1940

Steam powered winding engine, South Wales
A steam powered winding engine, possibly at the Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales. The mine closed in 1932, but continued as a pumping station into the 1960s

Country church and houses
View of a church and houses, at the end of a winding country lane

Royal Blue Inclusive Holidays
Cover illustration for Royal Blue Inclusive Holidays with Cooks and Dean & Dawson, in conjunction with Royal Blue Services

Anon. Cats cradles
A little boy kitten obediently helps a lady cat with her knitting wool

Mountain landscape with river, Kashgar, western China
A landscape with a river winding through a mountain valley in Kashgar, western China

The mouth of a rocky ravine
A pen & ink (with blue watercolour wash) by Raymond Sheppard of the mouth of a rocky ravine, with a river snaking down from below the sheer cliff faces to rolling tree-topped hills

Winding thread - Patons & Baldwins
Machines for Winding thread at Patons & Baldwins Factory in Darlington; one of the UKs leading manufacturers of knitting yarn. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Muller Automatic Cone-winding machine
A factory worker operates a Muller automatic cone-winding machine, (used for clearing and winding single-spun yarns) at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Wool Winding Machine - Patons & Baldwins
A woman worker in dark blue overalls operating and checking a huge wool-winding machine at Patons & Baldwins factory at Darlington

Operating a wool-winding machine
A woman operating and checking a huge wool winding machine at Patons & Baldwins factory at Darlington. Patons & Baldwins was one of the largest manufacturers of knitting yarn in the UK between

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