Wood Collection (#73)

Train at Portage, Peninsula Lake, Muskoka (2 / 2)
Train at Portage, Peninsula Lake, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. Date: circa 1910s

Finland - Transporting timber Date: circa 1909

Peruvian river transport - Balsa Raft
A rich European man on a hunting trip, being guided through the rapids by a team of local Peruvian attendants. He is seated on a Balsa Wood Raft, which looks highly unsuitable for the river

Romania - Restaurant Padurei Baneasa (Baneasa Forest) - the forest is north of Bucharest, Romania. Date: 1934

Father christmas about to go down the chimney
Another result of zeppelin raids! searchlight nuisance 1916

Timber at Hull Docks
Loading timber onto a lighter at Victoria Dock, Hull, Humberside, England. Date: 1960s

Clogmakers France 18th C
Five men at work in a workshop in 18th century France, making clogs out of wood. Date: Circa 1760

American machine gun platoon advancing, France, WW1
American 80th Division machine gun platoon advancing through woods between La Chalade and Le Claeon, Argonne, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: 29 October 1918

British troops with stakes and fascines, Salonika, WW1
British troops landing wooden stakes and fascines (bundles of wood used in military defences) at Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. Date: 14 November 1915

German heavy gun firing, Le Cateau, France, WW1
A German heavy gun firing in Le Cateau Wood, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Chinese Carpenter building a house
A Chinese Carpenter building a house using traditional techniques. Date: circa 1910s

Mexico - Carriers loading wood
Carriers loading wood onto mules Mexico Date: circa 1905

The Sketch Christmas Number 1959
Front cover illustration by Leslie Wood for the Christmas Number of The Sketch 1959, featuring carol singers, dancers at a party, ice skaters and a post man. Date: 1959

WOOD FIRE
Burning wood. Date: 1960s

Birds / Pigeon
A nesting wood pigeon. Date: 1930s

Insect / Wood Louse
A Wood Louse. Date: 1960s

ANT HILL
The nest of a Wood Ant. Date: 1950s

Charcoal France 18th C
People at work in a field burning pyramids of wood to make charcoal. Date: Circa 1760

Lassoing a cattle thief Date: 1926

Disabled tank near Premont, Battle of Cambrai, France, WW1
Men of the 20th Manchesters resting by a tank which has been disabled by side-slipping down a railway embankment, near Premont, during the Battle of Cambrai, France, First World War

Your silence is hard to bear
A bear listening to the bottom of the candlestick holder of the telephone, while the receiver is on the floor 1928

WOOD ANTS
Wood ants (Formici Pratennis) : Female (top), male (bottom). Date: 1950s

The Children In The Wood, by C. Lucy
A colour illustration by C. Lucy, depicting two children, a boy and a girl, curled up sleeping in a forest

French Saw Mill
Workers in a French saw mill. Date: circa 1845

Wood Cricket
A Wood Cricket sitting on a leaf. Date: 1960s

Self and Partners!, by Lawson Wood
Orang utan playing multiple hands in a game of cards. Date: 1930

New Zealand - Maori Te Arawa Woman
Woman of the Te Arawa people, based in the Rotorua and Bay of Plenty areas of New Zealand. She is holding a Maori Greenstone Pounamu Mere Club

Gandria - Lake Lugano - Alleyway
Backstreet in Gandria on the shore of Lake Lugano, Switzerland. A woman walks up a steep cobbled passageway with a wicker basket on her back, past a large wood store

DRY ROT
Floorboards in an old house, destroyed by dry rot. Date: 1950s

Woodworm and Dry Rot
Examples of damage caused by woodworm and dry rot, to timber taken from St. Marys Church, Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England. Date: 1950s

Milton / Comus / Lady Enters
Milton/Comus/Lady Enters

Oak Apple Day
Grovely, Grovely, Grovely ! OAK APPLE DAY at Wishford, Wiltshire, England. Oak branches are traditionally collected from Grovely Wood, as a right of the common folk. Date: 29 May

Military Bridge 18th C
an example of a military bridge made out of wood in 18th century France. The bridge is supported by boats. Date: Circa 1760

Gipsy Caravans
Gipsy caravans on the road, on their way to hop fields near Paddock Wood, Kent, England. Date: 1930s

Women Upholsterers
Young women carpentry students at the London County Council Trade School learning how to upholster a chair. Date: 1930s

Peace Conference 1899
Delegates of the International Peace Conference held at the Royal House in the Wood, The Hague, Netherlands, stand on the steps for a group photographic portrait. Date: 18 May 1899

Spotted Wood Butterfly
A Spotted Wood butterfly. Date: 1960s

Woodland Trackway
The sunken trackway approaching Goldings Wood, Hertfordshire, England, which acts as a parish boundary between Great Amwell and Stanstead St. Margaret s. Date: 1930s

Staining Floorboards
Using a brush to stain floorboards with permanganate of potash (potassium permanganate). Date: 1930s

Sarsgrove Wood Trackway
A trackway in Sarsgrove Wood, Oxfordshire, England, which formerly contained the stones which are now to be found on the pavement verge and elsewhere in Churchill village Date: 1930s

Shagreen Cigarette Case
A cigarette case of silver and shagreen, painted wood matchbox and a wooden cigarette holder. Date: 1930s

Groudle Glen, one of the beauty spots around Douglas, Isle of Man. Date: 1930s

Stane Street
A glimpse of Stane Street, a famous Roman Road, seen here at Tyrells Wood, near Leatherhead, Surrey, England. Date: 1950s

Birch Wood Snow Scene
Snow patterns in a birch wood. Date: 1930s

Friendly Horses

HALL I TH WOOD
Hall i th Wood, near Bolton, Lancashire, England. Once the home of Samuel Crompton, the inventor of the Spinning Mule (1779), which revolutionised the cotton industry. Date: 15th century

Autumn Mist
Autumn mist in a pine wood in Cumbria, England. Date: 1950s

She made them some broth
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children... She made them some broth -- an illustration to the nursery rhyme, showing the old woman in her kitchen

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