Wooden Collection (#66)

Oil drum raft racing, Longridge Centre

Native festival at Suez, Egypt
A native festival at Suez, Egypt, with children riding in wooden boxes. Date: 20th century

Hall at St Donats Castle, Glamorgan, Wales
Ink sketch of the Hall at St Donats Castle, Glamorgan, Wales, by Henrietta Grace Baden Powell (nee Smyth, 1824-1914), mother of Robert. 1842

View toward the Matterhorn - Zermatt, Switzerland
Zermatt, Switzerland - with the distinctive shape of the Matterhorn in the distance. Date: circa 1910s

Sea Scouts constructing models
Three Sea Scouts constructing models. circa 1930

Boys paddling a crate, Longridge Centre

Sea Scouts building a kayak
A group of Sea Scouts building a kayak. circa 1960s

Little boy on a postcard, King of the Castle
I m the King of the Castle -- a little boy on a greetings postcard builds a model castle with wooden building blocks. Date: early 20th century

Exhibition on board RSS Discovery
Exhibition about an Antarctic expedition on board the training ship RSS Discovery. circa 1951

Large houseboat barge, Volga River, Russia
Large houseboat barge on The Volga River (possibly with a customs or military use?), Russia. Date: circa 1910s

Little girl with miniature tea set
A pretty little blonde girl sitting at a carved wooden table with a miniature tea set. Date: early 20th century

Childrens Christmas Party, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
A childrens Christmas party given by the town of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. 1955

Breton Reaper with gigantic Scythe
A Reaper with his immense scythe and solid wooden clogs - at Beauce, Brittany, France. Date: circa 1910s

How to make a Cornish Pasty: " Bake n well an dish n up vor dinner" !! A large family-size pasty produced for the whole family for dinner Date: 1910

Darts Team with wooden spoon, Walton, Essex
Members of the Walton-on-the-Naze Queens Head Darts Team, Essex, photographed with their trophy, a wooden spoon, awarded for coming bottom of the league. 1953

RSS Discovery in the Antarctic. Launched in 1901 and designed for Antarctic research, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in Britain

Sinaia, Romania - Saint Anna Cliff
Small wooden pavilion on Saint Anna Cliff at Sinaia, Romania. A town and mountain resort named after the Sinaia Monastery, which in turn is named after the Biblical Mount Sinai

Sihla Monastery, Romania
The Schitul ( Hermitage ) - a small church built by Ionta Cantacuzino at the Sihla Monastery, Romania (Neamt County) - situated on the slopes of the Stanisoara Mountains. Date: circa 1906

A Bourbonnais Man - France
A Bourbonnais Man in traditional costume including a fine pair of thick wooden clogs - France Date: circa 1906

Cat piano and animal choir
A cat piano and a choir of animals make up this unusual ensemble. A motely selection of humans also feature-a one legged man plays the cat piano

Tunisia - Tunis, Souk-el-Trouk
Tunisia - Tunis, the covered Souk-el-Trouk, with wooden roof and elegant, stalls divided by carved pillars. Date: circa 1910s

Egyptian Arab Barber in his beautifully ornate little wooden shop, with room for the client, the barber and his young attendant, who sits to one side holding a hand mirror

Village of Chagres - Panama Date: circa 1910s

Peg-leg peddlar with his tray of items for sale
" Any article on the board a penny" A man wounded in the Boer War, his leg lost resort to life as an itinerant tinker or peddlar, peddling his wares on the street

Newfoundland - Quidi Vidi
Newfoundland, Canada - Village of Quidi Vidi Date: circa 1910s

Wooden Chapel - Solovetsky Monastery
Russia, Solovky Islands, Solovetsky Monastery - old wooden chapel. 2010

Elderly Swiss Spinner at hew wheel. She is wearing a remarkable headdress / scarf and is working a very elegant wooden wheel. Date: circa 1910s

Christmas Eve in Canada with a a wooden cabin just visible in the dark and the snow, its warm light inviting. Outside, horses are ready to pull a sleigh through the deep snow. Date: 1926

Tub Manufacturing - Stana
Making wooden buckets/tubs at Stana (Stina) Romania Date: circa 1910s

Small Church in Grand Forks, BC, Canada
Small Roman Catholic Church in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada Date: 1911

Trouters Hut, St. Pauls Inlet, Newfoundland Date: circa 1910s

Lyon, France - International Exhibition (4 / 7)
The Palace of Horticulture and the gardens at the International Exhibition held at Lyon, France in 1914. Date: 1914

Old wooden cabin - Alabama, USA - " At de Ole Cabin Door..." Date: circa 1909

Lyon, France - International Exhibition (2 / 7)
The Bed of Louis XVIII at the International Exhibition at Lyon Date: 1914

A Bhutia Coolia. The Bhutia are ethnic Tibetans who speak a Tibetan dialect. Their ancestors migrated from Tibet to Sikkim, Darjeeling

19th century mother and baby
A woman in a crinoline from the mid-19th century tenderly hugs her small baby close to her while fairies and cherubs look with curiosity towards her and a wooden crib. Date: 1926

Slanic - Salt Baths
Slanic - one of the 14 towns of Prahova County, Romania. Slanics history and economy are directly related to the presence of relatively large quantities of salt underground, and even in open air

The Trans-Siberian Railway - a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan. It is the longest railway in the world

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

Mexican Porter - Carrying massive wooden crate
Mexican Porter - Carrying a massive wooden crate on his back. The card is captioned as: " The Poor Mans Burden in Mexico". Date: circa 1909

Norway - Skien - Herman Bagger Street, named after the Norwegian newspaper editor, politician and Mayor of Skien in the late 1840s and early 1850s. Date: circa 1905

Kintai Bridge, Japan
The Kintai Bridge, in the city of Iwakuni, in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Built in 1673, the bridge spans the beautiful Nishiki River in a series of five wooden arches. Located at the foot of Mt

Florence Nightingales Ambulance Carriage Date: 1906

Urquhart Castle
A Norman castle on the banks of Loch Ness, Scotland, built 13th century on an earlier wooden fort. It was blown up by the government in 1691 to prevent use by the Jacobites. Date: 13th century

Beach Groyne
A study of the old groyne (a low wooden wall or barrier built into the sea from a beach), Worthing, Sussex, England. Date: 1960s

Dog-Tor and Patient
One of Mrs. L. Goodwins (of All Saints Avenue, Kent, England) clever German Shepherd (Alsatian) dogs, playing nurse (or dog-tor) to another patient dog! Date: early 1930s

Sledging Dogs and Cat
Two dogs and a cat on a wooden sledge. Date: early 1930s

Old French Water Carrier smoking a pipe
Old French Water Carrier from Morlaix, Brittany - smoking a pipe. Date: circa 1910s

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