Yokel Collection

East End Pub Scene 1828
The clientele is varied inside this pub in the East End of London

Calvados Distilling
A local yokel sits beside Calvados distillation equipment on a Normandy farm

West Country Yokel
A sterotypical image of a West country yokel, drinking scrumpy

Country Fair / Circa 1859
A superb picture depicting stalls, sideshows and entertainers at a country fair. In the foreground a dancing bear entertains two sailors, children and a monkey

Rather wonderful pair (possibly father and son?) dressed as Tom, Tom the Pipers Son. The boy on the right is Tom, while the man on the left, dressed as a yokel, holds the pig that Tom steals

LUMBERJACKS 1930S
Two lumberjacks set about the daunting task of breaking up a huge felled tree with their axes. Date: 1930s

Lock on the River Thames
A lock on the Thames is opened by a man and small child to let through an approaching barge pulled by a horse on the river bank

Man with ferret in pub
A customer on an old wooden settle with his ferret in front of a log fire in the bar of The Bulls Head, Craswell, Herefordshire, England. His pint of beer is on the hearth mat in front of him

Cartoon, Ben and his Bogey (Disraeli)
Cartoon, Ben and his Bogey -- a satirical comment on Disraelis speech to his Buckinghamshire electors, suggesting that the Roman Catholic Church will be the only organisation to gain from

Kubelturnier or bucket joust, 16th century. Copied from works by Jeremias Schemer and Esaias von Hulsen. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes

Indian farmers, yokels and gardeners including a gwalla or cowherd with parasol, seuly or toddy tapper, tapping a palm tree for its sap, and ox driver

Rural types
Two young countrywomen greet a boy who has been collecting a bundle of sticks, 1890s Date: 1890s

Villagers on a bridge over a stream, 1890s
Villagers chatting on a little stone bridge over a stream, 1890s Date: 1890s

Digging a vegetable patch, 1890s
Rustic types digging over a vegetable patch outside a cottage, 1890s Date: 1890s

Villagers chatting, 1890s
Villagers stopping to chat and pass the time of day in an idyllic rural English village, 1890s. Date: 1890s

Village square, Castle Combe, Wiltshire 1890s
Village square, Castle Combe, Wiltshire, 1890s, with the Market Cross. Date: 1890s

The General Election - True Blue
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - True Blue. A Candidate takes a few local yokels out for a ride in his carriage to show solidarity with the common man voter... 1908

ANCIENT ENGLISH RUSTIC
An ancient English countryman wearing a white smock frock - useful for keeping his clothes clean when working in the fields. Date: 1906

English Yokel practising maths on slate 1858
An English Yokel practising his maths on a slate. Date: 1858

Farmer, Staffordshire
Portrait of a farm worker in Staffordshire in winter. He has a craggy face, a large nose and wears a woolly hat pulled down over his ears Date: 1988

Mr Tingle puzzled farmer
An elderly farmer removes his cloth cap and scratches his head in bewilderment as he looks at the camera at a sheep sale in Abergavenny Market, Wales, UK. His name was Mr Tingle Date: circa 1970

Beware of the Bull - Man comes a cropper, even though he professes to be a Vegetarian! Date: 1906

Hunningham, Warwickshire - The Village Inn Date: circa 1909

UK General Election 1906 - Winners as the True Blue
The General Election - Comic postcard showing the delight amid the working class at the landslide defeat for the Conservative Party and their Liberal Unionist allies

New Compensation Act - 1906 - Stableboy kicked in stable
" The New Compensation Act" - " Hurroo! Oim kicked to Death, Be Gob!" - a Yokel Stable Lad is not unduly concerned at being kicked against the stable wall

Pub landlady stops snack, 1858
" Dip your roll in your own pot at home!" A fierce looking landlady berates a hungry customer caught in the act of helping himself to the contents of her cooking pot

Two Isle of Wight Farmers assess a tricky situation
Why the Natives are called Isle of Wight Calves. " Well, what shall us do Bill? Is pose there baint nothin else but to Cut his ed off." Date: 1907

West Country yokel, Scrumpy Man
A sterotypical image of a West Country yokel, drinking Lands End Scrumpy (cider). Date: circa 1970s

Pig farmer persuading a pig to move
A little persuasion required. A pig farmer tries to get his pig to move. Date: C.1890

Farmer on his Tractor
A farmer harvesting potatoes on his tractor. Date: early 1930s

Drunk Yokel protests his innocence to local landowner
" What! drunk again Mick?" " Well, I ve just had a toothful, yer Honour." " I think we shall have to get that tooth stopped." Date: 1892

Thirsty walkers denied the chance of a drink at the pub
Thirsty Pedestrian - " Is there a pub in this village?" Ancient Villager - " Noa! But there be a Poomp!" Date: 1901

Old Yokel extols the fighting qualities of his son
" My Laad Garge as bin feaghtin t Booers. If e only whopped em like e did is did is Old Woman, ed mak em sit up, I tell ye." Date: 1900

Old soak yokel in smock claiming not to have been drinking
The Squire Daughter - " Jerry, a little bird told me you had to much to drink yesterday!" Jerry - " Wel, my lady

The Carter - a rustic cart driver in his smock and carrying a whip Date: 1905

Village Vicar not tempted with the offer of a pint of mild
The Vicar is not tempted with the offer of a pint of mild from a village Yokel. A card from the Weather Reports series, entitled " Genial and Mild". Date: 1907

Country Farmer and his wife Date: circa 1906

French Yokel from Pont-L Abbe
Country Yokel from Pont-L Abbe, Brittany, France Date: circa 1910s

John Green, Peasant
JOHN GREEN : portraits of peasants are rare in our files, so this picture of John Green, peasant from Kings Lynn, makes a nice democratic change from kings and generals Date: CIRCA 1818

RAF cadet with local yokel
Cartoon of an RAF trainee cadet at Heaton Park, Manchester, during World War Two being given no doubt valuable local information by a yokel clutching a pint of mild

West Gate Cardiff / Wales
The approach to the West Gate

Rustic Type Drinks Beer
An ancient English countryman wearing a white smock frock - useful for keeping his clothes clean when working in the fields

Inquiring the Way
Inquiring the way of a local yokel, whose reply is either Ah, zir, thee can t get there from here ! or Oi begs yer pardon, mister, but Ois a stranger here meself !

Rustic Type 1930S
A delightful rural character, photographed outside his thatched cottage in the Valley of the Blackwater, Hampshire, England

Old Yokel Gardener
A rustic gardener with rolled up shirt sleeves, digging in heavy soil

7 Ravens Father Prays
The father prays while his seven sons, who have been turned into ravens, fly overhead

Yokel & Distillery
French rustic distillery: yokel smokes his pipe as he watches the still

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