Dig For Victory Photo Gallery

The Vegetable Garden Displayed RHS 1942 Page 01 1

At Home Food From Your Own Space Read More Dig For Victory – The Vegetable Garden Displayed – THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 1942 From the Minister of Food, The Rt. Hon. Lord Woolton. “This is a food war. Every extra amount of vegetables in allotments saves shipping.  If we grow more potatoes we need not […]

Threlkeld Quarry steam train and excavators Photo Gallery

Sir Tom loco train and the excavators Threlkeld Quarry

Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum and Vintage Excavator Trust Before the days of hydraulic excavators (leaky incontinent things!) rope excavators were the ingenious and robust diggers, lifters and movers.  Perhaps  challenge the viewer to work out how a diesel engine, turning in one direction can have clutches, gears and levers that can throw buckets forward, […]

Town life street scenes shops Photo Gallery

Street Market

Street scenes in towns, shops, way of life Streets, shops and normal life in the towns and villages of Cumbria Ambleside Possible Street With Centaur Cycles H J Croft Motor Works Garage Ambleside Queens Hotel Street Celebration With Women Children Flowers Car And Hand Cart In Street Outside Breeches Maker 1910s Cars Parked On Street […]

Lowca U Boat Photo Gallery

Lowca Submarine Daily Mail Sept 1 1915 Painting Of Submarine Shelling Lowca

Lowca shelled by German U Boat In World War 1 a German U Boat surfaced off the West Cumbrian coast and shelled the important industrial works at Lowca and Whitehaven Lowca Submarine Daily Mail Sept 1 1915 Painting Of Submarine Shelling Lowca Lowca Huns Dastardly Deeds In War 1915 Lowca Latest In Germ Hun Frightfulness […]

Children School Photo Gallery

Children Paddling In River 1904 To 1906

Children School Children at school, at play, in the countryside of Cumbria Ambleside Queens Hotel Street Celebration With Women Children Flowers Children And Band In Cobbled Village Square Alston Children Dancing Children Group Of Shabby 1930 To 1960 Children Hens Children In Fancy Dress For Coronation 1953 Children In River Petteril Carlisle 1890 To 1899 […]

Women Land Army Photo Gallery

Women Land Army Digging Field

Women Land Army World War 2 Dig For Victory campaign included the Women’s Land Army Hullock Annie Land Army Girl 1943 Hullock Annie Land Army Girl With Dog 1943 Land Army Land Army 2 Land Army W Calf Land Army W Pig Women Land Army Armband Back Women Land Army Armband 3 Women Land Army […]

Farming Rural Photo Gallery

Farming Hay Raking Family

Farming and Rural Life Farming and rural ways of life in Cumbria Modern Farm Farm Equipment At Fair Farm House Farmer Farmer Period Clothes 01 Farmer Period Costume 02 Farming Auction Farming Hay Raking Family Farming Hay Sled Horse Collars Farming Gear Auction Mart Sheep Auction Mart Sheep Being Auctioned 1985 Broughton Moor WW2 Munitions […]

Mines Quarries Iron Steel Photo Gallery

Miner At Work

Mines Quarries Iron Steel Gallery Extraction of Cumbrian mineral resources, and industry for extraction and processing. Clifton Pit Miner Clogs On Miners 1900 4 P16 Clogs On Miners 1900 MM4 P16 Clogs On Miners 1900 MM4 P16 TEXT Coal Miner Female Sally Madge Devon Miners Migrating To Cumbria TEXT Haematite Mine Logo Hodbarrow Millom Mine […]

Transport Photo Gallery

Car Damlier Charabanc On Kirkstone Pass

Transport Gallery Transport used in Cumbria, horse and cart, charabanc, locos, trains, cars trucks Car 1910 Car And Hand Cart In Street Outside Breeches Maker 1910s Car And People 1920s Car By Lake 1920 Car Charabanc Outside Tatters Garage Car Damlier Charabanc Car Damlier Charabanc On Kirkstone Pass Car Fells Car Humber Frnt Left Car […]

War Gallery Photo Gallery

Army At War Arnhem Mortar About To Fire

War Gallery World War 2 Army At War Arnhem Bren Gun In Trench Army At War Arnhem Field Gun In Action Army At War Arnhem Machine Gun In Action Army At War Arnhem Model Of Gliders In Carlisle Castle Display Army At War Arnhem Mortar About To Fire Army At War Arnhem Mortar In Action […]