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From the bustling Covent Garden Market to the tranquil Oast Houses, it has been an integral part of our history

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Knights Of The Holy Ghost Embarking For The Crusades. In The End They Never Left On Their Voyage. From Military And Religious Life In The Middle Ages By Paul Lacroix Published London Circa 1880

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The Converted Warships Hms Agamemnon And Uss Niagara Taking Aboard Cable To Lay For The Transatlantic Telegraph. From L univers Illustre, Published Paris 1858

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How To Charge A Musket. From A French Instruction Book Of 1776. From Xviii Siecle Institutions, Usages Et Costumes, Published Paris 1875

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Two 15Th Century French Crossbowmen, One Firing His Weapon, The Other Loading It With A Windlass, Both Protected By Pavises. From Les Artes Au Moyen Age, Published Paris 1873

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French Gunners Loading 400 Mm Shell Into Cannon In 1916

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Santa Maria Salute Venice

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Crab Pot With Brown Crab Is Hauled Up Over The Side Of The F / V Morgan Anne During The Commercial Brown Crab Fishing
Crab Pot With Brown Crab Is Hauled Up Over The Side Of The F/V Morgan Anne During The Commercial Brown Crab Fishing Season In Icy Strait Of Southeast Alaska

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Field Peas Being Augered Into A Farm Truck For Shipping; Ponteix Saskatchewan Canada

Background imageLoading Collection: The Docks At New Orleans, Usa, In 1881. From La Ilustracion EspaAnola Y Americana Of 1881

The Docks At New Orleans, Usa, In 1881. From La Ilustracion EspaAnola Y Americana Of 1881

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Anguilla anguilla, freshwater eel
US M2. 30 in self-loading carbine, 1944 (c). Magazine (numbered); National Postal Meter Corporation; no rear sight. One of the great success stories of World War Two the M1 carbine was used widely by

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Pistol, Self-Loading, 9 Mm P08
Luger 9 mm self-loading pistol, with magazine 1939. Date: 1939

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Tanks off-loading from an LCT
Photograph: Tanks off-loading from an LCT. From a photograph album containing 210 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1944

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London Trade Card - Mrs Holts Italian Warehouse at the two Olive Posts in the Strand. Selling Italian silks, satins, velvets, damasks, fans, hats, as well as various Italian foodstuffs. 18th century

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?The Territorial Army. Ready and waiting. ? poster
The Territorial Army. Ready and waiting.? 1987. Colour photolithograph recruiting poster, published by the Armed Forces Careers Office, CP(A) 516A, June 1987

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Tangier, Morocco - Loading and unloading bulls and wood. Date: circa 1910s

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Loading Bananas - Port Antonio, Jamaica. Date: circa 1910s

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Seaport at sunrise, 1674, by Claude Lorrain (1600-1682)
Claude Lorrain (1600-1682). French painter. Seaport at sunrise, 1674. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany

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17th Century Crane
A 17th century crane, timber construction : the wheel enables it to be turned, for instance when loading a vessel from a dock. Date: 1690

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Advertisement, C G Bonehill, Birmingham
Advertisement, C G Bonehill, Belmont Row, Birmingham, Guns and Rifles. 1890s

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Miners loading a mine car in a coal mine in America Date: circa 1920

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The Pool of London with ships and barges being loaded and unloaded with the distinctive outline of Tower Bridge in the distance. Date: circa 1920s

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WWI British 60 Pounder Breach Loading Mark 1 Field Gun
A 1/10 Scale model of a First World War British 60 Pounder Breach Loading Mark 1 Field Gun, built by the Elswick Ordnance Company, together with its travelling carriage (15 - 38 cm. long).. Trench Art

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Cartoon, body parts after the battle, WW1
First World War cartoon entitled After the Battle, showing German soldiers trying to match up body parts before loading them onto a train. Date: 1914-1918

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LOADING DOCK, 1967. Truck at the loading dock of Hunts Point Market in the Bronx, New York City. Photograph by Nat Fein, 1967

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CUBA: SUGAR PLANTATION. Workers loading sugar cane onto a cart on a Cuban sugar plantation. Photograph, early 20th century

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Matches making machine, cutting machine
Machinery for making matches. There is a peeling machine, a cutting machine, a cleaning machine, a machine for arranging the matches neatly, a loading machine, and finally

Background imageLoading Collection: Matches making machine, cleaning machine

Matches making machine, cleaning machine
Machinery for making matches. There is a peeling machine, a cutting machine, a cleaning machine, a machine for arranging the matches neatly, a loading machine, and finally

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Person loading sacks into pickup truck, sheep grazing nearby, farm buildings

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Illustration of mechanical digger loading rubble in dumper truck

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U. S. Army Soldier loads a 105mm artillery round into a M119 Howitzer
East Baghdad, Iraq - U.S. Army Soldier of the Archangels from 4th Battalion, 320th Field Artillery, 506th Regimental Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division

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An MIM-23B Hawk surface-to-air missile system
U.S. Army personnel deploy an MIM-23B Hawk surface-to-air missile system in the desert during Operation Desert Shield

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AH-64D Apache Longbow Hydra 70 rockets in its pod
AH-64D Apache Longbow 2.75-inch Hydra 70 rockets in its pod, Tikrit, Iraq

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Kowloon docks
CHINA - CIRCA 1930s: Shipping docks, Kowloon, Hong Kong. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

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The flower harvest in the Scilly Islands. Loading the flowers into boats at Tresco. 1923

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Picture No. 10900356
Tractor carrying bales of hay and loading onto trailer in field Date:

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Silhouette of a bucket wheel reclaimer at an iron ore mine

Background imageLoading Collection: Silhouette of a bucket wheel reclaimer at an iron ore mine

Silhouette of a bucket wheel reclaimer at an iron ore mine

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German gunners preparing 25cm heavy trench mortar, WW1
German gunners in a gun emplacement, preparing a 25cm muzzle-loading heavy trench mortar for firing during the First World War

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Men at work in engine room of a ship, WW1
Men at work loading coal in the engine room of a ship during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

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The Jointed Iron Steam-ship Connector, 1863
Engraving of the Jointed Iron Steam-ship Connector, from the Illustrated London News, August 1863. The idea behind this invention was that the centre section of this ship could be left in port

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Cross-Section / Air Rifle
Air-gun - section through the rifle showing the method of loading

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Taking Car on Ferry
Loading a car ferry before the introduction of the drive-on drive-off system : the cars are loaded one by one onto pallets and craned aboard

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Mule (Male Donkey / Female Horse Offspring) with two wicker baskets hanging over its back, sniffing the ground
Mule (Male Donkey/Female Horse Offspring) with two wicker baskets hanging over its back, sniffing the ground, side view

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Standing Mule (Male Donkey / Female Horse Offspring) with wicker baskets hanging over its back, side view
Standing Mule (Male Donkey/Female Horse Offspring) with wicker baskets hanging over its back, side view

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Loading water melons onto a barge on one of the canals in Shaoxing. The city is known for its canals and its rice wine

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Picture No. 11981796
Shotgun with small-shot cartridge hunting Germany Date:

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Picture No. 11981794
Shotgun with small-shot cartridge hunting Germany Date:

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Canada - Country Grain Elevator - Train leaving. Date: circa 1920s



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From the bustling Covent Garden Market to the tranquil Oast Houses, it has been an integral part of our history. In JMW Turner's masterpiece 'A First Rate Taking in Stores', we witness the meticulous loading process as supplies are carefully brought on board. Fast forward to World War I, where power and artillery take center stage in Hs Power's painting capturing the intensity horses at Ypres. The agricultural world also relies on efficient loading techniques, as seen in John Deere's combine harvester effortlessly filling trailers with golden barley grains. Meanwhile, a CLA forage harvester unloads into a tractor trailer, creating alkalage from wholecrop cereals for animal feed - a vital process for sustaining livestock. Transportation plays its role too; whether it be Silver City planes preparing for Channel crossings or oil tankers carrying precious cargo across vast oceans. Even historic moments like Soviet lunar craft Zond 5's successful mission in 1968 required precise loading procedures before embarking on their celestial journey. Loading extends beyond goods and machinery; it encompasses human labor too. As depicted in Arthur W Redgate's artwork 'Loading the Harvest Wagon', hardworking individuals load bountiful crops onto wagons during harvest time – a testament to their dedication and resilience. And let us not forget simpler times when collecting milk churns was part of everyday life at Paddington Station during the 1920s – each churn loaded with fresh dairy goodness ready to nourish families far and wide. Throughout history, it has been more than just a task; it symbolizes progress, preparation, and connection, and is through these acts that we ensure resources reach their intended destinations efficiently and effectively.