Vegetables Collection (#3)

Bill Rutherford miner plays Cole Porter to his prize winning leeks

A general picture of a gigantic prize winning leek in September 1990

Market traders beside the harbour set up their stalls in Dacca, Bangladesh. February 1961 l

Shoppers at the green grocers stall in Kingston Market. Circa 1936

Women workers peeling thousands of onions that will eventually be pickled in jars destined for household dinner tables, at a factory in the North East of England during the Second World War November

Land Army girls give a hand in collecting the first tomato crop at North Hubbards nursery in Essex during the Second World War June 1942

A woman on Austerity holiday give a hand in collecting the first tomato crop at North Hubbards nursery in the Lea Valley, Essex during the Second World War June 1942

Landgirl Miss Betty McCarthy picking some large tomatoes from a greenhouse in Lea Valley, Hertfordshire during the Second World War They will be sent to canteens at munitions factories as

Private Ted Saunders of the 2nd Army out shopping with his wife Margaret in Bermondsey while on leave during the Second World War. 7th January 1945

Woman buying fresh fruit and vegetables in a poor suburb on the outskirts of Rome, Italy April 1975

Farming: Ross Pea picking machine. 1964 A1201-005

Geoff proudly displays a handful of his first crop of tomatoes. February 1979 P007837

Farming: Ross Pea picking machine. 1964 A1201-004

Farming: Ross Pea picking machine. 1964 A1201

Farming: Ross Pea picking machine. 1964 A1201-006

Farming: Ross Pea picking machine. 1964 A1201-002

Farming: Ross Pea picking machine. 1964 A1201-003

Farming: Ross Pea picking machine. 1964 A1201-001

Sitting Pretty. Matthew McLean and the record-breaking pumpkin. October 1981 P006540

Beady Eyed David Payne sits astride one of his marrows, on the lookout. September 1981 P006539

Mr G Stonehouse of Jarrow, grower of the worlds biggest leeks, displays two of his winning entries in the competition run by the Neon Club of Jarrow on Tyne. 27th August 1971

Mary Riley, a member of the Ladies Leek Club at Knottingley, Yorkshire, sings to her leeks to help them grow. Here she is pictured with two of her larger vegetables. 31st October 1984

Mrs Margaret Kenyon holding a basket of leeks as she stands in front of Conwy Castle in North Wales. 25th January 1954

Two residents of Haltwhistle, Northumberland showing off their giant leeks. 27th August 1971

Arthur Wilson, judge in the First North Eastern open championship for leeks, measuring the size of one of the entries. 27th August 1971

A general picture of gigantic prize winning leeks in September 1997

Phil and his giant cabbage. September 1986 P006542

Fruit and vegetables on sale at a Provence market in March 1996

Ted Bailey waters his 30ft runner bean in the back garden of his home in Kinley Gardens, Bootle, Liverpool. September 1977 P003669

Barrow boys gives away vegetables to women. August 1954 P009856

A woman working at Wisbech Smedleys cannery takes a bite out of one of the ten tons of carrots gathered and ready to be canned during the Second World War October 1943

Coventry Retail Market. 17th September 1993

The Nursing and domestic staff at Guys hospital, London made a garden from the ruins of a blitzed wing. OPS Three nurses picking runner beans in the garden of Guys. 16th August 1943

Twin sisters Joyce and Olive Allen, members of the Land Army, workers at the Richardson Evans memorial ground in Kingston where they grow a variety of vegetables including potatoes

Women and nurses picking tomatoes in the garden of a petrol filling station, to be sent to the hospitals during the Second World War September 1942

Four year old schoolby evacuee Michael Bubbear helping to slice cucumbers in half to be dessededin the Enlish countryside in the Second World War October 1942

58 year old Charlie Roberts of Eastbourne, Sussex is proud of his pumpkin growing prowess. He challenges any amateur gardener to better his record of over 500lbs weight of pumpkins grown from 6

Small boy seen here eating corn on the cob for the first time. September 1953 D5886

Susan Hayward at Mrs Lilian Jenkins stall in Portobello Road. August 1961 P011979

Small boy seen here eating corn on the cob for the first time. September 1953 D5886-001

58 year old Charlie Roberts of Eastbourne, Sussex is proud of his pumpkin growing prowess. He challenges any amateur gardener to better his record of over 500lbs weight of pumpkins grown from 6

A man sitting in his shop at Deptford. November 1969 Z10715-001

Shop named I was Kitcheners Valet. 21st July 1969

Soldiers gathering potatoes from farmland in East Anglia, whilst one of the boys sits and keep a look out for German planes who try to interfere, armed with a machine gun. 27th August 1942

Woman buying fresh fruit and vegetables in a poor suburb on the outskirts of Rome, Italy April 1975

Farmers Market, Buxted, Nr. Uckfield, Sussex. Inside the market the produce is sold direct to his customer. November 1965 P004370

Hes here again - that colourful figure "Johnny Onions
Hes here again - that colourful figure " Johnny Onions." Brown-faced, with strong white teeth, and wearing blue canvas jeans the French onion-sellers swarm across the Channel to sell their

Street Traders: French Onion Seller. January 1967 P004955

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