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A Selection of Ways to Ride a Penny Farthing Bicycle, 1881Engraving showing a number of adventurous ways to ride a penny farthing bicycle; as demonstrated at a bicycle meeting held in Boston, USA, 1881
Churchill captured during the Boer WarWinston Churchill as a prisoner of war after being captured during the Boer War while working as a correspondent for the Morning Post
Sir Charles BrisbaneSIR CHARLES BRISBANE English naval commander who had an active and adventurous career in many oceans of the world, surviving shipwrecks and hurricanes. Date: 1769 - 1829
Concepts / SangraelThe Grail is kept in the Palace of Adventurous, part of the Castle of Carbonek; a maiden bears it in to show it to Sir Bors, one of the few knights to actually see it
Strasbourg Balloon TripThe aeronautic experience of Adorne who flew over Strasbourg, France, at a height of 80 feet. He and his companion wave as they pass over the city
Advertisement in The Illustrated London News publicising the forthcoming story of Captain Scotts Adventurous Journeys in the Antarctic Region as narrated by Lieutenant (Ernest) Shackleton
Stratosphere Explorers Date: 1941
READING A ROAD MAPTo the adventurous schoolboy there is high romance in following the line of a road, even on paper and the mature motorist delights in following the route correctly. Date: 1940s
Real boy scouts starring in the film, Lost ValleyScene from the movie, Lost Valley, starring real-life boy scouts with the lead role played by fifteen year old Edward Royle. Date: 1932
Victorian scrap - Wanted a chappie with some go in himVictorian scrap - People Who Want To Marry - Wanted a chappie with some go in him. late 19th century
It pays to be adventurous ? Territorial and Army Volunteer RIt pays to be/ adventurous/...Do yourself a/ power of good/ in the/ Territorial/ and/ Army/ Volunteer/ Reserve.Colour photolithograph recruiting poster
Sir Winston Churchills eighty adventurous yearsArticle by Sir Charles Petrie with accompanying photographs celebrating the 80th birthday of Sir Winston Churchill. Photographs from top to bottom: Mr Randolph Churchill with his son
Scenes from the life of Sir Winston ChurchillEighty adventurous years: scenes from an eventful life- Sir Winston Churchill from infancy to the fulfilment of his great destiny. In celebration of Churchills 80th birthday on 30th November 1954
Tristram SpeedyTRISTRAM CHARLES SAWYER SPEEDY British soldier and administrator, adventurous life in exotic places notably Ethiopia : depicted in native costume. Date: 1836 - 1910
Finchdale Priory RuinsThe ruins of Finchdale Priory, County Durham, England, which was founded by an adventurous sailor (later Saint), Godric, in about 1115. Date: founded 1115
Finchdale Priory CryptThe Crypt of Finchdale Priory County Durham, England, founded by an adventurous sailor (later Saint) Godric, in about 1115. Date: founded 1115
The Narrokar / W H RobinsonMany English lanes were designed only to accommodate the solitary horseman and most large modern cars are liable to get stuck in them (very humiliating for the driver)
Secret Library DoorwayA young Edwardian boy discovers a secret doorway in the library, concealed behind the false panel of a bookcase
Twin puppies follow rabbit into burrowTwin puppies, Snip and Snap, bravely follow the rabbit and enter a dark burrow
Andrees DepartureAndree, with Strindberg and Fraenkel, leave Spitzbergen on their adventurous flight, hoping to reach the North Pole : they are depicted half an hour after lift-off
Climbing the PyramidsEgyptian men stand on the lower levels of the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza, ready to assist adventurous tourists, keen to scale the mighty structure
German Singing ContestLandgraf Hermann von Thuringen and wife Sophia preside over a singing contest featuring such top-flight minnesingers as Wolfram von Eschenbach and Walther von der Vogelweide
Ernest Thompson SetonERNEST THOMPSON SETON English-born naturalist and writer in America whose life was not quite as adventurous as he claimed
Expedition AircraftA self sufficient arial colony. Idea of Belgian scientist and balloonist Etienne Gaspard Robertson, first published in 1804
Marina MniszechMARINA MNISZECH - Polish adventuress who married two false Dmitris (claimants to the Russian throne. After a wildly adventurous life she died in prison
Hitch-Hiker / Sci&vie / 1955An adventurous young woman traveller flags down a car from the road-side