Billet Collection

Marjorie Roach
MARJORIE ROACH Irish film actress; star of " The Crooked Billet" and " The First Born"

Photograph of Crooked Billet PH, Barking Creek, Essex. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Left Face on view of the pub

Blackheath / H&b Pond 1904
Hare & Billet Pond, Blackheath

Novelty Camel Early C18
A bactrian or two-humped camel not a dromedary as billed on this flyer. This camel was displayed with her young betwixt the Queens Head & Crooked Billet, Fleet bridge

Crown & Crooked Billet PH, Woodford Bridge, Greater London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Left Face on view of the pub

German soldiers billeted behind lines of Verdun, WW1
German soldiers billeted behind the lines of Verdun, northern France, February 1916, in the middle of the First World War. 1916

Photograph of Crooked Billet PH, Shadwell, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Corner on view of the pub

Photograph of Crooked Billet PH, Hoxton, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Corner on view of the pub

Photograph of Crooked Billet PH, Ash, Kent. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Face on view of the pub. The back of the print (available on request) details

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Mme. Mallet as Bertha in le Billet de Marguerite, a comic opera in three acts, at the Lyrique.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique

OLD PUB SIGNS (PLATE 5)
Various old pub signs: Spinning Sow, Two Storks, The Complete Angler, Help Me Through This World, Crooked Billet. (plate 5 in series)

12TH NIGHT / MALVOLIO
Malvolio, tricked by his companions with a false billet-doux from Olivia, postures in what he fancies is the finery she favours... Date: first performed 1601/2

Food for billeted soldiers, WW1
A page from The Sketch showing what householders who had soldiers billeted with them were expected to provide in terms of meals for 3s. 4d halfpenny. Date: 1914

Valentine Card / Cupid
Cupid posts a billet-doux - Sweet little love letter, go on your way

GLC-LFB Aftermath of fatal fire in care home, NE London
Aftermath of a fatal fire at an elderly peoples care home in Billet Road, Walthamstow, NE London. Showing the seat of the fire, with heat damage and smoke staining to the upper areas of the walls

Laying the Tables at the Gordon Services Club
A volunteer lays the tables at the Gordon Services Club, based at the former Gordon Hospital in London. The Club, established in June 1940 by the Canadian Red Cross

The Gordon Services Club, 1940
Margerie Doutie writing up the menu for the Gordon Services Club, based at the former Gordon Hospital in London. The Club, established in June 1940 by the Canadian Red Cross

The Maple Leaf Club, Brabazon House
Two soldiers share a joke with Mrs Murray, matron of the Maple Leaf Club, established during the War to provide food, medical treatment and accommodation for Canadian soldiers stationed in Britain

Canteen in Blandford
The inside of a canteen in Blandford, Dorset, where women volunteers are dishing out food and tea to the troops. 1940

WaCs (Women?s Army Auxiliary Corps) in billet
Photograph of WaCs in billet.From album containing 55 photographs relating to the Women?s Army Auxiliary Corps, 1917-1918.Associated with World War One (1914-1918). Date: 1918

The Crooked Billet, on Penge Common, London
The Crooked Billet, on Penge Common, south west London. 1827

Cartoon, Soldiers approach new billet, WW1
Cartoon, Soldiers approach their new billet, hoping for good cooking and good wine. Date: 1918

Cartoon, A soldier in his billet, WW1
Cartoon, A soldier in his billet. He undresses, washes in a series of small containers, then goes to bed for a couple of hours. Date: 1918

Cartoon, Soldiers and boy in street, WW1
Cartoon, Soldiers talking to a boy carrying wine in the street. They ask him if its for them. No, he says, its for me. Date: 1918

Cartoon, A soldiers billet, WW1
Cartoon, A soldiers billet. One soldier has found a large fireplace in a bombed-out house to sleep in, and imagines that its a four-poster bed. Date: 1918

Cartoon, Soldiers discuss their billet, WW1
Cartoon, Soldiers discuss their billet. One of them says you can hardly call it a billet, as theres no bistro! Date: 1918

The Domestic Side of War: Menage in Billet and Dug-Out A page from The Illustrated London News, 27 January 1917 with three drawings by A.Forestier based on eye-witness descriptions

Blaw, Man! An incident in a billet in France, Arthur Garrat
A Scottish solider from a Highland regiment, wearing a kilt, tries to teach a small French boy how to play the bagpipes. Date: 1918

London Scottish marching into camp in Richmond Park, WW1
From billet to canvas - the London Scottish marching into camp in Richmond Park in May 1915. Kitcheners new army was taking up their summer quarters in tents

British dug-out interior, WW1
A sketch of a dug-out billet behind the lines showing an officer comfortably curled up under the curved corrugated iron roof which forms the main structure of the dug-out

British troops in church billets in Flanders, WW1
Just back from the trenches, British troops settle down in church billets during a service after a stretch of work in the first line on the Western Front

Watercolour of a billet at Oakwood, dated 20.1.16. On reverse, watercolour and pencil study of a soldier smoking his pipe. 21017 Private P. J

Cromwell Gardens, billet for ten men. 112 stairs up. 21017 Private P. J. Hill, D Company, 20Th Battalion, The County Of London Regiment. Studied At Lambeth School Of Art, St

A billet in Cromwell Gardens of Artist PJ Hill
A billet in Cromwell Gardens showing a corner of a room with a decorated ceiling. Kit hanging on the wall above the bed.Inscribed verso - 112 stairs up. 21017 Private P. J

Billet at Cliffe Fort, near the Cliffe on the Hoo peninsula
Billet at Cliffe Fort, near the village of Cliffe on the Hoo peninsula in Kent.. 21017 Private P. J. Hill, D Company, 20Th Battalion, The County Of London Regiment

Our Billet - Somewhere in France
Our Billet. Somewhere in France. On verso - Monday, May 8th 1916. Dearest Ciss, This is a sketch of our Billet where we are resting at present and will give you a good idea how pretty the place is

The Bill for Billeting Soldiers, WW1
Billeting terms for householders taking in soldiers during the early weeks of the First World War. with an extremely young soldier demonstrating how a young Tommy fits in - sleeping on the floor

Billeting soldiers, WW1 humour
Maid to mistress: If yer please, mem, theres a hofficer at the door, and e wants to know if you can FILLET two sojers. A maid rather misunderstands the request of a billeting officer at a house

Stunts silhouetted by H. L. Oakley
A page of silhouettes by Captain H. L. Oakley published in The Bystander depicting the trials and tribulations of a billeting officer

Scenes from behind the front line in Flanders, H. L. Oakley
Scenes of French life behind the front lines, familiar to British soldiers billeted in France during the First World War, cut on the spot with scissors by Lieut. (later Captain) H. L

Irish contingent of UPS arriving at Epsom, Surrey, WW1
The Irish contingent of the UPS (University and Public Schools Brigade) arriving at Epsom, Surrey, during the early stages of the First World War. Date: 1914

A rest between duty in the trenches
A British officer resting in a billet in France. A photograph can be seen standing on the shelf, acting as a comforting symbol of home. 1915

British soldiers in stables billet, France, 1939
Billeting down in a thoroughly traditional manner in a French farmhouse stable, likened by The Sphere to what it might have been like to be with Marlborough in Flanders

American troops, Nanteuil-la-Fosse, France, WW1
American troops near the church in Nanteuil-la-Fosse, northern France, during the First World War. Date: March 1918

Music cover for The Keepsake, a Sequel to the Celebrated Song, The Cavalier, sung by Miss Poole. Words by W H Bellamy, music by Charles W Glover

Music cover for Valse a Deux Tems (Temps)
Music cover for Valse a Deux Tems (or Temps), meaning Waltz in Two Beats or Two-Step Waltz, a popular style of waltz in the mid-19th century

London refugee billeting WWII
At the Fulham Borough Council, London, a Dutch refugee and his family learn where they will be billeted during World War II

Boesinghe 1917
British soldiers leave their billet in a bady shelled village near Boesinghe in Belgium on the British front during World War I in 1917

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