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George Mutch scores for Preston North End at the FA Cup FinaPhotograph of George Mutch scoring a penalty to make the score 1-0 for Preston North End against Huddersfield Town in the last minute of the FA Cup Final, 30th April 1938
Postman in the SnowThis stalwart postman does his duty and delivers the post rain or shine, or in this case, thick winter snow. No chance of exceeding the 30 mile per hour speed limit!
Fortuna by Ernest BoardPainting depicting a blindfolded woman playing a fateful game of cards. Date: 1911
Arriving at New YorkArriving in New York harbour aboard the Normandie - few ports give you the chance to anchor in the heart of a big city, and none quite so spectacularly as this !
Ideal ScientistThe ideal scientist - interested in the old as well as the new, anatomy as well as astronomy, the laws of chance and of mathematics, the skill of chess, the hues of a rose
Keep To The Right by H Chance NewtonPromotional postcard for Keep To The Right revue by H. Chance Newton; music Herman Darewski. First produced at the Hippodrome, Boscombe, 23rd August and Holborn Empire, 22nd November 1915
Nelson StatueLondoners get a chance to admire the Nelson effigy at close quarters, before he is hoisted to the top of his column where only pigeons get close
Ice Skating ChildrenWhat larks! Ice skating gives children the chance in indulge in all sorts of mischief
PARTY / DARE HE? MISTLETOEDARE HE ? A girl pauses beneath a mistletoe sprig, wondering if hes man enough to seize his chance... Date: 1920
People with roulette wheel, Nevada, USAPeople gathered around a roulette wheel, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1940s
The Lottery, by William Hogarth Date: 1724
White Star Line, Titanic lettercard written on boardWhite Star Line, RMS Titanic - Second Class passenger and victim Henry James Beauchamp, rare Titanic lettercard written on board and posted with original one penny stamp
RMS Titanic - letter to James Moody's sisterRMS Titanic - highly significant and historically important letter to Sixth Officer James Moody's sister. Dated 7 May 1912
Chance Vought F-8E Crusader 32Aeronavale - Chance Vought F-8E Crusader 32 (msn 1249), at Greenham Common for the international Air Tattoo on 29 June 1981. (Aeronavale - Aeronautique Navale - French Naval Aviation) Date: 1981
MOSES SEES AND DIESGod permits Moses to view the Promised Land from the heights of Pisgah, but he doesn't get a chance to set foot there, but dies. Date: BCE
Cartoon, National Insurance Bill. Patient to GP: This treatment will be the death of me'. Doctor: (National Insurance Bill): I dare say you know best, but there is always a chance'
Cartoon, Sale of Peerages by Lloyd George and AsquithThe Chance of a Lifetime. Cartoon, Sale of Peerages -- Asquith and Lloyd George sell off peerages. Date: 1910
Lockheed TF-104G Starfighter MM54226 - 4-23Aeronautica Militare - Lockheed TF-104G-M Starfighter MM54226 / 4-23 (msn 583D-5767, ex 63-12685), of 4 Stormo, having last chance checks before take-off, at Grosseto Air Base, on 30 March 1998
Political cartoon, On the Turn of the Card by Francis Carruthers Gould - Gladstone peers in through the door. Date: 1894
Good Luck postcard, Black cat with playing cards Date: 20th century
Cartoon, The Last Chance! Lord Cairns (Arthur William Cairns, 2nd Earl Cairns) succeeded to the title on the death of his father on 2 April 1885. 1885
Tango Room, Club Fortune, Reno, Nevada, USATango Room, Club Fortune, East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1938
Winifred Atwell music sheet for Game of Chance. Winifred Atwell (1914-1983) Trinidadian pianist and entertainer who made a big impact in Britain in the 1950s. Date: 1950s
People with Wheel of Fortune, Nevada, USAPeople with a Wheel of Fortune at a gambling club in Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1940s
Gambling for sweets at roulette wheel, China, East AsiaChildren gambling for sweets at a roulette wheel in the street, China, East Asia. Date: 1922
Girls operating the public lottery, BrazilGirls operating the public lottery by turning wheels with numbers on them, Brazil. Date: 1922
Convicted Communard Prisoners - Fort d EnetIncarcerated in the Fort d Enet, in the harbour of the Ile d Aix, convicted Communards gaze out and contemplate the chances of escape...are incarcerated. 1871
Canadian poster, Its Men We Want, WW1Canadian poster, Heres Your Chance, Its Men We Want, First World War. 1915
Spry Maid Snags Bouquet Date: 1950
TOO BIG FOR THE BOXToo big for the box ! - so now shell have to go and stand in line at the Post Office, which will give her a chance to show off her fine clothes, hat and muff. Date: circa 1890
LANDSCAPE ARTISTAt work on a landscape, she pauses, perhaps wondering if she were to introduce a cow into her foreground it might stand a better chance of getting into the Academy. Date: 1919
MISTLETOE ON STAIRSDARE HE ? A girl pauses beneath a mistletoe sprig, wondering if hes man enough to seize his chance... Date: 1920
Black dog leaps into sea, MenorcaA large black dog leaps into the water off the quayside at Alacufar, Menorca, Spain Date: 2000
Polperro lobster fishermanLobster fisherman pulls on his jacket and prepares to go ashore after returning in his boat Fair Chance, to his mooring in Polperro Harbour, Cornwall, England
Chance Vought Corsair F4UUs-Navy Chance Vought Corsair F4U Date: 1940s
A Housemaid waits to catch a peep up a Scotsmans kiltA Housemaid waits patiently, hoping to catch a peep up a Scotsmans kilt. The caption reads: Poor Jock stood on his front door steps, His bearskin wanted mending, The Housemaid standing down below
Chance the firemens dog, LFEEChance the firemens dog, belonging to the London Fire Engine Establishment. He attended many fires and wore a collar engraved with the words: Stop me not but onward let me jog
Kaiser Wilhelm IIs sonsThe six sons of Kaiser Wilhelm II pictured in 1900: (l to r standing) Eitel Friedrich (1883-1942), Crown Prince Wilhelm (1882-1951), Adalbert (1884-1948); (in front) Oskar (1888-1958)