Failing Collection

They say cleanliness is next to Godliness - but I say its next to impossible. A young child fails to clean their grimy knees no matter how hard they scrub! Date: 1933

Immovable - 2 young boys fail to get a beach donkey to move
Immovable - two young boys fail to get a beach donkey to move! As stubborn as a mule... Date: 1907

Advert in Harness Eye Battery 1886
Harness Eye Battery promises to cure weak eyes and restore failing sight. Date: 1886

LeVier Cosmic Wind G-ARUL Ballerina
After failing to win races in the US, LeVier Cosmic Wind G-ARUL Ballerina, was exported to the UK, where it performed well, winning the 1964 Kings cup Air Race at Shoreham on 1 August 1964

Travelling Salesman failing to keep his expenses down
A travelling Salesman (for Sweatem, Grand & Co.) is spectacularly failing to keep his expenses down! He is piling through the whiskey, occupying a private room

Angelique Cottin
ANGELIQUE COTTIN, electric girl of Bouvigny, is tested by Arago at the Observatoire de Paris; though her powers are failing, he is impressed Date: 1846

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REGULUS RETURNS
After failing to agree peace terms in Rome, Roman ambassador Atilius Regulus returns to Carthage as he promised, though this means certain death. Date: 255 BCE

COLLISION IN A TUNNEL
Three die when the Bale express collides with a local train in the Pommeraie tunnel, failing to see lights warning that a single-track system is in operation Date: 9 May 1898

Canadian Vickers PBV-1A Canso A G-PBYA Miss Pick Up (msn CV-283), seen flying in the colours of Canadian Vickers OA-10A Catalina 44-33915

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Smiling - even thro the tears
The rhyme says that things will be nice tomorrow - obviously they were not too good today. On the back is a printed message from the Prime Minister Let us all strive without failing in faith or in

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - The Home Front
The Caption is The Home Front. WW2 was the first war in which all the people back at home were directly involved. Bombing raids brought death and destruction

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - For the love of Mike
The caption is For the love of mike. The expression probably originates from a 1932 film of the same name directed by Frank Capra

Man and two women failing to close a packed trunk in a hotel room while a servant looks on. Miseries of Travelling. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

German holding up the other Central Powers
Russian caricature from WWI era showing Germany struggling to support the failing efforts of their allies, the other Central Powers, The Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria (?). Date: circa 1917

An awkward position - true love never did run smooth circa early 19th century

Council House Interior
The living room of a council house, with gas fire, armchairs and coffee table, striving to be modern, but sadly failing to be stylish! Date: 1964

Kaiser Wilhelm falling through the air and dropped
No. 8/15. Kaiser Wilhelm falling through the air and failing to be caught in a sheet held by the Allied soldiers. Leon

Cardinal Manning & Pope
HENRY EDWARD MANNING - Cardinal and Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, failing to receive a suitably large Cardinals hat from the Pope. Date: 1808 - 1892

Cakestands Etc
No tea-table is complete without a cake-stand on which to stand the cake(s) : you will also need a gong to summon your guests, or failing that, a bell... Date: 1930

Fish Supper
A fisherman stops off to buy his dinner after failing to catch anything Date: 1930s

Ballad / Hynd Horn
HYND HORN The kings daughter gives the beggar a drink, failing to recognise her erstwhile lover, Hynd Horn, but all will end well, I promise you. Date: traditional

Spur to a guilty conscience - not writing to friends
All these write regularly - Why the Devil don t you? Spur to a guilty conscience - not writing to friends! This card illustrates those individuals who will oft communicate with the written word

Windy Weather 1918
When windy weather blows a good coat, shawl or fur wrap will protect a girl from the cold. Failing that a passing soldier will do just as well

Aid to Russia fails to help
Despite these wonderful crutches that my Samaritan friends have given me, I still can t make any progress. Satirical comment on American

Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe
Photograph of Admiral John R. Jellicoe (1859-1935), supreme commander of the British fleets in 1914. Although criticised at the time of the Battle of Jutland for failing to categorically defeat

Lady and Ladys Maid
An Edwardian Lady gives her Ladys Maid a disdainful look for failing to tie her hat on properly

Gambling Story 3 of 4
THROUGH STORM TO SUNLIGHT Our hero is arrested at the race course, for failing to pay his debts (Third of four tableaux)

Spion Kop - Anon
At SPION KOP, the British are initially successful, but are compelled to retreat from the hilltop they have captured, failing to break through the Boer lines

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