Half Collection (#17)

Deep Thatched Cottages
Deep thatched cottages at Wherwell, Hampshire, England. Date: 1950s

BECKETTs COTTAGES
Ancient cottages at West Tarring, Sussex, England. These are known as Becketts Cottages, because Thomas-a- Beckett was born in this village. Date: 1930s

Tudor House Museum
The Tudor House Museum, Southampton, England. Built in the 1530s. Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I are all reputed to have stayed here. Date: 15th century

Rowleys House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. It is a combination of an early 17th century mansion and a warehouse and has been a museum since the 1930s. Date: early 17th century

Irby Old Hall, a typical Cheshire farmhouse, England. Date: 1950s

England / Rye 1939
This beautiful half-timbered building in Mermaid Lane, Rye, Sussex, England, is the Old Hospital. A true gem of Old England which has slumbered throughout the centuries. Date: 1939

Ledbury Market Hall
The fine old Market Hall at Ledbury, Herefordshire, England. It was built in 1663 by John Abel, who then held the office of the Kings (Charles II) Carpenter. Date: 17th century

Tudor Schoolhouse
A winter view of the old School House at Arley, Cheshire, England, a fine black and white half-timbered building. Date: 16th century

HALL I TH WOOD
Hall i th Wood, near Bolton, Lancashire, England. Once the home of Samuel Crompton, the inventor of the Spinning Mule (1779), which revolutionised the cotton industry. Date: 15th century

KINGs HEAD, CHIGWELL
The Kings Head inn, Chigwell, Essex, made famous by Charles Dickens, as the Maypole in his novel Barnaby Rudge (1841). Date: 17th century

Leather Bottle, Cobham
The Leather Bottle pub, in the pretty village of Cobham, near Rochester, Kent, England. immortalised by Charles Dickens in Pickwick Papers. Date: 1930s

Louisa Twining at two-and-a-half
An engraved portrait of Louisa Twining aged two-and-a-half from a miniature by her sister. Twining later became a campaigner for improvement in conditions for workhouse inmates

Vehicle which crossed the Sahara Desert
A Citroen caterpillar half-track vehicle which crossed the Sahara desert, travelling 3200km in 22 days between Touggourt, Algeria and Timbucktu in Mali (between 17th December 1922 to 7th January 1923)

King George Iv / Anon 1822
KING GEORGE IV OF ENGLAND Almost half-length vignette portrait Date: 1762 - 1830

Putting out Thatch Fire
The Fire Brigade deals successfully with a fire that has broken out on a thatched roof Date: 1950s

Big Ben in Half Light
Parliament Square and Big Ben Date: 1898

Female Type / Rice Powder
An elegant 18th century lady, only half dressed, uses her Poudre de Ris to make herself even more attractive. Date: 1911

Britannia and Eve front cover, Christmas 1949
Front cover of Britannia and Eve magazine, Christmas number featuring an illustration of a quaint, snow-covered street of half-timbered houses, with children carol singing outside one door

Gipsy toddler peeping out of his caravan
A gipsy toddler peeping out of the back of his caravan, through half-closed curtains

Workman with slate quarry tram, North Wales
A workman with a slate quarry tram, somewhere in North Wales. This small tram can carry half a ton of raw slate, and one man can operate it

Workman pushing slate quarry tram, North Wales
A workman pushing a slate quarry tram with a large block of slate resting on top of it, somewhere in North Wales. These small trams can carry up to half a ton of raw slate

The Terra Nova mourns for her Commander
The ensign flying at half-mast on the Scott Polar expeditions vessel in February 1913, as it neared Lyttelton in New Zealand following the relief partys discovery of Captain Scott

Vagrants Food Ticket, Hinckley Union, Leicestershire
Ticket issued to a vagrant following his departure from the Hinckley Union workhouse, Leicestershire. When he presented it to the specified person (en route to his next destination)

France, Nantes - Old Houses, Haute-Grande-Rue

Rouen, France - La Cour D Albane
La Cour D Albane - Rouen, France

Ancient Mill at Lery, France - previously the residence of Blanche de Castille

Arhai-Din-Ka-Jhopra, Ajmere, India
Arhai-Din-Ka-Jhopra, Ajmere. Built in the 13th century by the first Muslim Sultan in India, Qutb-ud-Din Aibak. The site of a religious fair that lasted for 2.5 days

Housing designs by Oetzmann & Co. Ltd
Two house designs by the Oetzmann & Co. Ltd. (of Hampstead Road, London) displayed at the Japan British Exhibition, London in 1910. On the left is Oetzmanns bungalow cottage, estimated cost 230

Rouen - France - Old Houses and Fountain
Old Medieval houses and an old fountain on the Rue St Romain, Rouen, France

Windsor Castle at the time of Edward VIIs funeral
View of Windsor Castle at the time of the funeral of Edward VII, with the flag at half mast above the round tower on the left

Morris Cowley Flatnose 2-door half-fabric saloon
A rather formitable formally-dressed couple standing beside their substantial Morris Cowley Flatnose 2-door half-fabric saloon

Fancy portrait of a man in a distorting mirror, with the upper and lower parts of his body elongated and the middle half shortened

Fancy portrait of a soldier in a distorting mirror, with the upper part of his body elongated and the lower half shortened

Fancy portrait of a soldier in a distorting mirror, with the lower part of his body elongated and the upper half shortened

Hunting with hounds in the early 19th century
Riders and their hounds hunt a fox in this re-creation of a hunting scene from the first half of the 19th century. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Toda People - Ooty, India
Toda People and their distinctive huts from Ooty, short for Ootacamund (sometimes abbreviated to Udhagai Tamil). A town and municipality (and the district capital)

Rosie Dolly and Mortimer Davis
Rosie Dolly (1892-1970) one half of the famous performing American identical twins, The Dolly Sisters, with Mortimer Davis Jnr, known as The Fat Boy

Members of the rescue parties at Gresford Colliery, Wales
Equipped with oxygen apparatus, these are some of the men who battled for a day and a half to save the lives of miners who had been trapped by flames following an explosion in the mine

Hassan Tower - Rabat - Morocco. The minaret of an incomplete mosque in Rabat, Morocco. Begun in 1195 AD, the tower was intended to be the largest minaret in the world along with the mosque

Prince George and war ambulance
Prince George, later Duke of Kent (1902-1942), fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary, in the courtyard of Buckingham Palace with Mr Hansell

Chitral Bridge 1895
The bridge at Chitral. Major Biddulph states that " half a mile above the fort is an excellent bridge protected by a stone tower at each end." One tower is shown here

Prince Alfred and the Russian Royal family
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg (1844-1900) together with his new wife, Princess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, taken in May 1874 shortly after their marriage at St

Polo At Biarritz by Edmund Blampied
Our Artists impression of the new polo ground at Beyris, half-way between Biarritz and Bayonne, which was opened last year by the King of Spain

Nelson on leave at St. Omer, France, 1784
Captain Nelson, on half-pay during peacetime, decided it was economical to stay in France, in St. Omer near Dunkirtk. This was towards the end of 1874

Half-Time by Studdy
The Kaiser fans down the beleagured monster of Prussian militarism as the Allies enjoy a comfortable Christmas dinner in the opening months of World War One

Jersey Airways Poster
A poster advertising Jersey Airways Ltd. flights from Jersey to Paris; regular services taking two and a half hours

American Troops crossing the Rhine, Second World War, 1945
Photograph showing American troops and vehicles crossing a pontoon bridge built by American engineers on the River Rhine, 1945. This bridge was built in a record time of six and a half hours

The Weighing Office at the Bank of England. Bates Scales fo
In June 1842 a proclamation was issued announcing that a large prportion of the gold coinage in Britain had become worn and devalued and was below its prescribed weight of five penny weights

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