Lion Collection (page 3)

Opening ceremony, Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium
Opening ceremony of the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium, by Field Marshal Lord Plumer, 24 July 1927. 1927

Street scene outside the Dockyard Gates, Chatham, Kent. Date: circa 1910

Victor G Ginn & Co, catalogue (front cover)
Victor G Ginn & Co, High Holborn, London, catalogue (front cover), Price List of Carnival Novelties. 1939

Trafalgar Square, London on a foggy night - the neon lights on the circular dome of the Coliseum Theatre on St. Martins Lane can be seen peeking out over the distant rooftops beyond

The Un-locked cub
The New Zealand cub is too powerful for the English lion; plus ca change... Date: 1905

People in the Lion House at London Zoo. Date: circa 1910

The Village & Lion Rock, Cheddar, Somerset
The Village & Lion Rock, Cheddar, near Axbridge, Somerset, England. Date: 1920s

Fruit Label --s Musmeci Costa, Messina, Sicily, exporters of citrus fruit and vegetables. Depicting two lions and an array of medals. Date: 20th century

Avro Tudor 4 G-AHNK Star Lion of BSa
Avro Tudor 4, G-AHNK, Star Lion, of BSa

HMS Lion and HMS Princess Royal, WW1
Two British battlecruisers at sea during the First World War. On the left is HMS Lion, and on the right is HMS Princess Royal. Date: circa 1916

Advert / Lime Juice 1 / 5
Stowers Lime Juice Cordial - delicious, healthy and refreshing (1 of 5)

Edwardian couple at Lion Rock, Dovedale, Derbyshire
Finely dressed, on the left is Kate Nash and beside her is Edgar Battersby, brother of the photographer. Edgar volunteered as a Private for service in the Great War

Belgium Indepence - Patriotic Postcard
The first 80 years of Belgian Indepence (1831-1911) celebrated in this patriotic postcard featuring the King and other Royal family members past and present plus technological advances

Lion Brewery Sign
The famous lion statue on the Lion Brewery, Waterloo, London. The brewery was demolished in 1951 to make way for the Royal Festival Hall and Festival of Britain Date: 19th century

Gloster VI seaplane with Napier Lion VIID engine, winner of the 1929 Schneider Trophy. Date: 1929

Music cover with Scottish harpist
An unidentified music cover depicting a female Scottish harpist wearing a tartan shawl and medieval costume. The emblem at the top contains the Latin words, Nemo Me Impune Lacessit

Bridge - Pont de Ghazirah - Cairo
Pont de Ghazirah - Bridge over the Nile at Cairo built by a French Ironworks. When Egypt became British, the two statues of the (very English) lions were added!

Construction of the Lions, Trafalgar Square, London, 1867
Engraving showing the construction of the lion statues at the base of Nelsons Column, Trafalgar Square, London, 1867. In the background, one of the lions is kept under wraps

British in Palestine
The British lion in difficulties in Palestine

Coach at Red Lion 1868
A coach laden with hampers and hares, geese and other game halts at the Red Lion pub at Christmas time - and a white Christmas, too !

Gandhi Defies British
Seated on the Indian Elephant, whose tusks are blunted by the policy of non violence, Gandhi defies the violence of the British Lion

Burgess Meredith / B Lion
BURGESS MEREDITH American character actor

England / London / Tower
Visitors are shown some of the principal sights, including the lion in the menagerie which, after a regrettable episode, was transferred elsewhere for security reasons

Where is Britannia? 1867
WHERE IS BRITANNIA? (Satire on the invisible monarchy)

British Lion Seated
The British Lion sitting in an armchair with a copy of The Times newspaper in his jacket pocket and a flag flying behind him

Selous, Hunter
Frederick Selous (1851-1917), traveller and hunter in Africa, holds a lion head to show how intrepid a sportsman he is

Alice, King, Rabbit, Hatter
The Hatter, with Alice, the White King, the Rabbit Messenger and the Lion

Great Britain - Union Flag with modern Britannia and Lion
Great Britain - Union Flag with a modern Britannia and more traditional Lion. Date: 1906

Stephan Bibrowski (1890 - 1932), know as Lionel the Lion-faced Man. Lionel traveled to the United States and started appearing with the Barnum and Bailey Circus

WW1 - The British Lion wide awake and ready for action
WW1 era postcard sent in December 1914 - By this stage, the British Lion (sat on a large Union flag was " wide awake" and ready for action. Date: 1914

Five male members of the Mois Tribe, Vietnam
Five male members of the Mois Tribe, Binh Thuan Province, Vietnam (just about preserving their modesty). The Mountain People ( Mois is actually a derogatory term) are The Degar

The Uncut Koh-i-noor Diamond, c. 1851
Engraving of the Koh-i-noor ( mountain of light ) diamond, in its original state, circa 1851. Previously owned by the Mogul emperors, the Persian Shahs and Ranjit Singh, the Lion of the Punjab

Lion Brewery
The Lion Brewery Co is a British heritage brewery that was founded in 1836 in Lambeth, London. For over a hundred years, the brewery shipped its heavily-hopped ales to trading posts

Costumes of the Kings of the Hebrews. King Saul of Israel and Judah in purple cape over white robes kneels before Hebrew rabbi and menorah candlelanbrum. Abiti de Re, &c

Claire Heliot and her performing lions 1903
Claire Heliot (1866 -1953), renowned female lion tamer, photograph showing her in a huge cage caressing and talking to the large cats. Date: 1903

Lion x tiger hybrid
Hybrid between male lion and female tiger, Panthera leo x Panthera tigris. Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History

Biblical Tales by John Lawson, Daniel in the Lions Den

THE CAGED BRITISH LION
German World War One propaganda: the Germans have caged the British lion Date: 1918

Napier Lion W-12 aircraft engine
Napier Lion water-cooled W-12 aircraft Engine running on the test-bed. Date: 1970s

Circus Parade Date: 1891

Virgin Mary with Santa Ines and Santa Tecla by El Greco (1541-1614) - canvas. Date: circa 1599

Burrell Devonshire General Purpose Traction Engine TA1849 Jellicoe (msn 3368), with Coeur De Lion 5nhp Engine, built 1913, at a 1959 Walford Cross auction. With Aveling & Barford Steam Roller YA2197

Androcles and the Lion by Shaw
The play Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw at the St Jamess Theatre, London. The emperor places his foot on the lions head while Androcles keeps the beast quiet

The Maiwand Lion - Forbury Gardens, Reading, Berkshire. The statue was named after the Battle of Maiwand and was erected in 1884 to commemorate the deaths of 329 men from the 66th (Berkshire)

Renault Dauphine parked outside St Georges Hall, Liverpool
A lovely late 1950s Renault Dauphine parked outside St Georges Hall, Liverpool on Lime Street. Date: circa 1959

Victoria Memorial, Kolkata, India
The Victoria Memorial in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. It was built between 1906 and 1921 as a memorial to Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Empress of India. The building is now a museum

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