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Nelsons Flagship Foudroyant - Blackpool, Lancashire
The decaying hulk of Horatio Nelsons Flagship Foudroyant wrecked on the beach at Blackpool, Lancashire. On 16 June 1897 during a violent storm when under tow

The HMS Victory - brought in to Portsmouth Harbour
The HMS Victory - in Portsmouth Harbour. Fitted up as a Naval School of Telegrapha before becoming a floating signal school proper (as can be seen on this card) until 1904

Model of HMS Victory of 1737
Model of HMS Victory, as displayed in the South Kensington Museum, 1865. HMS Victory, launched in 1737, was a three-decker first-rate warship of 100 guns

Demobilisation after Wwi
Scenes at Crystal Palace at the end of the WWI showing soldiers demobilising at a rate of over 4000 a day

Satirical ballooning image
A rude satirical image of large and small balloons tied together, lifting a cannon, entitled The Montgolsier. A first rate of the French Aerial Navy. A Fart, an Ass, a Fool, A Monkey, a Nothing. 1783

The One Pound Look by Ricardo Brook
Front cover of The Bystander special issue focusing on the fall in the value of the pound during the first half of 1920. Here a rather aristocratic looking gentleman is fashioned out of a pound sign

Joule / Electricity Test
James Prescott Joule, English physicist, measures the rate at which heat is produced by an electric current. The joule, a unit of work or energy, is named after him

Shannon Copier
The Shannon No-chemical Letter Copier copies at the fantastic rate of forty letters a minute - whats more a juvenile may operate it. How does it work? Shannon aren t saying

Statistics relating to Bournville Village in the 1920s

White Star Line, RMS Titanic, Harland and Wolff employee
White Star Line, RMS Titanic, rare bookpost real photo postcard of Titanic in Belfast written by a Harland and Wolff employee

Zeppelin airship, timetable and rate chart
Zeppelin airship: French and English transatlantic passenger timetable and rate chart. Shows the transatlantic maiden voyage of the Hindenburg. Folded. 4 x 8 inches. Date: 1936

The World's First Postcard
The idea of a postal card which could be used at half the letter rate was that of Heinrich von Stephan in 1865. Later that year

Stevens silk postcard of King Edward V11
Stevens silk postcards are much sought for by collectors. This one, addressed to My Darling, carries an apology for an earlier card sent through the mail at a halfpenny

Anti-ratecapping demonstration
A demonstration in London against ratecapping, which allowed Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Government to restrict local council spending

John Smith, British Labour MP and Party leader
John Smith (1938-1994), British Labour MP and Party leader, seen here giving a speech with a bar chart beside him, showing inflation statistics. Date: circa 1990s

London First Sewage System Fleet Streets Street
london, first, sewage, system, fleet, streets, street, sew, 1845, cholera, epidemics, great, stink, miasmas, combined, create, death, rate, higher, forcing, reformers, face, urban, planning, policy

News vendor in Regent Street, London. Date: circa 1960s

Advert for L. N. E. R - When Beauty Travels 1928
When Beauty Travels, advert for L.N.E.R. Beauty need now have no qualms about undertaking long-distance travel, at any rate, not on the L.N.E.R. Flying Scotsman. 1928 advertisement 1928

ROOSEVELT & RAILROAD BILL ROOSEVELT & RAILROAD BILL
Satirical cartoon on obstruction to the railroad rate bill Date: 1906

Gardener at Henri IV cottage, Montmartre, Paris, France
A gardener waters his plants outside a thatched cottage said to have been the home of King Henri IV, or at any rate where he entertained his lady friends. Date: circa 1905

War Pay Poster
Information poster encouraging soldiers to save some of their pay during WWI in the form of savings certificates, earning a high rate of interest and free of income tax

Indian soldiers using a Bren gun
Photograph of Indian soldiers using a Bren gun. A gas-operated weapon, the Bren used the same. 303 ammunition as the standard British rifle, the Lee-Enfield

Postcard, Spanish flag and coins. Date: 1900s

Postcard, Mexican flag and coins. Date: 1900s

John Dudley
JOHN DUDLEY Gentleman famous enough to have his portrait taken, yet not enough to rate a mention in our reference books. Date: ? - 1580

Laurent Jean Babille
LAURENT JEAN BABILLE French avocat in the Parlement de Paris, but despite his many honours, he doesn t rate a mention even in the big Larousse dictionary... shame ! Date: 1712 - ?

Baron de Stael 1895
Baron de Stael, despite his evident eminence, this gentleman does not rate a mention in our reference books. Which accounts for his indignant expression. Date: flourished 1895

WW1 poster, War Loan, subscriptions here, five shillings upwards, with a 4.5 per cent interest rate. Date: 1914-1918

Sopwith Triplane single-seat fighter, serial no. N500, completed on 28 May 1916. Evaluated in northern France by RNAS pilots, who were impressed by its rate of climb

Stork on the dole - falling birth rate in the 1920s
On the Dole! by David Wilson. Cartoon showing a stork feeling rather unemployed as he sits on a chimney pot above the roof tops of a snow covered town

Recruit undergoing heart tests, WW1
Testing a new recruit whose heart conditions the Army authorities are doubtful about. Rather worryingly, the photograph shows the man sitting with one bare foot

1916 - Just arrived by Lawson Wood
A British soldier alights from a train at a station only to be met by his wife and a surprise addition to the family. Date: 1915

The Patriots by Annie Fish
Humorous illustration by Annie Fish showing an officer returning home on leave to discover his wife has patriotically given birth to triplets. Date: 1915

Shakespeare Tree Used
Casket made from the wood of a mulberry tree, planted, or at any rate owned, by Shakespeare. Date: 1847

Moses Mendelssohn
MOSES MENDELSSOHN German philosopher - ranked with Socrates, at any rate in the estimation of this artist! Date: 1729 - 1786

Leodamas - 2
LEODAMAS Athenian statesman, noted orator who doesn t rate a mention in the Oxford classical dictionary... Date: flourished 372 BC

Maria Eleonora Hochecker
MARIA ELEONORA HOCHECKER French artist (or at any rate, working in France) - known for her participation in a project depicting butterflies. Date: circa 1790

Georges M Legagneux
Georges M. Legagneux, who, with a passenger, in a flight from Paris to Brussels (195 miles), broke the speed record, covering the distance at the rate of 63mph

Hydrological Equipment
Equipment used by the River Board Engineers on the River Ouse, near Skelton, Yorkshire, England, for hydrological surveys, including the rate of flow, measurement, etc. Date: 1960s

Studholme Brownrigg
Colonel STUDHOLME BROWNRIGG British soldier in the Crimea, who did not distinguish himself sufficiently to rate a mention in any of our reference books. Date: CIRCA 1854

Poor Rate Receipt, Kidderminster Union
A receipt for a poor rate payment by A Gristwood of the Borough of Bewdley to the Kidderminster Union in September 1923. The Unions operation was financed by the poor rate - the forerunner of

How John Bull Felt
After surviving the hundred pages of cartoons and skits showered upon him in our recent Special " Falling Pound" Number

A Sovereign Remedy
John Bull holds the hand of a rather unhealthy looking pound note in a satirical illustration which alludes to the falling value of sterling against the dollar in 1920

Will it Come to This
A possible scenario due to the falling value of the pound against the dollar in 1920. A brashly dressed cigar-smoking American changes a dollar at a bank and when asked how he would like it, replies

Nero
A rather drunk looking man smoking a pipe and playing an accordian sits ignoring the British pound note beside him going up in flames

A Gentle Reminder
The Dollar: Say, you two guys are looking a bit chippy; whats happened? The Sovereign & the Franc: Oh, just a bit of a scrap in France, old son: had you forgotten

Golden Grain
A satirical picture of an American reaper with a huge scythe representing the rate of exchange being sharpened with a lathe representing sterling currency

Pity the Poor Ratepayer
Pity the poor ratepayer - as he is presented with bills by Joseph Chamberlain and his colleagues for education and gas, poor rate, pin money and the Queens taxes

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