Upside Collection

Rock n Roll Dancing
Two young things in full 1950s attire, partake in a bit of Rock n Roll dancing

Self-Help in War Time by Heath Robinson Building a Bungalow
No III - Building a bungalow: Now, having made a good start with your music-room, place your piano in position. A rather back to front way of house construction from the crazy mind of William Heath

Tarot Card 12 - Le Pendu (The Hanged Man)

What Now?
Bonzo, the little dog created by George Studdy in The Sketch magazine during the 1920s finds himself in a frosty predicament

Leith Hill Tower, Surrey, the highest point in the county, built in 1766 by Richard Hull, as a viewpoint. Legend has it that his last request was to be buried upside down in it

Map of Atlantis / Kircher
Map of Atlantis showing position relative to Europe, Africa and America (albeit upside down)

The Upside Down Dinner given by the Hendon Aviators to Bentfield Hucks and Gustav Hamel at the Royal Automobile Club on 16 January 1914

Two dead birds hanging upside down -- A Brace of Birds
Two dead birds hanging upside down, entitled A Brace of Birds

Royal Air Force display at Hendon
Crazy flying stunts at the Royal Air Force Display at Hendon. Date: 1933

The Lost Ball - Heath Robinson Cartoon
The Lost Ball. Golfers try in vain to retrieve a lost ball in a lake on a golf course. It appears that a passing fish has swallowed it!

AVRO TUTOR
The 621 biplane is the standard training aircraft of the pre- WW2 RAF, a user- friendly and versatile biplane well known for its ability to fly upside-down on request

Trapeze / Upside Down
From the trapeze; how the acrobat sees his audience - upside down!

WW2 - Gloster Fighter Flying Upside Down
A photograph of a British WW2 Gloster fighter biplane flying upside down, employed on Home Defence. Date: circa 1940s

Kissing the RALE Blarney Stone - a window has replaced the stone....!! Date: circa 1909

Cartoon, A Problem in Resuscitation, WW1
Cartoon, A Problem in Resuscitation, showing the recently elected Pope (Benedictus XV) holding a dead Dove of Peace upside down by one leg

Young boy soldier mourning Edward VII
A little boy stands with obverse arms (his rifle pointing to the ground), as the troops will do on the route of King Edward VII's funeral procession

Comic postcard, Somersault on the beach Date: 20th century

A Striken Caterpillar Tractor which has taken a tumble down the steep bank of a demolition site, ending up upside down in a shallow pool. Date: circa 1946

Upside-down jellyfish and polyps
Upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea frondosa 1, Melicertum species 2 and obelia polyp 3. Cassiopea frondescente, Melicerta perla, Obelia sferulina

Cotton-spinner or tubular sea cucumber, Holothuria tubulosa. Oloturia tubulosa. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Synodontis maculipinna, catfish
Synodontis is the most widely-distributed mochokid genus. This specimen was collected from the Rufigi River near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania and arrived at the museum in 1922

Oy Ra and Dorma Leigh, in The Girl on the Film, London
Oy Ra and Dorma Leigh, in The Girl on the Film, a musical farce in three acts by James T Tanner, at the Gaiety Theatre, London

Earls Court Exhibition of 1902 - The Topsy Turvy House
" Paris in London", the Earls Court Exhibition of 1902 - The Topsy Turvy House. Date: 1902

Advertising postcard - New Home Sewing Machine
The worlds greatest sewing machine is the New Home made by Gonyea and Alba of Rutland, Vermont, enabling repairs to be carried out in situ...! Date: circa 1910

Lunatic Asylum humour - Upside down wheelbarrow
Visitor to Dottieville Lunatic Asylum which is undergoing structural improvements (to harmless lunatic who is extremely busy wheeling a barrow upside down)

Olive Baboons - Playing on a tree (Papio anubis). Ruaha National Park - Tanzania - Africa

Tokay Gecko - adult on a corner of a building after night feeding on insects (Gecko gecko ). Bohol - Philippines - February

Bottlenose dolphins - group playing underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions

Fruit Bats / Common Flying / Large Flying Fox - Hanging from tree, with baby (Pteropus vampyrus). Vietnam. Distribution: S. Burma - Java, Philippines, Borneo, Timor. The largest Bat in the world

Little boy carrying a dog over his shoulder
A little boy carrying a rather surprised-looking dog over his shoulder. Date: circa 1960s

The Sky Devils Air Circus Poster
Poster, The Sky Devils Air Circus, Great 1944 Display, 10 years ahead of its time! Come and win 500. Issued by Air Pageants Ltd. 1944

Delivery man on a Christmas card, holding a large basket upside down and spilling the contents, including a goose, a bottle of wine and several apples. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, On the Isonzo, WW1
Cartoon, On the Isonzo (a river on the eastern Italian Front). Showing an Italian carabiniere holding the imperial eagle upside down -- it will make a nice starter for his wolfs dinner

Victorian Scrap, clown in green and black striped costume, balancing his pointed hat upside down on his finger. circa 1880s

French Theatre -- Messieurs de Mallepaye et de Baillevant
Messieurs de Mallepaye et de Baillevant -- Monsieur Baillevant holds his empty purse upside down. Date: 15th century

Upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea andromeda.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Dolpin using its Sonar / echo location to locate ball. dolphins will use echolocation to hunt for food hidden in sand in the seabed

Dolphin Sonar system - wearing eye-patches and using echolocation. dolphins will use echolocation to hunt for food hidden in sand in the seabed

Plain Pigmy Squirrel runs impetuously up and down the tree-trunk (Exilisciurus exilis ). primary rainforest in river Danum conservation area, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia; night in June

Bottlenose dolphins - dancing and blowing air underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Complex play / creative behaviour: dolphins often play with the bubbles or rings of air they create

Bottlenose dolphin - dancing underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions

Bottlenose dolphins - playing underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions

Bottlenose dolphin - playing underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions

Bottlenose dolphins - group playing / dancing underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions

British bulldog with Bow, Bow, Bow around his neck
An upside-downside china ornament depicting a British bulldog with Bow, Bow, Bow around his neck. The reverse shows a German eagle with Hoch, Hoch, Hoch around his feet

A Pick Nick Down Under by William Heath Robinson
A sharp thrill in the Antipodes: one of the dangers of very deep mining. A man tunnelling through te earth with a treacherous looking pick axe surprises an Australian having managed to dig entirely

Jacky standing on his head. Date: 1940

Cartoon, Italian light infantryman with Austrian eagle, WW1
French cartoon of an Italian light infantryman (Bersaglieri) during the First World War. He is holding an Austrian eagle upside down so that its imperial crown falls off

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