Visiting Collection (#20)

Double page spread in a diary for 23-28 October
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 23-28 October. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Mrs Thatcher visiting the Metropolitan Police
Mrs Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, visiting the Metropolitan Police

Mrs Thatcher in a Metropolitan Police car
Mrs Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, posing in a Metropolitan Police car

Sangers Circus visiting Haverfordwest, South Wales
Street scene, showing Sangers Circus visiting Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. There are two elaborate horse-drawn carriages, with riders dressed in fancy costumes

Sangers Circus USA stall, Haverfordwest, South Wales
Scene at Sangers Circus during its visit to Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, showing a USA-themed stall in a field

Prison visit, Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire
An inmate at Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire, receives a visitor. The meeting takes place through a metal grille and is observed by a prison officer

S Teerwood. Doctors car
A smart little car waits outside a house while its owner, a doctor, visits his patient

Visitors to an active volcano - Higo, Japan
Visitors to an active volcano - Mount Aso - in Japan. It is the largest active volcano in Japan, and is among the largest in the world. It stands in Kumamoto Prefecture, on the island of Kyushu

Princess Anne visiting Penzance, Cornwall
Princess Anne (Princess Royal, b 1950), visiting the John Daniel Centre in Penzance, Cornwall. The John Daniel Centre provides day services for local adults with learning disabilities

Princess Diana visiting St Marys, Scilly Isles
Princess Diana on a visit to St Marys in the Isles of Scilly. She is wearing a polka dot dress and is pregnant with her first child. She appears to be bending down to speak to someone in a wheelchair

Edward Prince of Wales visiting Training Ship Exmouth
HRH Edward, Prince of Wales, visiting the Training Ship Exmouth on the occasion of its golden jubilee in 1926. The ship was operated by the Metropolitan Asylums Board on the River Thames off Grays

Toulon, France - President inspects submarine
Toulon, France - The Military Port - The President of France, Emile Loubet visits the submarine Gustave-Zede

Norwegian royal family embarking at Dover
King Haakon VII of Norway (1872-1957) and Queen Maud (1869-1938), together with their son, Crown Prince Olav (1903-1991), embarking at Dover to return home following a visit to the UK

Japanese Embassy at Washington
Arrival of the Japanese Ambassadors to the United States at Washington on board the steamship Philadelphia. A box containing the treaty and treasure is brought ashore

The arrival of the King at Metelin, Lesbos, Greece
Greece - Metelin, Lesbos, 11th May 1913. The arrival of (probably) the Greek King, a few months after the Island was handed back to Greece from Turkey

Ireland - Greetings Card
A greeting card from Ireland (interestingly depicted as one country)

German officials in Packard cars
Visitors or dignitaries and German officials in two (possibly Embassy) vehicles. Both cars are American Packards. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Throne of England, St Jamess Palace, London
The throne of England in the Throne Room at St Jamess Palace, Central London. St. Jamess Throne Room is used for official occasions

Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany
Frederick William Victor Augustus Ernest (1882-1951), Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, the last Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire

Queen Mary visiting Coombe Hospital, Ireland
Queen Mary visiting Coombe Womens Hospital in Dublin, during the royal familys visit to Ireland in coronation year. A nurse is about to present Her Majesty with a large bouquet of flowers

King and Queen at a Communal Centre during the war
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth pictured visiting a communal centre established in South London during the Blitz to provide meals for people who had been bombed out of their homes by German air

King George VI inspecting bomb damage in London
King George VI inspecting destroyed homes, part of the damage done by German air raids over London during the Blitz

Queen Elizabeth meeting bombed London residents
Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother giving one of her gracious and charming smiles as she meets and sympathises with London residents in bomb damaged areas during the Blitz

King George VI talking to wartime farm helpers
King George VI visiting schoolboys working as volunteers on farms in the Southern Counties during the war

Royal Visit to the USaF
Their Majesties, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by Princess Elizabeth visiting a USaF station in 1944 and with General Doolittle shortly after Princess Elizabeth had christened

Visit of German Kaiser to Turkey
The Visit of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II to Turkey for an official state meeting with Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1842 - 1918). They are visiting the German School at Constantinople

Turkey - Visit of ther Kaiser Wilhelm II
The visit of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II (with his wife Augusta Viktoria) to meet with the Turkish Sultan, Abdul Hamid II (1842 - 1918)

George V visiting Chelsea Pensioners
King George V visiting Chelsea Pensioners at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London. This visit may have coincided with the Royal International Horticultural Exhibition

The Bosses visit the factory floor
Four clearly rather important men (company directors?) visit, or possibly inspect, a printing works. The job at hand at the time of this photograph was the production of wrappers for Penguin

Edward VII at the Smithfield Show
King Edward VII visiting the Smithfield Show at the Agricultural Hall in Islington, North London

Colonel Ralph Ponsonby Watts & his wife
Colonel Ralph Ponsonby Watts (1892 - 1991) & his wife decked out in floral garlands on an official visit. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Australian Sailors visiting Gallipoli Sites - surrounding Turkish 6" gun used for shelling Imbros

Sphere front cover: Prince of Wales visiting unemployed
Front cover from The Sphere, April 1933, showing Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor (1894-1972) inspecting the allotment gardens at Woolwich of the unemployed

Princess Mary visiting Sussex County Hospital
Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles (1897-1965), only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, on a visit to Sussex County Hospital at Brighton on 22nd November 1921

King of Siam at reception 1897
The King of Siam, Rama V, at the reception given in his honour at the Siamese Legation, Ashburn Place, South Kensington, London

George V visiting a munitions factory
King George V (1865-1936) visiting a munitions factory during World War One

Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh at the Seamens Childrens Nur
Engraving of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (1844-1900) and the Duchess of Edinburgh (formerly Maria Alexandrovna, Grand Princess of Russia)

Banquet for Colonial Premiers, Westminster Hall, 1907
Illustration showing the banquet, held in Westminster Hall, in the honour of the Colonial Premiers visiting London for the Imperial Conference of 1907

Princess Beatrice visiting cottagers at Osborne
Engraving showing Princess Beatrice, Queen Victorias youngest daughter visiting the inhabitant of a cottage on the Osborne estate on the Isle of Wight

King George V visiting his soldiers at Winchester

During the fierce fighting near Dixmude: A Belgian Red Cross nurse visiting Belgian soldiers in the trenches

Sketches of the evictions in Ireland
These sketches show scenes of evictions, trial, and Irish Land League activity in south west of Ireland. In the first sketch, the special artist of this publication is misunderstood by the crowd

Amateur Photographers at the Circus, c. 1886
Engraving showing a group of amateur photographers, ready to indulge their hobby, at a visiting circus, c.1886

Circus Elephants arriving in an English country town, c. 1886
Engraving showing the arrival of some circus elephants at an English country town, c.1886. Onlookers gather to watch the visiting circus, with all its unusual animals, arrive in town

Tourist in London
A countryman in London is enticed into visiting a wild beast show

Visiting Boulogne
Napoleon and his recently acquired bride Eugenie visit Boulogne : both are assiduous tourists

The French Emperor visiting the French Army at Chalons; Fran
Engraving showing Napoleon III arriving at Chalons, to confer with his generals about the fate of his empire, on 16th August. By September 2nd 1870 the French army capitulated to the Prussians

Visitors from the country & a sandwich man
Engraving showing two ladies visiting London from the country inspect a sandwich-mans theatre advertisement

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