1905 Collection (page 14)

Worcester Steeplechase Fair day with carousel & crowd
Swings and other attractions, advertising boards including one for High Flying Boats and another for the Grand National Steeplechase Worcester'. Judging by a large puddle it has been raining

Superb four horse fire engine with firemen
This magnificent highly polished fire engine with six helmeted firemen standing to attention on top, is outside its Fire Station. The card was posted in Bootle so the Station is probably there

A two horse carriage with hatted ladies on excursion
The coach and horses are outside the London South Western Railway offices in Lynton. A poster on the wall offers excursions by Sam Colwill

Ightham Mote, Kent Date: circa 1905

At the Barber - hirsute monkeys popping in for a trim... Date: 1905

Tenantry Column, Alnwick, Northumberland - a monument erected in 1816 by the tenants of Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland in thanks for his reduction of their rents during the post-Napoleonic

Shodfriars Hall, South Street, Boston, Lincolnshire - despite appearances, little is actually left of the original structure following major restoration in 1874

Scenes of Stapleton, Bristol
Sights and scenes from Stapleton, an area in the northeastern suburbs of the city of Bristol, England. Date: 1905

Town Bridge, Boston, Lincolnshire
Town Bridge over the River Witham, Boston, Lincolnshire. The fine tower (the Boston Stump') of St. Botolph's Church can be seen behind The Assembly Rooms on the far side of the bridge

The Gardens, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire
The Gardens, Cleethorpes - a seaside town on the estuary of the Humber in North East Lincolnshire, England. Date: 1905

Castle Gate, Leicester, Leicestershire. Date: 1905

Anchor Head, Weston-super-Mare - a seaside town in Somerset, England Date: 1905

Thoresby Hall - Budby, Nottinghamshire
Thoresby Hall - a grade I listed 19th-century country house in Budby, Nottinghamshire, some 2 miles north of Ollerton. In the foreground is the River Meden. Date: 1905

St. Mary's Church, Welshpool, Wales. Date: 1905

St. Michael's Church, Louth, Lincolnshire. Date: 1905

Watery Lane, Cawthorpe, near Louth, Lincolnshire. Date: 1905

Tatham's House, Eton, demolished in 1905. Date: 1905

Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, and her son Maurice Date: 1905

Salt Workers Droitwich
Droitwich in Worcestershire was the centre of extensive works producing salt from brine. Conditions in the brine boiling sheds were arduous

The Giant Machnow at The London Hippodrome
Fedor Machnow (said to be 9 ft 8 ins high in 1905) was born in 1876 near Viciebsk, then part of the Russian Empire (now in Belarus). He is seen here outside the London Hippodrome

The Church Army Waggon, Cambridgeshire
The Peterborough evangelist Church Army waggon at Barnack near Stamford. These horse drawn vans toured the district often staying for a few days in some villages

Newsboys outside Portsmouth newsagents 1907
News boys standing outside Hales Fancy Bazaar on the corner of Twyford Avenue and Newcomen Road, Stamshaw, Portsmouth in 1905 Date: 1907

2nd Black Watch Private and Bass Drummer South African Kit
One of a series of postcards depicting Types of the British Army Date: 1905

HMS Kale, E-class - River-class destroyer
Royal Navy - HMS Kale, a Hawthorn Leslie type River-class destroyer ordered under the 1903-1904 Naval Estimates and named after the Kale Water in the Scottish Borders

HMS Adventure - a scout cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Adventure, an Adventure-Class scout cruiser, built for the Royal Navy during the first decade of the 20th century

William Robert Roe, Derby Deaf School
A portrait of William Robert Roe, founder of the Royal School for the Deaf, Derby Date: circa 1905

Poster, De Dion Bouton Cycles - it's the Parisian's bicycle! Date: circa 1905

George, Prince of Wales (later King George V), as Colonel of the Cameron Highlanders in costume, at Dublin Castle. Appointed colonel-in-chief of the Camerons in November 1902. Date: 1905

The Breed of the Treshams by John Rutherford touring to the Theatre Royal, Manchester on 8th May 1905. Scene showing the fight in Act II, in which Reresby keeps mutineers in the Royalist army at bay

Wagon Hill memorial, Ladysmith, Natal Province, South Africa
Wagon Hill (or Platrand) memorial, near Ladysmith, Natal Province, South Africa, commemorating fallen forces of the Gordon Highlanders

Princess Victoria (1868 - 1935), fourth child and second daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. Recuperating on board the royal yacht HMY Victoria

Biggest experimental airship built at the time, designed by Dr. Barton and F. L. Rawson flying over Alexandra Palace, London. Date: 22nd July 1905

Us Usa America American Virginia Civil War South
us, usa, america, american, virginia, civil, war, south, southern, confederate, memorial, memorials, monument, monuments, obelisk, stone, commemoration, 1860s, 1861, 1865, conflict, death, loss

C P Snow, physicist, novelist and civil servant
C P Snow (Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of the City Of Leicester, 1905-1980), English physicist, novelist and civil servant. Best known for his series of novels entitled Strangers and Brothers

Michael Tippett, English composer
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (1905-1998), English composer, humanitarian and pacifist. Date: circa 1960s

Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet Russian novelist
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984), Soviet Russian novelist, winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature. Best known for his novel, Quiet Flows the Don. Date: circa 1960s

Dr. Thomas John Barnardo (1845 - 1905), in his office at Stepney Causeway, evangelical, entrepreneurial and philanthropic

Homage to Nelson on the Victory's deck 1905
Bluejackets paying homage to Nelson on the deck of H.M.S. Victory to celebrate the centenary of the Battle of Trafalgar and Nelson's death on the same day, 21 October 1805. Date: 21 October 1905

The Nelson centenary celebrations in Dublin 1905
The Nelson pillar at Dublin covered in bunting in honour of Nelson a hundred years after his death on 21 October 1805. Date: 1905

The phrase Vive la France formed by British sailors to welcome their French counterparts at Whale Island in 1905. Following the Entente Cordiale agreement of 1904

Marshal-Admiral Togo (1848 - 1934), served as a gensui or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and became one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. Date: 1905

King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helene
King Victor Emmanuel and and Elena of Montenegro of Italy in their electric car. Date: 1905

Prince Arisugawa Takehito (1862 - 1913), 10th head of a cadet branch of the Japanese imperial family and a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy

GENERAL-IN-CHIEF
Jules Henri Marius Bergeret, general in chief : he will survive the Commune and die in New York in 1905. Date: March-May 1871

HENRY IRVING'S TOMB
At Rest Beneath Shakespeare Sir Henry Irving's Grave at Poets Corner Westminster Abbey

WATERING THE WINE
The wine-merchant in his cellar at dead of night... 1905

An autumn hedgerow festooned with Clematis vitalba, also known as Old man's beard and Traveller's Joy. Date: circa 1905

MERRY WIDOW CHORUS/1905
The chorus from a Viennese production of The Merry Widow ('Die Lustige Witwe') by Lehar. Date: 1905

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