1914 Collection (page 3)

Territorial Army camping at Oval cricket ground, WW1
The Territorial Army camping at the Oval cricket ground in London on the outbreak of the First World War. Date: August 1914

Ambulance
A 12-15 horsepower FIAT motor ambulance equipped with two stretchers, and greatly in demand by the Red Cross during World War I

Advert / Perrier Water
PERRIER WATER Goes well with whisky

Social / Royal Opera Gala
A gala performance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with the King and Queen in the Royal Box

Burnley Vs Liverpool
F.A. CUP FINAL: BURNLEY 1 LIVERPOOL 0 Various photographs of the match including scenes of spectators. Date: 25 April 1914

Whitley Bay / C1914
Whitley Bay, Northumberland: The Links and Spanish City Date: circa 1914

The Graphic, 23rd January 1915, Christmas truce
Page from The Graphic, 23rd January 1915 - the Power of Peace in the Time of War. The Christmas 1914 truce, and a crucifix in a shell-torn area of war. Date: 23rd January 1915

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Jack and Jill. Within four miles of London, the friends see the sun rising over St Pauls Cathedral. Date: 1914

Baldwins knitting leaflet, WW1
Knitted Comforts for Men on Land and Sea - front cover of a booklet published by J & J Baldwin s, yarn manufacturers of Halifax

Gun transport exercise, Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire
An emergency gun transport exercise taking place at Wentworth Woodhouse, Lord Fitzwilliams residence at Rotherham, Yorkshire

Royal Flying Corps Made
The Royal Flying Corps is created as a new branch of the British Armed Forces Date: 1914

LCC-LFB Holloway fire station appliance room
Station 76 was Holloway fire station, North London, located in Mayton Street, opened in 1907. Here its self propelled pump and pump-escape stand ready in the appliance room

Sainsburys Shop 1914
The store of J Sainsbury - Purveyors of High Class Provisions

How Some Englishmen thought we were going to win the war
Humorous cartoon showing Englishmen, armed with cricket bats, golf clubs and rugby balls giving the Hun a good thrashing - a satirical view on how some thought World War One could be won in

Tommy Farr (1914-1986)
Photographic portrait of Tommy Farr, the Welsh heavyweight boxer, pictured in 1936

Redcross War Dogs Rescue
Two Red Cross rescue dogs, a German Shepherd - at this date also named Police Dog - and a Belgian Shepherd Dog, find the body of a man killed on the battlefield

Saving of Audacious Crew
Audacious, one of the most powerful members of the Allied fleet, is sunk by a German mine. A rescue operation is immediately begun

Sinking of the Emden
The predatory German cruiser Emden is sunk upon coral reef by the Australians

Falkland Isles Battle
BATTLE OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS The light cruiser Kent sinks the German cruiser Nurnberg

Passenger Pigeon-Extinct
PASSENGER PIGEON (Ectopistes migratorius) Probably once the most numerous bird on Earth, the Pigeon became extinct in 1914

Wounded Saved by Dog
A wounded French soldier at the battle of the Marne is saved when the regimental dogs bark brings ambulance men to where he is lying

Imperialism Ww1
Napoleon to Edward VII: " I wanted to create a French Empire, you a British one -- now theres going to be a German one!"

Pope Pius X (Van. Fair)
POPE PIUS X (Giuseppe Sarto) pope and saint

Wwi / 1914 / Mons / Cavalry
9th Lancers of the British cavalry in action at a German battery near Mons, France

MALINOWSKI (1884-1942)
BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI Polish-born British anthropologist, in the Trobriand Islands 1914-18

WW1 Machine gunners
Official photograph, Machine gunners. From an album of 24 photographs, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), August to December 1918. Date: 1918

Tommy Farr using a punch ball, 1937
Photograph showing Tommy Farr (1914-1986), the Welsh heavyweight boxer also known as the Tonypandy Terror, training at a gym, 1937

Blackheath / From Lee Park
Blackheath Village, viewed from the top of Lee Park

First issue of Blast magazine, 1914
The title page of the first issue of Blast: Review Of The Great English Vortex, dated 20th June 1914. Edited by Wyndham Lewis

Rote Kreuz-Sammlung 1914. Sammlung zugunsten der Freiwilligen Krankenpflege im Kriege. Poster shows wounded German soldier; in background a large red cross. Text: Red Cross Collection Drive 1914

Pair Ice-Skating 1914
A smart couple skate together on the ice. Date: 1914

Savoy Hotel
Panorama of London down the Mall towards the Savoy Hotel on the cover of the Illustrated London News in 1914

PRINCE JOHN / 1914-19 / ILN
PRINCE JOHN Youngest son of George V. Died aged thirteen, having suffered severe epileptic fits from infancy onwards

Jos Chamberlain / Vfair 01
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN Liberal MP at the despatch box

Wwi / German Troops / Train
German troops are transported to the front by train

Trotting with Sulky 1914
A trotting race with sulky

German Mountain Railway
This steam train carries tourists up the Brocken, in the Harz mountains, once the haunt of witches (but they had to rely on their broomsticks to take them to the summit)

Extension of the British Museum, London
Extension of the British Museum in London: the new King Edward VII Galleries. A birds eye view showing the new section of the building. Date: 1914

CORTAZAR, Julio (1914-1984). Argentinian writer. Portrait of 1981. Photography

Press photographer with hidden camera in his hat
A rather shifty looking press photographer cunningly conceals a camera behind his hat with the lens poking through a convenient hole. Date: 1914

Black Cat Night Prowl by Louis Wain Date: 1914

Florrie Forde music hall singer 1875-1940
Florrie Forde (Flora Flanagan) born in Australia, music hall singer known for popular chorus songs, pantomime principal boy. Sang ?It?s a long way to Tipperary? in World War I

Middle Europe Map
Map of Middle Europe from after the Vienna Congress until the start of World War I (1815 - 1914)

Violet Carson as Ena Sharples, Coronation Street
Violet Carson (right, 1898-1983) as Ena Sharples in the long-running TV soap, Coronation Street, with her two friends, Minnie Caldwell (played by Margot Bryant)

Busy Summer Morning on The Pantiles, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Date: 1914

Tango - Knees Up
Two tango against an artificial ballroom background. Date: 1914

Advertisement, Carters Little Liver Pills, WW1
Advertisement, Carters Little Liver Pills for Active Service, showing a man undergoing an army medical examination during the early stages of the First World War. Date: 1914

Hollingworth Lake, Littleborough, England
Hollingworth Lake, Littleborough, near Rochdale, Lancashire, England. Date: 1914

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