1915 Collection (page 15)

Denis Thatcher, British businessman and PM's husband
Major Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Baronet (1915-2003), British businessman, best known as the husband of Margaret Thatcher, nee Roberts, British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. Date: circa 1980s

Keir Hardie, socialist politician, giving a speech, London
James Keir Hardie (1856-1915), Scottish socialist politician and labour leader, a founder of the Independent Labour Party and of the British Labour Party

Keir Hardie, socialist politician, as a young man
James Keir Hardie (1856-1915), Scottish socialist politician and labour leader, a founder of the Independent Labour Party and of the British Labour Party. Seen here as a young man. Date: circa 1880s

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Winston Churchill with General Fayolle in France
Winston Churchill (1874-1965), while serving as a Major in the British Army during World War One, with General Fayolle (Marie Emile Fayolle, Marshal of France, 1858-1928)

Turkish Hearse - Dead soldier
Dead Turkish soldier (very rare to see the face exposed like this) - on a horse-drawn hearse, returning his body from the battlefield. A number of his comrades in arms stand behind

Column of German prisoners
Aerial photograph showing a column of German prisoners marching in fours through a French village near St. Die. Date: August 21st 1915

GOLD FOR ITALY
John Bull delivers a sack of gold to the king of Italy to keep him in the war despite the mounting heap of dead. Date: July 1915

VILLAGERS MURDERED
In a village near Louvain, Belgium, the Germans set fire to homes, ordering the inhabitants to stay inside ; those that try to flee are shot. Date: 1915

A lady in a pinafore dress artistically arranges lilac coloured blossom in a tall, narrow stemmed glass vase, watched on by her pekinese dog. Date: 1915

A shoal of red trumpet fish, with their long noses, swimming through the water. Date: 1915

RED ORIENTAL PARASOL
A young lady shades her complexion from the harsh rays of the sun encountered at the seaside with a large, bright red japanese parasol & a broad brimmed straw hat. Date: 1915

The man of today lays aside his frivolous evening dress clothes & dons a uniform - in this case an officer's uniform. Date: 1915

Marshall & Snelgrove gown: loose fitting, high waisted ankle length gown in a bronze fabric, round neckline, Medici style collar, translucent sleeves & reverse cuffs. Date: 1915

Black gown by Marshall & Snelgrove: raglan sleeves, turn back cuffs, long gored skirt with tiny patch pockets ornamented with tassels, white blouse & Louis heel shoes. Date: 1915

Girl: red jacket with rounded borders, short tartan skirt, spats & staw hat. Woman: grey checked long kilt style skirt with vertical front pockets, short jacket & a tiny hat & veil Date: 1915

Pinafore dress with loose fitting bodice, low waist line, gathered skirt, Medici style collar & cord & tassel lacing at the sides worn over a light-weight blouse. Date: 1915

A distant view of the bathing beach. Date: 1915

A July Day - a family on the beach. Date: 1915

A girl on a scooter, wearing a tartan skirt, talks to a smart woman with a toy dog under her arm Date: 1915

Mechelen: cathedral of St Rombaux Date: 1915

Milliners at work. Date: 1915

Greenwich: the power station. Date: 1915

Rainy day in Kingston on Thames, Surrey. Date: 1915

Looking at a fabric stall in a French country market. Date: 1915

REMEMBERING THE DEAD
On the anniversary of the battle of Marne, French villagers decorate a war grave with the Tricolore flag Date: 1915

Women admire the brave young men as they march away to death or glory Date: 1915

CHINESE FUNERAL CUSTOM
The corpse is provided with a passport to ensure his easy entry into the next world : this is burned at the time of his funeral Date: 1915

Traffic in the centre of London's West End at Picadilly Circus. Date: 1915

Cartoon, Delivering the Goods (Lloyd-George)
Cartoon, Delivering the Goods - British politician David Lloyd-George delivering munitions of war on horses labelled Labour and Capital. Date: 1915

WW1/1915/RUSSIAN GAMBLE
The Russians gamble - and lose ! (Death rakes in the fallen..) Date: 1915

CHINESE SPIRITS
China : invoking the spirits of the dead Date: circa 1915

ST GEORGE APPARITION
The apparition of Saint George, mounted on a white steed, encourages the British to advance to Death or Glory Date: 1915

Welsh - Caesars Nose - CWGC Cemetery
This small cemetery stands on the site of a German redoubt which was called Fortin 17. Fighting around this area began in 1915

Guildford Union workhouse during its First World War use as a military hospital. The building, erected in 1836, was designed by George Gilbert Scott and William Bonython Moffatt

Woodcut: Three birds over waves
Friedrich Lissmann 1880 - 1915 Germany. Lissmann was a painter and woodblock artist, who after setting up a studio in Hamburg in 1906 became well known for his depictions of wildlife

The Light Blues, Theatre Royal, Manchester, Robert Courtneidges new musical comedy, with Dorothy Ward, Cicely Courtneidge, Jack Hulbert and others. Date: circa 1915

Lewis Waller in Gamblers All, Theatre Royal, Manchester
Lewis Waller and Madge Titheradge in Gamblers All, Theatre Royal, Manchester, direct from Wyndhams Theatre, London. Lewis Waller (1860-1915) was the leading matinee idol of the day. Date: 1915

The Pearl Girl by Basil Hood; music by Howard Talbot and Hugo Felix. First produced at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, 25 September 1913

Keep smiling! Sheels are piling, Men are joining, Women toiling, All are working, Nothing shirking, So.... Thumbs Up! Date: circa 1916

German breaches of the Hague Convention - laughing gassing the British before an advance in close formation Date: 1915

WW1 - war in Galician - Russian troops bivouacking
The Fighting for the Carpathian passes - Russian infantry bivouacking in a forest at sunrise

WW1 - Attack on London - St. Batholomew the Great
circa 1910s

Dancing Children
An illustration of a group of dancing children. Date: circa 1915

A British soldier wearing a new gas mask on the front cover of The Illustrated London News, 11th December 1915. Following the German use of poisonous gas at Ypres on April 22nd, 1915

Front cover of Printers Pie magazine for 1915 featuring an elderly gentleman reading a copy at a book stall. Printers Pie was published by The Sphere and Tatler in aid of printers charities

Wholl Buy My Raspberries
Artists interpretation of old street cries. Artist: Helen GC Marsh Lambert. Date: circa 1915

Strawberries and Cream
Artists interpretation of old street cries. Artist: Helen GC Marsh Lambert. Date: circa 1915

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