Absurd Collection

Pea Apparatus by William Heath Robinson
An interesting and elegant apparatus designed to overcome once for all the difficulties of conveying green peas to the mouth

Mixing treated asbestos fibre, Heath Robinson machine
Efficient plant for the successful mixing of treated asbestos fibre with cement. A drawing done by William Heath Robinson for Turners Asbestos Cement Co

Anti-Flu Masks
A man and a woman wearing anti-flu masks. These masks cover the nose and mouth and are designed to prevent germs spreading. They may work but they look very curious!

Clown on Bicycle Photo
Harry, a guest of the Mayors Fancy Dress Ball poses in his costume, (that of a clown), on a bicycle in his back garden

Samuel Beckett, Irish playwright, novelist and poet
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet. Photographed in the year he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Date: 1969

MARIE ANTOINETTE TRIAL
The queen is sentenced to death. Among many absurd charges, she is accused of corrupting her son with perverse habits. Date: 16 October 1793

If Unhealthy, Be Healthy by William Heath Robinson
If Unhealthy, Be Healthy: If Healthy, Be Healthier! Keep Fit Exercises: 1. The Bathroom Window Sill Bite - for strengthening the front teeth and developing the muscles of the legs and back

Sad End of a German Spy Behind the British Line, WW1
The Sad End of a German Spy Behind the British Line. He foolishly endeavoured to obtain information from our sign boards!

FALL / TOY POODLE / 1957
ROTHARA WYCHWOOD THE SPARK with a Continental cut, and standing next to an 18 inch, 46 cems, ruler to show its tiny size. Owner: Lockwood Date: 1957

Crinoline Parachute
A Crinoline Parachute. Date: 1802

A Tale of Two Tanks by Heath Robinson, WW1 cartoon
A wartime cartoon by William Heath Robinson showing two tanks charging into battle, only to crash head on, fly conjoined into the air and fall to earth, shattered into pieces. Date: 1917

Pulling a ridiculous expression
A German man pulls a ridiculous, daft, absurd and frankly rather manic facial expression! Date: circa 1910s

Ass dancing with boy

Heath Robinson and his pea-splitting machine
Photograph of William Heath Robinson (1872 - 1944), pictured with his own model of a pea-splitting machine. A well-loved artist, illustrator and cartoonist

Extravagances of 1834. By Cesar Bacle (1794-1838). Lithograp
Costumes and Customs. Extravagances of 1834. By Cesar Hipolito Bacle (1794-1838). Isaac Fernandez Blanco Latin American Art Museum. Buenos Aires. Argentina

Stupendous Chignon
CHIGNONS: A fashion conscious woman, no doubt employing a prodigious amount of false hair, sports a large chignon. Her horse likewise is completely chignoned! Date: 1866

The New Mortar for Bridging Chasms, Heath Robinson WW1
America in the Field - The new mortar for bridging chasms. A line of American soldiers traverse a chasm chained on wheeled chairs to a shell sent flying into the air

Girl on a swan, Dolly Girls
Girl on a swan, a Dolly Girls story from Playhour

Pixies playing a kind of tennis

A wagon laden with remarkable giant cabbages
Giant Cabbages - freshly picked..... Possibly a bit of creative photography, although you never know....! Date: 1910

French view of an English Gent in London
Spectacularly stereotypical French view of an English Gent in London, complete with plaid trousers, pith helmet, sinister expression (!) and a background of dark satanic mills!!! Date: 1901

Rail car transporting giant cabbages Date: 1910

Rail car transporting giant Bellflower apples Date: 1910

Carload of Mammoth Navel Oranges
A frankly ridicuolous carload of Mammoth American Navel Oranges! Date: 1909

Californian farmer with an immense watermelon Date: circa 1910

Rail car transporting a giant lemon Date: 1910

Rail car transporting a giant pear Date: 1910

Rail car transporting giant tomatoes Date: 1910

Furniture by Holland and Sons
Table with inlaid top, decorated with twining snakes, eagle and griffin claws and lily pads. This table featured in the 1851 Great Exhibition

Lear / Nonsense / Whitehaven
There was an Old Man of Whitehaven, who danced a quadrille with a raven; But they said, Its absurd to encourage this bird! So they smashed that Old Man of Whitehaven

Respect for Religion
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Mytton in Stable
English eccentric John Mytton (1796-1834) sits under a horses rump and holds onto her hind legs. The other horses in the stable appear perturbed - but not the humans

Girls on the Wing
Some daring, yet foolhardy young ladies pose on the top wing of a bi-plane. The pilot waves his handkerchief and roses fall from the sky

Costume / Girl & Mum 1835
Blue silk & black velvet pelisse-mantle with hanging sleeves, lace edged collar & brooch. Girl: pink mantle with imbecile sleeves & large revers, peaked cap with tassel

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