Accident Collection (page 5)

Regency gentleman using a whip to steer a horse. Behind him, two women in a gig struggle to control their horse. How to Turn any Horse, Mare or Gelding

Regency man trying to stop a horse entering a tavern. Drinkers laugh at his struggles to control his horse, as a stage coach rides off in the distance. A Horse with a Nose

Regency man riding a horse, while other riders struggle behind him on galloping and bolting mounts. The Mistaken Notion. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson after an illustration

Regency gentleman riding a horse without a bridle
Regency gentleman riding a horse with only a string around its neck. A man is dragged off by a horse, his foot caught in a stirrup, in the background. How to Ride Without a Bridle

Regency gentleman riding a horse while another falls from the saddle. How to Prevent the Horse Slipping his Girths. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson after an illustration by

Madame Romain at the Cafe des Mille Colonnes, 1818
Madame Romain, the beautiful lemonade seller, at the Cafe des Mille Colonnes in the Palais Royal, Paris, seated on her throne and surrounded by her admirers. La belle limonadiere

A jingle or carriage accident on a bridge in Dublin, 1822
A jingle or carriage accident on Low Ground Bridge, Baggot Street, Dublin. Passengers fall off the bridge into the canal, men with shillelaghs shout. Brian Boru, Sir Shawn O Dogherty, Capt

Gentleman crashing a carriage in a Belfast street, 1822
Brian Boru in top hat and cockle-picker Peg O Shambles crashing a two-horse carriage in a Belfast street, 1822. Hawkers knocked on the street, urchins eating potatoes, a man with shillelagh

Irish gentleman in his cell, Dublin prison, 1821
Irish gentleman in his cell with other inmates, Dublin prison, 1821. Captain Blake introduces a ragged exciseman. Sheriffs Prison - Introducing Swan the Exciseman

Irish gentlemen descend into an underground hostel, 1821
Irish gentlemen descend into an underground hostel near Dirty Lane, Dublin, with beds and cheap victuals. Adventures in a Snoozing Cellar

English lady receiving surprise visitors in breakfast room, 19th century. Mrs Lucy Somerville curtsies to Mrs Watkins, Mr Willie Watkins, and Miss Watkins. A maid in torn apron opens the door

Huntsman in hunting pinks embracing a woman on a horse, 19th century. Mr. Sponge proposes marriage to Lucy during a fox hunt. The pack of foxhounds has lost the scent. Mr. Sponge declares himself

English gentleman being shown into a drawing room for a musical night, 19th century. Facey Romford in tweeds playing the flute, Cassandra Cleoptra holding a music score. Mr

English tourists watch fishermen opening pearl oysters
English tourists watch Scottish fishermen opening pearl oysters on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Doctor Prosody fishing for pearls in the Isle of Sky

Johnnys Pa soaked by an Elephant at the Zoo
Comic Postcard - Johnnys Pa - Johnnys Pa takes the children to the Zoo (and gets a little more than he was bargaining for...!). Date: 1907

Motor car crash, foot of Kingston Hill, Norbiton, Surrey. 1903

Cartoon, Why don t you look where you re going? 1923

Lady badly burned in an accident with a paraffin lamp. Date: 1871

Railway construction accident, Camden Town, London 1849
Railway construction accident at Camden Town, NW London, when some newly constructed arches collapsed on the western side of Kentish Town Road

Road painters carrying broken white line stencil, Sept 1939
Road painters carrying the " blackout stencil" which enabled workmen to paint broken white lines down the centre of roads with ease, in order to reduce accidents when driving in blackouts

Arch of London Bridge as it appeared in the Great Frost of 1814. Two watermen whose boat has crashed into a groin are pulled to safety by rope

Fatal motor race at Brooklands, 1907
The fatal motor-race on the Brooklands track: the scene immediately after the overturning of Mr Hermons car. The first fatal accident at Brooklands racing track when driver Vincent Herman

Illustration, Fisherman about to fall into the water. first published 1838

Not Really by H. M. Bateman
It happened thus one frosty day A profiteer when on his way To meet a friend at Christmas lunch, Beneath his motor heard a crunch

Parry Thomas, motor racing driver, at the wheel of Babs, half an hour before his fatal accident attempting another world speed record at Pendine, Carmarthenshire on 3 March 1928. 1928

Skiing misfortune
A Skiing misfortune as a skier takes a tumble trying to navigate through a clump of trees on a Swiss alpine slope. Date: 1924

Farmer loses control of his pigs
Pat in trouble. Farmer Pat loses control of his pigs; he has hold of one by the tail and one by the hind leg as they try to go off in different directions, leaving him spreadeagled on the ground

Sporting with Winter Sports by H. M. Bateman - tobogganning
A tobogganist takes a rather steep hill, wins the cup but limps away bruised and bandaged. Date: 1912

A Critical Moment by Alfred Schwarz - a woman runs her bicycle (no doubt a Christmas present) into a table, breaking some crockery. circa 1898

Home Sweet Home -- a tumble on the ice. (2 of 5) Date: circa 1890s

Stop Me and Buy One - ice cream cartoon
" Well...I suppose we d better buy one." An ice cream vendor has a collision with a couple in an open top sports car, but his day can only get better

Damaged building and van, Bridge Inn, near Redruth, Cornwall, with people posing alongside. circa 1920s

Cromer Express railway train wreck, Witham, Essex, 1 September 1905. Date: 1905

Cartoon - Cooking Made Easy (No.3), an ironic depiction. 19th century

Poster, He risked an accident just to clean a machine
Poster, Ministry of Labour and National Service, ROSPA, He risked an accident just to clean a machine. Designed by H M Bateman. 1931

Charles Stewart Rolls (1877 - 1910), Welsh motoring and aviation pioneer. Co-founded of the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm with Henry Royce

Britten-Norman BN-2A-8 Islander G-51-56 (msn 136), on 6 March 1970, at Ford airfield, prior to delivery to Air Tahiti. G-51-56: Britten-Norman F-OCOZ: Air Tahiti N6522T: 28 August 1990 N6522T

Piper PA-23 Apache G-ASHC
Piper PA-23-160 Apache G-ASHC Crashed 21 March 1964 at Melling, near Aintree village, on Grand National Day, killing all five persons on board (pilot and four passengers)

Boeing P-12D 31-276
United States Army Air Corps - Boeing P-12D 31-276 65. (Boeing Model 227)Allocated to 61 School Squadron after front-line service and written off in a landing accident at Kelly Field, TX

United States Air Force - Lockheed F-94A-5-LO 49-2498 (msn 780-7020) built as a Lockheed EF-94A-5-LO, assigned to Flight Testing Division, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH and redesignated EF-94A

United States Air Force - Lockheed F-104C Starfighter
United States Air Force - Lockheed F-104C-5-LO Starfighter 56-0899 (msn 383-1187). Damaged on 11 August 1961 in a landing accident due to nozzle failure at George AFB. Date: 1960s

United States Navy - Pratt-Read XLNE-1 31506, competition #32, at Harris Hill, Elmira, NY in 1946 for the first US soaring contest held after WWII

Dogs tail painfully run over by a car
Sorry, I have a tail - Oh Mother! What a catastrophy! 1936

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Comic Postcard - Don t try to enter by the Exit Door or you will get Squeezed! - A smart young Gent is trapped neither within or without this packed rush hour District Line London Underground

Lion mauling woman 1870
Performance in the Bowery Theatre in New York, were young woman Minnie Wells the Lion Queen, was doing her usual act, but on this fateful night, two lionesses sprang upon her

Percy Pilchers fatal flight 1899
Photographs showing Pilcher ready to start and in mid flight on his invention the Gliding machine. On 30th September 1899, the weather was wet and stormy

Building Site Trauma
An awkward accident on a skyscraper building site: a man is carried aloft by a crane Date: 1915

CAMEL RIDE IN ZOO
Three children ride a camel in the Regents Park Zoo : today wed need them to be strapped on, with safety helmets, after signing a form of indemnity in case of accident... Date: 1926

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