Action Collection (page 18)

King, the football-playing stallion
King the football-playing stallion was bought by Essex farmer Bill Foyle from a Midlands slaughter market in 1963 for 35. Bill soon discovered that the seven-year-old enjoyed a game of football

Demonstration in Chesham Place, Belgravia, London, with a struggle between protesters and police. Date: late 1960s

Cartoon, The Road Menders, WW1
Cartoon, The Road Menders. They stop work to watch the arrival of some VIPs. Date: 1917

Cartoon, The Fixed Line, WW1
Cartoon, The Fixed Line. Military engineers (sappers) busy setting up lines of communication in a town on the Western Front. Date: 1917

Man in the shadow of a helicopter
Man standing on the ground in the shadow of a helicopter. Date: circa 1965

The Socialist -- a working class political agitator in action. circa 1885

Women police officers in athletics event
Women police officers, Alice Lusher, Shirley Thomas and Shirley Jennings (Becke), taking part in an athletics running event, watched by spectators. Date: circa 1950s

Woman police dog handler with drug sniffer dog, London
Woman police dog handler Sandra Kertzen with drug sniffer dog Snoopy in action, Met Police, London. The yellow labrador was one of the first to be trained by a WPC. (4 of 5) Date: 1971

Zeebrugge mole fight: marines charging along the mole, 1918
The Zeebrugge mole fight: HMS Vindictives marines charging along the mole, bomb a German destroyer. After escalating the parapet and dropping down to the mole itself

Woman police officer Elsie Houghton, London, WW2
Woman police officer Elsie Houghton (married name Makin, joined November 1939), on duty in London during the Second World War

Salvation Army band in action in a street. Date: 1970s

Man at a bowling alley, sitting at a table with his back to the action. Date: 1970s

Studio photograph by Langfier, Glasgow & London, of Australi
A studio photograph of an Australian soldier in Army uniform. An embossing stamp on the photograph is S. Langfier, London & Glasgow. On the reverse is written in ink Rayner

William Cody in Action
Colonel WILLIAM FREDERICK CODY (known as Buffalo Bill ) American scout and showman, depicted (on left) in action against a native American and another rascally varmint. Date: 1846-1917

Robert Cecil in Action
ROBERT, viscount CECIL Statesman, depicted on the floor of the House of Lords, withdrawing his blocking bill. Date: 1864-1958

Jean Bart depicted in action
JEAN BART (1650 - 1702) French naval commander, with pistols in his belt, giving orders. Date: circa 1680

Escalator in Action
An escalator in action and a detail of its mechanism as seen in New York Date: 1893

Dog War Work Red Cross
A Belgian Sheepdog (Groenendale) trained by the French Red Cross, wearing the distinctive medical marking, stands waiting, ready for action. Date: World War One 1914-1918

William Baron Sandhurst
WILLIAM ROSE MANSFIELD, first baron SANDHURST - distinguished officer whose career involved almost every military action undertaken by the British Army ! Date: 1819 - 1876

KARL MUCK German conductor in action Date: 1859 - 1940

Naval Combat 1779
Naval action between the Quebec and the Surveillante Date: 1779

Austrians V Russians
On the frontiers of Galicia, Austrians fire on Russian reconnaissance flights - an early example of anti-aircraft defences in action ! Date: January 1913

William Hamilton
WILLIAM HAMILTON British military officer, doubtless seeing action against the Boers. Date: circa 1901

David Attacks Ammonites
Davids army goes into action against the Ammonites, just one of countless battles between the warring peoples of the Near East in biblical times Date: circa 1000 BC

India / Mutiny / Artillery
The British Horse Artillery in action Date: 1857

Girl Skips in Garden
A young girl plays with her skipping rope in her back garden. Date: 1950s

Cavalry in Action
FRENCH EXPEDITION General Mirandol leads the French cavalry against Aureliano, near Los Llanos Date: 1863

Emperor Carl V going into battle
The army of the emperor Carl V goes into action against Francois I of France Date: 1520

French artillery in action

WW1 soldier -- For Belgiums Sake -- Savoy Theatre programme, 6 November 1914. 1914

Icebreaker in Baltic Sea
Operations of icebreaking in the Baltic Sea have started again and our photo shows one of the icebreakers in action. Date: 24 January 1930

Ancient siege weapons in action -- the Corvus or Crow (top) and the battering ram (below). Date: circa 1800

Firefighters in action up a ladder, with smoke pouring out of a window. Date: circa 1960s

Russian soldiers in trench on eastern front, Russia, WW1
Russian soldiers in a shallow trench on the eastern front during the First World War -- a shell bursts nearby, and they duck down for cover. Date: circa 1917

Russian soldiers in action on the eastern front, Russia, WW1
Russian soldiers in action in " no mans land" on the eastern front during the First World War -- a shock battalion taking German trenches

Russian soldiers in action at the front, Russia, WW1
Russian soldiers in action at the front during the First World War. Date: circa 1917

Anti-aircraft gun ready for action, Russia, WW1
Soldiers with an anti-aircraft gun ready for action on the Eastern Front, Russia, First World War. Date: circa 1917

Fred Perry, British tennis player
Fred Perry (1909-1995), British tennis player, in action. Date: circa 1936

Firefighters in action at a fire in a merchants yard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

American football International Games, Turin, Italy
American football International University Games, Turin, Italy, 1-10 September 1933 -- two players in action. Date: 1933

Jousting tournament, St Erth, Cornwall
Jousting tournament taking place at St Erth, near Hayle, Cornwall. The two jousters have their helmets on, ready to charge. Date: circa 1970s

Town crier in action, Fowey, Cornwall
Town crier in action at Fowey, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Victorian Scrap, fire brigade in action outside a burning building. circa 1880s

WW2 poster, steelworkers in action
WW2 poster (before lettering added), showing steelworkers in action in a factory. Date: circa 1940

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, a dog who attacked goats
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, an Irish wolfhound called Biddy who attacked goats, seen here in action. Date: 1927

The Left Wing of the British Army in action, at Waterloo
The Left Wing of the British Army in action, at the Battle of Waterloo - June 18th-1815.Coloured aquatint after William Heath, 1815; engraved by Thomas Sutherland, 1815; published by James Jenkins

British army in action at the Battle of Waterloo
The centre of the British army in action at the Battle of Waterloo, 18 Jun 1815.Aquatint by Sutherland after W Heath, published by J Jenkins, 1 Dec 1815.Vignette title - vol 1 engraved on it

Football game at Pratt, Kansas, USA, between Pratt and Stafford. The score was 9 to 17. The photographers shadow, with camera and tripod, can be seen on the ground. Date: circa 1910

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