Adapted Collection

Thames Sailing Barge
A Thames sailing barge is a type of commercial sailing boat once common on the River Thames in London. The flat-bottomed barges with a shallow draught and leeboards

LCC-LFB Dennis motorised fire pump and crew
The introduction of the Dennis fire appliances would see the creation of dual-purpose fire engines capable of carrying either the 50 foot wheeled escape or, as here, adapted as a pump

Economics a la Heath Robinson
Do not scrap your disused lighting, heating, or cooking apparatus; they can be easily adapted to other requirements. Please note

Coal-mine in the Midlands in the 1790s featuring a Newcomen engine adapted for rotary motion motion and used a whimsey for winding up coal. Date: 1790s

J. W Walkers Organ at the Great Exhibition, 1851
An organ in the Tudor style, designed by Banks and Barry, adapted for a hall or music room. Date: 1851

Union Workhouse, Easthampstead, Berkshire
A distant view of the Easthampstead Union workhouse, Berkshire, opened in about 1836, in buildings adapted from former almshouses

Purple-throated hummingbirds, male
In a fascinating example of sexual dimorphism and plant-animal relationships: the male hummingbird with a larger body and short

LCC-MFB Battersea sub-fire station, London SW8
Battersea sub-fire station, at 32 Battersea Park Road, one of only a few London stations not actually built as a fire station

Federal Dance Theatre presents Salut au monde adapted from a poem of that name by Walt Whitman. Poster showing nine people dancing. Date 1936 or 1937

Projecting Praxinoscope
Reynauds praxinoscope adapted for projection onto a screen : later he would adapt it for projection in a large hall

Yvonne as Astarte, the Goddess of the Moon, Dalys Theatre
Yvonne as Astarte, the Goddess of the Moon, at Dalys Theatre, London. Yvonne was a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Percy Greenbank, and music by Jean Gilbert and Vernon Duke (Dukelsky)

Golf Hotel, Ben Rhydding, Ilkley, West Yorkshire
A birds eye view illustration of what was originally a spa hydro at Ben Rhydding, near Ilkley, West Yorkshire. By the 1930s, it had rebranded itself as a golf hotel

Reconstructed Warships back in Service. Date: 1939

In The Quartermaster's Stores
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for In The Quartermaster's Stores, words and music adapted by Box, Cox and Bert Read

Gothic Panelling
A lithographic plate produced by Day and Sons, showing a series of designs for enriched panelling using gothic foliage. These designs would have often been adapted for carvings in wood

Red Lion Square Settle
A photograph of a white painted settle designed by William Morris, potentially constructed by Henry Price. The furniture was adapted for installation at Red House, the home of William Morris

The reconstructed opera house
The Reconstructed Royal Opera House at Covent Garden; For Professor Reinhardt's presentation of Oedipus. This greatest outcome of the Greek genius of Sophocles was translated by Professor Gilbert

Aboriginal Shield Design
This design was adapted from a shield in Cairns, north Queensland, representing a section of a continuous design for borders to hanging shades, curtains, cushions etc. Date: circa 1925

Widecombe Fair, British International Pictures film, adapted from a story by Eden Phillpotts, directed by Norman Walker Date: 1929

But Who Will He Belong To? General Election 1910
Adapted drawing from a painting by Joshua Reynold of United Kingdom not knowing which way the election would go. The general election was resulted in a hung parliament

Yvonne as Astarte, the Goddess of the Moon, at Dalys Theatre, London. Yvonne was a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Percy Greenbank, and music by Jean Gilbert and Vernon Duke (Dukelsky)

Harris Sewing Machine adapted to electric motor. 1920s

Heinkel HD. 37a
Heinkel HD.37a prototype. The HD.37c was licence-built for the Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily (VVS): adapted by the TsKB (Tsentrahl noye konstrooktorskoye byuro - central construction bureau)

A Scrap of Paper, Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly Circus, Lond
A Scrap of Paper, a play by Victorien Sardou, adapted by Frederick Fenn, at the Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly Circus, London, with Nancy Price and Lyn Harding. circa 1914

Messerschmitt P1101 -the second prototype of this advanced jet nearing completion when captured After the war, the US adapted the type as the Bell X-2

Casanova adapted by Harry Graham with music Johann Strauss
Casanova adapted by Harry Graham from the original by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch, with music by Johann Strauss and arrangers Ralph Benatzky and Hans Mueller

Luxury transport for greyhounds - the new GRA conveyance
Racing greyhounds preparing to travel in new large cars built on a Ford chassis, where they could be transported from the Greyhound Racing Associations kennels at Northaw, near Potters Bar. Date: 1931

Collared Lemmings large winter claw of a forepaw - adapted for digging snow (Dicrostonyx torquatus). Taimyr peninsula, Kara sea shore, North of Siberia, Russian Arctic

Laager adapted for modern warfare by G. H. Davis
Night defence: a Zareba or Laager -- old words with new meanings during the Second World War. Once a defensive enclosure against enemy attack

John Le Carre (David Cornwell)
John le Carr (pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell, b 1931), English author of spy novels, many of which have been adapted for television and film. He worked for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and 1960s

Fleet of German Commercial Barges; Second World War, c. 1940
Photograph showing a fleet of German commercial river barges anchored in the Ruhr area, c.1940. These barges were usually used for the transport of goods along Germanys rivers and canals

The Bing Boys Are Here at The Alhambra
The Bing Boys Are Here by George Grossmith Junior & Fred. Thompson; music Nat D. Ayer. First produced at the Alhambra on 19th April 1916

The Bing Boys Are Here by George Grossmith Junior & Fred. Thompson; music Nat D. Ayer. First produced at the Alhambra on 19th April 1916

The Blue Mouse adapted by Roy Horniman from the German of Alexander Engel & Julian Horst. First produced in Brighton, 27th April and at the Criterion 12th May 1914

Beethoven, a play by Rene Fauchois, freely adapted by Louis N Parker, starring Herbert Beerbohm Tree in the title role. First produced at His Majestys Theatre, London, January 1909

Autumn Manoeuvres, by Henry Hamilton, adapted from the German version, Herbstmanoever (Vienna, 1909), in turn based on the Hungarian version, Tartarjaras (Budapest, February 1908)

Henry Irving as Mephistopheles in Faust by W G Wills, adapted from Goethes play. circa 1885

Temple of Antoninus and Faustina. Rome. Italy
Italy. Rome. Temple of Antoninus and Faustina. 141 AD. In the 17th century adapted to the church of San Lorenzo in Miranda. Roman Forum

Caricature of Fred Leslie, English actor and singer
Caricature of Fred Leslie (Frederick George Hobson, 1855-1892), English actor, singer, comedian and dramatist. Seen here in the role of Rip Van Winkle

Purple-throated hummingbirds, female
In a fascinating example of sexual dimorphism and plant-animal relationships: the female hummingbird with a smaller body and long

Junkers Ju 523m -this version of the Luftwaffes standard transport being adapted for mine clearance duties

The Way of War with Civilians, WW1
The Way of War with Civilians -- a cross-section of an English home, showing how it could be adapted for military purposes during the First World War. Date: 1914

Sunbeam motors advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Sunbeam Motor Car Company of Wolverhampton showing one of their vehicles as a Red Cross ambulance or van during the First World War. Date: 1918

AW H Goss horseshoe adapted for WWI patriotic sale
A W. H. Goss horseshoe adapted for First World War patriotic sale together with the badge of the Liverpool Regiment. Also has a poem and a legend.. Commemorative Ware

The National Dress, 1918
Mrs Allan Hawkey, inventor of the national standard dress, modelling its versatility exclusively for The Sketch magazine in 1918

Adapted motor car using a donkey by W H Robinson
Governess in an convertible car, hasn t got used to the fact that the motorcar has an engine. 1919

Allocation of heavy bombers by G. H. Davis
The transport problems that would arise were heavy bombers switched from Britain to the Middle East during the Second World War

Preparing to film The Thief of Bagdad, Hollywood, USA
Preparing to film The Thief of Bagdad (released in 1924), adapted from the Arabian Nights stories. Parts of the set, and prop items such as large jars, can be seen. Date: 1923

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