Adventurous Collection

A Selection of Ways to Ride a Penny Farthing Bicycle, 1881
Engraving showing a number of adventurous ways to ride a penny farthing bicycle; as demonstrated at a bicycle meeting held in Boston, USA, 1881

Churchill captured during the Boer War
Winston Churchill as a prisoner of war after being captured during the Boer War while working as a correspondent for the Morning Post

Sir Charles Brisbane
SIR CHARLES BRISBANE English naval commander who had an active and adventurous career in many oceans of the world, surviving shipwrecks and hurricanes. Date: 1769 - 1829

Concepts / Sangrael
The Grail is kept in the Palace of Adventurous, part of the Castle of Carbonek; a maiden bears it in to show it to Sir Bors, one of the few knights to actually see it

Strasbourg Balloon Trip
The aeronautic experience of Adorne who flew over Strasbourg, France, at a height of 80 feet. He and his companion wave as they pass over the city

Advertisement in The Illustrated London News publicising the forthcoming story of Captain Scotts Adventurous Journeys in the Antarctic Region as narrated by Lieutenant (Ernest) Shackleton

Stratosphere Explorers Date: 1941

READING A ROAD MAP
To the adventurous schoolboy there is high romance in following the line of a road, even on paper and the mature motorist delights in following the route correctly. Date: 1940s

Real boy scouts starring in the film, Lost Valley
Scene from the movie, Lost Valley, starring real-life boy scouts with the lead role played by fifteen year old Edward Royle. Date: 1932

Victorian scrap - Wanted a chappie with some go in him
Victorian scrap - People Who Want To Marry - Wanted a chappie with some go in him. late 19th century

It pays to be adventurous ? Territorial and Army Volunteer R
It pays to be/ adventurous/...Do yourself a/ power of good/ in the/ Territorial/ and/ Army/ Volunteer/ Reserve.Colour photolithograph recruiting poster

Sir Winston Churchills eighty adventurous years
Article by Sir Charles Petrie with accompanying photographs celebrating the 80th birthday of Sir Winston Churchill. Photographs from top to bottom: Mr Randolph Churchill with his son

Scenes from the life of Sir Winston Churchill
Eighty adventurous years: scenes from an eventful life- Sir Winston Churchill from infancy to the fulfilment of his great destiny. In celebration of Churchills 80th birthday on 30th November 1954

Tristram Speedy
TRISTRAM CHARLES SAWYER SPEEDY British soldier and administrator, adventurous life in exotic places notably Ethiopia : depicted in native costume. Date: 1836 - 1910

Finchdale Priory Ruins
The ruins of Finchdale Priory, County Durham, England, which was founded by an adventurous sailor (later Saint), Godric, in about 1115. Date: founded 1115

Finchdale Priory Crypt
The Crypt of Finchdale Priory County Durham, England, founded by an adventurous sailor (later Saint) Godric, in about 1115. Date: founded 1115

The Narrokar / W H Robinson
Many English lanes were designed only to accommodate the solitary horseman and most large modern cars are liable to get stuck in them (very humiliating for the driver)

Secret Library Doorway
A young Edwardian boy discovers a secret doorway in the library, concealed behind the false panel of a bookcase

Twin puppies follow rabbit into burrow
Twin puppies, Snip and Snap, bravely follow the rabbit and enter a dark burrow

Andrees Departure
Andree, with Strindberg and Fraenkel, leave Spitzbergen on their adventurous flight, hoping to reach the North Pole : they are depicted half an hour after lift-off

Climbing the Pyramids
Egyptian men stand on the lower levels of the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza, ready to assist adventurous tourists, keen to scale the mighty structure

German Singing Contest
Landgraf Hermann von Thuringen and wife Sophia preside over a singing contest featuring such top-flight minnesingers as Wolfram von Eschenbach and Walther von der Vogelweide

Ernest Thompson Seton
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON English-born naturalist and writer in America whose life was not quite as adventurous as he claimed

Expedition Aircraft
A self sufficient arial colony. Idea of Belgian scientist and balloonist Etienne Gaspard Robertson, first published in 1804

Marina Mniszech
MARINA MNISZECH - Polish adventuress who married two false Dmitris (claimants to the Russian throne. After a wildly adventurous life she died in prison

Hitch-Hiker / Sci&vie / 1955
An adventurous young woman traveller flags down a car from the road-side

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