Apr21 Collection

Essex Union hunt. By Canewdon Church in the marshes by the River Crouch. Date: 1937

Fighting in the Marrowbone area of Belfast
Fighting in the so-called Marrowbone district of Belfast - an encounter between Sinn Feiners on the left, in Glenpark Street, and loyalist Orangemen in Louisa Street

Late Arrivals by H. M. Bateman
Late arrivals at the theatre annoy everyone by laughing at the show and blocking the view of those who took their seats in good time in the process! Date: 1924

A tea ship, the Loudoun Castle (spelt Louden Castle in the picture), from Hankow, China, commencing unloading ( breaking bulk ). The ship discharged from her vast hold 40, 000 packages of tea

Eleanor Nellie Souray (1886 - 1931), Lady Torrington. A popular stage actress and Gaiety girl, she was a number of performers who married into the peerage during the Edwardian era

Necessity the mother of invention: an incident during the cabmens strike. A gentleman is conveyed in the barrow of a coalman while his wife has to hitch a lift on his head. Date: 1853

Daisy Fellowes (nee Margeurite Severine Philippine Decazes de Glucksbierg (1890 - 1962), celebrated society figure, acclaimed beauty, novelist, poet

Rival sportsmen. I say now, as I have said before, that there is room enough in Asia for both England and Russia. - Lord Beaconsfield (Disraeli)

Ball at the Mansion House, Dublin 1865
Opening of the Dublin International Exhibition: the ball at the Mansion House, in honour of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). The ball was given by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the Right Hon

The Sinn Fein Loan. A treasury note with a Sinn Fein inscription stamped on it. Date: 1919

Ball given at the Mansion House, Dublin, by the Lord Mayor, in honour of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII)

Taking the veil at the church of the convent of the most Holy Trinity at Bermondsey, which opened for the reception of the sisterhood of the Order of our blessed Lady of Mercy in November 1839

Edythe A. Baker (1899 - 1971), American boogie-woogie pianist, wife of Gerard (" Pop" ) d Erlanger. Date: 1927

Actress Beatrice Lillie pictured in 1920 in The Tatler following her 1919 marriage to Robert Bobbie Peel, son of Sir Robert Peel

Beatrice Lillie, popular stage actress and entertainer, pictured in her dressing room at the Prince of Wales Theatre where she was starring in Bran Pie with her fiance, Robert Peel

Olive May (nee Olive Mary Meatyard), Countess of Drogheda (1886 - 1947)
Olive May (ne Olive Mary Meatyard), Countess of Drogheda (1886 - 1947), Actress; former wife of Lord Victor Paget, and later wife of 10th Earl of Drogheda

Front cover of The Tatler featuring a portrait of Countess Poulett, formerly the actress Sylvia Storey, who married Lord Poulett in 1908

Lady Francis Hope (1866 - 1938), formerly the actress Miss May Yohe, who married Lord Francis Hope, heir to the 7th Duke of Newcastle in 1893

Front cover of The Sketch featuring engaged couple, actress Frances Doble, and sir Anthony Lindsay-Hogg wearing rather bizarre and ill-advised costume

Page from The Tatler reporting on the marriage of Mrs Stirling (formerly Clare Elizabeth Taylor) of the Gaiety Theatre and Lord George Cholmondeley, second son of the Marquess of Cholmondeley

Front cover of The Sketch reporting on the marriage of Mrs Stirling (formerly Clara Elizabeth Taylor) of the Gaiety Theatre to Lord George Cholmondeley, second son of the Marquess of Cholmondeley

Smyrna! A case in which, in the opinion of the British lion, two heads are not better than one! Cartoon about the Koszta Affair in 1853

Muffled against the deadly bacilli in Manchuria, a doctor fully masked and a sanitary official, wearing a lint mask soaked in carbolic acid. Date: 1911

Autumn in early summer, Kensington Gardens
Girls in Kensington Gardens playing among dried leaves fallen from the trees during a period of hot weather and prolonged drought in the summer of 1921. Date: July 1921

View on the North Downs towards Aldershot, showing fires on the heath during a prolonged period of drought in the summer of 1921. Date: 1921

Molesey Weir, usually noted for its rush of water, shown completely dry during a period of prolonged drought in 1921. Date: 1921

The upper reaches of the Thames running dry in Gloucestershire, just above Lechlade in Gloucestershire, during a period of prolonged drought in the summer of 1921. Date: 1921

A war-zone in Ireland. Sinn Fein-ers, who had attacked loyalist workmen, fleeing from police down York Street in Belfast, during unrest in 1920. Date: 1920

Riots in Belfast, 1920
Drawing by an eye-witness of scenes during riots in Belfast in 1920, showing a woman with a bag full of missiles, bottle and stone throwing and revolver firing, while police charge

The Maid-Of-All-Work is put upon. Now, Betsy be quick and wash up the breakfast things, clear the kitchen, make the beds, and get me up carefully a pair of sleeves

Double page spread from the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, reported on a Tudor pageant performed in the gardens of Quinettes, a medieval farmhouse in Churt, Surrey. Date: 1943

The blockade of London Bridge, 1859. The congested and overcrowded state of the streets of London, particularly those in the City. Date: 1859

The new double-screw steamship Far East. The launch took place at Cubitt Town, Millwall, in the presence of a large number of people

The Royal dairy at Frogmore, near Windsor. The tables are of white marble...beneath them are reservoirs supplied by a clear running stream of cold water...There are ten windows of richly-stained

Exhibition of life-saving techniques at the Bath Club in Dover Street. The swimming baths of choice for high society, the Bath Club attracted a well-heeled membership. Date: 1912

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