Away Collection (page 4)

BOY CROP-MINDER
This boy is supposed to keep animals away from the crops by blowing his horn, but alas, he has allowed the cow to go into the meadow and the sheep into the cornfield ! Date: circa 1860

Cartoon, How to Treat the Female Chartists -- cockroaches, rats and mice should see off the most ferocious crowd of females. Date: 1848

Fading away 1858
Well-to-do family members comforting a young woman dying in bed with the Bible beside her in the last minutes of her life. Date: 1858

MAGIC CATS OF CHINA
These magical spirit-cats perform the vital function of keeping away the rats which would otherwise devour the silkworms : the flowers also keep the worms healthy

HOGARTH BEFORE AFTER
After The lady is in tears as her seducer hurries to get away. Date: 1736

Alum Mine at Hurlet near Glasgow 1843
Interior of an underground alum mine at Hurlet near Glasgow. The miners, with candles attached to their helmets, dig into the rocks and cart away the mineral in wheelbarrows

CHASTITY ALLEGORISED
CHASTITY PERSONIFIED A chaste girl walks through the wicked world, shy but confident, while the unchaste (dark-skinned) shrink away, and other girls admire her Date: circa 1850

TIME / SUNDIAL
SUNDIAL Sundial on East Bergholt Church in Suffolk. The sundial is 400 years old and reads: Time passes away like a shadow

Perseus on Pegasus
Perseus, carrying the severed head of Medusa in his hand, rides away triumphantly on the winged horse Pegasus

Man in Black 1813
Black woollen suit: cut-away coat, short waistcoat with stand collar, breeches with falls, knitted stockings, pumps, top hat & pink lining, white cravat & shirt ruffles. Date: 1813

Crusaders Ships
Crusaders embarking for the Holy Land - galleys row them out from the shore to the sailing ship where the crew are stowing away the cargo Date: circa 1100

MILITARY / DRESS / 14TH CENT
A French SERGENT DARMES orders some scruffy infantrymen away from the officers tents Date: early 14th century

BARRISTER CARRIED AWAY
BRITAIN A barrister in court is carried away by his feelings, to the astonishment of his colleagues Date: 1893

ENNISCORTHY CHURCH 1798
Destruction of the Church at Enniscorthy: rebels set fire to organ and other Church property and take away bell Date: May 1798

EVE IS TEMPTED
Eve yields to temptation while the serpent slides discreetly away

Mother and son on a French beach
On a sandy French plage, a mother drags her reluctant son away from his pleasures... Date: 1938

HUNGRY SEA MONSTER
A sea-monster grabs a victim from the shore, while his cowardly companion runs away instead of tackling the brute Date: 1550

Industry: The idle prentice punished
5. The idle prentice turnd away and sent to sea (final destination unknown). Date: 1747

BANQUET
Dinner-time in a noble chateau - the chatelaine dines with her ladies while her lord is away at the wars Date: 15th century

Lake Windermere Ferry carrying a coach bound for Furness Abbey, 25 miles away. Date: circa 1885

MiG 29s at Fairford
Mikoyan MiG-29s from the Gromov Flight Institute in Ukraine, flying in formation, minutes away from colliding over the active aircraft parking area at Fairford. Date: 1993

Anna Zinkiesen - Mariegold - Mariegold Broadcasts - Soon - it may not matter much - Do
Anna Zinkiesen - Mariegold - " Mariegold Broadcasts" - " Soon - it may not matter much - Do away with Men - as such!" Date: 1933

Hullo! Everybody, Revue, Hippodrome, Putney, SW London
Hullo! Everybody, Revue, at the Hippodrome, Putney, SW London, a Harry Day production. 1916

Cinderella, a pantomime

Notre Dame, Paris
A small boy runs through the Jean XXIII Park and Garden beneath Cathedral Notre Dame in Paris. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1988

Little girls with pram
A little girl snoozes while standing guard over her brothers push chair Date: 1969

Technological advances of Home Heating - from coal to gas
The Advantages offered by the advances in Home Heating systems, shifting from coal to gas - the housemaid sends the chimney sweep away as her new gas boiler makes no soot and saves work and worry

A pretty girl adjusts her shoe on a bollard
"...now the Boys away!" pretty girl adjusting her shoe on a bollard (revealing bright blue stockings and a frilly petticoat) as she heads out for a night on the town.... Date: 1910

Death of King George V - the last bulletin, 20th January 1936. Date: 1936

Kitsch French romantic postcard
Your eyes shun me, but I feel all your movements. Suddenly I can sense your slightest feelings. Kitsch French romantic postcard with some wonderfully-vivid and vibrant colouration

The Altarpiece in Molde Cathedral, Norway
The Altarpiece in Molde Cathedral by Axel Hjalmar Ender (1853-1920) - a Norwegian painter and sculptor. Depiction of the Day of Jesus Resurrection - in this scene, Mary Magdalene

A trying moment
Young girl wrestling away her golly from the jaws of a white terrier. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1911

Cutaway of a French apartment building in Paris
A high-rise apartment building, Paris; cut-away of people in the rooms 2 of 2 Date: circa 1880

The Fairies Song - A Midsummers Nights Dream - Act II, scene 2 - Titania asleep, surrounded by her fairy train

Passenger aircraft of Imperial Airways fleet, cut away
Britains share in building giant passenger aircraft: a 40-seater of the new Imperial Airways fleet. A diagrammatic drawing of one of the worlds largest passenger aircraft

St Marylebone Poor Law Schools, Southall, London
The St Marylebone Schools on South Road, Southall opened in 1858 to house up to 390 pauper children away from the workhouse

St Johns Childrens Home, Ipswich
Boys pose in the garden of the St Johns Childrens Home on Bloomfield Street in Ipswich. The home was opened in 1879 by the Ipswich Poor Law Union to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Telegram excuse sent by husband to disguise affair
Telegram excuse sent by an older man to his wife to disguise the affair he is having with his young Secretary. Date: 1909

Hollybrook House, Southampton
The Southampton Unions Hollybrook House childrens home - the superintendent stands at the front door. The home housed pauper children away from the workhouse. Date: Date unknown

Turkey escaping the poulterer on a Christmas card -- He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day. Date: circa 1890s

A Good Riddance, George V sweeps away German titles
A Good Riddance. King George V abolishes the German titles held by members of the British royal family. A royal proclamation on 17th July 1917 declared that the House of Saxe-Coburg

Typing Pool 1960S
Typists working away at their electric typewriters in the company Typing Pool. Date: late 1960s

Princes in the Tower, Edward V and Richard, Duke of York
Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, taken from their Mother, Elizabeth, to the Tower of London and then allegedly murdered on the order of their uncle, Richard III. Date: 1483

Cut away of a French apartment building in Paris
A high-rise apartment building, Paris; a cut-away showing people in the apartments, including a fencing scene 1 of 2 Date: circa 1880

Greenwich Union Cottage Homes, Lamorbey, Sidcup, Kent
Entrance to The Hollies - the Greenwich & Deptford Unions cottage homes at Lamorbey, near Sidcup, Kent, housing pauper children away from the workhouse. Date: circa 1913

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - Palapye
Black and white lantern Slide of Palapye - British South Africa. Part of Box 288, British South Africa. Boswell Collection. Slide number 12

Union Cottage Homes, Lanchester, County Durham
A view of the Union cottage homes at Lanchester opened in 1905 to house pauper children away from the workhouse. Some of the inmates can be seen in the grounds. Date: circa 1910

Cabinet War Rooms by G. H. Davis
A drawing by G.H.Davis of the Cabinet War Rooms, the underground Headquarters of the Cabinet during World War II. These were situated 70 ft below Whitehall, London

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