Beat Collection

Match at Hambledon / 1777
A cricket match at Hambledon, Hampshire. The club was founded in 1750, and beat a strong All-England team in 1777. The early matches were played on Broadhalfpenny Down

Too Many Cooks by Lawson Wood
A policeman on the beat around a smart London square appears to be blissfully unaware of the cooks emerging from each house to gaze adoringly at him

West Brom Football Team
WEST BROMWICH ALBION The team that beat Preston North End in the FA Cup Final at Kennington Oval, March 24th 1888, by 2-1

Life / Saint Patricks Day 1924
Two Irish men in tradition costume beat a drum carried between them as they march along on Saint Patricks Day

Police on Duty
Police officers talking to an Asian man in the street. Metropolitan Police

Police in London
Police officers on the radio in the street in London. Metropolitan Police

Police Officer Walking
Metropolitan Police officer pounding the beat in London

Policeman and Call Box
A police officer on the beat south of Pall Mall, central London, reports back to the station using a police call box

West Auckland football team - they beat Juventus in 1910 and 1911. 1910

Australian Team of 1882
The Austalian cricket team of 1882 who beat the English in the first Ashes series, captained by W. L. Murdoch

Mixed Russian Sauna / C19
A mixed Russian sauna - men women and children sit around, cool off with cold water and beat themselves - and each other - with branches. Date: early 19th century

Woman outside Golders Green underground station, London. The bus, destination Hendon, carries an advertisement: You Can t Beat Harrods. 1921

Poster, Beat Back the Hun with Liberty Bonds, WW1
American poster, Beat Back the Hun with Liberty Bonds, designed to raise money for the war effort during the First World War. Showing a menacing German with bloody fingers and bayonet. Date: 1917-1918

The Young Chap Dress d in Blue, by C Sloman and W Wilson
Promotional music sheet for The Young Chap Dressd In Blue music hall song by C. Sloman and W. Wilson, sung by Nat Ogden and A Hollingsworth

WW1 recruitment poster with silhouette
World War One recruitment poster with silhouette -- Loyal Talk Won t Beat Kaiser, Krupp, Kultur, Trained Men Will! Enlist Now! Showing a determined soldier with a bayoneted rifle. 1914-1918

Police on Walkie Talkie
Police officers talking on a walkie talkie in the street at Notting Hill Underground Station, London Metropolitan Police

Dancing at Coconut Grove
Elegant couples dine and dance to the calypso beat of Edmundo Ros and his band at the New Coconut Grove, Regent Street, London

Sport / Football / Specific
ENGLAND Vs SCOTLAND. Played at the West of Scotland Cricket Club, near Glasgow. England beat Scotland 5 - 2

Comic postcard, Sailor of HMS Britannia with British flag - Two Jacks that will beat two kings. Date: circa 1940s

Africa - Chuka Drummers, Kenya. Date: circa 1970s

Africa - Chuka Drummer, Kenya - Performing. Date: circa 1970s

Africa - Chuka Drummer, Kenya - Portrait. Date: circa 1970s

Beat!
A painting portraying an explorer sat with a defeated demeanour. Date: circa 1913

Welsh women washing linen in a stream, 1800s
Welsh women beating linen in a stream with a wooden spatula to clean it, 1800s. Welsh washerwoman, Paysannes Galloises

Saint Beatus Caves near the lakes of Interlaken, Beatenburg, Swi
Saint Beatus Caves near the lakes of Interlaken, Beatenburg, Canton of Berne, Switzerland. Legendary home of hermit monk Beatus of Lungern. View of the Cavern of St. Beat, near the Lake of Thun

The Albermarle Club at 37 Dover Street, London
Exterior view of the Albermarle Club at Ely House, 37 Dover Street, London which opened in 1874 for BOTH men and women, a previously unheard of event

Planing, St Beat Marble Quarry Haute-Garonne France

Sawing, St Beat Marble Quarry Haute-Garonne France

St Beat Marble Quarry Haute-Garonne France

Mantel pieces, St Beat Marble Quarry Haute-Garonne France

Showroom, St Beat Marble Quarry Haute-Garonne France

Scotland International Football team, 1933 Date: 1933

A Scottish Highlander Piper plays Auld Lang Syne whilst strolling through the thistles and the heather... Date: circa 1942

John Mahon London District Secretary Communist
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A bobby on the beat, who has stopped to enjoy a bit of pie from a friendly cook in one house, gets surprised by the heat of a stove. Date: 1912

Blacksmith or goldsmith at work, Senegambia, 18th century. He works unders thatched hut with tools including fire, anvil, hammer, pincers and bellows. Orfevre ou Forgeron Negre. A goldsmith

Regency gentleman riding a prancing horse in a town street. How to Make the Most of a Horse

Scottish traveller dancing a jig with a violinist. I ve been throw Hollan, Spain and France, An at Vienna learn d to dance

Skeleton of Death beating a drum for a newly married couple. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar from The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein, Coxhead, London, 1816

Chinese paper making, QIng Dynasty
Chinese paper making: young bamboo shoots are stripped of their bark, beaten and soaked in river water for a fortnight

Poster, Veritas Mantles and Burners, British Made -- Gosh! them Veritas beat all. circa 1910

Night Duty, by Albert Perry
Promotional music sheet for Night Duty, music hall song of 1899 by Albert Perry, and sung by T E Dunville

London County Cricket team that beat the West Indians, 1900
The London County Club team, which beat the West Indians at the Crystal Palace, 1900 Date: 1900

Music cover (front), Happy Families, music and jingles by John Tobin, cards designed by Myrrha Bantock

Music cover (back), Happy Families, music and jingles by John Tobin, cards designed by Myrrha Bantock

WEST INDIAN CRICKETER
A young Tobagan cricketer takes a delight in trying to lose the ball by thwacking it away; one day, he hopes to beat England at their own game... Date: circa 1960

SWORDS TO PLOWSHARES
Two smiths beat swords into plowshares, which are much more useful Date: circa 1860

BOBBY ON THE BEAT
A young policeman, on the beat in Oxford Circus, central London. Date: late 1960s

Comic Postcard - The Fathers Revenge on daughters Man
Comic Postcard - " Loves Reward" - The Fathers Revenge on her daughters new man, who is getting a hearty spanking for some indiscretion which has made his girl cry

Peace, Un-Perfect Peace, WW1 cartoon, Fred Buchanan
The Village Constable: Well, Is pose I ll ave to go an stop it; but I do wish they wouldn t old peace meetins on my beat

Syria - Punishment of a servant (3 / 3)
A domestic situation unfolds in Syria - the Mistress of the house punishes her serving maid - she is tied up and flogged across her bare back. Date: circa 1910s

The Lion & the Unicorn
The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown; The lion beat the unicorn All round about the town. Some gave them

Heliodorus beaten with rods - 2 Maccabees 3. circa 1690

Forging Razor Blades at a Sheffield Steel Works, Yorkshire

Advert / Bulldog Cigars
Bulldog Cigars: Hard to Beat Date: circa 1900

Met Police officer at Piccadilly Circus, London
A Metropolitan Police officer on duty at Piccadilly Circus in Central London, speaking on his walkie talkie radio

Boa Nova man with musical instrument, Funchal, Madeira
A man from a Boa Nova folklore group, seen here in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira

Ghana - Gold Coast - Ashanti War Drums
The War Drums of the Ashanti tribesmen - Gold Coast, West Africa - Ghana

The Scotland Football Team, 1897
Photograph of the Scotland International Football Team selected for the game against England in 1897. On the 3rd April that year they beat England 2-1 in the British International Championship

Police on the Beat
Two Metropolitan Police officers in a market walking the beat in London

The old woman who lived in a shoe
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children, she didn t know what to do

Sierra Leone, West Africa - Villagers preparing arable land for planting, accompanied by the sound of drums. Date: circa 1910s

Victorian Scrap -- Butcher. late 19th century

International Exhibition at Amiens - Senegalese Village
International Exhibition at Amiens, France - Cooking in the Senegalese Village. Date: 1906

Commemorative relief of an unknown gladiators ventures, por
Fragment of a commemorative relief of an unknown gladiators ventures, portrayed in several fights with his adversaries retiatii (gladiators who used the net and trident)

Music cover, Shells of Ocean or I Wander d on the Sea Beat Shore, a song written and inscribed to P Fraser Esq by J W Lake, with music by J W Cherry. circa 1850s

Miniature Egg Beater
This egg beater is small enough to beat up one egg in a cup, where the usual size would be unwieldy Date: 1930s

Beechams Pills Cycle Ad
Theres nothing to beat a play upon words for a catchy slogan - this striking advert is designed to appeal to the cycling public when this sport is enjoying a popular vogue. Date: 1900

St James Theatre 1900
Theatregoers, mostly women, leaving the theatre after a matinee. A couple of policemen are on the beat. Date: 1900

WWI Poster, Liberty Bonds
Design by F Strothmann, Beat back the Hun with Liberty Bonds, American poster. Date: 1918

Hinged brass tobacco tin - East Yorkshire Regiment
A small hinged brass tobacco tin engraved on reverse - (2856 Private) Arthur C. Stephenson and dated 1918

When your team get beat Well we let you win
When your team get beat. Well we let you win. (Ciss, with hockey stick, pictured on card). 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps

An Extra-Special Romance by H. M. Bateman, WW1 cartoon
Cartoon by H. M. Bateman showing a police officer initially snobbish about the special constable who is accompanying him on his beat

Jimmy the Bulldog at the Royal Society
Jimmy, a Bulldog owned by Dr A.D.Waller, takes part in an experiment at the Royal Society, Burlington House, London

Autocar Poster -- Jenatzy beating speed record
Autocar poster -- Camille Jenatzys Jamais Contente beating the World Speed Record near Acheres in France, averaging just over 65 mph. Date: 1899

Hungarian Drummer
Barefoot children dancing to the beat of a drum in Hungary. They are rehearsing for Christmas pantomime. Date: 1930s

Bobbie on the Beat
A London policeman on the beat. Date: early 1930s

Comic Postcard - Slops removed and served
Comic Postcard - A Housemaid removes and empties the slops from a bedroom chamber pot (potty)

Ragged Street singers - looking decidedly worse for wear
In the Bars and Streets

Trafalgar Square, London at 2am - Silhouette of a Policeman standing patiently on the pavement Date: circa 1910

Blue Bird K3, Sir Malcolm Campbells Saunders-Roe built boat, beat the world water speed record on 1 September 1937 at 126.32mph

Official programme cover, The London Aerodrome
Official programme cover for the London Aerodrome, Hendon, 7th London Aviation Meeting, 9-13 April 1914 (weather permitting)

Samurai striking a beat with clappers. Print shows a samurai with a pair of clappers, a man pulling a rope, and a man fallen on the ground in front of the samurai. Date between 1830 and 1844

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