Beat Collection (page 3)

The Lion and the Unicorn by Leslie Brooke. The lion and the unicorn, Were fighting for the crown; The Lion beat the Unicorn all around the town Date: 1922

Nursery, rhyme, The Queen of Hearts, Caldecott, 6 of 8
and beat the Knave full score

Met Police officers at Piccadilly Circus, London
Two Metropolitan Police officers, one male, one female, on duty at Piccadilly Circus in Central London, speaking to a young couple

Met Police PC and WPC, suburban scene
Two Metropolitan Police officers, a PC and a WPC, walking along a suburban pathway in a residential area of London. The woman has a large walkie talkie radio at her waist

Met Police PC and WPC, urban scene
Two Metropolitan Police officers, a PC and a WPC, walking along a busy urban street in Central London. They both carry a set of handcuffs at their waists

Met Police officer on a country lane
A Metropolitan Police officer on the beat, wheeling his bicycle along a country lane in a rural part of London

Met Police officer on a street corner
A Metropolitan Police officer on the beat somewhere in Central London, approaching a street corner

Music cover for Valse a Deux Tems (Temps)
Music cover for Valse a Deux Tems (or Temps), meaning Waltz in Two Beats or Two-Step Waltz, a popular style of waltz in the mid-19th century

Camacha woman with musical instrument, Funchal, Madeira
A woman from a folklore group from the village of Camacha, seen here in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira. She is holding a musical instrument known as a brinquinho

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. He is holding a musical instrument known as a brinquinho, a stick decorated with wooden dolls

Egyptian Dancing Monkey
An Egyptian Dancing Monkey and owner, entertaining two small boys. The Monkeys owner has him dressed in a red dress and accompanies his movements with the beat of a hand-held drum

Policeman and parked late 1920s cars
A Policeman walks past two parked cars, a Austin 10 Drop Head Coupe & 1939 Armstrong Siddeley (right)

London Policeman and children
A London Bobby on the beat holds the hands of some school children, possibly prior to guiding them safely across the busy road

Kissing the Hand 1921
A lady in a ball dress is kissed upon the hand by an admirer. The large red fan she carries in the other may come in handy to beat the men away!

A Nasal Reconaissance
Three British bobbies on the beat during WWI, attempt to lure a suspected German spy from his flat in Tottenham Court Road in London, by frying some delicious looking sausages beneath his window

A Boy soldier marching to a dog beating a drum
A boy dressed up as a redcoat British soldier of the 19th century and holding a wooden sword, marches to the beat of a drum provided by his drummer pet dog

Egypt - Nile - Children with Crocodiles
Children on the banks of the Nile in Northern Egypt attack a group of crocodiles with sticks

The Portuguese Army attempts to seize a railway train, South
Engraving showing the encounter between a British operated steam train and a detachment of the Portuguese army, Delagoa Bay, South East Africa, 1889

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

Sheffield United Football Team, 1902
Photograph showing the Sheffield United Football team of the 1901-1902 season. That year they beat Southampton to win the F.A. Cup. The players photographed were: Standing, left to right: B

Davis Cup in Paris
Henri Cochet (Fr) and Big Bill Tilden (USA) before their Davis Cup match at Roland Garros Stadium, Paris. Cochet beat Tilden in the singles in 1928, 1929 and 1930

Policeman Directs Lady
A friendly young policeman points a middle-aged lady in the right direction

R. M. S. Queen Mary, Ocean Dock, Southampton, 1936
Photograph of the R.M.S. Queen Mary arriving at the Ocean Dock, Southampton, after winning the Blue Riband of the Atlantic on 30th August that year

R. M. S. Queen Mary Arriving at Southampton, 1936
Photograph of the R.M.S. Queen Mary arriving at Southampton after winning the Blue Riband of the Atlantic on 30th August that year

Jovial Judge, Winner of the 1926 Waterloo Cup
Photograph of the greyhound Jovial Judge, owned by Mr. J.L. Jarvis and trained by Mr. Denny Smith; the Winner of the 1926 Waterloo Cup

James Robb, Winner of the Golf Amateur Championship, 1906
Photograph of James Robb, winner of the Golf Amateur Championship at Hoylake, May 1906. Mr. Robb, of Prestwick, St. Nicholas, beat Mr. C.C

Police Report for Duty
Policemen receiving instructions before going out on the beat Metropolitan Police

Policeman and Beat Wheel
Policeman with a beat wheel measuring the distance of walking a beat Metropolitan Police

Policeman on Duty
Policeman on duty outside the old American Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London Metropolitan Police

Police Officers on Beat
Police officers wearing old and new uniforms. On left wearing 1980 uniform, on right the old from the period 1959-1980 Metropolitan Police

Police Officer in London
Police officer walking the beat on Praed Street in front of Paddington Station, London. Metropolitan Police

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

Two Police Officers
Two Metropolitan Police officers walking the beat

Line of Police Officers
Line of Metropolitan police officers standing in the street in London

The Hon C. S. Rolls in his racing car
The Hon. C. S. Rolls in his special racing car. The car beat the world record for 1 km, covering the distance in 27 secs, equal to 83mph. Rolls later died in 1910 in a plane crash

Friendly Policeman
A friendly London Bobby, standing around a hole in the road with a group of children and Working Class men in flat caps

Sphygmograph / 1881
Two types of sphygmograph being used on a patient to measure heart beat and pulse

Nautch Girl / India
A Nautch (dancing) girl performing. Her footwork is accompanied by drums & cymbals which beat out complicated rhythmic cycles

Gipsies Dancing
Gipsy children in festive costume, dancing to the music of a harmonica and the beat of a drum

Fall of meteorites at Hatford, Berkshire, UK
When meteorites fall at Hatford, Berkshire, Mistress Greene, a witness, has one dug up, though one of the diggers swoons in terror

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

American Pole-Percher
A pole-sitter at Atlantic City, USA, sits at an altitude of 68m for 16 days, and plans to beat the 23 day record

France V Ireland 1924
Ireland beat France 9-3 at the Stade de Colombes, Paris

War Dance / Delhi / 1875
Walpurgis Night Delhi - a war dance. Men dance around a fire to the beat of drum

TOM PIPERs SON 1881
A group of decorative girls dance on the lawn of a country home while a boy named Tom, from a pipe-playing family, supplies a musical accompaniment

Tom Pipers Son / Crane
Tom, Tom, the pipers son, Stole a pig and away he ran. The pig was eat, and Tom was beat, and Tom went roaring down the street

Pyne - Welsh Washerwomen
WELSH WASHERWOMEN Like French peasants, Welsh woman use a wooden spatula to beat their linen clean on a flat stone beside a stream

British in Egypt / 1893
UN PROTECTEUR The French are cynical about Britains intentions in their occupation of Egypt - because the British beat them to it, no doubt

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