Bit Collection

A pair of working Shire Horses & Farmer
A pair of working Shire Horses, Farmer and Collie dog. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Theres a Long, Long Trail by Mabel Lucie Attwell
" Theres a Long, Long Trail A-Winding into the Land of My Dreams." Knitting themed illustration by Mabel Lucie Attwell showing a cherubic little girl knitting comforts for the troops

Horses pulling the plough
Two heavy horses, pull a farmers plough through a newly cut cornfield. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Gypsy Caravans
A group of travellers and their horse-drawn caravans/wagons. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Shire Horses pull the plough
A team of two white shire horses pull a light plough across a field of recently cut corn. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Girls Play Bowls / 1940S
Faith Dorn, Alice Talton, Juanita Stark, Lucia Carroll and Jean Ames wearing various sunsuits show a bit of leg on the bowling green

Shire horse pulling a hay wagon
A heavy working horse pulls a high hay wagon along a country lane. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Owl & the Pussycat
The Owl and the Pussycat: Wake up, aren t you even a bit scared of me, Owl? Date: 1960s

Horse Portrait
A highly detailed portrait painting of a horse by Malcolm Greensmith

OLD ENGLISH COINS
Old (pre-Decimalisation) British coins (left to right): Top - penny, half penny, threepenny bit. Bottom - half crown, two shillings, one shilling, sixpence - tails

Two Horses in the stable with a small terrier
Two Horses (one brown and one white) in the stable with a small terrier. Date: 1910s

Shire horse drawn dray
Shire horse drawn brewery dray passes through a village, delivering beer to The Lamb and Flag pub. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Mytton Rides Bear
JOHN MYTTON English eccentric decides to enliven a dinner party by riding a bear into the dining -room. The bear bit him on the calf & the doctor was called

War Bonds Poster Wwi
World War One poster encouraging the public to do their bit by buying National war bonds to help fund the war effort

Profile portrait of a racehorse in full flight, along with inset illustrations of a jockeys cap and crop. Date: circa 1910s

Blue Cross Fund Poster
Fundraising poster during WWI for the Blue Cross Fund organised by the Dumb Friends League featuring a French horse who is " doing his bit"

A pair of chestnut Suffolk Punch working horses in harness with blinkers, Suffolk, England Date: 2010

Two Horses in the stable with puppies
Two Horses (one black, one white) peer over the edge of their stable dividing wall at two small puppies (Terriers?) sitting on a blanket on the lower bench. Date: 1910s

The Enthusiasts
Cartoon, The Enthusiasts. The last bit of Winter sport in Switzerland on the approach of spring. Skiers skiing at the top of mountains where snow hasn t melted

A Fish Auction in Columbia Market
In 1869 Baroness Burdett-Coutts paid for the building of the great Columbia Market (for fish) between Hackney and Bethnal Green Roads on the site of Nova Scotia Gardens

Prison to Citizenship
Fighting with grit, to the front bit by bit, Determined in Parliament one day to sit... this is the House that man built

Knit a Bit Date: (insert)

Our boys need sox, knit your bit. Date 1918?

B Bit it
From A Apple Pie the iconic picture book by Kate Greenaway Date: 1886

Farmers walk and lead a team of working horses across a harvested cornfield. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Children on Beach 1 of 4
Four children on the beach, wanting to make friends but feeling a bit shy

Palm-wine tapper climbing a palm tree, Senegambia
Naked palm-wine tapper climbing a date palm using a rope to collect a gourd full of sap, Senegambia, 18th century. A man gives instruction to the tapper. A negro ascending a palm tree for its wine

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Dear Mums - I am thinking of you
The message on the card is My Dear Mum and Dad, I don t think I need write much here, the front explains quite a lot don t you think. Not very nice here at the moment bit showery

A Bit Of Chat
A coloured sketch showing a close chat between two laundry women wearing green skirts and blue and yellow tops, standing outside in the evening. Date: circa 1901

Cartoon, Brigadier-General Sir St John Chelsea, RA, VC, having done his bit, retires to HQ Date: 1919

A Bit Of Windswept Country Near The Sea
A landscape painting of a windswept countryside, with tall grasses and trees. Date: circa 1917

The Deck Chair
An oil painting of a young woman reclined on a deck chair, holding a parasol to offer a bit of shade from the bright sun, which brightly lights up a picturesque countryside. Date: circa 1918

Sunset
A seascape oil painting of a sunset over a broad sea view, which casts brilliant warm colours in the sky and water reflection. A small bit of land can be seen on the right. Date: circa 1918

RMS Lusitania - postcard, George Marks and wife, WW1
RMS Lusitania - postcard dated 5 May 1915 to a Miss Powell in Southampton. The card refers to a George Marks and his wife

The Steep Bit of Honister Pass, Lake District, Cumbria. Postcard published by George Perry Abraham (1844-1923), a photographer, postcard publisher, and mountaineer. Date: circa 1910s

Dentist's equipment, dental drill parts Date: 1920

Ben Travers farce scene, theatrical action photograph. With description, More Dangerous than Leg Theory; Gussie Pogson (Robertson Hare) and Dandy Stratton (Ralph Lynn), Test Match cricketers

Robertson Hare, actor, character portrait in glasses and cricket cap. John Robertson Hare, OBE (1891-1979) actor who established his career in the Aldwych farces

Music cover, I Should Like a Little Bit of Nougat, words by Clifford Seyler, music by Geoffrey Gwyther, sung by Lupino Lane Date: 1923

Two young couples sharing a seaside cuddle
It's a bit crushy here but I rather like it. Two amorous young couple sharing some quality time at a British coastal resort. Date: 1909

Mr Goldsworthy Gurney's tractor, drawing a carriage as a kind of trailer, has the advantage that if it breaks down, horses can be harnessed to the back bit. Date: 1829

Comic postcard, Boss and workman Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Doctor and patient - with a reference to the newly introduced heavier brass threepenny coin (the older, silver ones were lighter and smaller) Date: circa late 1930s

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Coupon shortage and making do
The long Caption gives the little girls excuse for having patches. The Home Front War Effort was helped along by cryptic slogans such as Make do and Mend and Making do

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Oh, I do like a bit of butter
The ironic Caption is Oh! I do like a bit of butter on my bread. The weekly butter ration per person was 2 oz - 56 grams. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: circa 1944

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - I m doin me knit
The Caption reads I m doing my knit - a play on the wartime need to do your bit. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1941

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - A Little bit of Overtime
The concept of overtime, that is working beyond ones contracted hours, became formalised just before WW2. This little bricklayer has another interpretation of the phrase

A Bit of a Surprise by Illustration by John Hassall
Father Christmas is completely astonished when suddenly he sees right in front of him a sooty chimney brush popping up, with unwanted toys going in all directions. Date: 1911

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