Bits Collection

The Last Stand of the Imperial Guards at Waterloo. General Hill calling on upon the Enemy to Surrender.Print by Riddle and Goughman after the painting by Robert Hillingford

Shire horse team during Ploughing Match
A team of white Shire horses competing in a ploughing match. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Admiral Nelson and Captain Hardy during Trafalgar
During the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, it was shortly before Nelson was mortally wounded that a shot struck the fore brace bits on the quarter deck and passed between Nelson and Hardy

Advertisement for Silvikrin hair products -- male and female models posing. 1959

Portobello Road Market - Bric a Brac Stall. Date: early 1960s

Dentist's equipment, dental drill parts Date: 1920

Comic postcard, Pretty young woman at the bank Date: 20th century

Burning bits of wood in a mobile furnace on an area of wasteland. 1920s

Sir George Newnes, publisher and MP, originator of Tit-Bits. late 19th century

Fish Delivery boy distracted by Tit-Bits
Fish Delivery boy distracted by the latest addition Tit-Bits - this promotional card is advertising life insurance (via the magazine) to insure ones life for 1000. Date: circa 1906

Tit Bits Coronation Souvenir 1937
Front cover of Tit-Bits magazine, commemorating the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on 12 May 1937. Date: 1937

Bits of Old Cambridge - The Lodging House Keeper (and her little black cat, possibly the power behind the throne...). Date: 1903

Spain and Portugal - on the roadside, Grenada - elderly man mending cane bottomed chair, surrounded by bits of cane.. Part of Box 149 Boswell collection - Portugal and Spain. Date: circa 1900

London Life - A Pavement News Vendor, with a very wide variety of publications for sale. Date: circa 1910s

WW2 poster, Bits and Pieces Bulletin. Separate parts combined make an aeroplane. Printed for HMSO, Ministry of Aircraft Production. Date: 1940s

George Ernest Studdy -- Bonzo blowing up balloons, a cartoon which first appeared in Tit-Bits Magazine in 1925. Date: 1925

Jezebel Body Murdered
Jehus companions find bits of Jezebel, the wicked queen, whom Jehu murdered by having her thrown from a window because she insulted him

Lathe turning equipment, bits and machinery, 19th century.. Lathe turning equipment, bits and machinery, 19th century. Copperplate engraving by W

Nautical engineering- bolt machinery and messenger, 18th century.. Nautical engineering- Captain William Boltons machine for drawing bolts, Mr Phillips tubes for driving bolts, bits, ring rope

Japan - The effects of a Typhoon (or storm)
Lantern slide of The effects of a Typhoon (or storm). Depicts a boat broken into bits.. Part of Box 158 Japan, part of Boswell Collection, slide no. 24 Date: circa 1890s

How to get tasty bits by means of a shrapnel proof helmet. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Advertisement for Judy, featured in Tit-Bits
Advertisement for Judy, a womans thrilling adventures featured in Tit-Bits. Date: March 1953

Guillaume IV Hainault
GUILLAUME IV, comte de HAINAULT ruler of the county of Holland 1337-1345. Wearing an amazing assortment of practical armour and impractical footwear and dangling bits and bobs. Date: ? - 1345

Indigenous Alaskan Inuit children
Pair of Indigenous Alaskan Inuit children Date: circa 1910

Chicago Stockyards 13
Any bits left over are chopped into pieces by the mighty machines of the Chicago stockyards, for use in sausages, corned beef, Spam and so forth

Bits and Pieces
A drawing by Beauchamp satirising the changing female fashions of 1928

Decorating Xmas Tree
A little boy and girl, put the finishing touches to their fake Christmas tree, adding the last bits of tinsel and a bell. The presents will be opened tomorrow morning

French Artilleryman
An officer of the horse artillery of the French Garde Royale orders his men into position : another gun is already in place. Soon that distant village will be blown to bits

Lima Tenera / Shellfish
LIMA TENERA A variety of shellfish with orange feathery bits

She Reads as she Walks
She reads - and judging by the pen in her hand, she marks the bits she likes

Robbing Graves
Witches rob graves and gallows for little bits of this and that which will come in handy for their magical rites

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