Bitter Collection

Pub Dominoes 1930S
A game of dominoes in an English country pub

Ships trapped in Suez Canal, Six-Day War
Fifteen ships trapped in the Suez Canal as a result of the Six-Day War (5-10 June 1967) between Israel and Egypt

House to house fighting in Stalingrad, USSR
House to house fighting during the bitter battle amongst the ruins of the battered city of Stalingrad (Volgograd), USSR

Cirtus paradisi, grapefruit
Tab 65 from Histoire naturelle des Orangers 1818-1820 by Antoine Risso. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. This illustration is entitled Pompelmouse chadec

Club Night. British Legion Club, Norton on Tees 1970s 1970s

Ribblehead Viaduct - 01
Ribblehead Viaduct, Yorkshire, on a bitterly cold winter morning after a dusting of snow Date: 1990

Cirtus paradisi, grapefruit
Tab 66 from Histoire naturelle des Orangers 1818-1820 by Antoine Risso. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. This illustration is entitled Pompelmouse chadec

Orange, citron, fig and almond
Fruits including citron, Citrus medica 1, 2, bitter orange, Citrus aurantium 3, sweet or Chinese orange, Citrus sinensis 4, fig, Ficus carica 5, and almond, Prunus amygdalus 6

Sportsmans Chocolate
Advertisement for Sportsmans Chocolate. " Campers look!! Blended bitter to leave no thirst" and wrapped in waterproof envelopes

Citrus paradisi, grapefruit
Tab 61 from Histoire naturelle des Orangers 1818-1820 by Antoine Risso. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. This illustration is entitled Pompelmouse pompoleon

Beer is Best. Back cover of a booklet, part of the Brewers Society marketing campaign during the 1930s, featuring an illustration of a cool, refreshing glass tankard of beer. Date: c.1935

Wild lettuce or bitter lettuce, Lactuca virosa

Man walks past the Harbour Cottage Gallery in Kirkcudbright
A man struggles agains the wind and snow as he walks past the Harbour Cottage Gallery in Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland Date: 2010

Ingleborough, Yorkshire
Ingleborough hill in the Yorkshire Dales - seen from the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England Date: 1990

White Star Line, Titanic lettercard written on board
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - Second Class passenger and victim Henry James Beauchamp

Anna Neagle, actress, theatrical portrait in sequined dance costume and tights, mono with sepia background. Captioned, The way of a Neagle'

Photograph of two men, crossing Bitter Creek Glacier, British Columbia, Canada. Captioned, A River of Blue Ice: the chilly pathway to one of nature's treasuries'

Worthington's Bitter Beer

Wm Whittaker Bitter Ale

Smithers Light Bitter Ale

James Shipstone Light Bitter

Phillips & Marriott Gold Medal Bitter Beer

Nicholsons Bitter Ale

Marston's Burton Bitter

Mann, Crossman & Paulin Bitter Ale

Lion Brewery Bitter Beer

Ind Coope Light Bitter Ale

Ind Coope Bitter Ale (Red label)

Ind Coope Bitter Ale

Ind Coope Allsopp Light Bitter Ale (LB)

Ind Coope & Allsopp Bitter Ale

Davenport's Bitter Beer

Davenport's Best Bitter

Crown Brewery Crown Sparkler Bitter Ale

Crown Brewery Club Special Bitter Ale

Courage Hampshire Bitter

Charrington's Bitter Ale

Adnams Pale Bitter Ale

88 mm German engraved artillery shell case - Bezalel School
77 mm. German artillery shell case engraved at the Bezalel School in Jerusalem

Socialists fighting to the death; Paris Commune, 1871
Men and women of the Commune fighting, to the death, against troops of the National Guard, Paris

The war in America: General Pope's division at the Levee, Ca
General Pope's division on its way from New Madrid to reinforce General Halleck, near Corinth

Comic postcard, Bitter and port in a pub Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Stout and bitter - man and mistress outside shop window Date: 20th century

European black elderberry, Sambucus nigra, Sambuco nero o comune

Front cover of The Tatler featuring theatrical impresario Charles B. Cochran with actresses Peggy Wood and Evelyn Laye

Bitter candytuft, Iberis amara. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1792

Plums and custard mushroom and bitter knight
Plums and custard, Tricholomopsis rutilans (Tricholoma rutilans), and bitter knight mushroom, Tricholoma acerbum. Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A

Everlasting pea and vetch species
Lord Ansons pea, Lathyrus magellanicus, large-flowered everlasting pea, Lathyrus grandiflorus, blue-flowered platystylis, Platystylis cyanea, hairy bitter vetch, Orobus hirsutus

Calumba tree, Jateorhiza columba, Cocculus palmatus, Colombo. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Bitter cucumber or colocynth, Citrullus colocynthis (Cucumis colocynthis). Handcoloured lithograph by Henry Sowerby from Edward Hamiltons Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852

Frosts bolete and bitter bolete
Frosts bolete, Exsudoporus frostii (Boletus alveolatus) and bitter bolete, Tylopilus felleus (Boletus felleus)

Orange tree, Citrus aurantium. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816

Bitter or rocket candytuft, Iberis amara

Bitter ginger, Zingiber zerumbet. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Samuel Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1818

Cape aloe, Aloe ferox. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell from Samuel Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1818

Bitter gourd or bitter melon, Momordica charantia
La Momordique de la Chine. Bitter gourd or bitter melon, Momordica charantia

Vanilla orchid and colocynth
Vanilla orchid, Epidendrum vanilla 1, and colocynth or bitter apple, Citrullus colocynthis 2

Jamaica quassia, Picrasma excelsa
Jamaica quassia or bitter wood, Picrasma excelsa (Picraena excelsa)

Bael, Bengal quince or Japanese bitter orange
Bael, Bengal quince, golden apple or Japanese bitter orange, Aegle marmelos

Bitter orange or Seville orange, Citrus aurantium. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Bitter orange, Citrus aurantium
Bitter orange or Seville orange, Citrus aurantium (Citrus vulgaris)

Colocynth or bitter apple, Citrullus colocynthis. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Bitter dock, Rumex obtusifolius. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr

Bitter milkwort, Polygala amara. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr

Bitter apple, Citrullus colocynthis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr

Chinese Tonic Water drink label from Singapore
Peacock Brand Chinese Tonic Water drink label from the National Aerated Water Company Ltd, Singapore. Called Bitter Water in Chinese

Curtis British Entomology Plate 274
Coleoptera: Platycerus caraboides (Blue Lucanus. Mainland-European, extinct in Britain) [Plant: Iberis amara (Bitter Candy-tuft)] Date: 1824-39

Poll Tax demonstrator and Met Police van, Central London
A Poll Tax demonstrator aims a metal barrier at the back of a Police van, during a violent demonstration in Central London. Date: 31 March 1990

Ribblehead Viaduct - 02
Ribblehead Viaduct, Yorkshire, on a bitterly cold winter morning after a dusting of snow Date: 1990

Downham village, Ribble Valley
Downham village in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, in winter. St Leonards Church stands above stone cottages Date: 1990

Ribble Valley, winter - 02
Remote hill farm barn in winter near Ingleborough, in the Ribble Valley, Yorkshire Dales. Snow is on the fields Date: 1990

Ribble Valley, winter - 01
Remote hill farm barn in winter near Ingleborough, in the Ribble Valley, Yorkshire Dales. Snow is on the fields Date: 1990

Ribblehead railway station, Yorkshire
A passenger waits for a train on the southbound platform of Ribblehead railway station, Yorkshire. It is dawn on a frosty and snowy winter morning Date: 1990

Normandy: Churchill tank waits in ambush
Photograph: Normandy: Churchill tank waits in ambush. A Churchill tank awaits possible enemy counter-attack in a ruined Normandy village, scene of much bitter fighting recently

Advertisement for M&B All Bright beer -- male model pouring beer from a bottle into a glass. 1959

Napoleon and Concordat
Negotiations between Napoleon and the Papacy are bitter and prolonged, but a provisional agreement re-establishes the Catholic Church as Frances religion

STALINGRAD 1942-43
Despite impending defeat, an exhausted German soldier fights on until the bitter end. War- torn Stalingrad burns behind him

Bitter Sweet by Rebel Stanton
Colour illustration of a young attractive and scantily clothed woman drinking from a large vessel, under foliage and fruit of a nearby tree. Date: 1930

Boating on the Marne
La Marne retrouvee - a couple paddle peacefully on the river near Paris which was the scene of bitter fighting during the recent World War One. Date: 1919

Cartoon, To the bitter end, WW1
Cartoon, To the bitter end. A father tells his soldier son that we will stay in the trenches for twenty years if thats what it takes, and keep going to the bitter end. Date: 1916

John Likes a Pint. Stockton on Tees 1970s 1970s

Bitter beech bolete, Boletus calopus, poisonous.. Chromolithograph by C. Krause from Fritz Leubas Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1890

Perennial Sweet Pea / Spring vetchling / Bitter vetch / Spring pea / Spring vetch / Spring bitter-vetch flowering wild plant (Lathyrus vernus)

The Soldiers Dream by B Bairnsfather
A cartoon exploring the dreams of World War I infantry. This particular soldier will be rather disappointed upon waking. 1915

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