Blocking Collection

Late Arrivals by H. M. Bateman
Late arrivals at the theatre annoy everyone by laughing at the show and blocking the view of those who took their seats in good time in the process! Date: 1924

Liberators Memorial, Escoville, Normandy
Escoville is inland and east of the River Orne, right in the area allocated to the Special Forces and Commandos, and blocking the route to Caen

FRE REV / LOU XVI SATIRE
Louis XVI satirised as a traitor within a lantern, blocking out the sun. Date: 8 August 1792

Robert Cecil in Action
ROBERT, viscount CECIL Statesman, depicted on the floor of the House of Lords, withdrawing his blocking bill. Date: 1864-1958

Man and child at door of riverside cottage in Alport, Derbys
A man and his daughter stand at the front door of a very basic cottage by the river. George Barnshaw on the left is a visitor to the area

Blocking shop at Battersbys hatworks - the felt hat on the right awaits further forming. Note the massive chain drive on the machine on the left. Date: 1902

Traffic congestion, Covent Garden, London WC2
Traffic congestion in the Covent Garden area, London WC2, 26 March 1959, looking down towards The Strand, with the corner of Maiden Lane, and the offices of The Lady magazine on the left

Cars blocking Lisle Street, London WC2. Parking was allowed on both sides of this one-way street, making it difficult for fire services to get through in an emergency

Man at the end of his tether with piano-playing singing wife
" Every Morning I feel like shooting." An American man seemingly at the end of his tether with the less-than-tuneful efforts of his enthusiastic piano-playing, singing wife

Volleyball in Brazil during the Jogos de primavera 1957 (Spring Games) held in Rio de Janeiro. Date: 1957

Blocking - shutting the mouth of Port Arthur. Print shows two Japanese sailors driving battleships like spikes through the lips of the mouth of the harbor at Lushun (Port Arthur), China

Alexander Meets Diogenes
Alexander the Great meets the famous philosopher Diogenes the Cynic, who is unimpressed by Alexanders fame and merely asks him to stand aside and stop blocking out the sun!

Snow blizzard blocking the North Eastern train
Disruption of the railway traffic during the first week of March 1886. The North Eastern railway service from Newcastle to Edinburgh was cancelled after a train travelling from Edinburgh was snowed

Mr Popple Gets Stuck
Mr Popples horse gets stuck in the mud, at the only exit from Watchers Wood

Boer War; Tugela River
TUGELA RIVER (near Ladysmith, Natal) Boers defend the Tugela River, blocking Methuens advance on Ladysmith

Theatregoer in Big Hat
A woman in a large hat with a broad brim & ostrich feather plume is serenely unaware that her choice in millinery is obscuring the view of her fellow theatre goers

Jesus Quits his Tomb
Angels roll aside the stone blocking the entrance to Jesuss tomb, enabling him to escape : the soldiers guarding the tomb are astonished

Ostend from the Air
Aerial view of the Vindictive memorial at Ostend, where on 23 April 1918 the ship was deliberately sunk, blocking the passage to German U-boats

Merfolk and Submarines
The mer-people resent the intrusion of submarines into the domain they share only with the fishes Date: 1907

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