Board Collection (page 10)

HMS Pinafore, sailors on board deck
HMS Pinafore by Gilbert & Sullivan. Sailors on board deck - in short, [Captain Corcoran] did everything possible to make everybody on board thoroughly ill and happy. Date: 1908

IMechE Trustee Board. Front row left to right: Prof Isobel Pollock; Prof Christopher Taylor; John McDougall; William Edgar; and John Baxter

Bursting of starboard main boiler on KPMs steamship Pahud
Letter about bursting of the starboard main boiler on board KPMs s/s Pahud at Belawan Sumatra, Singapore, at 11am, 19 Apr 1908. Wilfred Landstein to IMechE, 2 May 1908. Date: 1908

Great Yarmouth Common Lodging House Bye Laws
Part of the bye laws for the regulation of Common Lodging Houses, issued by the Great Yarmouth Local Board of Health. Date: 1868

Advert, Westinghouse electric iron -- mother and daughter ironing. 1922

Supper Dishes cooked in the New World Gas Cooker
Supper Dishes cooked in the New World Regulo-Controlled Gas Cooker. 1920s

19th century Christmas scene
A lady leaving her hotel to board a coach wearing a fine turquoise crinoline trimmed ermine and matching muff. A hotel bell-boy follows with her luggage

The Man Who Works The Automaton
The man who works The Mechanical Turk, a fake Automaton Chess Player, designed by Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen. 1769

Childrens Happy Evenings 1890
Children playing and being entertained by women as part of the " childrens happy evenings" initiative, designed to improve attendance in London Board schools by offering evening

Game box lid, Steeple Chase, horse racing board game. 20th century

Master Libbys Creamed Rice Milk Pudding
Libbys Happy Families Card Game, Master Libbys Creamed Rice Milk Pudding. circa 1950s

Cartoon, Eccentric Behaviour of the GOM
Cartoon, William Gladstone and Dr Andrew Clark (his doctor), Eccentric Behaviour of the GOM [Grand Old Man] on board the Sunbeam - Hold Him! 1885

Indicator Board - Victoria Station - London
A gigantic indicator board at Victoria Railway Station, London, 1908 Date: 1908

Government Funding of Merchant Navy Training
A boy at the desk of the Board of Trade President is told that, except for those in a reformatory or industrial school, or having parents are in a workhouse

Downs Schools, Sutton, Surrey
The Downs Schools on Banstead Road, Sutton, acquired by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1902 for treating children with ringworm. The site later became the Downs Childrens Hospital

Poster, Assisi, Italy. circa 1930

Showcard, Kendal Brown Snuff, by Gawith, Hoggarth & Co, showing two Georgian gentlemen playing chess

Norah Blaney serving tea on an Imperial Airways flight
The modern high tea. Entertainer Norah Blaney handing out tea, well above the clouds, to passengers on the Imperial Airways cross-Channel liner " Silver Wing" on a flight in 1927. Date: 1927

Gladys Peto, aka Mrs. C. Lindsey Emmerson, (1890 - 1977), artist and illustrator. Date: 1927

Mulberry Harbour anchor Asnelles, Gold Beach
In the foreground is a board carrying a description of the action here at Asnelles on D-Day, where the Essex and Sherwood Yeomanry came ashore

Royal Winnipeg & 1st Canadian Scottish Memorial
This double memorial has a plaque to the Rifles on the left and to the Scottish on the right. Between them is a poem by Paul Eluard

British 6th Airborne Memorial, Putot en Auge Normandy
The Memorial Board, which is outside the Mairie, was unveiled on 6 June 2007 by Major Jack Watson MC, of 13th (Lancs) Para Bn

Nelson receiving the swords of the vanquished Spaniards
Horatio Nelson receiving the swords of the vanquished Spaniards on board the captured San Josef (San Jose) during the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797. 1797

Seeing multiples / Photography trick
Photographers became more experimental with the portraits they could photograph. In this example the same man appears multiple time within the same frame. Date: 1902

Cake boards and cake knives. Lithograph from a catalog of metal products manufactured by Wuerttemberg Metalware Factory, Geislingen, Germany, 1896

Boarding school games from the 14th century: a boy on a round pole must light a taper without losing his balance and falling into the tub; a boy on a round pole must light a taper at the end of

Balancing act, 14th century
Girl balancing swords while held on a board by two men, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London

Balancing acts, 14th century
Girl balancing swords while held on a board by two men, 14th century (top), man balancing a lance on his nose, a sword on his finger, a wheel on his shoulder

Board games of chess and tables (backgammon) from 14th century manuscripts. Knights in armour playing chess watched by other knights in front of a military encampment

Medieval men playing wall tennis, checkers and hoops
Medieval men bat a ball against a board mounted on a wall (wall tennis or pelota?), some play drafts or checkers, others roll hoops and jump through hoops

Butterfly collector tools, 19th century. Butterfly net, raquet nets, pincers, pins, etc. Handcoloured lithograph from Musee du Naturaliste dedie a la Jeunesse, Histoire des Papillons

Mapuche playing the games of llighetun and kechukawe
Indigenous Mapuche of Chile playing the game of llighetun with beans (porotos) and a ring, and kechukawe (queciucague) with a five-sided dice

Dipping needle compass made by Edward Nairne, 1772
Dipping needle compass made by Edward Nairne for the Board of Longitude based on plans for the Reverend John Mitchell, Rector of Thornhill, 1772

Chinese potter throwing a porcelain cup on a potters wheel, powered by an assistant. Another worker arranges cups on a board for the oven

Cambridge University Robes, Clare College Undergraduate. 20th century

Boer War, Royal Engineers off to South Africa
Boer War, Royal Engineers on board ship, off to South Africa. 1901

Preparing artwork
Illustration of man preparing artwork at drawing board. Date: 1940

Artists palette
Artists paint palette shown as mans face in illustration of man with message board. Date: 1938

Lessons in elementary science at Whitechapel
Miss Kate M. Hall, the curator of the Whitechapel Free Library and Museum, giving a demonstration of working bees to Board School children with the aid of a observatory hive, invented and made by Mr

Lavatory doors, Liverpool Abattoir, Stanley Street, Liverpool, constructed from standard Plymax type M flush doors. Date: 1936

Shower partitions at public baths, Moston, Manchester
Shower partitions at public baths, Moston Baths, Manchester, constructed in double-sided galvanised steel Plymax with sealed edges. Date: 1936

Bath partitions at Downham School, Harlow, Essex, constructed from Plymax standard lavatory design for slipper bath cubicles. Date: 1936

Lavatories in a telephone exchange, City of London
Lavatories in a a telephone exchange, Faraday House, Queen Victoria Street, London EC4, constructed from Plymax standard lavatories type C with special marble finish. Date: 1936

Lavatories in a department store, using Plymax plywood
Lavatories in a department store, constructed from Plymax standard lavatories type C, with Venesta plywood type A flush doors. Date: 1936

Lavatories at Downham School, Harlow, Essex, constructed from Plymax standard lavatory compartments type B. Date: 1936

Plymax cross-section, plywood board from Venesta Limited
Photograph of a Plymax cross-section, a plywood board trademarked by Venesta Limited. The boards are covered on one side or both sides with metal sheets

Dressing cubicles at public baths, Sittingbourne, Kent
Dressing cubicles at public swimming baths, Sittingbourne, Kent, constructed in double-sided galvanised steel Plymax. Date: 1936

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow birthplace, Portland, Maine, USA
Birthplace of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Portland, Maine, USA. Date: circa 1915

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