Boots Collection (page 9)

Edward (Gunboat) Smith, boxer, actor and referee
Edward (Gunboat) Smith (1887-1974), Irish-American heavyweight boxer, film actor and (later) boxing referee. Seen here in a boxing pose. early 1900s

Judy Whitehouse wearing Granny Takes a Trip blouse
Judy Whitehouse, a plastic surgery nurse, featuring in London Life magazines What People are Wearing section in a brown suede suit from Trog in Paris worn with a beige silk blouse from Granny Takes a

Scene in the High Street, Exeter, Devon
Scene in the High Street of Exeter, Devon, on a sunny day, with buses, cars and pedestrians. Date: circa 1960s

Sybil Zelker of Polly Peck shopping at Woollands
Sybil Zelker, designer of the fashion brand Polly Peck, finding sale bargains at Woollands 21 Shop with her daughter Elizabeth

Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm and a fortune teller, WW1
Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm goes to consult a fortune teller to find out when the war will end. Date: 1916

Twenty Embassy. Stockton on Tees 1970s 1970s

Jimmy Edwards and cat in a pantomime, Puss in Boots
Jimmy Edwards (1920-1988), English comic actor and writer, as King Jim, with a cat (played by Freda Wyn, aka Winifred A Ryeland, 1916-1989) in a pantomime, Puss in Boots, at Streatham Hill Theatre

Study and fagging at Malvern College
Last minute study and fagging: some of the junior boys doing some hasty revision while one of them cleans a senior boys boots, at Malvern College, an independent school in Worcestershire, England

German soldier in studio photo, WW1
A German soldier in a studio photo. Date: 1914-1918

WW1 Recruitment Poster
Come Now - Your arms, uniform and accoutrements are ready waiting for you (quotation from Lord Kitchener at the Guildhall, July 1915) - Be honest with yourself

J. Cording advertisement, WW1 with trench waders
Advertisement for J. C. Cording and Co. waterproofers, suggesting the Equitor waterproof coat for mounted and military wear for British soldiers, and especially

Cartoon on postcard, Kitchener news, WW1
Cartoon on a postcard, showing a skinny woman in the early stages of the First World War, reading a news bulletin: Kitchener gets half a million men in a month

Horse-drawn horse box
A horse-drawn horse box on a street, with a man in charge wearing jodphurs

Uniform of 7th Queens Own Hussars
A corporal in the uniform of the 7th Queens Own Hussars, complete with sword and riding boots. Date: C.1912

Edwardian woman and man in hunting attire
A woman in typical Edwardian dress and hat, posing for her photo outside a house with a man in hunting attire. Date: early 20th century

WW2 - London Auxiliary Ambulance Service Driver on the farm
WW2 - British Home front, October 1941 - Mrs John Steel, daughter of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, British Pathologist, lends her hand to the war effort

Household Brigade - Officer of the British Life Guards
An Officer of The Life Guards (LG) (the senior regiment of the British Army and part of the Household Cavalry, along with the Blues and Royals), pictured with his young son

Susi - sitting in a boot, holding a tennis ball. 1950s

Studio photo of an Edwardian boy in his Sunday best (Albert Auerbach). Date: circa 1907

Victorian Scrap - soldiers polishing boots at camp - Captain Goode and Captain Field. late 19th century

Young woman in a studio photo, wearing fancy dress
Young woman (Peggy Miller) in a studio photo, wearing fancy dress. Date: 1914

Boots - Comforts for Campaginers advertisement, WWI
Advertisement for Boots the Chemists and their various suggestions for comforts - gifts to send to men fighting at the front during the First World War

Man and mule
Unusual Friends - man and mule. 1950s

Dick Turpin, with R. A. Roberts
Dick Turpin, starring R.A. Roberts (born Richard Arthur Roberts, 1870) in which he played five different characters, including two women. This version of the famous story was a music hall sketch

Theatre Rotto, Sancreed Village Hall, Penzance, Cornwall
Theatre Rotto in action, Sancreed Village Hall, Sancreed, near Penzance, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

H B Irving playing Charles I by W. G. Wills
Photograph of Harry Brodribb, known as H B in the lead role of Charles I. This is another card advertising the companys arrival in Southampton on the same tour. Date: 1907

Advert for Peter Robinsons ladies footwear 1905
Selection of Edwardian ladies footwear including elegant beaded evening shoes and ankle boots. 1905

Advert for Raouls French footwear 1911
Elegant chic comfortable womens footwear. Date: 1911

City cowboy with his white horse, USA
City cowboy with his white horse, North America. Date: circa 1910s

Advert for Pinets footwear in Paris 1887
Advertisement for Pinets footwear- boots and shoes for ladies, gentlemen and children. Date: 1887

Stirrup cup before hunt sets off, St Just, Cornwall
Stirrup cup before the hunt sets off from outside the Kings Arms at St Just, Cornwall. The man with the tray is " Jethro" (Geoff Rowe), landlord of the pub. Date: 1970s

Boy with a Wheelbarrow, 1880, by Ernst Josephson
Ernst Josephson (1851-1906). Swedish painter. Boy with a Wheelbarrow, 1880. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Hunter by a Spring, 1786-1787, by Francisco de Goya
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). Spanish painter. Hunter by a Spring, 1786-1787. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Reading, Royal County of Berkshire - Queen Victoria Street viewed from Broad Street. On the right is a store of the Public Benefit Boots Company

The Babes in the Wood, Lyceum Theatre, London. Date: 1913

Advert for Goochs boys clothing 1915
Little version to their Dads clothing, available at Goochs, Department Store, Brompton Road, Lonodn, S.W. 1915

Skating dress at Dickins and Jones advertisement
The ideal skating dress in fine, Galashiels tweed with a full circular skirt, gored to allow ample width for movement. Available with knickers to match

Charles Kemble as Falstaff in Henry IV
Charles Kemble in the role of Sir John Falstaff in Shakespeares King Henry IV. 1827

Misfitz - Puss in Boots. early 20th century

Anti-Kaiser satire, trench art, Belgium, WW1
Anti-Kaiser wartime satire, trench art -- the Kaiser looks through a window in a wooden fence. (1 of 3) Date: 1914-1918

The Columbus skate invention - ice skating
The Columbus newest skate invention. Awarded at the Vienna Industrial Exhibition 1890 with first diploma of honour. Ice skates from G. Rohonery of Budapest. 19th century

Ice skates
An ice skate from 1892. 1892

Christmas card, two girls with wheelbarrow in snow
Christmas card, two girls pushing a Christmas tree and toys in a red wheelbarrow in the snow. circa 1950s

Getting used to Army Boots - Recruits in training, Wincheste
Getting used to Army Boots. (Winter 1939). Recruits in training, Winchester.Unframed watercolour, pen and ink by Eric Dawson

Dr N P Jewell at Bura Camp, Kenya, East Africa, WW1
Dr N P Jewell at Bura Camp, Kenya, East Africa, during WW1. 1915

WW1 - Satirical Caricature of a German Officer, wearing standard Pickelhaube and monocle. Date: circa 1915

Victorian Scrap -- Boot Black. late 19th century

Waiting for the Verdict -- at the cobbler s
Waiting for the Verdict -- a little girl wonders if the cobbler will be able to repair her boots. 1893

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