Breaker Collection

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
USAF Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Date: 1960s

Aerial view of the coast at Dawlish, Devon, with a train passing through. circa 1980s

Brooklands Poster
A poster for the racing programme at Brooklands Race Tract at Weybridge, Surrey, featuring Sir Malcolm Campbell driving (at the time) the worlds fastest car, Bluebird

S. F. Edge
Selwyn Francis Edge (1868 - 1940), Australian businessman, racing driver, and record-breaker. He is principally associated with selling and racing De Dion-Bouton, Gladiator; Clem鮴 -Panhard

Lockheed YF-12A Blackbird
USAF Lockheed YF-12A Blackbird Date: 1960s

Percival P3 Gull Six, G-ADPR, Jean, used by Jean Batten
Percival P3 Gull Six, G-ADPR, Jean, used by Jean Gardner Batten, CBE, OSC (19091982), - a New Zealand aviatrix - on two record-breaking flights in the 1930s. Date: circa 1937

Luddites smash weaving machinery in a Nottingham textile factory. The Luddites were a movement of radical group of English textile workers

East Promenade, Cromer, Norfolk. Date: circa 1900

A tow breaker machine, linen production, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

Linen manufacture, Tow breaker machine Date: late 19th century

Stone breaker

Stone breakers Victorian period

Promenade at Westgate-on-Sea, Kent - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Tankerton, Kent, viewed from Whitstable Pier - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Steps and beach, Trusthorpe, Lincolnshire
Steps and beach, Trusthorpe, near Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Colwell Bay, Isle of Wight - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Felix Hotel, Felixstowe, Suffolk - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Beach viewed from West Pier, Brighton, Sussex - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Three mine workers in America
The United Mine Workers (UMWA) had won a sweeping victory in an 1897 strike by the soft-coal miners in the Midwest, winning significant wage increases and growing from 10, 000 to 115, 000 members

Malcolm Campbell Caricature
An Edward Hynes caricature of the champion motor driver and land speed record breaker Sir Malcolm Campbell (1885-1948). Date: 1933

Jim Mollison and Kangeroo
Scottish aviator James Allan Jim Mollison (1905-1959) was greeted by a kangaroo in Croydon, at the end of his record breaking flight from Australia to England

Triple-screw ice breaker, the Kosma Ninin, in a chapter entitled Some Strange Ships, by G G Jackson Date: circa 1927

Comic postcard, Couple and plump lady. I haven t brought my wife with me - but its all right, I ve left her behind before. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Couple on the beach Date: 20th century

Jean Batten, New Zealand aviator
Jean Batten (1909 - 1982), New Zealand aviator. She made a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world, including the first-ever solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936

Violette Cordery, 1926
British racing driver and long distance record breaker Violette Cordery (1900-1983), whose successful driving earned her the title of Queen of Motorists, pictured behind the wheel in 1926. 1926

S F Edge, racing driver and cyclist
Selwyn Francis Edge (1868-1940), Australian-born British businessman, racing driver, cyclist and record-breaker. early 20th century

Ventnor, Isle of Wight. circa 1880

Woman runs from waves
A young woman in a clinging red tank style one-piece swimsuit with a ruffle edged collar & a beret style bathing cap encounters a large wave. Alarmed, she runs for her life Date: 1926

Our Little Sailor - 1890
our little sailor - equipped with boat and spade Date: 1890

FOLKLORE / CASSEUR DE BOIS
LE CASSEU DE BOIS (= the branch-breaker) entity of Berry, central France, who may challenge the peasant as he gathers firewood Date: 1855

Messerschmitt Me-209V-1
The only Example of the Type - Messerschmitt Me-209V-1 Prototype World Speed Record Holder Which Test-Pilot Fritz Wendel Flew to a New World Speed Record of Almost 756 Km/H (469 Mph)

Messerschmitt Me-262A-1A Schwalbe
Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me-262A-1A Schwalbe Taxiing Date: 1940s

Messerschmitt Me-262B-1A Schwalbe
A Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me-262B-1A Schwalbe Parked Date: 1940s

Messerschmitt Me-262A Schwalbe
A Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me-262A Schwalbe Flying Date: 1940s

Breaker boy eating during a food break at a coal mine in Kingston, Pennsylvania, USA Date: circa 1900

War Workers Alphabet
A poem of the alphabet showing wartime womens working jobs from A to Z, including things such ass for shepherdess. Every letter of the alphabet includes an illustration

Catalina, California, USA - Everett Adargo, deep sea diver
Catalina, California, USA - Everett Bernard Adargo (1891-1971), deep sea diver, who set a record of descending to 56ft in 3 minutes, 15 seconds

Stone-breaking cell in a workhouse
Illustration showing a workhouse stone-breaking cell. Tramps and vagrants broke stones in return for a nights accommodation Date: circa 1909

Lieutenant Rimington - breaker & teacher of Army horses, WW1
Lt. Mike Rimington, late of the 37th Lancers, seen breaking unruly and vicious horses for the British Army at the Underdale Hall Remount Department near Shrewsbury in 1916

Roger Bannister
SIR ROGER GILBERT BANNISTER CBE, neurologist and athlete best known for being the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. Date: 1929 -

Peggy Salaman, 19 year old aviatress, who flew from Lympe in Kent to Cape Town, South Africa in November 1931, beating the existing record set by Glen Kidston by more than a day

Donald Campbell Memorabilia, including his helmet, a biogrpahy about him, a Bluebird pennant and the trophy awarded to aommemorate a new world water speed record of 216.2 mph set on Lake Mead in 1955

Mosul, Iraq - Iraqi man with his giant Cornichon
Iraq - Mosul, a man stands proudly with his giant Cornichon (gherkin), weighing a whopping 22 kgs!

Three boys with seal on a pebbly beach
Unusual Friends - three boys with seal on a pebbly beach. 1950s

Madeira Road, Brighton, Sussex. circa 1890

Breaking Basalt for Road Metal, Co. Antrim
Breaking Basalt forRoad Metal, Co. Antrim - an outside view of a breaker for making the blocks of Basalt smaller. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

Flax Breaker in a Co. Antrim Scutch Mill, Toome - an interior shot showing a man operating a flax breaker. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

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