Breaking Collection (page 6)

Jean Batten in 1937

A Madame Yevonde portrait of Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava
Lady Dufferin (nearest to camera) married as her second husband, Mr H. C. S. A. Somerset. Lady Veronica is her only daughter, and married Mr Anthony Hornby in 1931

Miss Jeanne de Casalis by Madame Yevonde
Miss Jeanne de Casalis pictured during the time she played the lead in Mr Edward Middletons production of Potiphars Wife. Madame Yevonde was a prolific and ground-breaking society portrait

A Madame Yevonde portrait of Mr W. Somerset Maugham
Mr Somerset Maugham regards the world with a cold and cynical eye and writes about it with a brilliant pen. Madame Yevonde was a prolific and ground-breaking society portrait

Tonbridge Union Workhouse, Pembury, Kent

GLC-LFB Forced entry and lighting unit at Clapham
The mid 1970s saw a number of innovative appliance designs come into play as the London Fire Brigade adapted to an ever changing and more Health and Safety conscious working environment

General Strike 1926

May 1904 Japan seconds army preoccupation Furanten, China, and is picture to breaking the iron bridge every place. Print shows the Japanese Second Army destroying a bridge at Pu-lan-tien during

Juichidanme - act eleven of the Chushingura - breaking down the entrance. Print shows a group of warriors advancing on building under a full moon during the winter

The actor Ichikawa Ebizo in the role of Shinozuka breaking through the barrier. Date 173-

To the right hon able Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, this plate representing a perspective view of a scutch mill, with the method of breaking the flax with groved sic rollers

The breaking point. A heavy load for an old woman. Lafayette St. below Astor Pl. NY Location: New York, New York (State). Date 1912 February

Percy G. Williams presents The four Mortons breaking into society a musical farce in three acts. Date c1905

Loosening carrots from soil with plow before pulling in order to prevent breaking, near Santa Maria, Texas. Date 1939 Feb

Montage depicting various Australian sports with animals, including horses, kangaroos and emu. circa 1883

Lone Star - Largest Cow in the World - Texas
Lone Star - The largest Cow in the World (of the cattle breed) - Texas, USA. Lone Star stood 6ft 1 inch tall and can be seen here standing alongside the Chief of Police in Rome, Georgia

Breaking in ponies for the Scott Polar Expedition
Breaking in one of the twenty Siberian ponies to be taken on board the Terra Nova as part of the Captain Scott Polar expedition of 1911 - 12

A profitable crop of Onions grown in Canada! I think a certain amount of photo trickery has been employed here.... 1910

Peggy Salaman in court dress
Peggy Salamon, 19 year old aviator, who broke the record for the flight from England to Cape Town, South Africa in 1931, in court dress as a debutante the year before. Date: 1931

Kingham, Oxfordshire - Breaking up Stubble
Martins Patent Cultivator breaking up the stubble at Kingham, Oxfordshire. These were sold by C. Lainchbury & Son, an engineering firm from Kingham. Date: 1910

Breaking in Ponies
Miss Hutchinson, the owner of a 100 acre pony farm on a moor at Beaulieu, New Forest, Hampshire, England, teaches her lady pupils to round up and break in young ponies. Date: 1933

Brtish troops breaking stones, Flanders, WW1
British troops breaking stones for road making around the time of the Battle of Broodseinde, Flanders, during the First World War. circa 1917

Breaking an Egg
Breaking an egg into a bowl. Date: 20th century

Albert with Piccard
ALBERT I with professor PICCARD, the intrepid Belgian scientist whose record- breaking submarine descents and altitude ascents made headline news worldwide. Date: 1875 - 1934

Breaking Wave
Study of a breaking wave. Date: 1950s

Thames Icebreaker
An Icebreaker on the frozen River Thames, near Chertsey, Surrey, England. Date: 1940s

A meeting of the High Court
The President breaks the ceremonial cup by throwing it violently onto the floor whilst the members, right arm raised, say Amen. Date: 1890s

C W A Scott as a little boy
Flight Lieutenant Charles William Anderson Scott, AFC (13 February 1903 15 April 1946) record-breaking English aviator, best known for winning the MacRobertson Air Race in 1934

Kangeroo safety bicycle advert, 1885
Faster than any bicycle, safter than any tricycle: the record breaking Kangeroo safety bicycle. Somewhat resembling a penny farthing, the machine was made by Hillman

C W A Scott
Flight Lieutenant Charles William Anderson Scott, AFC (13 February 1903 15 April 1946), record-breaking English aviator, best known for winning the MacRobertson Air Race in 1934 together with T

Record-breaking cauliflower
A gigantic record-brealing cauliflower and the very proud gardener responsible for this remarkably-leaved vegetable! Date: circa 1894

Rail car transporting giant cabbages Date: 1910

Rail car transporting giant Bellflower apples Date: 1910

Carload of Mammoth Navel Oranges
A frankly ridicuolous carload of Mammoth American Navel Oranges! Date: 1909

Californian farmer with an immense watermelon Date: circa 1910

Rail car transporting a giant lemon Date: 1910

Rail car transporting a giant pear Date: 1910

Admiral Sir Reginald Hall, Naval Intelligence, WW1
Admiral Sir William Reginald Hall (1870-1943), British Director of Naval Intelligence (DNI) during the First World War. He was jointly responsible for setting up the Royal Navys codebreaking

Rail car transporting giant tomatoes Date: 1910

Mars Tied Down
Mars, God of War, allows the Geneva Peace Conference to tie him down - before he does his celebrated escaping trick, breaking their pathetic strings Date: 1932

Boys breaking stones in quarry, Mettray Colony, France
Boys at work breaking stones in a quarry at the agricultural colony for delinquent boys at Mettray, near Tours, France. In the 1840s

Spilt Milk by Muriel Dawson
A little blond boy in blue shorts looks upset and worried after spilling and breaking a jug of milk

Training a police dog - catching a fleeing burglar. A police dog and handler lie in wait, ready to pounce on a burglar making his escape out of a ground floor window

Labour yard, Bethnal Green Employment Association
A labour yard operated in the late 1860s by the Bethnal Green Employment Association in East London to provide work for the unemployed

The Old Labourers Last Job, picture and poem
An old man sits breaking stones while a workhouse looms behind. In the accompanying verse he bemoans his poverty, particularly at the hands of the Tories who have taxed our clothes and bread

Tank breaking through barbed wire barricade
An armoured tank breaking through a barbed wire barricade on a battlefield during the First World War

1844 poor relief work ticket
A ticket issued in 1844 by a Relieving Officer for the parish of St Mary, Islington, north London, directing the bearer to the stone yard on Wharf Road, City Basin

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