Broke Collection (page 2)

The Mutiny on the Caswell, 1876
Engraving of a number of sketches of the Caswell Mutiny, which took place on the sailing ship Caswell between Valparaiso and Queenstown, Ireland, March 1876

Wreck of the Herefordshire on the Cadigan coast, trapping th
The wreck of the Herefordshire, seen here on the Cardigan coast. The old liner broke away from the tugs in stormy conditions, endangering her four crew

Jack and Jill / Andre
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water, Jack fell down and broke his crown, and Jill came tumbling after

WW1 - Second Battle of Dover Strait - HMS Broke rams Germans
WW1 - During the Second Battle of Dover Strait, HMS Broke rammed SMS G42 on 21st April 1917 near the Goodwin Sands. In confusing action, there was close-quarter fighting between the crews

Firemen at Battersbys hatworks were obviously employed in house, and despite the equipment being satisfactory, when a fire broke out in 1906 there was insufficient water pressure in the mains to be

Charles Broke Vere
Major-General Sir Charles Broke Vere (1779 1843), British soldier and Conservative Member of Parliament

Embroidered badge of the Coldstream Guards, worked by Corporal Tom Hughes, 17321, 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, The Park, Hurley Common, near Atherstone, Warwickshire. Dated March 1917

Coucher de soleil dans la plaine de L Yser. Pi裥 de 75 allant prendre position.. Georges Scott, (1873-1943). Scott Started His Career In The 1890S And Worked As War Correspondent For The News

Head and shoulders oval portrait of an American Sergeant, 1917. Georges Scott, (1873-1943). Scott Started His Career In The 1890S And Worked As War Correspondent For The News Magazine L Illustration

Portrait of a Corporal of the 1 / 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Ba
Portrait of a Corporal of the 1/9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry, 5th Brigade, 9th Division, 1st Army in full marching order. Georges Scott, (1873-1943)

La Medaille Militaire. Georges Scott, (1873-1943). Scott Started His Career In The 1890S And Worked As War Correspondent For The News Magazine L Illustration During The Balkan Wars Of 1912-13

Pipers of the 1 / 9th (Glasgow Highlanders)
Pipers of the 1/9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry, 5th Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Army, France, 1915

A heavy French transport en route. Georges Scott, (1873-1943). Scott Started His Career In The 1890S And Worked As War Correspondent For The News Magazine L Illustration During The Balkan Wars Of

A heavy artillery convoy. Georges Scott, (1873-1943). Scott Started His Career In The 1890S And Worked As War Correspondent For The News Magazine L Illustration During The Balkan Wars Of 1912-13

The massing of war columns
When the First World War broke out, newspaper readers thought there would be a constant stream of new information to keep them up-to-date with everything

Drifting derelict warship, Richelieu, by G. H. Davis
The drifting of the derelict French warship, Richelieu. While being towed from Toulon to Rotterdam, the ship broke loose from her tugs at Brest

Lord Willoughby de Broke, Vanity Fair, Spy
RICHARD GREVILLE VERNEY, 19th Baron WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE (1869-1923) British peer and conservative politician. He wrote a book on foxhunting called Hunting the Fox, published in 1921

William Smith O brien-1
WILLIAM SMITH O BRIEN - Irish statesman, patriot who sided with the Repeal agitation in 1844 but broke with O Connell and espoused a revolutionary agenda which led to trouble. Date: 1803 - 1864

William Smith O brien-3
WILLIAM SMITH O BRIEN - Irish statesman, patriot who sided with the Repeal agitation in 1844 but broke with O Connell and espoused a revolutionary agenda which led to trouble. Date: 1803 - 1864

William Smith O brien-2
WILLIAM SMITH O BRIEN - Irish statesman, patriot who sided with the Repeal agitation in 1844 but broke with O Connell and espoused a revolutionary agenda which led to trouble. Date: 1803 - 1864

The Loneliness of Penury - Pierrot upset having gone bust
The Loneliness of Penury - Pierrot upset and woeful having gone bust and been abandoned by society Date: 1911

Nursery Tale - Humpty Dumpty - HD takes a nasty fall and it is unlikely that all the Kings Horses or indeed all the Kings Men will be able to exact a repair... Date: 1880

Lord Willoughby de Broke, left, at the 1936 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at the Fairey Aviation Aerodrome, Great West Road, Hayes, Middlesex. Date: 1936

Crowds broke bounds at Hanworth Aero Park after the Graf Zeppelin, LZ 127, landed from Germany, 18 August 1931. Date: 1931

Georges M Legagneux
Georges M. Legagneux, who, with a passenger, in a flight from Paris to Brussels (195 miles), broke the speed record, covering the distance at the rate of 63mph

Yes, he broke the pot. Plate 25 of Los Caprichos
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Yes, he broke the pot. Plate 25 of Los Caprichos, etching, aquatint

This view of his majestys ship Shannon, ... waiting the close approach of the American frigate Chesapeak... inscribed to Captain P.B.V. Broke... The U.S.S. Chesapeake approaching the H.M.S

Egyptian obelisk of Thutmose III - Istanbul
The Egyptian obelisk of Thutmose III (1549 - 1503 BC) - originally from Deir el Bahri opposite Thebes in Upper Egypt to commemorate campaigns in Syria

Gipsy Moth Iv, Greenwich
Sir Francis Chichesters boat Gipsy Moth IV broke the world record for the fastest voyage around the world by a small vessel. Here greeted by crowds at Greenwich, London. Date: 1960s

Sailor ringing new bell of HMS Broke, WW1
A sailor rings the new bell of HMS Broke during the First World War. The ship was badly damaged during the Second Battle of Dover Strait, 21 April 1917. Date: circa 1917

Dog with Broken Leg
This dog, here with his nurse, broke his leg and the broken bones were mended with the aid of a metal pin. When the bandages come off he will be able to use his leg as before. Date: late 1960s

Commander E. R. G. R. Evans of HMS Broke
Commander E.R.G.R. Evans of HMS Broke

The Broken Spade
A brother consoles his sister who has broken her spade while digging too forcefully in the sand. Either that, or more likely HE broke it, and he is saying sorry... Date: 1890

Sir Philip Broke - 1
SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE BROKE British naval commander Date: 1776 - 1841

Chatham Prison Riots - The Convicts at Labour
Convicts at labour breaking rocks at St Marys Convict Prison, Chatham. A serious riot broke out here amongst the inmates in early March 1861, which had to be forcibly put down by the military

The Obelisk of Theodosius - Constantinople
The Egyptian obelisk of Thutmose III (1549 - 1503 BC) - originally from Deir el Bahri opposite Thebes in Upper Egypt to commemorate campaigns in Syria

Lear / Nonsense / Chester
There was an Old Person of Chester, whom several small children did pester; They threw some large stones, which broke most of his bones, and displeased that Old Person of Chester

Margaret Whigham and the Earl of Warwick, 1932
Photograph showing Miss Margaret Whigham (1912-1993), later the Duchess of Argyll, with Charles Guy Greville, 7th Earl Brooke, 7th Earl of Warwick (1919-1984), pictured c.1932

RAF Typhoons attack German tanks, France; Second World War
Illustration showing Royal Air Force Typhoons, fighter-bombers equipped with rockets, attacking a column of German armour, near Mortain, 1944

British Armoured Vehicles advancing in Normandy; Second Worl
Photograph showing British Armoured vehicles and tanks heading off to attack German positions in Normandy, France, during July 1944

Great Sheffield Flood
The Great Flood (or Inundation) at Sheffield on 11th March 1864 when the Dale Dyke Dam broke flooding Sheffield. Scene showing the wrecking of Coronation Bridge

Flooding Sheffield 1864
The Great Flood (or Inundation) at Sheffield on 11th March 1864 when the Dale Dyke Dam broke flooding Sheffield and surrounding areas and wrecking nearly all

Queen Mary inspecting troops
Queen Mary, accompanied by Prince Albert (later George VI) and Princess Mary, at an inspection of troops near Aldershot, Hants

American Prairie on Fire
A Fire broke out in Monticello prairie, a few miles away from Alton, destroying buildings and causing much loss of life

American oli powered diesel electric locomotive
The Streamline Union Pacific Train for high speed passenger service. This oil powered diesel electric locomotive is fitted with a 900 H.P twelve cylinder diesel engine

Buoys and Grapnels used in recovering the Atlantic Telegraph
Engraving showing the buoys and grapnels that were used to recover an Atlantic Telegraph Cable, September 1866. The telegraph cable, which was laid in 1865 by the Great Eastern

The Melbourne Riots
A plain clothes policeman, in centre, using his revolver to keep strikers apart from a free labourer during the Melbourne Waterside Workers strike of 1928

Prince and Princess Louis of Battenburg feeding rescued emig
Illustration showing Prince and Princess Louis of Battemberg feeding rescued emigrants from the ship Cairnrona, which caught fire in the Channel, at Dover Docks, 1910

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