Broken Collection (page 11)

Title page design by Cecil Aldin, Ugly Duckling, in the Letter Book Series. Showing three yellow ducklings just emerged from the egg. Date: 1921

Elephant in a motor car
An elephant in a motor car. He has just crashed into a wooden signpost, which a pig and a bear are examining. Date: circa 1933

Cartoon, Pantagruels victorious return to the court of Gargantua, after extirpating the Soup Meagres of Bouille Land, by James Gillray

Womens Legion pulling a broken down ambulance, WWI
Members of the Womens Legion, who worked convoying wounded soldiers among many other tasks, pulling a broken-down ambulance during the First World War. 1918

Emblematic illustration of the everlasting flower.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees, Flower Fairies, Paris

Tipsy grapevine flower fairy, Vitis vinifera.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees, Flower Fairies, Paris

Broken - Brokenbahn Railway, Konigsberg, Bayem
Broken/Brokenbahn Railway, Konigsberg, Bayem, Germany. Date: 1907

WW2 Christmas card, female air warden (ARP). Date: 1945

Cartoon, A dry telegram, WW1
Cartoon, A dry telegram, showing a chef (a spy) writing to his boss, that after eight days the boxes of rubbish have contained nothing of diplomatic interest. Date: 1915

Roman ruins at Capernaum, Sea of Galilee, Israel
Roman ruins at Capernaum, on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee (Kinneret, Lake of Gennesaret, Lake Tiberias), Lower Galilee, Israel. Date: 1920s

Favourite Sayings - Scatter and Increase
Black and white lantern slide of split scene. Left hand side shows a man scattering seed into broken earth. Right hand side shows the painted image of sheaves of stacked corn

Sydney, Australia - Silver Mine - Broken Hill
Slide showing a photograph of a Silver mine. Broken Hill is Australias longest-lived mining city. In 1844, the explorer Charles Sturt saw and named the Barrier Range

Japan - The effects of a Typhoon (or storm)
Lantern slide of The effects of a Typhoon (or storm). Depicts a boat broken into bits.. Part of Box 158 Japan, part of Boswell Collection, slide no. 24 Date: circa 1890s

Rome, Italy - House and Statues of the Vestal Virgins
Black and white. Ruins of a building with broken statues of women lining the walls.. Part of Box 196, Rome, Boswell collection. Slide number 39. Date: circa 1890s

Albert Fileux, engineer, passenger of John Moisant
Albert Fileux, mechanical engineer, passenger of John Moisant on many of his pioneering flights, including a cross-Channel trip from France to Britain on 17 August 1910. Date: circa 1910

WWI Poster, The Scrap of Paper, Enlist Today (Welsh version)
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, The Scrap of Paper, Enlist Today. Referring to Belgian independence and the broken treaty of 1839 (Welsh version). Date: 1915

Some people can always get help
A attractive woman stands helplessly next to her broken down car, while a man helps. Date: 1923

Homeward Bound on Christmas Eve by H. L. Oakley
The broken trace in 1818, and a burst tyre in 1919. A silhouette contrasting two modes of transport a century apart by Harry Lawrence Oakley. Date: 1919

Suffragette Militant Broken Windows. Worksmen repairing windows at Messers Bakers Regent Street, London, after they were smashed by Militant Suffragettes Date: circa 1914

Suffragette Militants Broken Windows. The scene in Cockspur Street, London following a campaign of window smashing by militant members of the W.S.P.U

Suffragette Hammer Policeman Broken Window. Suffragette with hammer confronts alarmed policeman. Oh give us votes, the maiden said, For if you don t I ll punch your head. Date: circa 1912

Broken crockery after a fire, Rochester Way, SE London
Broken crockery on the floor of a kitchen after a fire at Rochester Way, SE London, 6 February 1955. Date: 1955

Fire in Kennington Park Road, SE London
Fire at a derelict house in Kennington Park Road, SE London, 30 April 1955. Two boys were trapped on the top floor, and escaped by dropping from the two top floor windows

Firefighters in action, Calders Wharf, East London
Firefighters in action at a fire in Calders Wharf, East London, 21 May 1955. Seen here with hosepipes, cooling down barrels of collodion cotton and boxes of paint

Traffic control for pedestrian crossings
Traffic control by light-ray : the first system of its kind. A new method of controlling road traffic by beams of light broken by pedestrian and vehicles

Ruins, Egypt. Date: circa 1870

Bonzo is hoist with his own petard! by George Studdy
Bonzo is hoist with his own petard! He pulls at the tablecloth, and manages to break a plate and cover his bone with some kind of sauce or custard. Date: 1924

Mending Atlantic cables by G. H. Davis
Mending earthquake-torn Atlantic cables: methods and tools. How the Atlantic cables broken by the submarine earthquake (18 November) are repaired: perilous work in winter. Date: 1929

Nursery Rhymes -- Tom the Pipers Son. Tom with his pipe did play with such skill, that those who heard him could never keep still; as soon as he played they began for to dance

Mending household items 1944
Make Do and Mend. During World War Two women became very resourceful, they tackled repairs and maintenance of many clothing and household items, that today we would just throw away and replace. 1944

Ramshackle cottage and courtyard, Scotland
A ramshackle cottage and courtyard, Scotland

People in open-topped car
Three people sitting in an open-topped car. A smiling boy stands in front with his arm in a sling

Bomb damaged building during WW2
A bomb damaged building in Germany during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s

Southgate Oak Tree
No, this mans car has not broken down, he is pointing out an ancient oak tree at Southgate, north London, England. Date: early 1930s

Comic Postcard - unfolding drama on the broken bridge - Ernest is regretting his boast to Letty, Agnes, Dot and Prunella that the structure would take their combined weight. Date: circa 1905

17 Gough Square - where Dr. Johnson compiled his dictionary
17 Gough Square, Fleet Street, London - where Dr. Samuel Johnson compiled his dictionary in 1748. In the garret (with the slanting roof) his assistants worked

Three runaway schoolboys wash up on a deserted island, each hanging onto a broken mast - a solitary cormorant doesn t know quite what to make of these new arrivals. Date: 1898

Schoolmaster reacts angrily as his window is smashed by an errant cricket ball. Date: 1898

WW1 era - Panorama of Thessaloniki - showing bent minaret
WW1 era - Panorama of Thessaloniki - showing a minaret of one of the mosques damaged by a shell. Date: circa 1916

Panorama of Thessaloniki - minaret damaged by shell
WW1 era - Panorama of Thessaloniki - showing a minaret of one of the mosques damaged by a shell. Date: circa 1916

Thessaloniki - Great Fire of 1917
Devastation in Salonica, Greece, during the Great Fire that raged between 18th-19th August 1917. In 32 hours 9500 houses were destroyed.which left more than 70000 people homeless

Queen Alexandra
Alexandra of Denmark (18441925) - Queen consort of the United Kingdom and Empress of India as the wife of King-Emperor Edward VII

The Great Fire at Thessaloniki - View from the sea
The Great Fire that raged between 18th-20th August 1917 at Thessaloniki, Greece. In 72 hours, 9500 houses were destroyed which left more than 70000 people homeless

Great Fire at Thessaloniki - General View of Destroyed Town
The Great Fire that raged between 18th-20th August 1917 at Thessaloniki, Greece. In 72 hours, 9500 houses were destroyed which left more than 70000 people homeless

Great Fire at Thessaloniki - General Post Office, Liberty Sq
The Great Fire that raged between 18th-20th August 1917 at Thessaloniki, Greece. In 72 hours, 9500 houses were destroyed which left more than 70000 people homeless

Great Fire at Thessaloniki - French Street - Ottoman Bank
The Great Fire that raged between 18th-20th August 1917 at Thessaloniki, Greece. In 72 hours, 9500 houses were destroyed which left more than 70000 people homeless

Great Fire at Thessaloniki - Intimate Club - Liberty Square
The Great Fire that raged between 18th-20th August 1917 at Thessaloniki, Greece. In 72 hours, 9500 houses were destroyed which left more than 70000 people homeless

The Great Fire at Thessaloniki - The Splendid Palace - Quay
The Great Fire that raged between 18th-20th August 1917 at Thessaloniki, Greece. In 72 hours, 9500 houses were destroyed which left more than 70000 people homeless

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