Carriage Collection (page 18)

Horse carriage Bavaria
A two horse carriage drives through a meadow of flowers in the Bavarian Alps near Hohenschwangau Castle. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Family on train, India
A family sitting in a first class carriage on an Indian Railways train from Delhi to Agra. The man plays cards Date: 1987

Pony and trap, Blists Hill, Shropshire
A horse and carriage with two passengers trots through Blists Hill, Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Shropshire. First published The Daily Telegraph Date: 1990

Wrecked Scottish Express at Creamlington - General Strike
Wrecked Scottish Express at Creamlington, Northumberland - Deliberate derailment attributed to strikers during the General Strike. Date: 1926

French satire on the Boer War - Victoria sending out Mules
The Theatre of War - Newly enlisted mules swear fidelity to the flag - French satire on the Second Boer War as Edward, Prince of Wales

Hotel New Windsor - Bermuda. Date: circa 1910s

WW1 - German Humorous Postcard - Counter-intelligence. A German soldier takes a tactical approach to chatting to a pretty young nurse in a train carriage

Madame Clara Butt and her children
Madame Clara Butt (1872-1936) - Contralto concert Singer - and her children Date: 1905

Food Queues in London owing to shortages
Food Queues in London owing to shortage of supplies. People waiting to get 2 ounces only Date: 1918

By Order of the Owner - Lot 1. Kitty, Chestnut Mare (property of a lady - very fast) - a lightly satirical (to whom does the description apply!!) postcard by Lance Thackeray (1867-1916). Date: 1902

Bolton-by-Bowland, Lancashire - The Village Forge. Date: circa 1905

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk - Elderly Couple at the seaside posing for a candid seasdie snap driving a toy model carriage, with obligatory fags

British Holiday Scene, Young toddler riding in pony carriage. Date: circa 1910s

Baby in a fine perambulator, parked on a the pavement Date: circa 1920s

Arrival by private coach at the Hotel Schweizerhof, Luzern, Switzerland. Date: circa 1908

The British Royal Familys Golden State Coach, used for royal coronations decorated with paintings by Giovanni Cipriani including the royal arms on the upper back panel

Funeral Procession of King George VI - Gates of Hyde Park
Funeral Procession of King George VI (1895-1952) - The cortege passing through the gates of Hyde Park Date: 1952

Driving to the Races - Louis Wain postcard
Driving to the Races in a carriage pulled by a team of four dogs - distracted by acrobatic cats - Louis Wain postcard Date: 1911

Lunch at the Races - Louis Wain postcard. A dog raids the cats hamper and runs off with the lunchtime duck, whilst a bottle of bubbly is uncorked and the plates set out. Date: 1911

Lloyd Loom perambulator with a sweet young occupant! Date: circa 1920s

Modern-day Paris - Female Coach Driver
Modern-day Paris - Female Horse carriage Driver. " With us, no danger of getting lost, we always know how to find ourselves in the right places." Lady cab drivers were seen by paying

Queen Elizabeth II - Leaving the Palace - Coronation, 2nd June 1953. The procession heading down The Mall. Date: 1953

Murren Mountain Funicular Railway - Switzerland. The original Lauterbrunnen-Murren Mountain Railway opened in 1891 - it connects Lauterbrunnen with traffic-free Murren. Date: circa 1930

Princess Elizabeth taking a carriage ride with her nanny
Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022) taking a carriage ride in Central London with her nanny Date: 1927

Tranquil Vale, Blackheath Village, London SE3. circa 1870

Bristol Hotel, Chowringhee, Calcutta, India
Bristol Hotel, Calcutta Cycle Co and W Leslie & Co, Chowringhee, Calcutta (Kolkata), India. Date: circa 1910

Manica Road, Salisbury, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
Manica Road, Salisbury (now Harare), Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Date: circa 1908

Blighty Tea Rooms, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
The Blighty Tea Rooms, Bangalore (Bengaluru), Karnataka, India. Date: circa 1910

Roebuck Street, Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies. Date: circa 1910

Piazza Italia in Asmara, Eritrea. Date: circa 1920

House of Ferdinand de Lesseps in Ismailia, Egypt
House of Ferdinand de Lesseps (left) with carriage in front of the gate in Ismailia, a city in north-eastern Egypt. De Lesseps was the creator of the Suez Canal Company which constructed

Special train engine and carriage of the Egyptian Khedive
The Khedives Special in driving. It was built by R. Stephenson & Sons in 1862 and is used by the Khedive of Egypt when he moves his Court between his summer palace of Montaza and Alexandria

Muhammad Ali Square in Alexandria, Egypt
Carriages and pedestrians on Muhammad Ali Square in Alexandria, Egypt. The square is named after self-proclaimed first Khedive of Egypt

Horse-drawn hackney carriage, Gibraltar. Date: circa 1920s

Advert for Carter wounded or invalid chairs 1896
For holding a book or writing at a desk in any position over an easy chair, bed or sofa obviating fatigue and stooping. In valuable to invalids and students. 1896

Orient Express - The Overland Route to Cairo
The overland route to Egypt, the new wonder train which has brought Londoners within a weeks railway journey of Cairo by way of Calais, the Balkans, Aleppo, Beirut, Haifa and Kantara

Zamboanga City, Mindanao, Philippines
Street scene on the corner of Governor Lim Avenue in Zamboanga City, Mindanao, Philippines, with people and traffic. Date: circa 1925

Magellans Kiosk, Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines. It contains Magellans Cross, brought by the Portuguese explorer in 1521. Date: circa 1925

Arab porters in Main Street, Baghdad, Iraq. circa 1917

Knox Street, Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa
Knox Street, Germiston, a gold mining town in Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. Date: circa 1910

Royal Hotel, Potchefstroom, N W Province, South Africa
Royal Hotel, King Edward Street, Potchefstroom, N W Province, South Africa. Date: circa 1905

High Street, Georgetown, Guyana, South America
High Street, Georgetown, Guyana (then British Guiana), South America, with transport waiting for passengers on the right. Date: circa 1910

The Blue Train - illustrated poem
A poem by Joy Garden (and quite a terrible one at that), extolling the virtues of travelling to the French Riviera via the fabled Blue Train

Chinese Horse-drawn carriage / car
Chinese Horse-drawn carriage/car. Date: circa 1910s

Pergamon Altar. Horse of Helios carriage attacking a giant
Pergamon Altar. Built by order of Eumenes II Soter. 164-156 BC by artists of the school of Pergamon. Marble and limestone. South frieze. Gigantomachy. Horse of Helios carriage attacking a giant

American Screw Company s. United States. Engraving, 1884
American Screw Company s. Manufactory of patent Gimlet-Pointet Screws. United States. Engraving, 1884

Altar of Mars and Venus. rome. italy
Roman art. Italy. Altar of Mars and Venus in marble lunense. Roman artwork of the end of the reign of Trajan (98-117 ), later re-used under the Hadrianic era (117-132)

London Underground Opened 1863
Dignitaries taking a ride on the first train on the Metropolitan Railway, including William Gladstone and his wife (at the front of the carriage on the left). Date: 1863

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