Catching Collection (page 5)

Housewives Stunt School
Housewife Teresa Vincent leaps from the first floor of a building onto cardboard boxes and mattresses 20 feet below. It makes a change from washing up, she explained. Date: 1960s

Throwing Sticks for Dog
A girl stands on a rocky beach, throwing sticks into the sea for her dog to retrieve. Date: 1890

Children Study Pondlife
Children catching things in a pond during a biology lesson Date: 1950s

Eeling in Kent / 1930S
Eel spearers at work on the marshes at Reculver, Kent, England. By digging a pronged spear into the mud, skilled eel catchers catch as many as ten pounds of eels an hour. Date: 1930s

Racial / Wild Horse C1830
Comanche catching a wild horse Date: circa 1830

Double page spread in a diary for 14-19 May
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 14-19 May. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

More Work For The Navy - postcard by Lawson Wood
More Work For The Navy - A young boy climbs up on the rail of the pier and tries to catch the attention of a submarine captain with the words: " I, Jellicoe, if you re goin down ag in

Lynx caught in trap
A lynx is caught by the leg in a steel jaw trap

The Rat Hunt by John Hassall
A group of lively boys join in a rat hunt, charging after an unfortunate rat who has been discovered in a hay rick

Met Police stopwatch -- outer casing
A Metropolitan Police issue stopwatch for the purpose of catching speeding motorists. This method worked on the principle of timing motorists over specific distances to estimate their speed

Catching larks at Gatinais, France
Catching larks in a large net in the Gatinais Province (between the Loire and the Seine), France

Faroe Islands, Denmark - Catching puffins with a long handled net. They are caught whilst flying in this strange contraption

Mary attracts the chaps
Now Mary was a plain girl, Of Lovers she had few; She donned the Harem skirt and now She doesn t know what to do!

Salmon Trolling at Victoria, British Columbia
A Pleasant Pastime - Salmon Trolling at Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Trolling is the practice of fishing by drawing a baited line or lure behind a boat

A Leopard catches a Peacock
A Leopard pounces on a Peacock, whose flights from its perch is not fast enough for the big cats paw. Painting by Raymond Sheppard

Little Games for the Holidays - Bouncing the Beechum
A curious game invented by Heath Robinson whereby a tiny ball or beechum is sprung into the air by the hefty use of a mallet while a number of public school boys wait to catch it with nets poised

Bideford Fishermen
Fishermen at Bideford, North Devon. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Yawning is Catching
Yawning is catching

Prince of Wales on Alexandra Rose Day
Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor, good-humouredly catching a bouquet as he drives in a carriage during Alexandra Rose Day, 1922

Trapping Whelks on the Shores of the Caspian Sea by W. Heath
The first illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) to appear in The Sketch on March 21st 1906. Part of a humorous series called, The Gentle Art of Catching Things

A scene inside a cafe
Flo: I say, do you believe that awful story about Doris? Elsie: Of course I do- which one? An illustration of two ladies catching up with the gossip inside a cafe

Sour Grapes
A new method of catching foxes to be introduced in the coming season. Robinson was a regular contributor to the Sketch, the Bystander and other ILN titles during his lifetime

A village on the river Prah during the 2nd Ashanti War
On their march towards the Ashanti capital of Kumasi, British soldiers watch the peaceful scene of women catching fish and tritons in the river Prah

Catching fish in an old boot
A humourous painting by Malcolm Greensmith depicting a lad fishing by a stream (ignoring the warning sign!) having far more success catching fish in his boot

Grandfather and Grandson go fishing
A Grandfather and his Grandson go fishing in a stream with nets on long poles. The young lad, wearing blue dungarees, catches a big one!

Catching a Whale off Deptford Pier, London, 1842
Engraving showing a 15 foot, 2 ton, whale being caught at Deptford Pier, London, in 1842. This whale had been swimming down the River Thames when it was sighted by watermen on the pier

Emigration. The land of Promise. Emigrants Catching their Fi
Moving illustration showing in close up the expressions on the faces of young emigrants as their ship enters the St Lawrence River and the passengers catch their fist sight of Canadian land

French luxury liner, Normandie, in New York Harbour, Novem
Photograph of the Normandie in New York Harbour, November 1943. The Normandie had just been refloated and was being towed to dry dock for repairs

Salvaged Luxury Liner Normandie, New York Harbour, Novembe
Photograph of the Normandie in New York Harbour, November 1943. The Normandie had just been refloated and was being towed to dry dock for repairs

Sperm Whales Caught
Catching sperm whales

Catching a poacher
A sketch of a pheasant poacher being caught in the act

Little Fish & the Fisher
THE LITTLE FISH AND THE FISHERMAN: a tiddler tries to persuade a fisher to let him grow into a big trout, worth catching, but the man prefers to keep what he has

Fable / Cat and Bat
The cat, having made a vow never to eat another bird, decides that the bat, as a bird is unlawful prey, but as a mouse it is fair game

Fable / Boy & Butterfly
A boy, smitten with the colours of a butterfly, pursues it around the garden trying to capture it

Luxurious Living Room
An eye-catching living room, with a stylish satin suite, ruched curtains, parque flooring, Romanesque columns, flower arrangements, a baby grand piano, leopardskin rug

Dogs Catch Fish
Dogs catch fish on the beach at Nome, Alaska

Mice / Dormice 1555
Two men capture mice and dormice in traps

Chile Valparaiso
Catching a tram in the streets of Valparaiso - note the lady conductor !

Clan Mac Innes
Clan MAC INNES engaged in fighting, catching arrows on his shield : barefoot on the rocks

Brighton / Bather Carriage
Brighton, Sussex: a carriage for bathers, airtight to prevent the person from catching cold

Catching Wolf-Fish / 1555
Catching wolf-fish

Salmon Fishing / Scandinav
Catching salmon in Scandinavia, and the various processes of preserving and preparing the fish

Fishing Scene / 1555
Two men haul in a net full of fish, from ice-capped waters judging by their spike-soled footwear and warm winter clothing

Advert / Posters 1930S
Bill posters - evidently not eye-catching enough for the man and woman passing by

FLAMMARION (1842 - 1925)
CAMILLE FLAMMARION - French scientist caricatured as catching stars

Manner of Catching Crocs
The manner of catching a crocodile

Children & Butterflies
Four children in the countryside. A boy shows off his butterfly collection while three girls gather flowers

Legend of Dibbles Bridge
When one Ralph had forded the river Dibb & was drying off behind a bolder, he saw the devil who said that he would build a bridge to stop his servant catching a chill

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