Chat Collection (page 8)

Black Watch colonel during sports break, WW1
A colonel of the Black Watch chatting to a colleague during a rest break for sports, on the Western Front, World War One. Date: circa 1916

Two British soldiers chat with millers daughter, WW1
Two British soldiers chat with the local millers daughter on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

We Three by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl chats to her pet dog and her doll. Date: 1945

General Joffre chatting with an officer, WW1
General Joseph Joffre (1852-1931), Commander of the French Army during the first half of the First World War. Seen here chatting with an officer on his way to the Front. Date: September 1914

Mule in stocks, Western Front, WW1
A mule in stocks waiting to be shod, on the Western Front during World War One. Two soldiers chat nearby. Date: circa 1916

Poor Teddy! by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl sits chatting with her doll, ignoring her teddy bear. Date: 1942

Print Users Yearbook -- people in underwear
Print Users Yearbook -- people viewed in a cutaway of a house, all in underwear. A new standard of intimacy. Who would have guessed that undies were the correct garb to don when entertaining guests

Illustration, Jersey in Jail, man and two women
Illustration, Jersey in Jail, showing a thin man whose trousers are too big for him, chatting with two women -- Very few have any superfluous fat of their own. Date: 1940-1945

Cover of Home Chat Magazine, showing a young woman putting up lanterns for some New Year entertaining. She is wearing a red and blue patterned party dress

Edinburgh street scene
An Edinburgh street scene, showing two elderly neighbours chatting in the sunshine on washday

Going Through the Course: Family musical gathering
A bald uncle implores his niece to play a polka on the piano at a family gathering. She declines, being only able to play Beethovens sonatas. Date: 1886

Javanese Bazaar Scene
Two men wearing sarongs crouch down to chat to a little boy at a bazaar in Java, Indonesia. Date: early 1930s

Advertisement for National Derv transport fuel -- group of bus conductors and drivers enjoying a tea break. 1959

Meeting at the Crossroads - Slavonia, Croatia
Peasant folk meet for a chat at the Crossroads in Slavonia, a historical region in eastern Croatia. Date: circa 1917

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Here is the News! Three women gossip over a mid-morning cup of tea. Lets hope secrets of national importance are not being flagrantly shared! Date: circa 1942

Communication - Far easier for the younger generation, even in 1903! The little girl: " Grandmother, Dad said he did not want to kiss you, by phone" - the response is a miserable Granny

Suicide - the last thng he did
" So Poor Old Mike committed suicide." " Yes." " That was the LAST thing I thought he d do." " Which it were, Sorr." Date: 1894

The honesty of an Elderly Irish Woman - Mortality
Mrs Murphy - " Shure its goin to be a moighty hard winter, Father dear; there ll be a moighty lot av us owld Folks Nipped in the BUd, oi m thinking." Date: circa 1890s

Two Racehorse Trainers share an in-joke
The Long Un - " I think I shall go an see my Osses To-Morrow." The Short Un - " Yes? Where do you keep em - Attenborough s

Racegoers - Mr Jo Leigh, J. Watt and Captain Mitchell
Mr Jo Leigh, J. Watt and Captain Mitchell - three well-known racing types in the 1890s standing around having a chat. Date: circa 1890s

Completely bizarre conversation concerning identification
Completely bizarre conversation between two cabbies concerning identification - at least the participants seem to understand one another. Overheard on a Cab Rank

Old soak yokel in smock claiming not to have been drinking
The Squire Daughter - " Jerry, a little bird told me you had to much to drink yesterday!" Jerry - " Wel, my lady

Sisters discussing their much-hated Stepmother
Ethel to Maud (discussing their much-hated Stepmother) - " Never mind, we only have her in the da-time. Think of poor Pa - he has her all night as well!" Date: 1892

Two scruffy street boys discuss lowering of income tax
Joyful News. " Ow, I sy Billie, Fader says there ll be a penny off de income-tax nex Year." Date: 1895

Mistaken translation of saying difficult English surnames Overheard on an Atlantic Liner Colonel Moses R. Hankey - " Theres one thing I kaant understand about your English way of spelling names

Widow in conversation with a French Count
Mrs Willson-Blobbs (widow of a wealthy pork butcher) - " My Dear Count, when you come to England, you must come and see me at Blobbs Court

Waiter at the Chat Noir - Paris, France
Waiter at the Chat Noir a nineteenth-century entertainment establishment, in the bohemian Montmartre district of Paris. Date: circa 1890s

A French Gentleman enquires after the health of an idiot
A smart French Gentleman enquires after the health of an obvious idiot. " Vat as been ze mattare? Zey tell me you af not ad ze good ealths

Acting conversation at the bar - former colleagues reminisce. She - " Dear me: I haven t seen you since we played in Romeo and Juliet You ARE looking well!" He - " Think so

Actors discuss rates of pay
First Budding Actor (to second budding actor) - " Oh yes, you hear about those salaries of Twenty-five and thirty shillings, but you never get em." Date: 1901

Mistaken identity - Gentleman and Jewish woman
Mistaken identity - " Good Morning Mis Voss!" " My name is not Voss. It never Voss and it never vill be!". Date: 1900

Coachman talking with the Landlord of the pub
A Coachman talking with the Landlord of the pub. Date: 1895

Phil May having a funny chat to an actor - Off for a drink
Phil May (on the right): " By the Way, when does your American Tour come off?" Famous Actor: " Oh not for about a year"

Ladies complaining od bad language from the pub
It must have been awful. Mrs Baggs: (after receiving a tornado of abuse from over the road) " Well, I never eard sich langwidge in all my life.I never was called such names before

Two ragged street women disgust respectability
In the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting two poor ragged street women disgusting another who they describe, with no hint of the obvious irony, as " not respectable"

Two Cockney Costers having a jovial chat: " Wots th row up the Court, Bill?" " Bob Smith was kissing my Missus, and is Old Woman caught im!" Date: 1892

Cockney ladies discuss their romantic life
Two Cockney ladies discuss their romantic life - cartoon by Phil May. There appears to have been a muddle up between the word clandestine and the word incandescent

British Servicemen at Piccadilly Circus, London - WWII
British Servicemen (Army and Navy) at Piccadilly Circus, London during World War Two Date: circa 1943

Mrs Caudles Curtain Lectures - Mr Caudle late to bed
" Pretty Time of night to come to bed Mr Caudle. Ugh! Enough to give any woman her death. I m sure." (Mrs Caudles Lectures) First published in " Punch" in 1845

Cossyphra caffra, cape robin-chat
Ff. 147a. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Turdus phoenicurus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Myrmecocichla nigra, sooty chat
Plate 68, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Icteria virens, yellow-breasted Chat
Plate 50, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Pericriotus cinnamomeus, small minivet
Ff. 147b. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Turuds sordidulus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping