Crush Collection

Too Many Cooks by Lawson Wood
A policeman on the beat around a smart London square appears to be blissfully unaware of the cooks emerging from each house to gaze adoringly at him

WWI Poster, Remember Scarborough
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Remember Scarborough! Great Britains resolve to crush the German Barbarians. Enlist Now! Date: 1915

Brit. Troops Moved by Air
British Sikh forces of occupation moved by air to crush the Kurdish insurrection

Unloading sheep in harbour, Shetland, Scotland
Unloading sheep in the harbour, Shetland, Scotland. Date: 1960s

Tarpeia crushed to death by the Sabines
The legendary Tarpeia, having offered to betray Rome to the Sabines in return for gold, is crushed to death by their shields and thrown from the Tarpeian Rock. Date: 747 BC

Jamaican industry was struggling against fierce rivalry of production volumes from the great European Nations manufactures

FOOD SHORTAGE PARIS 1709
Distribution of bread during the food shortage in Paris during the coldest winter in Europe for 500 years. Date: 1709

RUNNING AT WOOLWICH 1867
Running at Woolwich via a rather hazardous looking ditch. Date: 1867

Private View at the New Gallery - Crush in the Central Hall
Private View Day at the New Gallery: The crush in the Central Hall. Date: 1893

Thebes, Upper Egypt, North Africa - Tomb of Nakht - Vineyard workers squeezing grapes to produce wine. Date: circa 1920s

Boatmens Children - pounding rice - India Date: circa 1910s

Girls Admire a Boy
Two little girls appear to have a crush on the little boy sitting in this concrete ring

Tarkwa, Ghana - Akoon Gold Mill
Akoon Gold Mill, Tarkwa - a town in the southwest of Ghana. Date: circa 1910s

The English Take Their Pleasures Sadly by Gooderham
Humorous illustration showing vast crowds of people " enjoying" themselves at a typical British seaside town. The chaos

Sheep penned in on boat to Shetland. 1960s

Kettle-Drum in Mayfair - Victorian fundraising party
Kettle-Drum in Mayfair, London - Victorian fundraising party. circa 1870s

Myanmar - Village Scene - preparing food
Myanmar - Village Scene - preparing (pounding!) food using a large pestle and mortar Date: circa 1910

Sierra Leone - Making Palm Oil - crushing the fruits to release the oil. Date: circa 1910s

Tapestry and carpet pattern of the 16th century.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889

WW1 War Loan poster
D D Fry Crush the Germans, WW1 War Loan poster 1914 Date: 1914

Cracker Ball released by electromagnet to crush scrap metal
Steel Cracker Ball released by electromagnet to crush scrap metal Date: circa 1920s

WWI Poster, Crush the Germans
WWI Parliamentary War Savings Committee Poster, Lend Your Five Shillings to your Country and Crush The Germans. Date: circa 1916

WWI Poster, Germany over All
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Germanys Battle Cry is " Germany over All". Britain is fighting not only for the Freedom of Europe but to defend your mothers

WWI Poster, Pay Your 5 - and Help Crush the Germans
WWI Parliamentary War Savings Committee Poster, Pay Your 5/- for this [War Loan] and Help Crush the Germans. Date: 1916

1937 Coronation - spectators in Trafalgar Square
A section of the huge crowd in Trafalgar Square standing by the crush barrier after waiting all night to watch the Coronation procession of King George VI

Surging crowds in Trafalgar Square, 1937 Coronation
A picture taken at the South Africa House side of Trafalgar Square shortly after daylight on the morning of the 1937 Coronation of King George VI

Pounding rice - Malabar region of Southern India
Sifting, sorting and pounding rice with a large pestle and mortar - Malabar region of southern India (lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea). Date: circa 1910s

Indian Village Life - Separating Butter and Crushing Spices. This is from the North West Frontier Province, then Northern India on the border with Afghanistan - now part of Pakistan

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The bridge crush. Illustration shows an attractive woman playing billards surrounded by four dashing men offering her advice on how to approach a bridge shot. Date 1910 April 6

Avoiding the Crush by Reginald Higgins
A man smoking a pipe and a young woman with a fashionable eton crop, studiously ignore each other and sit as far apart as possible on a row of deckchairs at a smart seaside resort

The Autmn Sale Scramble
A policeman doing his hardest (!) to control a baying horde of women at the Autumn Sale. Date: 1906

Young Swiss Love
A little Swiss boy and girl flirting over a window box, wearing traditional costume. Date: 1950s

I m in love with my Tailor (2/2) A woman with a definite crush on her tailor, asks him to move his measuring tape a little higher please ! Date: circa 1910s

Gran pops Nutcracker Suite by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood showing his orang utan character, Granpop, together with the help of some monkeys and a pig, attempting to crush a coconut with a homemade nutcracker. Date: 1934

Crowds outside Buckingham Palace - royal wedding 1947
Members of the crowd outside Buckingham Palace crane their necks to view the royal family who have appeared on the balcony to wave after the wedding of Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II)

Royal Wedding 1947 - Using periscopes
A vast crowd use periscopes as their only means of seeing the procession during the royal wedding of 1947 between Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Philip

Royal Wedding 1947 - police hold back crowds
A row of jovial police officers link arms to prevent the crowd surging forward during the royal wedding of 1947. Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) married Prince Philip

Crowds at the Royal Wedding 1947
Mounted police pictured in the middle of vast crowds of spectators, many of them holding periscopes in order to be able to see something

Military intervention on Lewis, 1887
A page from the Illustrated London News, reporting on the measures to crush the rebellion on the isle of Lewis, titled " Sketches among the revolted crofters in the Lewis

Shipping bullocks to Cape Coast Castle, 1874
Shipping bullocks from Sierra Leone for Cape Coast Castle during the British expedition to crush the King of the Ashantis in the 2nd Ashanti War (1873-74)

Sheep Push through Gate
A flock of sheep squeeze out of a field through a gate

Slide Queue
A crush on the steps of a playground slide, as one little girl chickens out and decides to get off!

WW1 / 1915 / DARDANELLES
As the Allies approach the Dardanelles, the Germans and Turks wait to crush them

Germans Crush Belgium
Belgium : having taken the Netherlands, the Germans sweep through Belgium and quickly overwhelm the opposing forces

Theatre / Full House 1863
Crowds clamouring for the last few free seats to see George de Barnwells " Arthur and Bertrand" at the Adelphi Theatre, London to celebrate Edward and Alexandras wedding Date: 10 March 1863

EGG DANCE
Blindfolded, she must regulate her steps precisely so as not to crush the eggs

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