Custom Collection (page 3)

The Bellman, a London Wharf and Coal-ship and barge
The Bellman, a London Wharf and Coal-ship and coal barge. London Bellman or Town Crier reading a notice about missing child Tommy Dallow 7, London Wharf at the East India Docks 8

The New Custom House on the River Thames, London. Designed by architect David Laing built in Portland stone with Ionic superstructure supported to a basement and finished with an attic

Plan and elevation of a Gothic conservatory. Large greenhouse with glass roof and high windows. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1816

Main Street - looking North - Tijuana, Mexico. Date: 1913

Crossing the dateline, marine ceremonies

Childrens altar at the Fete Dieu (Feast of Corpus Christi, celebrated annually in May or June)

Beating the Bounds in London
Beating the bounds in London - an old custom. 1883

Armenian bride wrapped in a sack, supported by two of her nearest relations. Illustration from Francois Pouquevilles Travels through More, Albania and several other parts of the Ottoman Empire, 1805

John Smeatons crane for the wool quay, Custom House, London
Overhead view and elevation of John Smeatons design for a crane for the wool quay, Custom House, London, 1789. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J

Interior of a Kamchatka dwelling, eastern Russia. Date: circa 1779

Natives of Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada, visited by Captain Cooks expedition. Date: circa 1770s

Captain Cook receives gifts from Sandwich Island natives
Captain Cook receives gifts from natives of the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii). 1770s

Revival of old custom, Opening of Chester Assizes
Revival of an old custom, Opening of Chester Assizes - a band leads a detachment of the Cheshire Regiment into Castle Square on 29 May 1946. 1946

Three Maori people of New Zealand, based on an illustration from the HMS Beagle expedition. Date: 1842

Indigenous people of Brazil, South America. Date: 1842

Aborigines of Australia, Corroboree dance. Date: 1842

Custom House, New York City, USA. 1857

The Battle of Vuelta de Obligado 1845
The battle of Vuelta de Obligado on 20th November 1845, was a collaborative attack by the French and British to defy the Argentine Confederations decision to block the unregulated sailing

Easter on the Italian Riviera
Afternoon tea in a Mediterranean Garden of Eden, looking out over the azure waters of the Italian Riviera. Date: 1913

Man carrying imitation paper money, China, East Asia -- the custom was to burn the money over the grave of someone who had died, to supply their spirit with money in their new existence. Date: 1922

Hindu Customs - three men
Hindu Customs (left to right) - Tadin playing with fire, - Aiganda Pandaron, Tadin with a padlock on his mouth

An Eastertide custom at home and abroad: hunting for Easter Eggs, 1903 Date: 1903

Local women and girls weaving straw, , Madeira. Date: circa 1900s

View of fort and pier, St Vincent Island, Cape Verde Islands
View of the fort and custom house pier, St Vincent (Sao Vicente) Island, Cape Verde Islands, Atlantic Ocean. Date: 1922

Christmas tree in history by Pauline Baynes
One of four illustrations by Pauline Baynes for The Illustrated London News Christmas number 1958, tracing the four key moments in the history of the Christmas tree

Christmas tree at the Temperance Hall 1845
Christmas tree, also described as a Tree of Love, by The Illustrated London News, erected on the stage at the Temperance Hall by the London Mission Society who were giving a Christmas celebration for

Beating the bounds of the Tower of London 1906
Beating the bounds is still carried out in the Tower of London today every three years on Ascension Day. One of Londons oddest traditions

Welsh Eisteddfod 1906
Opening of Gorsedd, Ceremony in which druids are in a circle, the Gorsedd (meaning chief) sit on a throne, where the Eisteddfod is proclaimed. 1906

Welsh Eisteddfod Regalia 1906
Welsh Eisteddfod Regalia and Offices. Ceremony in the Royal National Eisteddfod takes place every summer in the first week of August, been happening for a couple of centuries since 1568

Kern Baby 1902
One of the customs of the festival of Ceres, observed in the northern part of Northumberland at the close of the reaping not the ingathering

Stratford-upon-Avon, Mop Fair 1899
Standing for Hire, Stratford-upon-Avon, said to be the largest fair in England, regarded by the agricultural class in the district as the chief holiday of the year

Knutsford, Cheshire, Royal May Day Festival 1902
May Day Festival in Knutsford, Cheshire town, taking place every year, were children dress-up in costumes, shepherdesses, milkmaids and folkloric figures like Robin Hood, Little John and Maid Marion

Picking up sixpences at Smithfield 1902
Centuries-old tradition, when 21 sixpences were placed upon a flat gravestone in the churchyard at St. Bartholomew in Smithfield, London, on Good Friday morning

Custom House 1814
Custom House, fronting the Thames, which burnt down. Date: 1814

Raising the Bird-Pole (with a sheaf at the top) - a traditional Norwegian Christmas custom Date: circa 1851

Druids build a wicker man for sacrifice
The Wicker Man In which people were burnt as sacrifices to their deities

The Whit Sunday custom of strawing the floor of the Nave of the church with rushes, dating back to 1493. St. Mary Radcliffe Church, Bristol, England. Date: 1930s

The 18th century Council Room of Trinity House, Hull, Yorkshire, England, where the ancient custom of strewing rushes on the floor is still done for the Elder Brethren. Date: 18th century

Deer and ox roasting is often part of a celebration or custom, in various parts of Britain. Here deer carcasses are being roasted in the open air at Bournemouth, England. Date: 1950s

The custom of offering floral tributes to Neptune happened every year on the 13th May in Abbotsbury, Dorset, locally known as Garland Day

A German family goes out to gather the eggs of the Easter Hare (or Bunny). Date: 1910

Custom Gas Range Date: 1948

Pancake Scramble watched by Royal Family, Westminster School
In March 1919, the Royal Family went to Westminster School to see the famous scramble for the largest piece of the pancake tossed by the chef and to hand the winner a sovereign

Tangier, Morocco - Custom House Date: circa 1905

Peasants celebrating Christmas Eve at Tonniens 1854
Old Christian custom on Christmas Eve, in France Germany and Norway, were farmers and peasants perambulating the fields, going round and round the boundary

Charing Cross, Custom Officers 1900
Custom Officers at Charing Cross station, London, luggage being examined from the port of Dover. Date: 1900

Threshing chestnuts trees in Greenwich Park 1857
Yearly tradition, for three weeks young youths poured into Greenwich Park, London to collect conkers. Climbing up chestnut trees, even using ladders to reach their prize

MARI LWYD WELSH CUSTOM
The Mari Lwyd party, a Welsh Christmas custom, the horse representing the Celtic goddess Rhiannon, patron of horses and the end of the old year/beginning of the new one Date: 1960s

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