Delight Collection

Stormy Scarborough
Rough sea and waves lashing the Yorkshire coastline at Scarborough, England, much to the delight of wet holidaymakers! Date: 1950s

Market Reports - English Country Squire carves the beef
Market Reports illustrated (Postcard series): MEAT: " English beef was in fine condition." This report on English beef (as a commodity traded on the Stock Exchange)

La Saison des Papillons by Nick
Charming illustration by Nick showing a young woman in a perfectly coordinated 1920s outfit with cloche hat, clasping her hands in delight as she looks a butterflies flitting in the air

Humber, Hillman and Sunbeam Rootes Motors Limited brochure
Front cover of a Humber, Hillman and Sunbeam Rootes Motors Limited brochure - " A Better Buy - because they re better built" 1960

Cau d Lad of Hylton
A goblin (the Cau d Lad of Hylton, Co. Durham) plagues a house until they give him warm clothes. When they do he dances for delight & troubles them no more

Box label, Lings Turkish Delight

A group of happy schoolgirls wearing Spanish tartan skirts
A group of delighted schoolgirls sit on a wall and look off camera at something that surprises them and makes them smile. They all wear Spanish tartan skirts. Date: circa 1987

Hie away neath shades of night to the castle of delight - fairies and bubbles Date: circa 1920s

McCollum & Craigie Advertisement Photograph
A photograph used in the advertisement of McCollum & Craigie Ltd. showing a man climbing out of a swimming pool, to the delight of three woman standing and sitting on the edge

The Gas Light and Coke Co Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for The Gas Light & Coke Co. promoting the delight and comforts of having a gas fire in Spring. Date: circa 1916

Marshall and Snelgrove Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for Marshall & Snelgrove Limited, London based department store. The image promotes the children's playthings and toys section, with a bright

Commercial Poster McDougall's Flour
A commercial advertising poster promoting McDougall's Self-Raising Flour. For cakes that cause delight this phrase is emphasised by the large image of a young boy smiling with a laughing face of

MOZART/FLUTE/PAPAGENO, A
The old crone is transformed into Papagena, to Papageno's delight Date: first performed 1791

Scenes from Pizarros exploration of Peru
Francisco Pizarro founding the city of Lima, Peru 25, Pizarro slain by supporters of Diego de Almagro II 26, and view of Chimborazo mountain in the Andes 27

Crisia mimic white, Drurys delight and bonasia acraea
Crisia mimic white, Dismorphia crisia 1, 2, Drurys delight, Mesoxantha ethosea 3, 4, and bonasia acraea, Acraea bonasia 5, 6, dorsal, ventral. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Queens delight, Stillingia sylvatica. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

CHRISTMAS DINNER
To the delight of her large family, mama brings in the Christmas pudding

Golf caddie inadvertantly pokes fun at man golfing Date: 1910

INVISIBLE SANDWICHES
These are surprise sandwiches... Anchovy Delight! They were obviously so delightful that they are all gone! Date: 1930s

WEST INDIAN CRICKETER
A young Tobagan cricketer takes a delight in trying to lose the ball by thwacking it away; one day, he hopes to beat England at their own game... Date: circa 1960

Man with fish, Bangkok
A man with tattooed arms and chest smiles happily after catching a fish for his dinner in a Bangkok canal, Thailand Date: circa 1985

Gerald Brockhurst and Dorette Woodward
Gerald Brockhurst, R.A. and Dorette Woodward (formerly Kathleen Woodward) whom he has so frequently painted, at the first night of Idiots Delight at the Apollo in 1938. Date: 1938

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LSD (pounds, shillings and pence in pre-decimal days, but here standing for Luck, Success and Delight) with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Merv - Turkmenistan - Turkomen selling sweets at market
Turkmenistan - Turkomen selling sweets at market andria and Antiochia in Margiana - a major oasis-city in Central Asia, on the historical Silk Road, located near todays Mary in Turkmenistan

Luigi Naintre
LUIGI NAINTRE Italian proprietor of the Embassy Club, London, where he invented the Gibson much to the delight of cocktail drinkers round the world. Date: circa 1925

Music cover, Hearts Delight Valse, by James M Gallatly. 1911

Cadburys Happy Families - Mr Flavour
Cadburys Cocoa Cubs Happy Families - Mr Flavour the Chef. circa 1950

Temple Street, Swansea, Wales
A beautiful (and very unusual for the date) postcard view of Temple Street, Swansea, Wales at dusk. Red sky at night, shepherds delight. Date: circa 1908

My Dear ! ! by H M Bateman
Cartoon by the master of social satire, H. M. Bateman, showing three women gossiping over tea and cakes while a small dog looks

Music cover, Joie du Matin Valse
Music cover, Joie du Matin (Morn of Delight) Valse by Victor Vorzanger. 1914

Disraeli / Reform 1859
The Last Pantomime of the Season Disraelis Reform Bill is rejected at the last minute, to the delight of MPs Bright, Russell and Palmerston. Date: 19 March 1859

Dr Johnson / Goldsmith
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON English writer reads Oliver Goldsmiths The Vicar of Wakefield and admires it - much to the delight of Goldsmiths landlady Date: 1709 - 1784

We Forster / Punch 1882
WILLIAM EDWARD FORSTER " A New Departure" English MP returns from Ireland, to everyones delight Date: 1818 - 1886

The Birthday Girl enjoys her presents while her family share her delight Date: 1888

Family / All / France, C18
A French father is reunited with his daughter. Come and embrace thy astonished father Date: 18th Century

A dream at Christmas delight
Young girl asleep dreaming of Christmas toys. Artist: Mildred C Hunter Date: circa 1924

Estelle Lingerie Glamour Wear - Pants and Kimono
Estelle Lingerie Glamour Wear - Mens Pants and Kimono - Surprise and Delight Him! 1971

French Theatre -- La Farce du Munyer
La Farce du Munyer [Meunier], a play by Andre de la Vigne, in which the Devil carries off a millers soul to Hell. Showing a delighted Devil in orange costume

LORRIS, Guillaume. Roman de la Rose
The Romance of the Rose. s.XIV. The young lover, redeemer of the garden of delight, reaches a source and finds an inscription saying that there brother Narcissus died. Gothic art. Miniature Painting

Christmas arrangement of candles, holly, mistletoe and nuts
Christmas arrangement of three red candles, holly, mistletoe, small yellow flowers, sweets and assorted nuts in a basket

Soldier returning home from the trenches, WW1
A soldier returning home from the trenches, greeted at the door of his house by his wife and son. Date: 1916

Frederick Horniman
FREDERICK HORNIMAN London tea merchant, resident of Dulwich, creator of the Horniman Museum on Forest Hill, the delight of children (and their parents). Date: 1835 - 1906

Bell H-13 Sioux, Idiot?s Delight

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Can it be true? Churchill Quote
" We shall continue steadfast in faith and duty till our task is done." - Winston Churchill, The Prime Minister A little farmers boy is delighted that a reluctant hen has finally produced

Actor delighted to receive news of well paid role
Theatrical Appointment - Ten Quid a week. An actor delighted to receive news of his forthcoming lucrative contract! Date: 1892

Rhododendron, dawns delight. Dried specimen taken from the museums herbarium. Flowers red, bell-shaped. Collected by BM(NH) staff 14.5.1981. no 2009

The Romance of the Rose. s. XIV. The young boy
The Romance of the Rose. s.XIV. The young boy in love is in the garden of delight, and there he finds a fountain with an inscription explaining that Brother Narcissus died in there. Gothic art

Butchers delight. Date c1887 Mar. 15

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