Down Collection (page 6)

Ardglass - a view of the town from along the rocks and sea wall, showing the Castle and other buildings. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Ardglass). Date: circa early 1900s

R. Maine at Galgorm Bridge, Co. Antrim - a view down the river to a stone bridge. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Galgorm). Date: circa early 1900s

Galgorm, Co. Antrim - a view down a street in the town. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Galgorm). Date: circa early 1900s

Yachting at Strangford - a view of yachts on the Lough. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Strangford Lough). Date: circa early 1900s

Orlock Point and Copeland Island, Co. Down - a view of the rocks and island in the distance. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Groomsport). Date: circa early 1900s

Seacliffe Road, Bangor - a low view of the road taken from the Long Hole with boats to the left. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Bangor). Date: circa early 1900s

Shore Street, Donaghadee - a street scene with shop fronts and a horse and trap on the shore side of the road. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Donaghadee). Date: circa early 1900s

Donaghadee - a view of the piers and lighthouse and a fishing boat putting to sea. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Donaghadee). Date: circa early 1900s

High St. Holywood and Maypole from N. E
High St. Holywood and Maypole from N.E. - a street scene with shop fronts and a large group of children around the maypole and a horse vehicle. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Holywood)

Royal Ulster Yacht Club, Bangor - a low front view of the building with a crowd outside. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Bangor). Date: circa early 1900s

Groomsport Harbour and Pier - a general view of the harbour and pier taken from a distance with boats and people on the pier. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Groomsport)

Main St. Killough, Co. Down - a rural street scene with a woman standing in front of buildings, to the left is a cart and a church is visible. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Killough)

Kircubbin Looking South - a street scene with shop fronts and children to the left. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Kircubbin). Date: circa early 1900s

Main Street and Church, Dundrum - a view of the main street with the church obscured, with horse vehicle and small boy. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Dundrum). Date: circa early 1900s

The Hares Gap, Mourne Mountains - a view along the valley with three ladies. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Newcastle). Date: circa early 1900s

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, end of a perfect day
Illustration by Cecil Aldin -- Cracker the bull terrier at the end of a perfect day, having organised a successful dog show. Date: 1927

World War One - Perham Down Army Camp, Hampshire
World War One Soldier in Tent, Thought to be Perham Down Army Camp, Andover, Hampshire, England. Postmarked Windmill Hill, Andover Date: 1910s

Pussys Breakfast by Muriel Dawson -- a little boy bends down to give a kitten a saucer of milk. Date: 1945

Piltdown Man reconstructed, 1912
Piltdown Man, as imagined by Illustrated London News special artist Amedee Forestier, soon after the discovery of the bones was made public in 1912

High Street and Sullivan School, Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland Date: circa 1904

Huntley, Aberdeenshire - repairing a flat tyre
Huntley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland - repairing a flat tyre. The number plate, identifies this fine vehicle as from Liverpool (" K" ) and it was vehicle number 388 registered

LCC-LFB Recruit firemen training at Brigade HQ, SE1
During the 1950s recruit firefighters were trained at the Brigade Headquarters, Lambeth. Here the recruit squad are rescuing by carrying down on the 50 foot wheeled escape ladder pitched to the third

Book cover design, The Cloud King: or up in the air & down in the sea, by W Stephens Hayward, London: Darton and Hodge, 1866. Showing a balloon attached to a whale. 1866

Warrenpoint, Co. Down, Northern Ireland

Tollymore Barbican Gate
The Barbican Gate entrance to Tollymore Forest Park, near Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland. It was built by Lord James Limerick as the eastern entrance to the park. Date: 1780s

Jumping Sheet Drill - London Fire Brigade Date: circa 1940s

England / Farnborough
A little girl walking home from school down a country lane in the village of Farnborough, Warwickshire, England. Date: early 1960s

British battleship HMS King Edward VII sinking, WW1
The British battleship HMS King Edward VII with her stern down during the First World War. She struck a mine off Cape Wrath, off the northern Scottish coast

British Sopwith triplane crash, Passchendaele, WW1
A British Sopwith triplane brought down in flames at Passchendaele, Flanders, during the First World War. Date: 23 August 1917

Pyrenean Woman force-feeding a goose in order to fatten up the liver of the bird for making foie gras pate. Date: circa 1910s

Titanic sinking / Music Sheet 1912
The Band Was Playing As The Ship Went Down. Written and composed by Robert Donnelly. Music cover inspired by the ill fated passenger ship

Proposal on a leap year
A woman proposing to her boyfriend on Valentines Day during a leap year - the only occasion by tradition that this is allowed !

Conservative party television team
The Conservative Party television team and some election posters for the General Election of 8th October 1959. The Conservatives broadcast five television programmes of 15 or 20 minutes each starting

The Lost Ball - Heath Robinson Cartoon
The Lost Ball. Golfers try in vain to retrieve a lost ball in a lake on a golf course. It appears that a passing fish has swallowed it!

Princess Alice with her children
Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse (1843-1878) with her children in 1877: (l to r) Ella, Alix, Victoria, Ernst Ludwig and Irene, with the youngest, May sitting on Alices lap

The Battle of Pacocha; Action between HMS Shah and Ameth
Engraving showing the battle between HMS Shah and Amethyst and the Peruvian Ironclad turret ship Huascar on the 29th May 1877

Newcastle United vs. Barnsley, F. A. Cup Final, 1910
Illustration of the F.A. Cup Final between Newcastle United and Barnsley, with one of the Barnsley defenders (in dark shirts) chesting down the ball; Crystal Palace Football Ground, 23rd April 1910

The Great Ice Barrier, Antarctica, 1911
Photograph showing a member of the Amundsen Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12 standing on top of the Great Ice Barrier, c.1911. Three men, under the command of Lt

Ludgate Hill 1930S
View looking down Ludgate Hill towards Ludgate Circus, showing a policeman on the right and a train going over the now dismantled railway bridge, London

James Chadwick cotton mill, Lancashire
Finishing : pulling down cloth at James Chadwick & Co, Lancashire

Colonel Festing rescuing Lieut. Eardley-Wilmots body
Colonel Francis Worgan Festing (1833-1886), rescuing the body of Lieut. Eardley-Wilmot during the Ashanti War (1873-74) from a sketch by the officer of the expedition

4 French Bulldogs
Beautiful picture of four of them lying down, face on and looking very alert, even though two are also resting their heads on the ground

Me 109 Versus Spitfire
A Messerschmitt 109 in pursuit of a Spitfire. The caption says the German plane will shoot the British one down - but who knows, perhaps it will be the other way about ?

F H Butler (Vanity Fair)
FRANK HEDGES BUTLER, noted balloonist, looks down from the hot air balloon basket he is riding in and prepares to speak through his megaphone

The Death of Faust
When it is time for Faust to die, Mephistopheles hurls him down to Hell from the highest mountain in Saxony, to make his fall as fearful as possible

Seaside Fashions 1878
Princess line dresses: one is short & more practical for walking, the other has a stand up collar, lacing down the central back seam, buttoned panels at the sides & a train

Baa Baa Black Sheep / 1884
Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool? Yes Sir, Yes Sir - three bags full. One for the master and one for the dame, and one for the little boy who lives down the lane

Boys Ferreting
Two boys in caps set a ferret down a rabbit hole

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