Drove Collection

George Mutch scores for Preston North End at the FA Cup Fina
Photograph of George Mutch scoring a penalty to make the score 1-0 for Preston North End against Huddersfield Town in the last minute of the FA Cup Final, 30th April 1938

Hawker Hector with Napier Dagger III engine
A detail of a Hawker Hector focussing on the Napier Dagger III H-24 air-cooled piston Engine. Developing 805hp the Dagger was the next step for D

The Four-in-Hand Club
The Four-In-Hand Club, a coach driving club, was founded in April 1808, by Charles Buxton, the inventor of the Buxton bit, along with some friends

German Cemetery Orglandes Normandy
There are over 10, 000 burials here from the battles as the Americans drove towards Cherbourg. Originally both Germans and Americans were buried here but the latter were moved in 1945 to St Laurent

PERFORMING MOUSE
I was an Italian who had a white mouse, whom John the footman drove from the house. Date: 1867

Balloon descent at Gonesse, France
The first trial hydrogen balloon which ascended from the Champ de Mars, and descended in the village of Gonesse, north east of Paris

Thomas Creech
THOMAS CREECH : classical scholar, noted for his translations of Lucretius &c. Sadly, a growing melancholia - and a thwarted amour - drove him to take his own life. Date: 1659 - 1700

Rasputin Satirised
GRIGORI RASPUTIN Caricature holding a tiny figure of Nicolas II, entitled I drove him from the throne before you Date: 1872 - 1916

Royal tour to Pakistan
Photographs from Queen Elizabeth IIs royal tour of Pakistan: the ladies reception in Karachi, the boat take to the Water Palace of the Maharajah of Udaipar (India)

Sir Henry Birken in the 1931 French Grand Prix at Pau
Sir Henry Birken (refreshing himself with an orange) in the 4.5-litre, four cylinder, 240 hp supercharged Bentley, four seater sports car, weighing two tons

Bear Lake - Utah - Drove out of the Utah Valley and past Bear Lake to Montpelier. Date: 1952

Whittier Glacier - Alaska - Drove up valley as far as first bridge, but stopped as the support logs were rotting. We walked part way til station wagon came along and took us on up

Cookes Inlet, Kenai Peninsula - Alaska - Drove along Cookes Inlet shoreline, remains of railway going up to mining sites. Date: 1952

Rapid City - South Dakota - Drove through the Black Hills with lots of buffalo, antelope and elk. Date: 1952

ETHELRED I (D. 871)
ETHELRED (AETHELRED) I Anglo-Saxon ruler. Drove Danes from Mercia (868-869). Defeated Danes with brother Alfred at Ashdown (871). Date: ? - 871

OX DROVE TRACKWAY
Ox Drove, a Prehistoric trackway, along the top of the Downs. A view taken from Wingreen, Wiltshire, England. Date: 1930s

V-1 Flying Bomb exhibited in London; Second World War, 194
Photograph showing a German V-1 Flying Bomb, on display in an exhibition in the Piccadilly showrooms of Rootes Ltd. London, 1944

Fable / Momus
JUPITER, NEPTUNE, MINERVA AND MOMUS: Momus found fault with everything made by the gods including man, so much so that Jupiter drove him from his office of judge

King George V driving through Portsmouth, 1935
Photograph of King George V and The Prince of Wales being greeted by the City of Portsmouth as they drove to the dock to go aboard the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert for the Naval Review

Miss Dorothy Levitt & 12h. p. Gladiator car
Miss Dorothy Levitt and the 12h.p. Gladiator car which she drove in a series of reliability trials in 1903

Horse Van on the Ice
For a bet of 100 gunieas Mr Henry Hunt Jnr. drove his Fathers Matchless Blacking horse-drawn van across and back upon the ice of a frozen Serpentine in Hyde Park

Ashford High Street
A tranquil Ashford High Street in Kent, in the days when more people cycled than drove cars

British Footman, 1867
I was an Italian who had a white mouse, whom John the footman drove from the house

Victoria / Mile End / 1887
This picturesque little pub was built in the early 1700s. Queen Victoria drove past it on her way to opening the central hall of the Peoples Palace in 14 May 1887 (1 of 2)

Gladstone Fells a Tree
Gladstone was renowned for his fondness for felling trees : psychiatrists would no doubt get to the roots of this and and show why it drove him to branch out into politics

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