Eggs Gallery

Collecting Eggs at Flamborough Head

Collecting seagull's eggs at Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. A traditional practice for farmers whose land adjoined the cliff edge, which gave them a legal right to supplement their income by selling eggs. The farmer sub-licenced gangs of three or four 'climmers', to gather eggs of the gulls, common guillemot, razorbill and others from the cliff side. It was a perilous business, requiring fitness and skill, but the rewards must have been great - in 1908 such eggs commanded a shilling a dozen (about the same as a hundredweight of coal) and it was estimated that gangs could collect up to 300 or 400 eggs a day in season. Date: 1911

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Boiling eggs at the Beppu Hot Springs, Japan

A sign advertising the option to boil an egg at the Beppu Hot Springs, Beppu, Japan. The city was founded on April 1, 1924, and is famous for its onsen (hot springs), which are regarded as sacred. Beppu is Japan's onsen capital with the largest volume of hot water in the world apart from Yellowstone in the United States and the largest number of hot spring sources in Japan. Beppu contains nine major geothermal hot spots, which are sometimes referred to as the "nine hells of Beppu". See: 10795581 Date: circa 1930

A Country Girl by James M. Tanner. Music by Lionel Monckton

A Country Girl by James M. Tanner. Barry, the heros faithful servant, and his sweetheart Sophie. Around the circle are a little of the words and music of their popular duet, Two Little Chicks. Durrant Swans Company touring to the Theatre Royal in Portsmouth, on 16th September 1907? Date: 1907 ?

© The Michael Diamond Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

Barry, Circle, Country, Durrant, Eggs, Facing, Feather, Feathers, Female, Girl, James, Jump, Jumping, Jumps, Lionel, Male, Man, Men, Monckton, Music, Opposite, Portsmouth, Royal, Sophie, Straw, Swanks, Swans, Tail, Tanner, Woman, Women