Enactment Collection (page 2)

Using a Mangle
Two women putting wet clothes through a mangle to wring them out before hanging them out to dry in the garden. Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

Man Reading 1940S
Grandfather sits in his armchair reading a copy of the Beckenham Journal, keeping up with the wartime news. Lots of public information leaflets, etc. are to hand. Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

Peeling Potatoes 1940S
A housewife with painted red fingernails peels potatoes into an enamel bowl in the kitchen sink. Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

Scrubbing Board 1940S
A housewife, wearing black rubber gloves, uses a scrubbing board, soap and a metal tub to wash clothes. Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

Boy Keeping a Diary
A ten-year-old English boy keeps a wartime diary during World War Two. Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

Cartoon, At Erfurt (1808), showing Napoleon I and Tsar Alexander at the time of their peace treaty, together with ladies of the theatre in what looks like a theatrical re-enactment. Date: 1808

Winston Churchill on Revenge, Earls Court, 1912
Winston Churchill at the Shakespeares England exhibition at Earls Court, west London in 1912. He is seen here on board a replica of the Elizabethan ship Revenge. Date: 1912

Barking Fair - The Stocks, Barking, Essex
Barking Fair - The Stocks, Barking, near East Ham, Essex, England. Re-enactment Date: 1920s

Group of Saxon Women, Barking, Essex
Group of Saxon Women, Barking, near East Ham, Essex, England. Re-enactment Date: 1920s

Lady Leicester Received by the Magistrate of Barking, Barking, near East Ham, Essex, England. Re-enactment Date: 1920s

An Incident in Great Barking Fair (1746), Barking, Essex
An Incident in Great Barking Fair (1746), Barking, near East Ham, Essex, England. Re-enactment Date: 1920s

Scenes & Incidents in Barking Pageant, Barking, Essex
Scenes & Incidents in Barking Pageant, Barking, near East Ham, Essex, England. Re-enactment Date: 1920s

The Pageant, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Showing historical re-enactment Date: 1907

Elizabethan Pageant, Olympia, London
Elizabethan Pageant in the Royal Naval & Military Tournament at Olympia, London. The Call to Arms, a display showing the uniforms and accoutrements of the age of Queen Bess. Date: 1912

Re-enactment at Royal Tournament, Olympia, London
A re-enactment of the Invasion of Britain by the Romans, at the Royal Tournament, Olympia, London. Date: 1921

Chester Pageant re-enactment
An exciting incident during the Chester Pageant of 1910. As King James I passes a pillory, a puritan shouts " clear your Court of Painted Jezebels"

Royal visit to Kensington Olympia, 1887
The visit of Queen Victoria to Olympia, London: royalty watching a re-enactment of a Roman chariot race from a dais. Date: March 1887

Festival of Empire, George V & Queen Mary
King George V and Queen Mary, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and Princess Mary, in a carriage at the Crystal Palace for the opening of the Festival of Empire on 12th May 1911

Edwardian Picnic Basket
An Edwardian picnic basket. Date: early 1900s (re-enactment)

Re-enactment of Roman crucifixion of Christ, Easter Date: 2011

English Gable Hood
A model wearing a Gable Hood or an English Hood, a popular Tudor head-dress, made famous by the wives of King Henry VIII of England. Date: 16th century (re-enactment)

Israel - Bible scene reconstruction - The Field of Boaz
Reconstruction of a Biblical scene (from the Book of Ruth) in a real Israeli field. Boaz was a rich landowner who noticed Ruth, the widowed Moabite daughter-in-law of Naomi (his relative)

Battle Re-Enactment
Members of the Southern Skirmish Association charge across the turnip fields of Kent, firing antique muskets and wearing home-made uniforms. Date: 1960s

York Folk Museum
A re-created early 19th century cobbled street scene, with coach and dummy horseman outside a haberdashery. York Folk Museum, York, Yorkshire, England. Date: 19th century (re-enactment)

Initiation of the Private Secretary
Ceremonial initiation consisting of the enactment of a heated discussion between two Brothers pretending to be Salomon and the King of Tyr. 1890s

Servant Guidelines
Servants, be obedient to them that are your Masters, according to the flesh, with fear and trembling in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ. Date: early 1900s (re-enactment)

Boys with Womenfolk
Two young boys with their mother and grandmother (in her WVS uniform) in England during World War Two, when most fathers were on active service away from home. Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

Waltz of the Toreadores
A passionate couple dance the Waltz of the Toreadores during an unspecified theatrical performance! 1900 (re-enactment)

Edwardian Gent Fishing
An Edwardian gentleman enjoys a days fishing at his leisure. Date: early 1900s (re-enactment)

Mother & Children 1940S
A grandmother (in WVS uniform), mother and her two sons, take a walk together. During World War Two, when men were on active service, women often had to cope alone. Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

Servants in Love
An Edwardian Scullery Maid falls for the Hall Boy as he chops firewood. Date: early 1900s (re-enactment)

Maid Packs her Bags
Unable to cope with the drudgery of being an Edwardian servant, the scullery maid packs her bags in her bedroom. Date: early 1900s (re-enactment)

Edwardian Classes
An Edwardian aristocratic family, standing in the ornate entrance hallway of their country mansion, with their many servants lined up behind them. Date: early 1900s (re-enactment)

Lady in Fine Fancy Dress
A lady dressed for a party or performance in medieval costume with flowing robes and a veil. She poses against the large wall of a grand garden beneath the ivy and holds a card

Lady and Ladys Maid
An Edwardian Lady gives her Ladys Maid a disdainful look for failing to tie her hat on properly

Edwardian Lavatory
A late Victorian or Edwardian latrine, boxed into a room decorated with patterned yellow wallpaper

Edwardian City Gent
Profile of a young upper class gentleman, dressed in a three- piece pin-striped suit and bowler hat, ready to go off to his job in the City

Edwardian Dressmaker
An Edwardian dressmaker, standing beside the pink silk dress she is in the process of making by hand

Butler & Groom
An Edwardian butler explains something to the coachman, while one of the footmen stands by his side

Edwardian Housemaids
Three pretty young Edwardian housemaids larking about during a rare rest period

Teddy on the Bed
A lovely old Edwardian teddy bear takes pride of place on a little boys brass bed

Edwardian Tutor
The private tutor of an Edwardian Country House, sitting at the desk of his classroom, with a blackboard behind him and a globe of the world by his side

Edwardian Upper Classes
The wealthy Edwardian upper classes enjoy strolling around the gardens of their country estate, while their servants are lined up outside the mansion in the background

Servants Talking
An Edwardian kitchen maid chats up one of the footmen!

Proud Mother & Son
An Edwardian Lady wearing a fur stole, looks proud of her grown-up son in his pin- striped suit, overcoat and bowler hat, ready for his new job in the City

Upper Class Edwardians
An upper class family. The father wears a hat and overcoat, the mother wears a mauve overcoat and fetching hat and the son wears a pin- striped suit and bowler hat

Edwardian Evening Dress
An upper class Edwardian family on the staircase of their house, the men in dinner suits and the women in silver and pink silk evening dresses

Edwardian Costume
An Edwardian upper class husband and wife on the steps of their mansion. She wears a full-length mauve outfit, with wide brim hat and fur stole, he wears a hat and overcoat

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