Ends Collection

The Railway Sleeper
An exhausted conscript on Nation Service sleeps at Darlington Railway Station en rout to or from a posting to the Northern military base at Catterick, York. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Alice and Humpty Dumpty
" If he smiled much more the ends of his mouth might meet behind, " she thought

Four Lane Ends, Shaw and Crompton, Lancashire. The crossroads end of Market Street, Milnrow Road, Beal Lane and Rochdale Road. The Pineapple Inn (on right) is still in business! Date: 1906

Clack Lane Ends, Osmotherley, Yorkshire
Clack Lane Ends, Osmotherley, Northallerton, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1910s

Old Bridge at Bridge Ends, Galgorm, Co. Antrim - a view of a stone many arched bridge. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Galgorm). Date: circa early 1900s

Catherine / Aragon / Divorce
The trial of the marriage between Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. It ends in divorce

Shakespeare - Alls Well That Ends Well - Bertram: This to my mother. circa 1830

War with Russia - 5
The long-drawn out battle of the Vistula ends in a crushing defeat of the Red Army by the Poles, seen here posing later in the year with guns taken from the bolsheviks

Blanchard Flies Channel
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Dr John Jefferies are the first people to cross the English Channel by air : their flight from Dover ends in the forest of Guines, near Andres

Trumpet Call Ends Wwi
Zebrowski sounds the trumpet call for the Germans to stop fighting

Blanchard Channel Cross
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Dr John Jefferies are the first people to cross the English Channel by air : their flight from Dover ends in the forest of Guines, near Andres

Deck chairs Tenby, Wales
Two elderly men sat in deckchairs either side of an elderly lady. They watch her and smile as she snoozes in the afternoon sunshine on the beach at Tenby, Wales

RMS Majestic, First Class cast iron bed single ends
RMS MAJESTIC: First-Class cast iron bed single ends with pierced geometric decoration

Three Lane Ends, Thurnscoe, early 1900s

Thurnscoe Three Lane Ends early 1900s

Odds and Ends
An illustration for an article written by Doctor A. W. Oxford, in Colour Magazine, titled Odds and Ends. The image shows an array of items

RMS Olympic - cast iron deck bench
RMS Olympic - rare original cast iron deck bench of the style seen on both Olympic and Titanic. The bench is in original condition with period skits and will benefit from restoration

Psalter (Fragment)
Fragment of a psalter, parchment double leaf, quarto size. Text on f.1r begins at Psalm 46:7 Psallite deo nostro psallite: psallite regi nostro psallite: Quonia(m) rex omnis terre deus

Hebrew Manuscript Fragments
Two folios, parchment, probably from the same manuscript but not necessarily consecutive. Text is from the Book of Genesis, beginning at Chapter 7, verse 18 on f.1, and ends at Chapter 48 on f.2

John Gower, Confessio Amantis (Fragments)
Four leaves (2 bifolia) from an illuminated manuscript copy of Gower's Confessio Amantis, parchment. The text is the B version and is part of Book V

Terrace Steps, Scarborough, North Yorkshire Date: 1812

The Tube Railways of London - group photo of workmen, with greathead shield driving a station tunnel, the ends of the hydraulic rams pressing on flange of furthest ring Date: 1909

Machine for cutting the ends of pencils - Pencil Making at Keswick Date: 1854

The Philobiblon of Richard De Bury
A picture of the book, The Philobiblon, by Richard De Bury, bound in red Morocco, with silk ends, inlay and gold tooling, gold gauffered top edges, others deckeled. Date: circa 1925

Visitor's Book
This picture shows a visitor's bookk for Beale & Co. Ltd, bound in amber brown Morocco, inlay and gold tooling, brown moire silk ends and gauffered edges. Date: circa 1925

Where The Rainbow Ends by John Ramsay and Clifford Mills - The Lake at the End of the Wood. First produced at the Savoy Theatre, 21 December 1911, Holborn Empire revival by Italia Conti

A scene from the popular childrens play Where the Rainbow Ends at the Holborn Empire, London, 1926 with Myrtle Peter as Betty and Bobby Smith as Cubby Date: 1925

Photogravure, Donald Mennie, The Grandeur of the Gorges
Photogravure from a photograph by Donald Mennie, from his book The Grandeur of the Gorges, published in China in 1926. He took the pictures during two trips on the upper Yangtze River in China

Page from a 1931 issue of Play Pictorial with an advertisement showing Noel Coward, an alumni of the Italia Conti School, when he appeared in the production of When the Rainbow Ends 21 years earlier

COSTUME / MACLISE 1850S
Gentleman wears a fly-fronted long coat with broad lapels faced in a contrasting fabric, large necktie tied in a bow & with fringed square cut ends. Date: 1850s

Fashion - Dog 1865
Blue: demi-train, silk cord at hem, neck & as a device to loop up floating ribbon ends. Grey & purple: button & flat ribbon trim down the front & in points at the hem. Date: 1865

NEW YORK CELEBRATES
New Yorkers celebrate in the streets when the war with Japan ends Date: August 1945

HEINRICH II / HRE / MEZZOTIN
EMPEROR HEINRICH II Despite using the Church for political ends, he was made a Saint by the Pope in thanks for donations Date: 973 - 1024

PSYCHE LOOKS AT EROS
Psyche, visited by Eros after sundown, seeking to know what he looks like, spills hot oil from her lamp onto him, waking him, with sad consequences, though all ends happily enough

End of Prohibition in America
Americans celebrate the end of Prohibition Date: 1933

Ends of terraced houses backing onto the Rochdale Canal
The gable ends of terraced houses backing onto the Rochdale Canal, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, England. People walk and cycle along the towpath, and the houses are reflected in the water of the canal

Vendor of Turkish chaplets in a Bazaar
Vendor of Turkish chaplets (little decorative odds and ends, necklaces, jewellery items etc.) in a Bazaar. Date: circa 1910s

Where The Rainbow Ends by John Ramsey & Clifford Mills
Where The Rainbow Ends by John Ramsay and Clifford Mills. First produced Savoy Theatre, 21st December 1911. For the revival at the Victoria Palace, 20th December 1919

Victoria Stiebel / Gown
A couture design by Victor Stiebel (1907-1976), for a reception dress in off-white slipper satin. Flat hipline swathed and twisted with ends lined in butter yellow faille

Summer Frock / Doeuillet
Summer tunic dress: V -neck & fold-over collar, a gauged yoke to the gathered over- skirt, scalloped hems, a sash with floating ends & shoes with 3 bars over the instep

Elephant goad, 1802 (c); wrought iron open work staff with pointed ends; constructed from six bars, each divided by six discs which are pierced and hold a brass bell; decorated with painted gold

Cavalry Sedan 1870
The decisive battle of SEDAN : a cavalry engagement in the course of the fighting, which ends in defeat for the French and leads to the abdication of Napoleon III

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