Escape Collection (page 15)

Katergy by George Studdy
Bonzo shows the practical application of the word " katergy" which burst upon the astonished world in a scientific address given by Dr. F. C

Taxi Cab and Motor Fire Escape
A bright and shiny fire engine populated by a team of firemen and ladder are given right of way through a busy street. In the background waits a taxi cab piled high with luggage on its roof

Dicing with death
A group out motoring encounter a broken bridge but the daring driver puts his foot on the accelerator and the car jumps the gap

Union Workhouse, St Faiths, Norfolk
Fire drill at the St Faiths Union workhouse at Horsham St Faith near Norwich, Norfolk. Staff help one of the inmates down an escape chute from the first floor while a group of children stand below

The road to Gretna-Green
A couple look anxiously behind them, fearful that they may be pursued, as they make their way speedily to Gretna Green to be married

Partition. Refugees crossing the border between Pakistan
A lorryload of Sikh and Hindu refugees about to cross the Wagah Bridge between Pakistan and India to escape the mass killings and atrocities between Muslims

Muslim Refugees heading to Pakistan
Two trains packed with Muslim refugees en route from Delhi to Pakistan. A bulging, writhing target trainload of refugees was attacked by Sikhs at Amritsar on 22nd September

Sikh Family fleeing to East Punjab
Uprooted from their home, a Sikh family flee to the safety of the East Punjab carrying only meagre possessions

Partition. Sikh and Hindu refugees in Western Punjab
Sikh and Hindu refugees from the Western Punjab cook their meals on a railway platform at Lahore awaiting trains to take them across the border to India. They are protected by wire put up by police

Fairly Tree d
A soldier disguised rather improbably as a tree, scampers gingerly through the mud of the West Front, doing his best to avoid a cluster of enemy shells falling nearby

Fox Tries to Escape
The fox knows the hounds are getting closer and skulks alongside a hedge

Izmir, Turkey - Greek Refugees Fleeing
Greek Refugees fleeing for their lives from Izmir. Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, the Greek Army occupied Izmir

The Peril of Queen Henrietta Maria
During the English Civil War, Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I, flees England to the safety of the continent. She hides with her supporters from Parliamentarian ships off the coast

Queen Henrietta Maria flees
During the English Civil War, Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I, escapes from England. She is sheltered by a bank from the Parliamentarian forces

Captured frogs bid for Freedom
A young schoolboy in his full school uniform get a nasty surprise when the frog he has captured makes a daring bid for freedom, leaping out and away as soon as the airhole-added lid has been lifted

Daviess Portable Fire Escape, Blackfriars, London, 1849
Engraving showing a portable fire escape, designed by Mr. Davies and used by the Royal Society for Protection of Life from Fire, stationed at the Obelisk, Blackfriars Road, London, 1849

Comparatively undamaged amidst all the shells: The remarkable escape of one of the monuments in Ramscapelle Church

A Serbian Dragoon regiment in the Battle of Borenitza
A Serbian Dragoon regiment, part of the Allied army based in the Greek port of Salonika, are pictured riding to repel an attack by the Bulgarian army, October 1916

Cutting a channel through the ice, Arctic, c. 1849
Engraving of an imaginary scene showing a British Arctic expedition in the Arctic, c.1849. The engraving shows a group of men cutting a channel through the ice so that their ship

India Naini Tal
A popular summer resort for those wishing to escape the heat of the Plains

Franco-Prussian War: balloon from Paris over Versailles
Crowds in the streets in Versailles watching balloon overhead. During the siege of Paris post came in and out of Paris by balloon and the famous escape of Leon Gambetta

American Aircraft attacking German Vehicles, Falaise; Second
Illustration showing Thunderbolts and Lightning of the US Air Force attacking a column of German vehicles attempting to escape from the Falaise Pocket, France, August 1944

The Hesperian
The liner, Hesperian sunk by a German submarine off the Irish south coast on September 4th 1915 on a voyage from Liverpool to Montreal

Saint Wilgefortis
SAINT WILGEFORTIS - legendary daughter of a king of Portugal who asked God to let her grow a beard to escape marriage, and who was consequently martyred, bearded but chaste

Rus-Jap War / Escape
Russian officers in Manchuria escape a Japanese ambush in their automobile

Death of the Prince Imperial
Sketch of spot where the Princes body was found. By special artist Melton Prior. Panoramic view of the plain where the Princes body was found

Fable / the Fox and Goat
THE FOX AND THE GOAT A fox and goat, feeling very thirsty, jump into a well to drink; unable to escape, the fox suggests he climb upon the goat, only to then run off

ROBIN HOODs BAY 1940S
Idiosyncratic coastal village in North Yorkshire, with a history of smuggling, but little to prove the myth that Robin Hood kept a boat in the bay to make a quick sea escape

Fugitives Arrested
Parisians seeking to escape from Paris are arrested by Gardes Nationaux at the Gare de l Est

Escaping Commune
Members of the Garde Nationale escape from Paris in order to avoid serving with the Communards

Fire Escape, Boston
Fire escapes down the side of a building in downtown Boston. Date: 2000

John Evangelist Ascends
SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST the only one of the apostles to escape martyrdom, he has to make his own way to heaven, which he does by ascending into the skies as shown here

Racial / Gipsies / Stealing
At Chauffailles, France, gipsies try to steal a girl on her way home from school, but she is able to escape them

Royal Escape Satire
The people of Paris are horrified to learn that their king has escaped from Paris - they are overjoyed to learn that he has been recaptured !

Royal Evasion - 3
Alerted to the royals escape, the authorities give orders to stop and search every vehicle : Paul le Blanc and Joseph Pontant halt the royal carriage at Sainte- Menehould

Royal Evasion - 1
Louis and Marie Antoinette escape from the Tuileries in disguise, hoping to cross the frontier of France altogether. The authorities are alarmed and the populace dismayed

Edith Cavell
EDITH CAVELL - nurse in Belgium who helped some 200 Allied servicemen to escape by hiding them in her hospital : the Germans, not surprisingly, disapproved, and shot her

The Cat & the Fox C1870
THE CAT AND THE FOX The cat climbs the tree to escape the fox

Charles Ii / Royal Oak
Charles II is advised to hide amid the branches of the Royal Oak in Boscobel Wood, part of the park of Boscobel House following the Battle of Worcester

Hawfinch (Morris) 1851
(Cocothraustes vulgaris) A bird of shy and retiring habits... its presence may easily escape detection

Theatre Fire / Tokyo / 1905
A fire at the Chikichima Theatre, Tokyo

Chicago Fire / 1871
At Chicago, this picture shows citizens trying to escape by way of the Ike Randolph Street Bridge

Houdini in a Box
Firmly locked inside a box from which there is no escape

Mexico Chapultepec
Dancing and strolling in the cypress grove : Chapultepec is near Mexico City and is a favourite place to escape to

SAFETY SAC
People trapped on upper floors escape from a blaze via a sac (chute) which they slide down head first to the sapeurs- pompiers waiting below

Massacre of Hurons
Betrayed by the false promises of the Jesuits, the Hurons protect their escape from Canada, but are themselves massacred by the Iroquois, their traditional enemies

Hare Coursing 1809
Two hare-hounds close on the heels of a hare, their master not far behind... but their quarry shows them a clean pair of heels and may escape ending up jugged on the supper-table

Tregeagles Ghost
The ghost of Tregeagle, an evil-doing Cornishman, seeks nightly to escape his prison, Dozmary Pool; but every night he finds the Hounds of Hell awaiting him

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