Fail Collection

WW2 poster, We shall not flag, Winston Churchill speech
WW2 poster, We shall not flag, we shall not fail. Winston Churchill speech, 4 June 1940. Date: 1940

They say cleanliness is next to Godliness - but I say its next to impossible. A young child fails to clean their grimy knees no matter how hard they scrub! Date: 1933

Fighting the Sioux
The U.S. government finds itself continually having to fight the Sioux, who fail to see that the white mens intentions are for their good

Achelous and Naiads
The powerful river-god Achelous, indignant when five Maiaids fail to pay him proper respect, changes them into islands

Madam I?Oma music hall mystic and clairvoyante
Madam I?Oma Egyptian music hall mystic and ?genuine? clairvoyante. ?Never known to fail.? Head and shoulders portrait. Date: circa 1919

Trinket Box with Caton Woodville WWI battle scene
Trinket Box lined with velvet. On lid - a relief after Caton Woodville's painting of a battle scene, signed by the artist

Trinket Box lined with velvet. On lid - a relief after Caton Woodville's painting of a battle scene, signed by the artist

Cigarette Box with relief after a Caton Woodville painting
Cigarette Box. On lid - a relief after Caton Woodville's painting of a battle scene, signed by the artist together with Rudyard Kipling's poem - Who stands if freedom fail Who dies if England

CARLO ALBERTO AT GENOVA
Carlo Alberto, king of Sardinia, arrives in Genova : he will attempt to seize Austrian Lombardy but will fail, abdicate and die in exile. Date: 1847

LADY AIR TRAVELLER 1929
This French lady traveller has chosen a Marcel Rochas costume de voyage as the outfit to be seen dead in should her plane fail to reach its destination. Date: 1929

James IIs plan to escape England to France is thwarted
James II and VII (1633-1701) - King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII discovered trying to escape England

King Cnut the Great fails to halt the incoming tide
Cnut the Great (circa 985 or 9951035), (or Canute), King of Denmark, England, Norway, and parts of Sweden. Henry of Huntingdon, the 12th-century chronicler

St Edwards Chair - Coronation Chair
The Coronation Chair of Great Britain, otherwise known as St. Edwards Chair or King Edwards Chair, used for the crowning of British monarchs

Allies Enter Paris 1814
ALLIES ENTER PARIS Napoleon fails to reach Paris in time to forestall the surrender of the city by the desperately under-manned defending forces Date: 31 March 1814

WW1 - The Kaiser and his troops fail to make it to Paris
WW1 - The Paris Dinner - The Kaiser and his troops fail to make it to Paris in time for dinner.... The only recipient of Wilhelms feast is a nasty-looking spider! Date: 1914

Lia Fail, Stone of Destiny, Hill of Tara - a view of a standing stone in a field surrounded by a barrier. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Meath: Tara Hill). Date: circa early 1900s

WW1 - Zeppelins raid over Paris, France, 1915
WW1 - A failed night raid attack over Paris, where enemy airships are under attack from shells and searchlights from below

Suffragette Cats Embracing Words Fail Me. A cat exclaims, Words fail me. We will never get our votes this way! In the background, two more cats are sitting

The joys of Patrol Words fail
The joys of Patrol. Words fail. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

WWI - Propaganda postcard - Kaisers dream bubbles burst
WWI - Propaganda postcard - The German Kaisers dream bubbles are popping before his eyes. By this point however (late 1914)

WWI - The (German) Fox and the (Allied) Grapes
The Fox and the Grapes - A Hungry Fox, finding that he could not reach some tempting bunches of ripe grapes, declared that they were sour and that he did not want them

Jameson Raid / Captured
THE JAMESON RAID - Dr Jameson and his party fail to trigger an Uitlander rising in the Transvaal : captured at Doornkop, they are handed over to the British authorities 2 January 1896

Crete Revolt - 4
The battle of Saint-Hieromeli is one of many bitter engagements between the insurgents and the Turks, but the insurrection will ultimately fail

British in Afghanistan
The British force advances on Maidan, where the Amir Dost Mahommed has taken refuge. Lavish bribes fail to win over allies among the native tribes

Malta Bombed by Italians
The defence of Malta : the islands strategic value makes it the target for intense bombardment by the Italians and Germans, but they fail to dislodge the Allies

Battle of Narbonne
The Franks, besieging Narbonne which is occupied by the Saracens, are victorious in this battle, but fail to take the town which will not be theirs again until 759

Louis at Tuilleries
The Revolutionaries storm the Tuilleries and fail in their attempt to force the brave Louis XVI to denounce all the emigrant nobles as traitors

Twin puppies fall over
Twin puppies, Snip and Snap, manage to trip each other up accidentally, and fail to capture the escaped rabbit

The Cable Lost
The broken cable is lost, and all attempts to grapple and retrieve it fail : the Great Eastern will have to return to England, and prepare to try again

Langleys Model
Samuel Pierpont Langleys model performs well and promises success, but his full-size flying machine will fail his expectations

Myth / Tibet / Lion / Gold
THE STORY OF THE STONE LION The stone lion vomits (green) gold, but if you fail to catch every last piece, you will meet with misfortune

Battle of Minden
BATTLE OF MINDEN The Prussians and British defeat the French, but fail to follow up their victory which should have been overwhelming

Lighthouse Keeper
Head lighthouse keeper Mr. Cottee marches up the long spiral staircase at Norah Head lighthouse, Australia. Tne light flashes every five seconds and must never fail

Spion Kop - P. Journal
At SPION KOP, Buller and Warren fail to break through the Boer lines despite taking Spion Kop; they have to retire with heavy losses

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