Fallen Collection

Switzerland Reichenbach
The Reichenbach falls, where Sherlock Holmes and professor Moriarty are supposed to have fallen to their deaths

Dramatic Rail Accident at Gare Montparnasse, France
At the Montparnasse terminus of the Chemin de Fer de l Ouest, the Granville train crashes through the buffers and into the street (Rue de Rennes)

Tablet of Shamash. beg. 9th c. BC. The sun-god Shamash (right) receiving the Babylonian king Nabu-apla-iddina (left), between two interceding deities

Woman police officer attending an accident where a man appears to have fallen off a ladder. She is speaking into her hand-held radio. Date: circa 1970s

Trams causing havoc on a Belfast street
Horses, carts, wagons and pedestrians in an almighty crash involving two trams in Donegal Place in Belfast. The card caption reads: " Our Trammelled Streets" Date: 1905

British soldiers rescuing horse from ditch, Flanders, WW1
British soldiers trying to rescue a horse which has fallen into a ditch, blown by the force from a bursting shell, on the road to Reutel, Flanders, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Frog Prince (Anderson)
DER FROSCHKONIG The Princess promises friendship to the Frog if he will retrieve her beloved golden ball which has fallen into his pond

Lone British gunner near Mons, Belgium, WW1
The Last Gunner -- a lone British gunner of the Royal Field Artillery in action near Mons, Belgium, during the First World War. He carried on valiantly after all his colleagues had fallen

County Cricket Match in 1939 - a wicket for Gover of Surrey
County Cricket Match at the Oval in 1939 - a wicket has just fallen, caught behind. The bowler appears to be the Surrey player Alf Gover. Date: 1939

Violet Gordon Charlesworth: the motor car
The motor car with broken windscreen from which Miss Violet Gordon Charlesworth(b.1884) was alleged to have been thrown into the sea following an accident at Penmaenbach near Llandudno

Violet Gordon Charlesworth: the slope down which she fell
The slope down which, according to the chaffeurs first statement, Miss Violet Gordon Charlesworth(b.1884) was alleged to have fallen and coming through the windscreen of her car at Penmaenbach

LEON TROTSKY EXILED
Trotsky, having fallen out of favour with Stalin, is sent into exile in Siberia, being treated roughly by his guards Date: 1928

Blitz in London -- Union Road, Rotherhithe, WW2
Blitz in London -- a large unexploded parachute bomb lying on a pile of timber at Union Road, Rotherhithe, SE London. Date: 1940s

St Marys Home, Rottingdean, Sussex
St Marys Home, Rottingdean, a magdalen home founded in 1855 for fallen young women. Date: Date unknown

In Memoriam - scene in Tewkesbury Abbey, WW1
A lone woman stands alone in front of a roll of honour, with the Union flag hanging over it inside Tewkesbury Abbey in Gloucestershire during the First World War. Date: 1919

Firefighters attempt to right a fallen cart, WW2
Firefighters attempt to right a fallen cart in Clerkenwell Close

Old Beech Trees, near High Beech, Epping Forest, Essex - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

A scene from No No Nanette at the Palace Theatre, London (1925) with Joseph Coyne, Binnie Hale and George Grossmith Date: 1925

Wall mural close up of Fallen comrades at Belfast
Belfast. Wall mural close up of Fallen comrades of Lt Col William Bucky McCullough - 2nd Batt U. F. F West Belfast Brigade in the end corner of the terrace house. Date: 2011

Bonzo finds a joy wheel! by George Studdy
Bonzo finds a joy wheel -- he goes round and round on a gramophone turntable, until he becomes too dizzy and falls off. Date: 1924

The Last Post by C. E. Turner
Buglers sounding the Last Post at 9pm before the British monument to fallen soldiers at Ypres, the Menin Gate. Date: 1930

Market Reports Illustrated - Unexpected fruit supply cleared
Market Reports Illustrated - Fruit, an unexpected supply was rapidly cleared! A fallen basket of apples is swiftly cleared up by lucky pedestrians! Date: circa 1905

Mary Celeste / Fosdyk 1872
ABEL FOSDYKs STORY All the crew, except Fosdyk, are eaten by sharks : he survives on drifting wreckage of the fallen quarter-deck (almost certainly a hoax)

Franco-Prussian War. Siege of Paris (19 September)
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). Siege of Paris (19 September 1870 to 28 January 1871). Fall of a mail balloon within German lines. Engraving by Capuz

46 Royal Marines Commando Memorial Rots Normandy
Unusually this black marble memorial list the ages of the fallen. It commemorates the fighting in Rots and le Hamel of 11 June 1944

Del Norte wonder stump, near Crescent City, California, USA
Del Norte wonder stump, a fallen redwood tree near Crescent City, California, USA. Date: circa 1940

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - There is still a lot to do
The war is over. The message on the back by Churchill exhorts There is still a lot to do

When Love was Lost and Life was Vain: Pierrot Forlorn. In the Autumn of Youth: " Fallen Leaves". Date: 1912

Comic Postcard - Golfing Humour - One Down
Comic Postcard - " Wasn t I two up at the last hole, Caddie?" " Yes, but yer one down now, Lady!" circa 1930s

St Stephens crypt
Although St Stephens Chapel was destroyed by fire in 1834, the crypt below St Stephens Hall, the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft, which had fallen into disuse before the fire

The wreckage of the crashed British Airship R101 near Beauvais, France - whilst on a flight to India Date: 1930

She's Fallen For The Foreman
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for She's Fallen For The Foreman, by Ralph Butler, Tolchard Evans and Everett Lynton

WW2 Greetings Card, Submerged
A WW2 greetings card, the image portrays a group of rather large Royal Navy sailors who have fallen asleep leaning on the unfortunate gentleman in the middle! Date: circa 1940s

WW2, Humpty Dumpty
This illustration shows Peter the Royal Air Force pilot approaching Humpty Dumpty who has fallen off of the wall, after the King's horses and men ignored him. Date: circa 1940

House Dene, Wallace's Well
The top photograph shows a low lyring stream by House Dene, with a fallen in Wallace's Well, the bottom image provides the same view

Aeroplane in Sea, Spithead
A British aeroplane had fallen into the sea at Spithead due to the bad weather and high winds. The plane can be seen getting towed away by R.A.F Auxiliary vessel Adastral. Date: 1925

Memorial service to the fallen guards in South Africa
A memorial service for the fallen guards in South Africa during the Boer war, Oct 1899 ??May 1902), where around 22, 000 British men lost their lives

Scenes from the Balkan's Crisis
Depictions of the Balkans Crisis. We see soldiers trekking over the Shipka Pass, a monument to fallen soldiers, and the artist's personal caravan en route to the front

The Water's Edge
A drypoint etching of a large, gnarled and twisted tree by the water's edge, beside a fallen, bending one. Date: circa 1923

Flowers
A still-life painting of a vase of red Dahlias, with one fallen onto the surface below. Date: circa 1926

Wreaths for fallen Bolsheviks during Revolution, Russia
Wreaths for the graves of fallen Bolsheviks during the Revolutionary period in Russia

Early victims of the Revolution, Russia, March 1917, shot in the street by police. Date: 1917

Revolution victims laid out for identification, Russia
Revolution victims laid out in a street for identification, Petrograd (St Petersburg), Russia. Some of them have slips of paper giving their names. Date: 1917

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Typical graves of Russian soldiers, Russia, WW1
Typical graves of Russian soldiers, Russia, First World War. Date: circa 1917

Fallen Russian soldiers ready for burial, Russia, WW1
Fallen Russian soldiers laid out on the frozen ground, ready for burial, Russia, First World War. Date: circa 1917

Wagon Hill cemetery, Ladysmith, Natal Province, South Africa
Wagon Hill (or Platrand) cemetery, near Ladysmith, Natal Province, South Africa, commemorating fallen British forces who died in battle on 6 January 1900 during the Second Boer War (1899-1900)

Wagon Hill memorial, Ladysmith, Natal Province, South Africa
Wagon Hill (or Platrand) memorial, near Ladysmith, Natal Province, South Africa

The Cenotaph - Grimsby, Humberside
The Cenotaph - memorial to the fallen of WW1 at Grimsby, Humberside. Date: circa 1920s

The mockery of the people and soldiers to Jesus. Colored eng
Luke 23. The mockery of the people and soldiers to Jesus. Colored engraving

Pergamon Altar. Telephos Frieze. Detail
Pergamon Altar. 164-156 BC. Telephos Frieze. Detail. Battle by the river Kaikos. Two Scythian warriors, sons of river-god Istros, fall in battle. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

Raphael (1483-1520). Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary
Raphael (1483-1520). Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary, also known as Lo Spasimo or Il Spasimo di Sicilia, (1514-1516)

WW1 - Dardanelles Campaign - Australians cornering the enemy
WW1 - Dardanelles Campaign - Progress in Gallipoli as the Australian troops advance up hill, yet corner and attack a Turkish detachmment

London Brighton South Coast Railway Roll Honour
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Fallen solder's mother receiving Victoria Cross
King George V presenting the Victoria Cross Buckingham Palace, London to Mrs Warner for her son Private Edward Warner, Bedfordshire Regiment, who won the decoration for most conspicuous bravery

Shadows in Whitehall, by Bruce Bairnsfather
Shadows in Whitehall An unusually serious subject for Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, known for his Old Bill cartoons in The Bystander magazine; ghostly soldiers guard the cenotaph in Whitehall, London

SPAIN. CATALONIA. Spain. Civil War. Els caiguts et necessiten (The Fallen need you). Poster of the Consell de Sanitat de Guerra, Generalitat of Catalonia (1937). Original drawing by Eduardo Vicente

British soldier tending grave of fallen colleague, WW1
A British soldier tending the grave of a fallen colleague on the Western Front during World War One. A row of plants can be seen. Date: circa 1916

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British soldier tidying grave of fallen colleague, WW1
A British soldier tidying the grave of a fallen colleague on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Cartoon, Close Formation, WW1
Cartoon, Close Formation, commenting on harsh German tactics on the battlefield during the First World War

German propaganda postcard, Kaiser at grave, WW1
German propaganda postcard, On the Field of Honour, depicting Kaiser Wilhelm II standing at the grave of a fallen hero during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

French soldiers, Battle of Verdun, France, WW1
French soldiers in action during the Battle of Verdun, north-eastern France, First World War. Date: 1916

Two dead soldiers in a trench, Somme, France, WW1
Two dead soldiers in a trench on the Somme, northern France, during the First World War. Snow has recently fallen. Date: circa 1916-1918

George V at the front, visiting war grave, WW1
King George V at the front, visiting the grave of a fallen hero during the First World War. Date: circa 1916

Osmond's Patent Safety Balancing Dogcart 1875
Driver protected if horses falls with a self balancing safety foot rest. Date: 1875

THE ZEPPELIN GRAVES
The so-called Zeppelin Graves, Theberton, Suffolk, England. Here lie the bodies of 16 German airmen from the Zeppelin gunned down on 17 June 1917. Date: 1917

BALLAD / THE GARDENER
THE GARDENER The gardener offers the maiden his flowers, but includes a weed, so she rejects him and foretells his death - the new fallen snow to be your smock Date: traditional

THE STAR MONEY - 3
Die Sternthaler : the child gathers up the star money fallen from the sky

FREDERICK VIII (1843 - 1912), King of Denmark (1906 - 12) - a commemorative picture soon after his death

POLYXENA SACRIFICED
Priam's daughter was loved by Achilles, though an enemy : after his death, Troy fallen, his ghost demands that she be sacrificed so that he may have her in death if not in life

WW1/1915/RUSSIAN GAMBLE
The Russians gamble - and lose ! (Death rakes in the fallen..) Date: 1915

Aftermath of Flodden
Flodden : the fallen Date: 9 September 1513

Children picking fruit, one fallen over. A rolling stone gathers no moss by Gladys Peto

A scene from Fallen Angels at the Globe Theatre, London (1925) with Tallulah Bankhead and Edna Best Date: 1925

Comic postcard, Conductor and band Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Couple discussing the football pools Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Rent collector and tenant Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Boy and girl fallen through the ice Date: 20th century

Pillars in the Great Hall, Karnak, Egypt, 1857

Comic birthday postcard, Two children in a garden, falling out of a cart Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two children in a garden Date: 20th century

Comic birthday postcard, Little girl with fallen knickers Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man and porter on railway platform Date: 20th century

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