Fatal Collection

Richard III on Horse
KING RICHARD III OF ENGLAND depicted at the fatal battle of Bosworth Field - a splendidly stylised depiction showing the doomed monarch desperate yet determined

PERSEUS & MEDUSA PERSEUS & MEDUSA
PERSEUS slays MEDUSA, not looking at her because to see her is fatal; his horse Pegasus also looks away

LCC-LFB fatal warehouse fire, Langley Street WC2
Three firemen died fighting this blaze in a Covent Garden warehouse in Langley Street. The first crews to arrive, from Clerkenwell fire station, found the warehouse well alight

The Death of Ellen Bright at Wombwells Menagerie, 1850
Engraving showing Ellen Bright (1832-1850), a Lion Queen animal trainer, being attacked by a tiger during the course of a performance at Wombwells Menagerie, Chatham, January 1850

BUNKERs HILL MINE / 1875
Bunkers Hill mine, in North Staffordshire, the scene of a fatal explosion on April 30th 1875. Date: 1875

William John Wills
WILLIAM JOHN WILLS English explorer in Australia, associated with the fatal expedition with Burke

Faust - Liebig - 4
FAUST Faust fights Marguerites brother Valentin, and Mephistopheles directs a fatal stroke

8th Crusade - Fleet
EIGHTH CRUSADE The ships which carried Louis IX from France to Carthage on his fatal crusade in North Africa Date: 1270

Ramon Novarro - Mexican Actor
Ramon Novarro (1899-1968) - Mexican Actor, murdered by asphyxiation by two hired rent boys who believed that a large sum of money was hidden in Novarros house. Date: circa 1930s

His Fatal Beauty, by Bairnsfather
His Fatal Beauty OLD BILL: " My wife married me for love, ye know, Bert" BERT (after prolonged and somewhat pained scrutiny of Bills face): " I had been wonderin what it was, Bill

The second de Havilland DH108 TG306
The second de Havilland DH108, TG306, on the Wednesday before the fatal accident which killed Geoffrey de Havilland

Rolls in Wright
The Honourable Charles Rolls (of Rolls-Royce) flies his Wright biplane at Bournemouth Aviation Week : but he has a fatal crash - Britains first aviation fatality

Scene of the Fatal Explosion at Birmingham
Scene following an explosion that took place on the premises of Messrs. Pursall and Phillips, percussion-cap manufacturers, in Whittall Street, St. Marys Square, Birmingham

The fatal oblong into which the Titanic steamed

The Old Hen and the Cock. A hen and chicks peck at food in a farmyard. A young rooster ignores his mother's advice and picks a fight with his reflection in the water in a well

Fatal aneurysmal sac from the broken leg of a man, 1815. The sailor died of gangrene before the leg could be amputated. Drawing of Mr. Harkness's case of aneurism

A ship's boy with a case of necrotizing fasciitis
A boy with a huge sore wasting away the skin and muscle of the thigh

Harold Davidson, former rector of Stiffkey, Norfolk
Harold Davidson (1875-1937), defrocked former rector of Stiffkey, Norfolk, seen here lion taming at Skegness in July 1937. Unfortunately, this kind of activity led to his being attacked and killed

North American T-6G N7765C
North American T-6G 50-1288 (MSN 88-17307); transferred to civil registry as N7765C. Seen with racing number 74. N7756C was written off in a fatal accident on 11 October 1993. Date: 1950s

Mooney M.20A ZK-BUN (msn ), at Mangere NZ. on 24 April 1960

Brooklands Race
Scenes from the British Thousand Miles Race at Brooklands. The wreckage of an M.G. Midget driven by H. Leeson, who died in the accident. And female winners T. H. Wisdom and Joan Richmond. Date: 1932

The Curtain Illustration
An illustration in reference to a poem, written by Australian poet, Zora Bernice May Cross, showing a woman in a blue dress, hiding behind a stage curtain

Hawker Siddeley HS. 125-3B HB-VAY
Hawker Siddeley HS.125-3B HB-VAY (msn 25135), at Hatfield, prior to delivery. (This aircraft was written-off in a fatal accident at Edinburgh Airport / RAF Turnhouse on 20 July 1970) Date: 1967

Death of a stuntman, Eastbourne
Death of a stuntman at Arlington Stadium, near Eastbourne

DUC D'ORLEANS DIES - 4
Ferdinand-Philippe, duc d'Orleans, son of Louis- Philippe and heir to the throne, dies in a house in Neuilly after a fatal carriage accident. Date: 13 July 1842

DUC D'ORLEANS DIES - 3
Ferdinand-Philippe, duc d'Orleans, son of Louis- Philippe and heir to the throne, dies in this house in Neuilly after a fatal carriage accident. Date: 13 July 1842

Duc Orleans Dies Events France 13 July 1842 Ferdinand
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ALEXANDER II DEAD
Tsar ALEXANDER II, assassinated by nihilists, on his deathbed in the Winter Palace whither he was taken after the fatal explosion. Date: 1818 - 1881

ZENITH BALLOON ACCIDENT
Carrying away the dead bodies following the fatal crash of the balloon Zenith when the aeronauts on board fainted due to the ballon's high altitude Date: May 1, 1875

THE TOMB OF PHAETON
After his fatal drive, Phaeton's tomb is flanked by his sisters, changed into poplars, while his friend Cygnus, bitterly mourning his death, becomes a swan. Date:

WILLIAM III'S FATAL FALL
William III, king of England, falls off a horse while riding at Hampton Court, and dies of his injuries. Date: 20 February 1702

BALLAD / CLERK COLVILL
CLERK COLVILL He sees a mermaid bathing in the Wells of Slane, and falls instantly in love with her... but her love is fatal, and he returns home only to die. Date: traditional

HYACINTH FATAL ACCIDENT
Hyacinth is playing a game with his lover Apollo, when Zephyr, jealous, directs Apollo's arrow at him : he dies, and from his blood springs a hyacinth flower

Miracle Saved Tin Paranormal Miracles 1918 World
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Boy in toy car A Fatal Accident by H G C Marsh

William Terriss and W L Abingdon in The Fatal Card
William Terriss as Gerald Austen and W L Abingdon as James Dixon, in The Fatal Card Date: 1890s

Jessie Millward as Margaret Marrable in The Fatal Card Date: 1890s

Comic postcard, Cats on a roof - I ve the fatal gift of beauty Date: 1913

Fatal motor race at Brooklands, 1907
The fatal motor-race on the Brooklands track: the scene immediately after the overturning of Mr Hermons car

Captain William Duncan Dale ready for balloon ascent
Captain William Duncan Dale ready for his balloon ascent at Crystal Palace, Sydenham, SE London, July 1892. 1892

Parry Thomas, motor racing driver, at the wheel of Babs, half an hour before his fatal accident attempting another world speed record at Pendine, Carmarthenshire on 3 March 1928. 1928

Charles Stewart Rolls (1877 - 1910), Welsh motoring and aviation pioneer. Co-founded of the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm with Henry Royce

United States Navy - Pratt-Read XLNE-1 31506, competition #32, at Harris Hill, Elmira, NY in 1946 for the first US soaring contest held after WWII

Percy Pilchers fatal flight 1899
Photographs showing Pilcher ready to start and in mid flight on his invention the Gliding machine

PHAETONS FATAL DRIVE
Phaetons irresponsible drive in his father (the Sun)s chariot endangers the planet : Zeus has no choice, but to destroy him with a timely thunderbolt

FALL ON THE MATTERHORN
Climbing the Matterhorn with Whymper, Reynaud has a frightening but not fatal fall Date: 1863

Fleet Super Bonanza N174SV
Fleet Super V Bonanza N174SV (msn SV115) (donor aircraft msn D-422 built in 1947)

Winter sun highlights a skull & crossbones on a tomb
The low winter sun highlights a skull & crossbones on a tomb beneath cemetery gates. Kirkcudbright graveyard, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland Date: 2009

For her childrens sake by Theo. Kremer : the companion play to The fatal wedding. Date c1903

Douglas A-20J Havoc - Photographed moments after taking a fatal hit

Stockport Air Disaster - 4th June 1967
Stockport Air Disaster 4th June 1967, in which 72 passengers and crew died when the British Midlands Airways Canadair C4 Argonaut from Palma, Mallorca

Girl Faints in Mans Arm
Girl faints into gentlemans arms after reading the fatal telegram Date: circa 1890

Boonville railway train wreck, New York State, USA
Boonville railway train wreck, on the New York Central Railroad, New York State, USA, 4 July 1908, in which five people died. Date: 1908

Boeing 377 MGT mini Guppy N111AS Aero Spacelines Santa Barba
The Mini Guppy Turbine was originally planned for the general commercial market such as hauling boats and heavy machinery

Poison gas attack, Hulluch, France, aerial photograph, WW1
Aerial photograph (German) of smoke from a poison gas attack during the Battle of Hulluch, France, First World War. It was chlorine gas, released by the Germans. Date: 27 April 1916

GLC-LFB Aftermath of fatal fire in care home, NE London
Aftermath of a fatal fire at an elderly peoples care home in Billet Road, Walthamstow, NE London. Showing the seat of the fire, with heat damage and smoke staining to the upper areas of the walls

GLC-LFB appliance fleet, Photographic Unit
The GLC-LFB was created on 1 April 1965. A series of photos was commissioned of each type of fire engine, either within or absorbed into the enlarged London Fire Brigade

GLC-LFB Brigade photographer Dolly Gray
The brigade had three Sub Officers skilled in photography, who attended all fires of special interest

De Groofs Fatal Crash
DE GROOFs device is launched from a balloon over Cremorne Gardens, London. Unfortunately, something goes terribly wrong, and he plunges fatally to the ground. Date: 9 July 1874

Disraeli / Curzon Street
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl of Beaconsfield Anxious enquirers at his home in Curzon Street during his fatal illness, 1881 Date: 1804 - 1881

His Fatal Beauty by Arthur Shirley
Promotional postcard for His Fatal Beauty by Arthur Shirley; lyrics and sketches by H. Chance Newton &c.; music John Crook &c. First produced Metropole Theatre, Camberwell, 27th April 1903

Fokker DrI produced to counter the Sopwith Triplane, it initially had fatal weak wing

Fatal Tram Accident - Warstone Lane, Birmingham, Warwickshir
Fatal Tram Accident - Warstone Lane, Birmingham, near Hockley, Warwickshire, England. Showing Precise Date - October 1st 1907 Date: 1907

Ruins of Fatal Fire, Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire
Ruins of Fatal Fire, Bushey Heath, Bushey, near Watford, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 1908

Cunard Liner Lusitania 1915
The Cunard liner Lusitania was torpedoed by German submarine off the south coast of Ireland on 7th May 1915, and sank within half an hour, of the 1, 906 persons on board, only 708 were saved

Poison gas attack, aerial photograph, WW1
Aerial photograph of a poison gas attack during the First World War. Date: 1917

GLC-LFB Fire investigation evidence photograph
The aftermath of a fatal fire at 10 The Glebe, Blackheath, SE London, showing the corridor and smoke damage to the walls. Date: 1975

Peels Funeral
The funeral of sir Robert Peel (the younger) at Drayton Manor, his country residence, after his fatal fall from a horse. Date: 1788 - 1850

Bizerte, Tunisia - Crash (and death) of Captain Madon
Bizerte, Tunisia - Crash (and death) of Georges Felix Madon (1892-1924), (the fourth ranked French ace pilot of the First World War) on 11th November 1924. Madon was born in Bizerte

The wreckage following Codys fatal crash on 7 August 1913

Cockings fatal parachute descent 24th July 1837
Cockings fatal parachute descent, 24 July 1837

Taxus sp. yew
Yew berries and seeds which are known to contain the alkaloid taxine and are poisonous

NFS towing unit and trailer pump, WW2
The National Fire Service was formed in 1941 and Greater London was designated a fire region with Lambeth as the Regional HQ

The fatal duel. Date c1879

Mr. Edward Spencer, born May 8th 1799 who accompanied Mr. Charles Green in that fatal parachute experiment of Mr. Robert Cocking s, July 24th, 1837, from Vauxhall Gardens

Native American Indian Antelope Shooting. Fatal Curiosity. Date: ca. 1858

The fatal card the powerful drama : by Haddon Chambers & BC Stephenson. Date c1895

Dangerous fashions in the street
The dangers of impractical fashions in the street. The reintroduction of the trained skirt, even for walking dresses, proves inconvenient and possibly fatal! Date: 1871

Palemon kisses Ondine and dies in her arms
Palemon kisses Ondine, despite knowing that this will be fatal, and dies in her arms

Quarryman drilling, Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, North Wales
A quarryman drilling into the rock at Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, Nantlle Valley, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales

RMS Titanic and iceberg
Artists impression of RMS Titanic at the moment it hit the fatal iceberg on 15 April 1912

Sir Robert Peel, 1846
K0 Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), the English statesman and Prime Minister, sketched speaking in the House of Commons, January 1846

Sir Robert Peel, c. 1850
Engraving of Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), the English statesman and Prime Minister, surrounded by illustrations of his political achievements

Drayton Bassett Church, 1850
Engraving of Drayton Bassett Church during the funeral of Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), the English statesman and Prime Minister

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