Flat Collection (page 14)

Lead Shrapnel manufacturing - Women - WW1
A group of manual workers, mostly women, inside a factory producing lead shrapnel for artllery shells - WW1. Date: circa 1915

Man in an open-topped sports car
A man in an open-topped sports car

Fisherman repairing lobster pots
A fisherman repairing lobster pots. Date: circa 1930

Couple on a large motorbike
A couple on a large motorbike parked outside a house. Date: C.1925

Middle-aged couple in a garden
A middle-aged, well-dressed couple standing in a garden. He is in plus fours and golfing socks, and is filling his pipe from a pouch

Family group of five
A family group of five people, posing for their photo in a garden. Date: circa 1930s

Queen of the Carnival
The Queen of the Carnival, dressed up to look like Cleopatra, riding along the road on a horse-drawn float, with three female attendants

Three men taking a break from their work in a back garden. They are sitting on planks of wood

Advert for Lilley & Skinner tennis shoes 1928
Seletion of tennis shoes for women. 1928

Fox Huntsman
An Upper Class huntsman, on his horse at the fox meet, watched by a curious working class crowd on the pavement. Date: 1930s

Painting a Road Sign
An important job for the safety of road users is the constant attention given to the upkeep of road signs. Here we see a Halt sign being repainted by a workman. Date: 1930s

Making Ivory Brushes
A man in a flat cap, boring small holes into an ivory hairbrush handle for the bristles. Date: February 1933

Weeding a Race Track
A maintenance man in a cloth cap crouches down as he weeds the Greyhound race track at Wembley, England. Date: early 1930s

Carrying Mail Sacks
Trusty workers at the General Post Office, lugging huge sacks of heavy mail over their shoulders. Date: early 1930s

Unnamed British Goalkeeper - Early 20th century. Sadly his name (and hence his feats between the posts) are lost to the past on this occasion. Date: circa 1900s

Tunisia - A Spahi reconnoitering
Tunisia - A Spahi (a term given to a soldier of a French colonial cavalry unit) reconnoitering. Date: circa 1910s

The Tenor hits a high note and is met by a special bouquet
An Operatic Tenor hits a high note and is met by a special bouquet, comprising of eggs, carrots, a turnip and a dead cat! " He who pitches too high, won t get through his song"

The Tenor hits a high note and a special bouquet awaits
The Tenors Top Note. An Operatic Tenor hits a high note and is about to meet a special bouquet, comprising of rotten eggs, a carrot and a turnip !! Date: circa 1910s

A New Seaside Tenor
A new Seaside Tenor launches into his signature tune. It looks as if the audience may just be making use of the extra exit in case of emergency... " Please vacate the aria !!! " Date: 1901

Coachman from Saint Petersburg, Russia - note his white gloves, tucked into his thin belt. The distinctive uniform of a coachman of long flowing robe and short-flat-topped hat is in evidence here

Morocco - Asni - Berber Village of mudbrick houses Date: 1938

Parqueuse or Oyster Gatherer, France
A Parqueuse or Oyster Gatherer from the Bassin d Arcachon in south-west France. Her shoes may lack Parisian chic but are eminently practical for traversing the mudflats. Date: circa 1910s

Street Baker - Cairo, Egypt - with his lovely fold-put trestle table which he has positioned in a prime spot in front of a beautiful window, with tracery screening surrounded by fantastic tiling

Why Get Married?
" Why Get Married?" The Joys of Bachelor Life illustrated quite clearly in this humorous German postcard illustration! Date: circa 1910s

Iraq - Sulaimaniya Date: circa 1930s

Mussel Collectors by Karl Daubigny (1846-1886). Date: 1867

Bristol Type 133, R-10, after it had crashed on a field at Longwell Green following its failure to recover from a flat spin

Plate 103 by William Ellis
Plate 103 from a collection of watercolour sketches by William W. Ellis (?-1785) made on Captain James Cooks third voyage to explore the south (1776-1780)

Plate 100 by William Ellis
Plate 100 from a collection of watercolour sketches by William W. Ellis (?-1785) made on Captain James Cooks third voyage to explore the south (1776-1780)

Plate 137 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

LS Plate 187 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Plate 10, fig 1 from Mineralienbuch
An illustration of an axinite mineral specimen. Plate 10, fig 1 from Mineralienbuch by F. A. Schmidt, Stuttgart 1855

LS Plate 155 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Arnoglossus scapha
Ff. 193. Watercolour painting by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

LS Plate 160 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Plate 144 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

LS Plate 153 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Flat-footed beetle in amber
A flat-footed beetle preserved in Dominican amber. This specimen dates from the Lower Miocene period

Damaged structures, possibly by storm
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Paralichthys adspersus, fine flounder
Fish labelled Hippoglossus kingii collected by Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Isalnds. From his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Pilansberg from Brak legte sandflat north of Brak spruit May 1869 Sketch 13 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines, (1859-1871)

Photograph of reef flat with lighthouse in the background. Plate XXXIII

Solea lunata, sole
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Upper Triassic dinosaurs discovered in Southern Germany
An illustration showing a scene in Upper Triassic (200 - 225 mya) Southern Germany, featuring 2 small Coelurosaurs, Procompsognathus (foreground) & 2 prosauropod Plateosaurus

Arabian desert
The expansive salt flats of the Arabian desert, sabkha

Plate 98 from Illustrations of Indian Zoology by John Edward
Plate 98 from Illustrations of Indian Zoology, Vol. 2 by John Edward Gray, (1833)

Flat Arabian astrolabe from 16th c

SPAIN. Barcelona. Olympic Village. Flat building designed by MBM architects (Josep Martorell, Oriol Bohigas and David Mackay), 1994. Architecture

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