Foot Collection

Advert for Manfield shoes 1920
Advertisement for shoes and slippers for the Christmas season. Date: 1920

Defence of Chateau de Hougoumont - Battle of Waterloo
Defence of the Chateau de Hougoumont by the flank company, Coldstream GuardsWatercolour by Denis Dighton, 1815Associated with Napoleonic Wars

Rifleman of 95th (Rifles) Regiment of Foot at the time of the Crimean War

Battle of the Pyrenees, 1813. Watercolour by Richard Simkin. The 95th Rifles (now Rifle Brigade) Pyrenees, 1813. Associated with the Peninsular War (1808-1814). Date: 1813

Sherlock Holmes theatre poster
Theatre poster advertising a four-part drama of Sherlock Holmes, playing at the Grand Theatre in Halifax, the show travelling from the Lyceum Theatre in London

Forest Row / Sussex / 1950S
FOREST ROW This village is at the foot of the Ashdown forest

Boots advertisement WW1 - comforts for the trenches
Boots advertisement warning Remember, there are no Chemists Shops in the Trenches

Foot guards at Battle of Waterloo
Up, Guards, and at them

GLC-LFB Dennis diesel Compact Pump
Introduced into London in the mid-1970s, this narrow wheel base pump was not a dual purpose fire engine. It could only carry an extension ladder and not the 50 foot wheeled escape

The Coldstream Guards taking over the Colour
circa 1910s

The Zen priest Ikkyu Osho. Date: circa 18th century

Steady the Drums and Fifes, 1811. Colour photolithograph after Lady Butler, published 1960 (c)

Consequences, illustration by William Heath Robinson
Consequences -- How the thoughtlessness of a butterfly seriously affected a bishops corn, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

Coronation procession at Oxford Circus, 1953
The colour and pageantry of the Coronation procession - detachments of the Foot Guards marching along Oxford Street into Oxford Circus showing the vast crowds lining the decorated route. Date: 1953

Brockwell Park, Herne Hill : a movement is now on foot to buy this land, and keep it as a public park for the people

Gout (Bunbury)
No need for the sufferer from GOUT to wait till he gets to Hell - the devil gives him a foretaste of the torments that await him

Recruitment poster - British Military
The Royal Munster Fusiliers, 101st and 104th Foot. The Cork, Limerick, Kerry & Clare Regiment. A few smart, respectable young men wanted. Chromolithograph recruitment poster after R Simkin, 1896

LCC-LFB Serious house fire in Notting Hill
Firefighters using the 50 foot wheeled escape ladder to gain access to the upper floors of this terraced house affected by a serious blaze in Notting Hill, West London

Young Lady doing a pedicure on herself (before getting dressed!). Date: circa 1920s

Michael Foot (1913-2010) British politician when he was the Labour Party candidate for Ebbw Vale, at the election caused by the death of Aneurin Bevan

The Arrival of the First Thor Ballistic Missile to RAF Bom
Photograph of the delivery of first Thor Ballistic Missile to an RAF Base in Norfolk, 19th September 1958

Phoeniconaias minor, lesser flamingo
Pencil and watercolour drawing by Claude Gibney Finch-Davies (1918) from his African birds sketchbook

Salvador Dali
This photograph of Salvador Dali (1904-1989)was taken at his home at Port Lligat, at the foot of the Spanish Pyrenees

LCC-LFB Leyland Metz 100 foot turntable ladder
Lambeths (D61) turntable ladder at its base station, displayed in the Brigade headquarters drill yard

LCC-LFB Lambeth fire station with appliances
Lambeth fire station (Brigade Headquarters) with pump-escape, pump and 100 foot turntable ladder. The station had three other appliances: an emergency tender, breakdown lorry and canteen van

LCC-LFB Dennis motorised fire pump and crew
The introduction of the Dennis fire appliances would see the creation of dual-purpose fire engines capable of carrying either the 50 foot wheeled escape or, as here, adapted as a pump

NFS 60ft hand-operated turntable ladder, WW2
An Austin K4-Merryweather 60 foot hand-operated turntable ladder (TL). A total of 50 such appliances were built and mounted on Austin K4 chassis for the Home Office between 1942 and 1943

The Empire State Building, New York, 1945
Photograph of the Empire State Building, New York. At 1250 foot high, it was then the tallest skyscraper in the world

A postman in the Scottish Highlands
A postman delivers a letter on foot in the Scottish Highlands

Ancient Greek Battle
ANCIENT GREECE The soldiers, some in chariots and some on foot, use spears and swords against their foe

Gout Devil Bites 1799
A little devil sinks his teeth into the swollen foot of a gout sufferer

Homeward at Sunset Aldin
Homeward : three white horses pull a covered wagon and an elderly man and woman follow on foot as the sun sets over the hills

Book of the Dead / 34
Scene of the sepulchral chamber : the mummy guarded by Anubis, Isis kneels at the foot and Nephthys at the head - four children of Horus at each corner

Wonders of the cinema organ by G. H. Davis
Noises played for films: wonders of the cinema organ. Thunder, shots and tom-toms controlled by an organist: a film-theatre organ that creates sound effects. Date: 1929

Anser brachyrhynchus, pink-footed goose
Watercolour and ink by John Gould (c. 1865). An example of a prelliminary work by Gould in preparation for an illustration which would be published in one of his books

First Postbox, London
LETTER BOX The first Post Office letter box in London is installed at the corner of Fleet Street and Farringdon Street, at the foot of Ludgate Hill

Britannia (Dugdale s)
An imperious Britannia with her foot on the shield of Europe

Alopochen aegyptiaca, Egyptian goose
Plate 5 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Odysseus & Tame Animals
Odysseus and his men are amazed by a group of strangely tame wild animals - a lion licks Eurylochuss foot. Circe has cast a spell on them

Ancient Olympics
In the earliest times, a simple foot-race was the only event in the Ancient Olympics

Henry V at Agincourt
King Henry V engages in hand-to- hand fighting on foot against the French infantry

Anatomy / Sole of Foot
First and second stages of the dissection of the sole of the foot

Football Spectators
At the Olympics 1924 : these two ladies may be passionate about le foot, but they also want you to notice their dresses by Jeanne Lanvin and Doeuillet. Olympic Games

Wise woman at Ilchester, Somerset
At Ilchester, Somerset, a local wise woman uses weird rituals to treat cattle for foot and mouth disease

Egretta garzetta, little egret
A watercolour by James Hope Stewart, c. 1825-35. From Sir William Jardines The Naturalists Library

Cook Lands in Nz
Captain Cook is the first European to set foot in New Zealand

Diagram of the bones of the right leg and hip
Diagram of the bones of the right leg, showing the joint with the pelvis at the hip

The Hotel, Lochearnhead, Scotland - a village on the A84 Stirling to Crianlarich road at the foot of Glen Ogle, within the Breadalbane area of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park

Stele of Roma the doorkeeper dedicated to Goddess Astarte. E
Stele of Roma the doorkeeper dedicated to Goddess Astarte. Limestone. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. C. 1400-1365 BC. Origin unknown. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Architectural plans of Borley Rectory. By Sidney Glanville. Scale of plans is 1 foot to 1/4. Ground floor Date: 1937

Stunt woman rides through flames on motorbike
Sue, 23, one of a team of stunt women, rides her motorbike through a twenty-foot long tunnel of burning hay bales

Aquila chrysaetus, golden eagle
Plate 78 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 2 (1925)

GLC-LFB ERF diesel pump-escape fire engine
The ERF pump escape attached to Millwall fire station, the latest addition to the Brigades appliance fleet

Oakwell Hall Dog Gates
The dog gates at the foot of the staircase of Oakwell Hall, Birstall, Yorkshire, England. These are described in Chapter 15 of the novel Shirley by Charlotte Bronte. Date: late 16th century

Mary at the Cross
Mary at the foot of Jesus cross is comforted by his brother John. A painting by Robert Anning Bell RA (1863-1933) which was reproduced in in Mary by Alice Meynell (1912)

Attack on the British Squares by French Cavalry, Waterloo
Attack on the British Squares by French Cavalry, Battle of Waterloo, 1815.Watercolour by Denis Dighton, 1815

Hunting with beagles, Brayford, North Devon
Hunting on foot with beagles, Brayford, Exmoor, North Devon. Date: 20th century

A bell ringer in a church, 1866
A bell ringer in a church chimes the bell with his foot. The scene is frames by vignettes from a young womans life. Date: 1866

Australopithecine or Homo habilis foot (OH8) cast
Cast of a near complete foot (OH 8) from an Australopthecus or Homo habilis discovered at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania by Louis Leakey in 1960. It dates back to 1.75 million years ago

Dali and Friends
Salvador Dali (1904-1989), the surrealist artist, is shown socialising in the evening after a days work at his summer home in Port Lligat, at the foot of the Spanish Pyrenees

LCC-LFB horse drawn 75ft turntable ladder (TL)
Shand Mason (Blackfriars) supplied the London Fire Brigade with this hand operated 75 foot turntable ladder on a four wheel horse drawn carriage

LCC-LFB Recruit firemen training at Brigade HQ, SE1
During the 1950s recruit firefighters were trained at the Brigade Headquarters, Lambeth

Fire station drill, hook ladder and 50 foot escape ladder
Regular training continued at all London fire stations during WW2, though it was unusual for a sub-station to have a drill tower

Foot-Sprints on the Sands of Time
Illustration by William Heath Robinson showing a rotund businessman sprinting across a beach, watched by a small child

Plants / Viola Pedata
Cut-Leaved Violet, or Bird s-Foot Violet, or Crowfoot Violet

Chinese Foot-Binding
The damage caused by the practise of Chinese foot- binding to the structure of the foot, and the foot as it would appear encased in a shoe

Huge Old Oak Tree C1912
Major Oak: a huge oak tree believed to be 1500 years old, with a 35 foot girth and 64 foot base

RICHARD I 1157 - 1199
RICHARD I, THE LIONHEART Depicted riding into battle, broadsword in hand, armoured from head to foot. His shield bears three lions passant, the English Kings royal symbol

Battle of Hastings 1066
BATTLE OF HASTINGS The Norman horseman prove too much for the English foot soldiers

Armless painter Charles Felu
Belgian painter Charles Francois Felu (1830-1900), born without arms. He was taught at an early age by his mother to draw and paint with his feet. Shown here painting in Antwerp Gallery. Date: C.1895

Trafalgar Square Lions
Nelson thanks Edwin Landseer for the lions which are finally installed at the foot of his column in Trafalgar Square. Date: 1867

Gavia stellata, red-throated diver
Plate 45 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

LCC-LFB Dennis dual-purpose pump-escape
The Dennis dual-purpose pump-escape from D66 station Brixton (Gresham Road, SW4), pictured on Lambeth Bridge

Private - 83rd Regiment of Foot. The regiment became the Royal Irish Rifles in 1881

Battle of Salamanca, 1812 - The 88th Foot at the Battle of Salamanca, 1812. Watercolour by Christopher Clark (1875-1942), 1904.Associated with 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers). Date: 1812

Egyptian Lady of the Harem
An Egyptian Lady of the Harem, reclining on a couch and smoking a nargile pipe Date: 1910s

Dalis House
This is the house of the surrealist artist, Salvador Dali, in Port Lligat, at the foot of the Spanish Pyrenees on the Mediterranean. It was converted from four fishermens cottages

Northern Ireland - An Irish Jaunting Car - a light two-wheeled carriage for a single horse, in its most common form with seats for two or four persons placed back to back

Bass Drummer of the Northumberland Fusiliers in his traditional ceremonial costume, featuring the whole skin of a leopard Date: circa 1910s

Booby
A pencil sketch from the Drawings Collection of Thomas Malie (1726-42)

Sannox Church
The tiny Sannox Church, at the foot of Glen Sannox, Isle of Arran, Buteshire, Scotland. Date: 1960s photo

Recruiting Sergeant - 68th Regiment of Foot - The Durham Light Infantry

Turning Wood on a Lathe
A turner uses a lathe powered by a foot pedal to carve and shape a length of wood

German Foot Soldier
A German foot-soldier on the attack

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