Forecast Collection

The Kinecar by William Heath Robinson
Double page illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) showing a well-equipped omnibus transporting passengers while they watch a film

W. Heath Robinson
Cartoon, Safety First. A Cricket forecast for 1922 showing the new safety equipment for playing cricket, which is health and safety gone mad

Birthday Greetings card - Teddy bear with umbrella
Birthday Greetings card - Teddy bear with an umbrella under a dark cloud - happy to ignore the forecast and Bear Up! Date: circa 1937

Two Bovril advertisements during WW2
Two Bovril advertisements which appeared during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

Is the futre war-ship to be aeroplane or balloon?
Arists prediction from 1907 of what a future war might look like, in this case aerial battle-ships - not, as it turns out

How Paris Dresses for Peace - Fashion in 1919
Page from The Sketch reporting on various fashions sighted in Paris in the peace year of 1919 demonstrating the beginnings of 1920s style

WW2 weather balloons supplying data to the Allies, 1940
WW2 weather balloons supplying data to the Allies: The B.20 radio robot that signals meteorological details to the receivers on the ground

Sutor Stacks, Cromarty
One of the Sutor Stacks, near Cromarty, on the Black Isle, Ross-shire, Scotland. This commanding height was used as a gun enplacement during World War Two. Date: 1950s

The Crystal by Arild Rosenkrantz
A staring woman looks into the future with her crystal ball

Warfare in the future - as predicted in 1932
An impression of what warfare might look like in 2032, as predicted by The Modern Boy magazine in 1932. It suggests that invading troops might attack via a shell

Kaiser as a waiter: a WW1 peace conference imagined, 1915
Taking orders: a forecast of the peace conference. Kaiser Wilhelm II is re-imagined as a waiter, taking orders from George V, Theodore Roosevelt and other leaders. Date: 1915

Bystander magazine competition, When Will the War End?
Picture 2 of 2 (see 10731631 for 1st). Map of Europe to accompany the Bystander magazines war forecast competition, run in August 1915, with a closing date of 30 September that year

The atoms power for peace by G. H. Davis
The atoms power for peace: the shape of things to come. Showing an atomic-driven locomotive, power house and liner, based on an expert forecast. 1945

London bus during the General Strike, Route 1, destined for Kensington Church, the Aldwych and Notting Hill Gate. Alongside the driver, on the outside of the vehicle

The Queen mag 1939
Front cover illustration for the Fashion Forecast number of The Queen magazine showing the silhouette of an elegant woman admiring a jewelled brooch. Date: January 1939

Easter forecast - increasing cloudiness. Illustration shows a man and a woman standing on a hilltop observing dark clouds composed of empty religious vestments, bunnies

Fashions of the future as predicted in 1930
An idea of what the girls of the future will look like according to C. B. Cochrans 1930 Revue shown in Manchester and the West End

A page from the Illustrated London News, 1951, showing a reconstruction of Dr. Merryweather of Whitbys Tempest Prognosticator, and an illustration detailing how the device works

A Forecast of Spring Fashions by Gordon Conway
This charming afternoon gown is carried out in steel blue satin wtih circular bands and a full skirt lined with red. Specially designed and drawn for Britannia & Eve by Gordon Conway

Record Sales Foreseen
A wholesale distributors forecast record sales as their new glamorous sales woman leaves the warehouse with two little monkey assistants. Illustration by Lawson Wood

In 1960 - or thereabouts
A humorous pictorial forecast by George Studdy from 1908 predicting how electrical inventions would change life in 1960. Credit should read

Weather Forecast 1884
A German countryman is able to predict the weather by observing the behaviour of his captive frog

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