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Milk for school children, 1955
Before Margaret Thatcher the milk snatcher put and end to free school milk for the over sevens, all primary school children would enjoy their daily third pint ration at school

Hockey - Footwork, Dribbling and Passing demonstrated. Date: circa 1910s

French poster from General de Gaulle, WW2
A French poster with a message to all French people from General Charles de Gaulle, based in London during the Second World War. France has lost one battle, but France has not lost the war

The French Memorial - Lyle Hill, Greenock
The Free French Memorial - Lyle Hill, Greenock with Cardwell Bay and Gourock in background - Scotland

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Bike race between Girona and the Aragonese front (14th-18th April 1937)

Emblematic chart and Masonic history of Free and Accepted Ma

Sir Robert Peel, c. 1846
Engraving of Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), the English statesman and Prime Minister

Keir Hardie giving a speech
Keir Hardie (1856-1915), founder of the Labour party, addressing suffragettes at a free speech meeting

Houdini & Skyscraper
Suspended from the cornice of a New York skyscraper, he must somehow free himself of his chains and make his way to safety... will he do it ? Is this one trick too many ?

WW2 recruitment poster, Join the Wrens (Womens Royal Naval Service) and free a man for the Fleet. Printed for HMSO. Date: circa 1940

Free French - Honour the Maquis. The Maquis were rural guerrilla bands of French Resistance fighters, called maquisards, during the Occupation of France in World War II Date: circa 1941

Grimsby Street
A trolleybus and only two cars on Freeman Street, Grimsby, Humberside. Note the smartly-dressed pedestrians and litter-free street

High Street, Skipton, North Yorkshire
View of the High Street, Skipton, North Yorkshire, with the Free Library on the left, and the War Memorial and Church of the Holy Trinity in the distance. Date: circa 1922

Free to Roam. Southbank, Middlesbrough 1970s 1970s

Poster, See Phillips First -- a wonderful range of sports machines, ask here for free illustrated catalogue. Date: circa 1939

The Forth Bridge: Fife Pier. Free cantilever completed and central girder commenced; fixed cantilever not quite completed

Satire on Phrenology
Satire on the study of Phrenology - a Free Knowledgey - illustrating the worst elements of human behavious illustrated in different zones of the head (including Obscene Language, criminal activity)

View of the luxurious reading room onboard the Titanic
A view of one of the many luxurious interior features of the Titanic; the reading and writing room

Mutoscope at Gravesend
New Road, Gravesend (Kent) - notice the premises of The Wonderful Mutoscope (a forerunner of the cinema) - Admission Free !

Freemasons at the Royal Albert Hall
The installation of his Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales as Grand Master of the freemasons of England at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Female Medical Students
Under the watchful eye of the House Physician, a group of female medical students, trainee doctors, examine a patient at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, London

Grand Canyon National Park, a free government service. Poster shows view of the Grand Canyon. Date ca. 1938

Clocks at Greenwich
Left, Synchronome Free Pendulum at Greenwich Observatory, with right, the Slave Clock which performs its escapement function, accurate to 1/100th second

Cartoon, The Macmillion (Andrew Carnegie)
Cartoon, The Macmillion -- Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919), Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist

Eagle and American Flag Date: 1915

Shannon Free Airport and Industrial Estate, County Clare, Republic of Ireland. circa 1960s

Michael Collins by Lady Lavery
Michael Collins, Irish leader, Chief of the Irish Free State Provisional Government and Sinn Fein Minister of Finance(1890-1922) drawn by Hazel, Lady Lavery, society beauty, artist

Italiy. Venice. Saint Marks Basilica. Noahs Ark. Mosaic. 1
Noah free the animals of the ark, Mosaic from the Pala d Oro or Golden Altar 12th-14th centuries. Saint Marks Basilica. Venice. Italy

Etruscan warrior. 4th c. BC. Etruscan art. Sculpture on bronze. ITALY. TUSCANY. Florence. National Museum of Archaeology

Statue of Djoser. Egyptian art
Seated statue of King Djoser. 2611 BC. Detail. Egyptian art. Old Kingdom. Sculpture on rock. EGYPT. CAIRO. Cairo. Egyptian Museum. Proc: EGYPT. CAIRO. Saqqara

WW2 - Surcouf Submarine of the Free French Navy. The largest submarine ever built until surpassed by the first Japanese I-400-class submarine in 1943

Advert for the Radiation New World Gas Cooker 1933
Radiation porcelain enamelled New World Gas Cookers, the only gas cookers with regulo control. Ask to see the unrivalled Radiation New World Gas cooker at your gas showrooms

Churchill arriving at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 1940
Winston Churchill arriving at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, with his wife Clementine and his youngest daughter Mary(later Baroness Soames)in January 1940. Date: January 1940

Thumbelina flies away on the Swallows back
Thumbelina escapes from the Field Mouse and the Mole on the back of the Swallow. Illustration to a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, first published 1835

General Charles de Gaulle, French soldier and statesman
General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), French soldier and statesman, seen here in uniform during the Second World War. 1940s

Advert for Follows & Bates winding machines 1900s
Various machines from the late 19th Century early 20th century, advertised in The Ironmonger Diary and Text Book, for Follows & Bates in Manchester. Circa 1900

Guan Yin. 10th c. - 13th c. Bodhisattva of compassion. Chinese art. Song period. Sculpture on wood. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Guimet Museum

Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers 1938
Providing ample accommodation for all the food and untensils required in cooking for a family of 6 to 8

England / Farnham
A very quiet day in Farnham, Surrey, showing Farnham Castle, a Norman castle overlooking the town from a hill, the home of the Bishops of Winchester for 700 years

Streatham Hill 1950S
Elevated view of Streatham Hill, showing a relatively traffic-free road, with only a few cars and trams

Buy National Savings Certificates
Poster urging the reader to Buy National Savings Certificates: Lend to defend his right to be free featuring an angelic boy constructing something with meccano

Imperial Hotel, Parys, Orange River Colony, South Africa. Date: 1910s

Half-free morel, Morchella semi-libera, Mitrophora semilibera, edible.. Chromolithograph by C. Krause from Fritz Leubas Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1890

HENRY the Navigator (1394-1460). Portuguese prince, son of John I. Monument by Tom᳠ Costa (1894). Sculpture on bronze. PORTUGAL. Porto. Infante Dom Enrique Square

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Mujeres libres (Free Women). Poster of the anarchist trade union CNT. SPAIN. Madrid. Fundacion de Estudios Libertarios Anselmo Lorenzo (FAL)

Kroonstad, Orange River Colony, South Africa
Methodist Church and Cross Street, Kroonstad, Orange River Colony, South Africa. Date: circa 1905

Woolwich Ferry
Photograph of the Woolwich Free Ferry. Date: 1909

The Barbarine - first climbed 1905 - Germany
The Barbarine - the best-known, free-standing rock formation in the German part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. The pinnacle is the symbol of Saxon Switzerland

United Free Church and Manse, Meigle, Scotland. Built in the 1890s, the church fell into disuse after the merger of the churches in 1929

Cooks Tours to the Riviera, Italy, etc
Poster or handbill advertising Cooks Tours to the Riviera, Italy, etc, using the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway to Newhaven and Dieppe, programme free from any office of Thomas Cook & Son

School Milk 1960S
A rather contented looking boy drinks his free school milk straight from the bottle, using a straw

Punch / Free Trade / Uk Lion
FREE TRADE The British lion in 1850 or The Effects of Free Trade

Poster, Irish Free State Poultry, design by Sean Keating for the Empire Marketing Board. circa 1928

Petticoat Lane - Jews Free School
Petticoat Lane, London - Jews Free School, Middlesex Street. A street clothes market on Wentworth Street and Middlesex Street

The First Vegetarian
Surrounded by carnivores on every side, the first vegetarian decides that a meat-free life might be the way forward

Scottish Caravan Site
Cairnsmill Dairy Farm (Holiday Camp) Caravan Site, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland. Here caravanners can enjoy television in the upper barn and children free pony rides

Duty Free Gatwick
Travellers browsing around in the Duty Free zone of Gatwick airport, London

Hands-Free Telephone Set
A telephone receptionist (possibly working for the emergency services) uses a rather cumbersome hands-free telephone, worn around the neck

Czechoslovaks! Join
Recruiting poster for Czechs in the United States: Czechoslovaks! Join our Free Colors!

Comic postcard, Man orders drink in pub Date: early 20th century

King John's Castle, Limerick, with the Irish flag flying, after it had been handed over to the Irish Free State Army by the British government. Date: 1922

Petit Robinson Dance Hall, Brunoy, SE suburbs of Paris, France Date: circa 1910

"The English Daumier Looks On Life:English Types by Blampied. Series 4: The Life of Park and Streets." An elderly couple fleeing from their park seats at the sight of a seat fee collector

The scene of the Republicans last stand in Sackville Street (new name O'Connell Street) from O'Connell Bridge

Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, husband to Princess Juliana, together with (from left), Captain Jonkheer van Lawick

Cartoon, The Political Tilly Slow-Boy and Cobden's Baby. Sliding Scale: satirical comment on free trade, as supported by Richard Cobden and others. Date: 1846

HMS Doris, launched in March 1896. Eclipse Class cruiser - present during the Boer War - ship's guns used at Magersfontein in 1899 during the Second Boer War, South Africa

Free distribution of bread, meat and wine to the people. Roasting an ox. Procession of Charles V and Pope Clement VII after Charles coronation as Holy Roman Emperor in Bologna, 1530

Altar to the goddess Fortuna. Second half of 2nd century AD
Altar to the goddess Fortuna. Inscription: To Fortuna. Valerius Lupus, assistant of the centurion, accomplished his vow of free will. Second half of the 2nd century AD

Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
Notice, Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association, Victoria House, Victoria Street, Westminster, London SW. Free supplies of water for man and beast in the streets of London. 1887

Political poster, Free Trade versus Fair Trade -- a commentary on Joseph Chamberlain (seen here as the New Gardener) and the Tariff Reform League. circa 1906

Piper J-3 Cub G-AFFJ with the Everell single-blade propeller
Piper J-3 Cub G-AFFJ (msn 1165), seen with the Everell patented single-blade automatic variable- pitch propeller

London Ragged School, Battersea 1890s
The London Ragged Schools Union was established in April 1844 to combine resources in the city, providing free education, food, clothing, lodging and other home missionary services for poor children

BROTHER OF FREE SPIRIT
A BROTHER OF THE FREE SPIRIT - also known as the Voluntary Poor, Beghards and other names Date: 14th century

Hans Pape
August Rudolf Hans Pape was a German painter and graphic artist and university professor and a member of the free artist community Schanze. Date: 1930

President Brand statue, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Statue to Johannes Henricus Brand (1823-1888), fourth president of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Date: circa 1900

Aerial view of the border - Free State of Fiume and Susek
Aerial view of the border between the Free State of Fiume and the district of Susak, Rijeka, Croatia. The Free State of Fiume was an independent free state which existed between 1920 and 1924

Anti-Corn Law campaign
Buckingham Badger, the Monopolist, compared to Cheap John, the Free Trader, Anti-Corn Law campaign Date: 1842

Demonstration supporting Nelson Mandela
A crowd of demonstrators calling for the release of Nelson Mandela from prison. A large banner reads Mandela the world is with you'. Date: 1980s

Cartoon, A Dip in the Free Trade Sea -- satirical comment on the Conservative governments announcement that they did not intend to return to the policy of Protectionism

Cartoon, The Political Chameleon -- satirical comment on Benjamin Disraelis ability to change his partys allegiance from Protectionism to Free Trade in anticipation of an approaching General

Miss Modern magazine fortune teller
Front cover of Miss Modern magazine for November 1931, featuring a young gipsy fortune teller with a crystal ball (and the free gipsy ring, found FREE inside the magazine!). Date: 1931

Father Serapion martyred in Algeria, North Africa
Father Serapion, an English or Irish Mercedarian friar, offers himself as a hostage in order to free captive Christians in Algeria, North Africa

Leduc 0. 21 01, mounted on a S. E. 161
Leduc 0.21 01, mounted on its SNCASE SE.161 Languedoc mother-ship, parked next door to the second 0.21, also mounted on a Languedoc mother-ship

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