Frequent Collection

Poster, Guernsey Airways, offering frequent services to and from the Channel Islands, with a map showing places and flight durations. circa 1936

Vacuuming a Wireless
Frequent cleaning of a wireless set (radio) can easily be done with use of the spare parts of a Hoover vacuum cleaner

Sloane Square Station
A street scene outside Sloane Square Underground station in Chelsea, London, with frequent trains to the City on the District Railway

The Metropolitan Railway Company Advertisement
An advertisement for the Metropolitan Railway Company, showing a quaint country cottage, perfectly situated nearby the main line stations with frequent train services. Date: circa 1919

The phrase Vive la France formed by British sailors to welcome their French counterparts at Whale Island in 1905. Following the Entente Cordiale agreement of 1904

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Wot won t we do
The Caption reads Wot won t we do - when I gets you home! Most such captions are more frequent towards the end of the war when one could look forward to the soldier boys coming home

Cartoon, Wilson Barrett and G R Sims, Called Back
Cartoon, Called Back. Wilson Barrett (left), actor, manager and playwright - Glad to have you back, Mr Sims. George Robert Sims (right), English journalist, poet, dramatist and novelist

Suffragette Not at Home. Chaos reigns as the suffragette neglects home and family in the name of the cause. A frequent accusation made by the Anti-Suffrage lobby that allowing women to vote would

SEU D URGELL, Master of (12th century). Altar

Kiyohime, Japanese Myth
She is the personification of Disappointed Love, and as such is a frequent character in the traditional No plays; her love turns to hate and she becomes a she-devil

Miss Nash in the garden of Battersbys house, Strathclyde, Offerton Lane, Stockport, where she was a frequent visitor as her father had business links with the Battersby hatmaking firm Date: 1913

Birch Forest near river Sinara - trees trunks bear traces of frequent wild fires - evening - midsummer - June (Betula sp.). South Ural Mountains - Russia

Maid and Crinoline
When crinolines are in fashion, household breakages are apt to be even more frequent than usual... Date: 1864

Dutch Stage Effect
A spectacular scene in a production at Amsterdam : note the candles used to light the stage - no wonder fires were a frequent occurrence !

Land-mine explosion
Photograph showing the upheaval of earth and debris as a land-mine explodes. A frequent characteristic of siege warfare, the landmine could destroy huge section of trenches

Queen Mary and Princess Mary
Princess Mary, accompanying Queen Mary on a hospital visit in 1928. George V suffered with illness during this period, with the Queen replacing him on frequent public engagements

London Coastal Coaches
A cheery coach driver encourages travellers to travel by coach with frequent daily services which cover the country

France Biarritz
Les bains Napoleon : Napoleon III and Eugenie were frequent visitors

Hester Thrale / Home
HENRY AND HESTER THRALE Thrale Place, Streatham, where Dr Samuel Johnson paid frequent visits to his friends, Henry and Hester Thrale

French Bookshop
Well-dressed French men and women frequent an up-market book shop

Chandelier / Theatre / Fire
In the 17th century, theatres were lit by chandeliers : disastrous fires were quite frequent

Putney Junior Library
An orderly scene at Putney Junior Library, where Story Hour is held every alternative Thursday at 4.45 precisely. Smartly-dressed, well-behaved children frequent the library

American Camp Meeting
NORTH AMERICA A CAMP MEETING in the American backwoods - where extraordinary fervour and emotional scenes were frequent

Brighton / Chain Pier 1830
People frequent the Chain Pier, Brighton

Kelpie Scares Man / Anon
A water kelpie appears in the water taking a passing gentleman by surprise - Kelpies generally frequent Scottish waters and often appear in human or equine form

Waterloo / Scott Poem 30
List - frequent to the hurrying rout, the stern pursuers vengeful shout tells, that upon their broken rear rages the Prussians bloody spear

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