Friday Collection

Battle of Omdurman, Friday, September 2, 1898. Chromolithograph, after A Sutherland, published by G W Bacon and Company Limited, 127 Strand, London, 1900 (c)

Things That Matter, by Bruce Bairnsfather
Colonel Fitz-Shrapnel receives the following message from G.H.Q Please let us know, as soon as possible, the number of tins of raspberry jam issued to you last Friday

Manila Carnival, The Philippines - Miss Ilocos Sur
Illustration after Walter Dendy Sadler (18541923) of his painting Thursday (Tomorrow will be Friday) of 1880, showing a group of jovial monks out fishing. Date: 1880

Mary Jane Clarke W. S. P. U
Mary Jane Clarke W.S.P.U. Mary Jane Clarke, (1863-1910) Younger sister of Emmeline Pankhurst. In 1909, she was organiser for the W.S.P.U, living in Brighton, a year later

The Caledonian Market, London, 1912
Shoppers viewing stalls of goods at the Caledonian Road Market, London, on a Friday in 1912. This image shows a real mix of London society looking through china, houseware and clothes. 1912

Balloon event, Charles Green, Stowmarket
Charles Green ballooning poster, advertising his 413rd ascent, from the Vicarage Grounds, Stowmarket in his Royal Victoria Balloon

Balloon event, Charles Green
Charles Green ballooning poster, Vauxhall Gardens, Grand Night Ascent amidst the most magnificent fireworks. 16 August 1850

Suffragette Arrested Black Friday 1910. A scene from the Black Friday deputation, 18 Nov, 1910. Showing Miss. Ada Wright (C1862-1939) pulled off her feet by a policeman

Crusoe & Footprint
Crusoe finds the footprint of Friday and realises that he is not the only inhabitant of the island

Rosamund Massy Suffragette. Mrs. Massy (1870-1947) portrait. Member of the W.S.P.U, imprisoned, went on hunger strike. Took part in the Black Friday demonstration of November 1910. Date: circa 1909

Village Post Box 1960S
A typical village post box, next collection being on Tuesday. Normal collections are at 5.30 Monday to Friday and 8.30 on Saturdays, etc

Leaflet, London Sketch Club Smoker, March 1935
Leaflet advertising a London Sketch Club Smoker (smoking party), taking place on Friday 29 March 1935 at a venue in Marylebone Road, London NW1, with pictures from 6.30

Leaflet, London Sketch Club Smoker, April 1934
Leaflet advertising a London Sketch Club Smoker (smoking party), taking place on Friday 13 April 1934 at a venue in Marylebone Road, London NW1, with pictures from 6.30

W. S. P. U Welcome Dinner Released Prisoners
W.S.P.U Welcome Dinner Released Prisoners. A menu for the Welcome Dinner in Honour of Released Prisoners, 16th February 1912. The prisoners including Mrs

Days of the Week by John Hassall
Illustration by John Hassall to the traditional rhyme attributing different characteristics depending on what days of the week a person is born

Wartime Amami Advertisement
A wartime advertisement promoting Amami shampoo, wave set and brilliantine, essential for women's hair care. Friday night is Amami night. Date: circa 1940s

Friday Street, Leith Hill, Surrey - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

White Star Line, RMS Titanic - Charles Crumplin letter
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - First Class Bedroom Steward and victim Charles Crumplin, handwritten letter on Titanic stationery with White Star Line watermark, undated but written from Queenstown

The Suffragette newspaper Holiday Campaign. Front cover of The Suffragette newspaper, edited by Christabel Pankhurst and official organ of the W.S.P.U vol. 1, no. 43, Friday August 8, 1913

Marjorie Mo Mowlam, British Labour politician
Marjorie Mo Mowlam (1949-2005), British Labour politician and government minister. As Northern Ireland Secretary she oversaw the signing of the historic Good Friday Peace Agreement of 1998

ALGIERS CEMETERY
Friday is the holy day of Islam, and on this day pious citizens of Algiers come to the cemetery to pay their respects to the dead. Date: 1906

CRUSOE & DEAD PARRROT
Robinson Crusoe shoots a parrot which he and Friday eat for supper. Date: First published: 1719

WW2, Army Exercise Instruction hanging cards, three double-sided for Monday to Saturday (visible here are Thursday, Friday and Saturday). Date: circa 1940

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Don t mind the black-outs
The Caption is Don t mind the black-outs, you can always stay the night! This card has a coded message. The initials of the feet

Victorian scrap, Robinson Crusoe leaves the island with Man Friday

Hot-cross buns for poor children in the East-end of London
Some 500 children were given a feast of hot-cross buns on Good Friday at the Salmon Lane Mission, Limehouse Fields. Date: 1910

Balloon ascent by Mrs Graham, Vauxhall Gardens, London
First Balloon Ascent at night by a female, Mrs Graham from Vauxhall Gardens, London, 26 July 1850. 1850

Friday begs to become Robinson Crusoes servant
Victorian scrap - Friday begs to become Robinson Crusoes servant. 19th century

Picking up sixpences at Smithfield 1902
Centuries-old tradition, when 21 sixpences were placed upon a flat gravestone in the churchyard at St. Bartholomew in Smithfield, London, on Good Friday morning

Ritual washing of feet at the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, on Good Friday Date: 1890s

Selling Hot Cross Buns
An old woman comes to the front door on Good Friday, selling HOT CROSS BUNS to the children of the house and a maidservant Date: circa 1880

Monks at Dinner
Friday Though they have vowed to eat no meat on Friday, monks are allowed plenty of wine with their Friday meal of fish

Calendar for 1877, Theatre Royal and Queens Theatre, London, with production details on the reverse for pantomimes, The House That Jack Built and the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe (Theatre Royal)

Monks at Dinner - Friday by Walter Dendy Sadler
Friday Though they have vowed to eat no meat on Friday, the Abbot, monks and guests are allowed plenty of wine with their Friday meal of fish. Now in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Date: 1913

Manchester Road, Mossley, Ashton-under-Lyne, England
Manchester Road, Mossley, Ashton-under-Lyne, near Stalybridge, Lancashire, England. Whit Friday Ladies Procession from Abney Church. Date: 1900s

The Suffragette newspaper Holiday Campaign. Front cover of The Suffragette newspaper, official organ of the Womens Social and Political Union, no. 46, Vol. 1 Friday August 29, 1913

Good Friday skipping contest, Alciston, East Sussex
Good Friday skipping contest outside the Rose Cottage Inn at Alciston, East Sussex, an annual event for which the road is officially closed. Date: 1960s

Cartoon, Loch Ness Monster at Fort Augustus, Scotland
Cartoon, the Loch Ness Monster at Fort Augustus Abbey, Inverness, Scotland -- a group of Benedictine monks with fishing tackle -- Tomorrow will be Friday. Date: 1936

Suffragette Black Friday 1910. Outside the Houses of Parliament on 18th November, a deputation led by Mrs. Pankhurst and Members of the W.S.P.U tried to force their way into the House

Suffragette Deputation Black Friday 1910. Leaflet no. 75, issued by the W.S.P.U entitled, Plain Facts About the Suffragette Deputations shows suffragette Ada Wright (C1862-1939)

Crusoe and Friday
Robinson Crusoe rescues Friday from being eaten by cannibals and thus becomes Crusoes greatful servant and companion

Robinson Crusoe & Boat
Robinson Crusoe and Friday build the boat

Crowds of people at the Friday Market, Aleppo, Syria
Crowds of people at the Friday Horse Market, Aleppo, Syria - in the shadow of the Citadel and the Khusruwiyah Mosque (destroyed during fighting in the Syrian Civil War in 2012). Date: circa 1903

A Friday Market at Belfast. Nixon, John. Date: 1809

Turkmenistan - Muslims pray outdoors after a storm - Friday prayers. Date: circa 1910s

Sultan on his way to Friday Prayers, Constantinople, (Istanbul) Turkey circa 1890s. Date: circa 1890s

Istanbul - Selamik Ceremony, Sultan travels to Friday prayer
Constaninople (Istanbul) Turkey, circa 1890 - Selamik Ceremony, when the Sultan travelled to Friday prayers. Date: circa 1890

Man outside the offices of The London Gazette
Man standing outside the offices of The London Gazette, near Fleet Street, London. The publication has been described by some as the worlds most boring newspaper

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