Gale Collection

British Military Recruitment Poster, WW1
Recruitment poster printed by Gale and Polden Limited, 1914 (c). Associated with Princess Louises Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Recruits wanted. Date: 1914

Bishop Rock Lighthouse in a gale
The Bishop Rock Lighthouse in a Force 8 gale. Bishop Rock is a small rock at the westernmost tip of the Isles of Scilly. It is the smallest island in the world to have a building on it

British Military Recruitment Poster - Inter-war period
Recruitment poster printed by Gale and Polden Limited, 1930 (c). Associated with the Duke of Cambridges Own Middlesex Regiment. Date: 1930

British Military Recruitment Poster - Inter-war period
Recruitment poster printed by Gale and Polden Limited, 1920. Associated with the 12th Lancers (Prince of Wales s). Wanted, smart and intelligent young men to join this distinguished regiment

British Military Recruitment Poster - Inter-war period
Recruitment poster, Join the Lancashire Fusiliers, 1920 (c). Printed by Gale and Polden Ltd, 1920 (c). Includes photographs of Victoria Cross winners from the regiment. Date: 1920

Sweet gale or Dutch myrtle, Myrica gale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

British Military Recruitment Poster - Inter-war period
Recruitment poster printed by Gale and Polden Limited, 1929 (c). Associated with the Royal Sussex Regiment. Vacancies exist in this famous regiment for smart

British Military Recruitment Poster, WW1
Recruitment poster printed by Gale and Polden Limited, 1914 (c). Associated with the Essex Regiment. Recruits are wanted for this regiment, famous in war and sport. Date: 1914

Cyclists & Windmills
Three men cyclists admire the the two windmills at Outwood, Surrey, England. The left one was built in 1665 and still stands today. The right, built 1790, blew down in a gale 1960

The tug Slavonia parting company with Dredger 13
An episode of the recent winter storms: The tug Slavonia parting company with Dredger 13 in the trough of gigantic waves as an Atlantic hurricane snaps the powerful hawser like a strand of cotton

Recruitment Poster - British Military
THE MIDDLESEX REGIMENT, 57TH Regimental District - Headquarters, HOUNSLOW, 1900. Chromolithograph poster, printed by Gale and Polden Limited, 1900

Advertisement for Crane petite boilers -- male model (Tony Gale) extending his hand. 1959

An Attractive Idea for Gents Wear
Do you realise that the equinoctial gales will soon be blowing in upon us? If so, do not forget to buy one of the new patent adjustable, magnetic hat guards, for use with any style and size of hat

Molesey Lock, East Molesey, Surrey Date: circa 1910s

Information poster - British Military
3rd (Prince of Wales) Dragoon Guards. Chromolithograph information poster published by Gale and Polden Ltd, 1911. Date: 1911

P&O Liner SS Delhi, 1911
Photograph of the P&O liner SS Delhi at sea in 1911. Built in 1905 the Delhi was wrecked in a gale off Cape Spartel, Tangiers, in 1911

Steam Ship HMS Duncan, built by the Thames Iron Works, in a gale - Empire Series postcard

The Banqueting Hall of Dover Castle, Kent Date: circa 1910s

HMS Pembroke, Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham Dockyard, Kent Date: circa 1900s

Norman Chapel in the Keep, Dover Castle, Kent Date: circa 1920s

Main entrance to the Keep, Dover Castle, Kent Date: circa 1910s

Dover Castle from Admiralty Pier, Kent Date: circa 1910s

Dover Castle from the top of Hirst Tower, Kent Date: circa 1910s

Dover Castle from Connaught Park, Kent Date: circa 1910s

Gales, mouth of Tyne
Huge storms hitting the North pier at the mouth of the Tyne. Sea breaking over the wall in this Gale. Date: 1925

Mrs Braddyll
Portrait of Mrs Jane Braddyll. She was the daughter and sole heir of Matthias Gale of Catgill Hall, Cumberland. In 1776 she married her cousin, Wilson Gale (1755??1818) of Conishead Priory

George Gale Prize Old Ale

Diagram of the original design for the Great Wheel. Columbian Exposition's tallest attraction, designed and built by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr

Attraction at the Chicago's World's Fair, designed and built by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. The ferris wheel named the Chicago Wheel, had thirty-six pendulum cars

CLIMBING IS DANGEROUS
Pressed against a sheer rockface, buffeted by a howling gale, a climber gains a vivid insight into the narrow gap betwixt life and death. Date: late 19th century

Comic postcard, Baked beans for dinner again Date: circa 1940s

The Kings Service, Gale & Poldens Animated Pictures of Naval and Military Life Afloat and Ashore. Showing at the Pier Pavilion Theatre, Lytham, for three nights only. Date: circa 1900s

Weather Report - Illustrated - Breezy, A green-faced sickly-looking Gent seated by a ships rail is less than happy at the attentions of a rosy-cheeked rotund fellow passenger whos breezy countenance

Indian almond, Terminalia catappa
Indian almond or Malabar almond, Terminalia catappa, Terminalia del Malabar. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Sweet gale moth, scarce dagger and knot grass moth
Sweet gale moth, Acronicta euphorbiae 1-5, scarce dagger, Acronicta auricoma 6, and knot grass moth, Acronicta rumicis 7-9

Wormwood moth, alder moth and Cucullia tanaceti
Wormwood moth, Cucullia absinthii 1-3, alder moth, Acronicta alni 4-6, and Cucullia tanaceti 7. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die

Curtis British Entomology Plate 763
Lepidoptera: Tortrix galiana = Aphelia viburnana (Sweet Gale Tortrix) [Plant: Myrica gale (Sweet Gale, Bog Myrtle)] Date: 1824-39

A scene in the Mersey on the termination of the late gale showing vessels outward bound. Date: 1861

BALAKLAVA, GALE
Steamships and sailing vessels caught in a gale off Balaclava Date: 14 November 1854

Martello Tower 1876
MARTELLO TOWER The tower at Hastings destroyed by a gale. Date: 1876

Elderly couple brave strong winds, West Pier, St Ives
An elderly couple brave strong winds on the West Pier of St Ives harbour, Cornwall, England. Black clouds loom and the old lady holds on to her hat

WW2 Poster -- Army Officer and other badges
Distinctive Badges of Rank of Officers in the Army, showing corresponding ranks in Royal Navy, Army, & Royal Air Force. Colour lithograph published by Gale and Polden Limited, Aldershot

Recruitment poster, The York and Lancaster Regiment
Recruitment poster, 65TH 84TH THE YORK AND LANCASTER REGIMENT. Colour photolithograph published by Gale and Polden Limited, 1946, and York and Lancaster Regimental Museum, 1985

The Yacht Eira in the Arctic, 1881
Engraving showing the yacht Eira, used by Benjamin Leigh Smith, to explore the Arctic region around Franz Joseph Land and the ocean North of Russia, 1881-1882

People struggling against March winds
Victorian ladies and gentlemen struggle against March winds, with hats blown off, umbrellas blown inside out, and skirts blown up. Date: 1859

The Gale off the Port of Balaklava. 14 Nov 1854. Coloured tinted lithograph by R Carrick, 1855. One of 40 lithographs from The Seat of War in the East - First Series after William Simpson

Mr Gales Balloon crossing Vauxhall Bridge, London
Mr Gales Balloon on its flight from the London gasworks to Cremorne Gardens, Chelsea, seen here crossing Vauxhall Bridge. 1847

Train in Bad Weather
Fallen branches halt a train, and a telegraph pole leans dangerously, during a severe gale. Date: 1884

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