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Comic postcard, Line of bottles on the beach - Just a Line! Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Women looking over garden fence Date: 20th century
Piccadilly Circus at night, LondonPiccadilly Circus at night with illuminated advertisements. Date: circa 1956
Piccadilly Circus at nightPiccadilly Circus, London, at night, with advertisements reflected in fountain. Date: circa 1950s
Comic postcard, Little boy and barman Date: 20th century
Two lovers in a parlour disturbed by prying maids moving glasses in a cupboard. Miseries Domestic. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed
Sloe or blackthorn tree, Prunus spinosa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1801
Mince Collop Close, Greenock, ScotlandMince Collop Close, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland - undoubtedly " the vilest" of all the " numerous pen closes running from the low streets"
Booths Gin advertisement - The Grand Hotel, TorquayAdvertisement for Booths Dry Gin, one of a series featuring various smart hotel bars around the UK. This time its the bar at the Grand Hotel in Torquay
Label, Vieux Genievre de GrainFrench Drinks Bottle Label, Vieux Genievre de Grain (Old Juniper, Jenever, Dutch Gin), Le Collet Blanc
Adverts including for the Highland RailwayPage of adverts in The Bystander, including for Gieves, the Highland Railway, Booths Gin and Whiteways Cyders. Date: 1922
SOCIAL / LONDON GIN SHOPTom and Jerry at a London Gin Shop, drinking Blue Ruin with a variety of fellow-customers. Date: 1820
CRUIKSHANK / THE GIN SHOPThe drunkard having signed the pledge goes with his family to church. plate 10 of 12 Date: 1868
Food adulteration, 1845London improvements : adulteration of food in 1845. Sand is added to sugar, milk is watered down, bone dust and plaster of paris is added to dough and Vitriol is mixed into gin. Date: 1845
View of the lights at Piccadilly Circus, LondonA view of the lights by night at Piccadilly Circus, central London. There are various neon adverts for Max Factor, Associated Rediffusion, Gordons Gin, Wrigleys Chewing Gum, BP, Skol
Thomas Barnardos Edinburgh Castle Mission Hall and CoffeeThe Edinburgh Castle on Rhodeswell Road, Limehouse, East London, was a former gin palace and music hall, re-opened by Barnardo as a British Workmans Coffee Palace with a Mission Hall at its rear
Cotton gins, Kilwa Kivinje, Tanzania, East AfricaMen working at cotton gins at Kilwa Kivinje, German East Africa (now Tanzania). Date: circa 1900
Victorian family with drunkard husbandSlide showing a picture of a man and a woman talking with two children. The woman is pointing at a shop with a sign saying Christmas Gin with a man in torn clothes walking past. Part of Box 366
AFS recruitment parade, London, WW2Recruitment parade for the AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service) in a London street during the Second World War. Date: 1940s
Cartoon, The Sailor and His Lass -- Augustus Harris (1852-1896), British actor, dramatist and impresario, holding his newborn baby daughter, with the midwife in the background. 1883
Man Trap, Old Castle, Hillsborough - a view of a large gin trap outside with a man opening it. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Hillsborough). Date: circa early 1900s
Seagers Gin advertisement, 1935Advertisement for Seagers gin, with some a perfectly logical method of persuasion. If you re feeling a little tired, then you should take a daily glass. Sound advice
Cartoon, The first outing. Europe goes dance-crazy in the immediate aftermath of the Armistice, after five years of fighting. A couple dance the foxtrot in a cocktail bar. Date: 1919
O Briens Bar, Juarez, Chihuaha, MexicoExterior view of O Briens Bar and Cafe, in Comercio Street, Juarez, Chihuaha, Mexico, owned by Jimme O Brien and Joe Mogel. Barrels of whisky and cases of gin are being unloaded. Date: circa 1925
Common juniper tree, Juniperus communis, with berries.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by French botanist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard from Herbier de la France, Paris, 1780
PEREZ DE HITA, Gin鳠(1544-1619). Spanish GoldenPEREZ DE HITA, Gin鳠 (1544-1619). Spanish Golden Age writer. Cover of the book Historia de los bandos de los zegr y abencerrajes, caballeros moros de Granada
Barrels of drinkSlide showing a picture of barrels containing various drinks stacked up. The drinks include gin, brandy, whiskey, rum, port, sherry, porter, ale and stout. Part of Box 366
Cruikshank, The Gin Shop, plate 9This is the paper, the poor drunkard signed, Which was brought by the pastor, so noble and kind, Who pitied the woman, with wobegone face, And her husband, the drunkard
Cruikshank, The Gin Shop, plate 12This is the cottage, the home of delight, Whence prayer, like an incense, ascends day and night, Where joy and contentment sit smiling so bright - Whence came this glad home where such comforts unite
Cruikshank, The Gin Shop, plate 11This is the text which the good pastor chose, And the light on the soul of the drunkard arose, As he sat in the church, to which one Sabbath-day, Along with his wife he had taken his way
Cruikshank, The Gin Shop, plate 7This is the woman, with wobegone face, The wife of the drunkard, in rags and disgrace, Who is served by the lady, all jewels and lace, The wife of the landlord who coins his bright gold
Cruikshank, The Gin Shop, plate 2These are the drinks that are sold night and day, at the bar of the Gin-shop, so glittering and gay. Illustration no. 2 of 12 by George Cruikshank to The Gin-Shop
Cruikshank, The Gin Shop, plate 8This is the pastor, so noble and kind, Who pitied the woman, with wobegone face, And the husband, the drunkard, in rags and disgrace, Who is served by the lady, all jewels and lace
Cruikshank, The Gin Shop, plate 1This is the Gin-shop all glittering and gay. Illustration no. 1 of 12 by George Cruikshank to The Gin-Shop, an improving rhyme warning against the dangers of alcohol and its ruinous effects
Tatler front cover 1964, featuring a gin and tonicFront cover of The Tatler magazine for July 1964 featuring a close up photograph of a particularly inviting looking gin and tonic, with ice and lemon. Date: 1964
Adverts and messages commemorating the coronationOn the left, an embroidery created by the Royal School of Needlework for the makers of Capstan cigarettes (branch of The Imperial Tobacco Co.)
Putnam Oil & Fertilizer Company GinneryPutnam Oil & Fertilizer Company Cotton Ginnery - Eatonton, Georgia, USA Date: 1907
George MorlandGEORGE MORLAND artist, whose favoured subject matter - gin-shops, stables and public houses - reflected his personal habits... Date: 1763 - 1804
Lady Hope, PhilanthropyLADY HOPE Philanthropist who believed, not unreasonably, that coffee rooms would benefit the indigent poor especially those addicted to gin. Date: CIRCA 1880
Man at bar wanting clove to disguise evidence of his boozingDrunken gentleman leaning against a bar, requesting the barmaid for a clove to disguise the olfactory evidence of his boozing
Wit of a toothless old soak when faced with Sally Army pairThe witty reposte of a toothless old soak when faced with a pair of Salvation Army women: Salvation Sal (to village toper) - " If thou doesn t mend thy ways, Ben Bosker
Barman has a stern word with a disreputable customer who has been stealing pewter beer tankards, which he has been turning into coinage to bring back to spend at the same establishment
SEPULVEDA, Juan Gin鳠de (1490-1573). SpanishSEPULVEDA, Juan Gin鳠 de (1490-1573). Spanish religious and humanist. Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library
SWITZERLAND. Geneva. Reformation Wall. Statue of the Great Elector Frederick William. Sculpture
ANDRɓDE AGUIRRE, Gin鳠(1727-1800). PortraitANDRɓ DE AGUIRRE, Gin鳠 (1727-1800). Portrait of Charles IV as Prince of Asturias. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Bilbao. Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Gin Kakuji, Kioto. Photograph shows an exterior view of the Silver Pavilion with pond in the foreground at the Ginkaku-ji Temple, in Kyoto
Art deco illustration by Fish, 1927 (caption / context: His royal pudding face he shouted / the rude night-club owner insults a Prince Date: 1927
Customers from The Gin-Shop by CruikshankThese are the Customers, youthful and old, That drink the strong drinks which are sold night and day At the bar of the Gin-shop, so glittering and gay. Illustration no