Glasses Collection (page 4)

Jack Straw, Labour MP and government minister
Jack Straw (John Whitaker Straw, b 1946), British Labour Party politician, MP and government minister. Date: circa 1970s

Michael Foot and Tony Blair, British Labour politicians
Michael Foot (Michael Mackintosh Foot, 1913-2010), British Labour politician and writer, Leader of the Opposition 1980-1983, CND supporter

Jessica Mitford speaking at a microphone
Jessica Mitford (Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford, 1917-1996), nicknamed Decca, English author, journalist, communist and political campaigner, one of the Mitford sisters

Ian Mikardo, British Labour politician
Ian Mikardo (1908-1993), nicknamed Mik, British Labour and Co-operative politician, a left-wing backbench MP for four decades in the House of Commons, and a Zionist

Ian McGregor, head of the NCB during the Miners Strike
Ian McGregor (Sir Ian Kinloch MacGregor, 1912-1998), Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist, controversial head of British Steel

Danny McGarvey, leader of the Boilermakers Union
Danny (or Dan) McGarvey (Daniel McGarvey, d 1977), leader of the Boilermakers Union, giving a speech. Date: circa 1960s

Henry Kissinger, American politician and diplomat
Henry Alfred Kissinger (b 1923), German-born American political scientist, diplomat, 56th US Secretary of State 1973-1977. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for his role in US foreign policy

Denis Healey, Labour politician, with colleague
Denis Healey (Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, b 1917), British Labour politician, served as Secretary of State for Defence 1964-1970 and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1974-1979

Michael Meacher, British Labour politician
Michael Hugh Meacher (b 1939), British Labour politician, served as Minister of State for the Environment 1997-2003. Seen here campaigning with others against the closure of the Peter Pan Ward in

Michael Foot giving a speech, with Nye Bevan on the left
Michael Foot (Michael Mackintosh Foot, 1913-2010), British Labour politician and writer, Leader of the Opposition 1980-1983, CND supporter

Michael Foot, Labour politician, giving a speech
Michael Foot (Michael Mackintosh Foot, 1913-2010), British Labour politician and writer, Leader of the Opposition 1980-1983, CND supporter

Michael Foot, Labour politician and writer
Michael Foot (Michael Mackintosh Foot, 1913-2010), British Labour politician and writer, Leader of the Opposition 1980-1983, CND supporter

Winston Churchill Cabinet Room 10 Downing Street
winston, churchill, cabinet, room, 10, downing, street, london, ve, victory, europe, day, radio, broadcast, speech, official, officially, announcement, announced, end, war, peace, germany, may, 1945

James Callaghan, Labour politician
James "Jim" Callaghan (Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, 1912-2005), Labour politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1964-1967, Home Secretary 1967-1970

Ernest Bevin, British Labour politician
Ernest Bevin (1881-1951), British Labour politician. He served as Minister of Labour in the wartime coalition government, and as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour Government

Woman wearing patent Fairy eyeglasses, dainty, light, comfortable and rimless specs. Date: 1907

The Zulu war. The entrenched position at Rorke's Drift
The scene as reinforcements arrive at Rorke's Drift, successfully defended by the British from 3, 000 Zulus. Extended caption

Clement Attlee and General Jose Miaja give the Socialist Sal
Photograph showing Clement Attlee (left), General Jose Miaja (centre with glasses) and Giner de Los Rios giving the Socialist clenched-fist salute from balcony of a government building in Madrid

MR M, DEATH RAY INVENTOR
Grindell Matthews, the inventor of a death ray which will destroy aircraft or explode munitions depots at a distance Date: 1924

SALMAN RUSHDIE In 1992 Anglo-Indian novelist, condemned to death for allegedly having blasphemed Islam in The Satanic Verses. Date: 1947 -

Comic postcard, Woman annoys Scotsman Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Boy reading Home Doctor book - kidney trouble Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Couple having picnic on the beach Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two men chatting in a pub - frogs and rats Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two men chatting at a funeral Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Good girls and the other sort Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man looking for his spectacles - Spoonerisms Date: 20th century

George Dixon, artist and illustrator Date: circa 1930

Comic postcard, Two men chatting in a pub - previous Coronations Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two drunkards in a pub Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Large man running on the beach Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two drunkards chatting Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two men drinking and chatting Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man and woman chatting at a party
Comic postcard, Man and woman in evening dress, chatting at a party Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Posting a letter in the wrong box Date: 20th century

London chauffeur and car
A London chauffeur stands by his car awaiting instructions. Date: circa 1950s

Chauffeur standing by his car
A chauffeur stands beside his car. Date: circa 1960s

Foot-shaped comic postcard, mother and five daughters
A mother (the life and sole of the family) and her five little toe daughters - a brilliant Edwardian comic postcard, open to multiple interpretations! Date: 1907

Three women, probably from the same family, all in black, possibly in mourning. Date: c.1895

Woman at the Freres Provencaux Restaurant, Paris, 1850. She wears a lilac jacket over a flounced crinoline. The Trois Freres Provencaux in the Palais Royal was a fashionable bouillabaise specialty

Parson cursing foxhunters and hounds trampling his garden after a fox. Despite a warning sign reading Steel traps spring guns set in this garden. The Enraged Vicar

The handsome Joconde discovers his wife in bed with the valet. Joconde, from Orlando Furiosa. Lithograph handcoloured in pochoir (stencil)

A jolly mens drinking club - the table is well stocked with beer and glasses and everyone is very smartly-dressed in top hats ans suits, some with additonal badges of office ! Date: circa 1920

Young lad with a magnificent wooden toy car
Raymond, Aunt Bettys brother happily sat behind the wheel of his magnificent wooden toy car (possibly a pedal car). There is a mascot on the front of the bonnet in the form of a cat - a tin

Group portrait of IMechE Council members, outside Manor Hotel Meriden. Includes Roy Ernest James Roberts, President second row middle [in glasses, green tie] and Pamela Liversidge [front row middle]

Tray with lemonade jug and two glasses. 1922

Ceramics artist filling in outline print on china
Ceramics artist filling in outline print for enamelling china. 1953

Portrait, The Late Mr Flowers, Bow Street magistrate - Mercy seasoned his justice. 1886

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