Great Collection (page 21)

Our Soldiers: how they are Made and Mended
A series of intricate images by silhouette artist, H. L. Oakley showing scenes on the Western Front in a mounted regiment followed by the transportation of an injured officer to hospital

Tunnel construction, Great Western Railway, South Wales
Tunnel construction taking place on the Great Western Railway, somewhere in South Wales

GWR workings on a railway line in South Wales
Navvies working on a Great Western Railway line embankment, somewhere in South Wales. The navvy hut can be seen in the distance on the left

The Great Train Robbery- commando raid frees train robber
Front page of The Illustrated London News reporting on the latest episode in the Great Train Robbery saga. As Ronald Biggs clambers with there other prisoners over Wandsworth Gaol wall

Centenary parade of the Cadet Forces in Great Britain
H.M. the Queen taking the salute of the parade in the garden of Buckingham Palace

Grove Hospital, Tooting Grove, south west London
Administration block of the Grove Hospital, Tooting Grove, south west London (originally in Surrey), one of five new hospitals opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in the 1890s for the treatment

Australian soldiers at Gallipoli WWI
Australian soldiers at Anzac, Gallipoli during World War I

Unhabitable by Charles Pears
Painting by maritime artist, Charles Pears of a warship, visible sailing over the horizon under a dramatic sky of billowing clouds. Presumably the ship is named Unhabitable

Will They Never Come? World War One poster
World War One recruitment poster using a photograph from the Weekly Dispatch showing a bloodied and bandaged British soldier who having just dispatched the enemy with his rifle simultaneously

British soldiers take interest in an Egyptian lady
Humourous Postcard - World War One era. British soldiers (a sailor and a Scots infantryman) take interest in an Egyptian lady who stroll demurely along under a pink parasol

Lance Corporal - Grenadier Guards
A Lance Corporal of the Grenadier Guards

Certificate - Royal Photographic Society
A certificate awarded to Heinz Zinram, conferring upon him Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain - 11th November 1946

Actions of the Somme Crossings 1918
Actions of the Somme Crossings, Nesle Sector. Men of the 20th British Division and of the 22nd French Division in hastily dug rifle pits covering a road at the Battle of the Somme on the Western

Battle of Albert 1918
An escort of the South Staffordshire Regiment, 37th Division, bringing German prisoners through Bucqnoy during the Battle of Albert

Whippet Tanks 1918
Whippet tanks of the 3rd Battalion at Maillet, some of which had been in action earlier in the day and were the first Whippet tanks to be in action

Bethune 1918
One of the less damaged streets in Bethune on the Western Front in France during World War I in May 1918

Soldiers in Lille 1918
British soldiers greeted by children in Lille on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1918

British cavalry 1917
British cavalry standing in water on horses in a ruined town in France on the British front during World War I in 1917

Hohenzollern Redoubt 1915
Wounded soldiers returning to a Dressing Station through Vermelles during the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt on the Western Front in France during World War I on 13th October 1915

British troops in France 1914
Arrival of the BEF, 11th Hussars at Le Havre on the Western Front in France during World War I on 16th August 1914

Snowball fight 1916
A snowball fight between soldiers, somewhere behind the lines on the Western Front in France

Grove Military Hospital, Tooting Grove, Surrey
Children stand at the gates of the Grove Hospital at Tooting Grove, Surrey (now South London) during its First World War service as a military hospital

Grove Fever Hospital, Tooting Grove, Surrey
Birds eye view of the Grove Hospital, Tooting Grove, Surrey (now South London), one of five new hospitals opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in the 1890s for the treatment of infectious

St Benedicts Hospital, Tooting, South London
St Benedicts Hospital which lay between Church Lane and Rectory Lane in Tooting, South London. The hospital was established in 1897

Wayland Military Hospital, Attleborough, Norfolk. The hospital operated during the First World War in the Wayland Unions new workhouse infirmary, erected at Attleborough in 1912-13

Tooting Military Hospital, Tooting Graveney, Surrey
The Tooting Military Hospital operated during World War One in a building on Church Lane, Tooting Graveney, Surrey, formerly St Josephs Roman Catholic college

British and Indian soldiers - WWI allies (2 / 3)
Comrades at Arms British and Indian troops fighting together during WWI

British and French Soldiers - Salonica
A scruffy young turkish paperboy selling the Paris Balkan Newspaper and the French Echo to British and French soldiers during World War One in Salonica as two veiled ladies and a Greek priest

First Zeppelin air raid on London, 1915
First Zeppelin air raid on London, during World War I 1915

Women workers, World War I
Women workers packing fuse heads in the Coventry Ordnance Works during World War I

Masurian Lakes 1915
German cavalry advance during the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes, also known as the Winter Battle of the Masurian Lakes

Old St. Pauls Cathedral, London, 17th century
Illustration showing the old St. Pauls Cathedral, London, prior to its destruction in the Great Fire of London in 1666

Berlin State Banquet
A state banquet held in the White Hall of the Great Schloss in Berlin to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of the Kaisers only daughter

Fire in Southwark, London, 1926
Photograph showing members of the London Fire Brigade tackling a blaze at Samuel Ward & Co.s paint and varnish warehouse in Great Guildford Street, Southwark, August 1926

King George V
Photographic portrait of King George V of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1865-1936), pictured in his uniform as Colonel of the Black Watch, date unknown

Wombwells Menagerie at Windsor Castle, 1847
Engraving showing the tents of Wombwells Menagerie in the Great Quadrangle of Windsor Castle during the Windsor Michaelmas Fair, October 1847

A German Zeppelins observation car photographed on display as part of a public exhibition of dirigible wreckage collected from across Britain

Saint Bruno / Butler Lives
SAINT BRUNO alias BRUNO THE GREAT Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lorraine

Mildenhall in India 1599
Sir John Mildenhall is sent by Elizabeth I of England to establish relations with Akbar, Mughal emperor of India

Alexander Fights Porus
The troops of Alexander the Great meet the elephants of Porus on the Hydaspes

The Great Ice Barrier, Antarctica, 1911
Photograph showing a member of the Amundsen Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12 standing on top of the Great Ice Barrier, c.1911. Three men, under the command of Lt

Bee Hives Near Welwyn
A cyclist stops to admire the many rows of bee hives situated here along the Great North Road near Welwyn in Hertfordshire, England

A Fish Auction in Columbia Market
In 1869 Baroness Burdett-Coutts paid for the building of the great Columbia Market (for fish) between Hackney and Bethnal Green Roads on the site of Nova Scotia Gardens

Lecture on Stephen Grays discoveries in electricity
A lecture at the Charterhouse, London on Stephen Grays discoveries in electricity. In the early eighteenth century, Gray demonstrated that charges of electricity could be conducted by some materials

Alchemists Laboratory
An alchemist studies an old instruction manual, while his assistant keeps the furnace going. His workshop is filled with state-of-the-art equipment for The Great Work

The Great Central Railway Station at Newcastle
The Great Railway Station at Newcastle-Upon Tyne, forming part of the northern route connecting railway travel from Scotland to London

King St. C17Th
Timber-fronted buildings with protruding storey, common in London before the Great Fire. Tradition also allows this house to have been the residence of Oliver Cromwell

Packard in Italy 1928
The 5200 cmc Packard with 8 cylinders in line is in the great tradition of fine carriages

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