Gutter Collection

Sunday Sport - World War Two Bomber Found on Moon
Front cover of the Sunday Sport Newspaper - April 24th 1988 - World War Two Bomber Found on Moon *Note usage restrictions as outlined below* 1988

Four boys in a street in the East End of London
Four boys walking along a street in the East End of London, passing the premises of the East End News. Two of them have bare feet. Two are wearing hoods, though it doesn t appear to be raining

SMS Bayern sinking after being scuttled, Scapa Flow, WW1
The German battleship SMS Bayern sinking after being scuttled in Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow, Scotland after the end of the First World War. Date: 21 June 1919

Three boys playing marbles in the gutter Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man in a muddy street, pretending to be in the trenches, watched by policeman. A Derby Scheme armband on his jacket shows that he is signed up and ready for active service

Sanliurfa, Turkey
Sanliurfa in southeastern Turkey, capital of Sanliurfa Province. Known as Edessa in Hellenistic times. View up toward the Halil Ul Rahman Mosque Date: circa 1910s

Plumbers fixing lead pipes on a building site

View of part of Duke Street, West Smithfield, 1807
View of part of Duke Street, formerly Duck Lane, West Smithfield, 1807. Tudor timber houses of oak, chestnut and plaster. Man on a ladder lighting a gas lantern

Cover design, Do it yourself, September 1964 - free ticket for exhibition at Olympia Date: 1964

Inventory
Sheet of paper, possibly the endpaper from a book, with a handwritten list or inventory in French dated 16 February 1605. With pieces of the binding thread attached in the gutter

Comic postcard, Drunkard and policeman in the street at night Date: 20th century

Plumber heating lead in a fire to fix lead pipes on a building site. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Tabart, London, 1810

Cross Paris Street - 1815
An elegantly dressed Parisienne raises her skirts as she crosses a Paris street with its flowing gutter Date: circa 1815

Cartoon, Enigma, WW1
Cartoon, Enigma. A French soldier says he doesn t understand it -- hes drunk nothing but Pinard (cheap wine or plonk) since the war started, and now hes got water on the knee! Date: 1916

Germany (1848). The Frankfurt Parliament convened in Frankfurts Paulskirche. Debate in the Assembly of Frankfurt 16 September 1848

Hic Jacet - Here Lies - drunken man collapsed in gutter
(hic!) jacet (translated from the Latin: " Here Lies" ) - a drunken Londoner collapsed in gutter, his umbrella and hat discarded onto the street in his stupor. Date: circa 1890s

Horse-drawn surrey, USA
Horse-drawn surrey-style carriage, with a pair of black horses, North America. Date: circa 1910

Delivery of paper for newsprint, Fleet Street, London
Delivery of large rolls of paper for newsprint outside The Sun premises in Fleet Street, London. Date: circa 1970s

Two children on pavement, Balham, SW London
Two children, a boy and a girl, sitting and lying on the pavement on a street in Balham, SW London. The boy is holding a shovel, and they are both rather dirty. Date: circa 1961

Group of children sittiing on kerb, Balham, SW London
A group of children sitting on the kerb in a Balham street, SW London, playing with a battered old suitcase. Date: circa 1961

Little boy crying in Balham, SW London
A little boy sitting on the kerb and crying on a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

A street in the Kasbah, Algiers
Looking down a street in the Kasbah, Algiers, Algeria. Some of the upper levels of the houses have ornate bird houses. The European influence in the city is clearly marked by the ironwork lamp (left)

Harem Pants 1910
Exotic eastern style: high waisted Turkish trousers / harem pants, decollete blouse, bolero, fish-net stockings, Louis heel shoes & a turban with aigrette

Toddler playing with car tyre, Balham, SW London
A toddler playing with a car tyre (attached to a parked car) in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Scouts and cubs, Bob A Job Week, Ghana, West Africa
Scouts and cubs taking part in Bob A Job Week, Accra, Ghana, West Africa. Seen here cleaning gutters and streets

Street scene near St Pauls Cathedral, London. Date: 20th century

Destructive force of flying bomb by G. H. Davis
Blast -- the main destructive force of the flying bomb in use during the Second World War. How and why it creates widespread damage

Street Music: a gutter-ball 1896
An organ grinder finds an appreciative audience of dancing street children. Date: 1896

Ramshackle cottage and courtyard, Scotland
A ramshackle cottage and courtyard, Scotland

Street scene with damaged car
Street scene with people gathered round a damaged car. Water from the broken radiator appears to be running into the gutter

Pigeons and doves on rooftops
A variety of pigeons and doves on rooftops. Date: circa early 20th century

Montmartre - Sacre Coeur - Paris
Montmartre - Sacre Coeur, view from the Place du Tertre - Paris, France Date: circa 1930s

Dangerous fashions in the street
The dangers of impractical fashions in the street. The reintroduction of the trained skirt, even for walking dresses, proves inconvenient and possibly fatal! Date: 1871

Six children with a makeshift cart in a London street
Six children with a makeshift cart, on a scruffy terraced street in London. Two of the boys have bare feet

Bosnia & Herzegovina - Market Scene
Bosnia & Herzegovina - General Market Scene

Road sweeper at work
A road sweeper sweeping dirt from the gutter, dwarfed by a huge curving brick wall. He probably works for the St Marylebone Borough Council in London

Sfax, Tunisia - Souk of the Mosque
The Soul of the Mosque at Sfax, Tunisia, North Africa. Date: 1910s

Tunisian Street Scene - Sfax
The Native Quarter - Sfax, Tunisia. A general street scene

Black Vultures scavenging - Mexico
Natures scavengers. Black Vultures scavenging in the street - Mexico Date: circa 1930s

America. An Artist in the Far West III. Returning from a min
Three very drunk men on horseback, one waving from the gutter

Great Exhib. / Gutter Plan
Paxtons Gutter, a novel innovation used in the construction of the Crystal Palace, arranged over the entire building

STREET CAT
LE CHAT DE GOUTTIERE The gutter cat

T Roosevelt / Judge Press
THEODORE ROOSEVELT 26th American President and his fight against the gutter press

Gulliver & the Monkey
He is seized by a monkey who drops him, whereupon he falls into a gutter whence he is rescued by a servant

Myth / Tibet / Frog & Crow
THE FROG AND THE CROW While sitting on the gutter, the frog talks his way out of being eaten by the crow

Aftermath of the Riots
The aftermath of the Gordon Riots

Crossing French Gutter
In bad weather, the gutters of Paris streets aren t easy to cross, so enterprising boys lay planks across them for fashionable ladies to cross, expecting a modest tip

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