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Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale
Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (1857-1944) English nobleman and sportsman. Seen here in a portrait sketch by Cecil Aldin, who hunted with him

Cecil Aldin with his first pack of hounds
Cecil Aldin (1870-1935), British artist and illustrator, seen here with others on horseback with his first pack of hounds, known as the Peppard Farmers Harriers at Wyfold Grange

How to Make it Hard for the Invader!
British Home Front are using a makeshift contraption to pinch a screwdriver making it impossible for the Germans to assemble an air-borne tank. Date: 1940

United States Air Force - Republic YRF-84F Thunderstreak 49-2430 FICON parasite, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, seen with the retractable nose hook extended

United States Air Force North American T-6G Texan 50-1279, buzz-number TA-279, (msn 168-443), at the USAF Museum storage compound at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

Calendar design - Humpty Dumpty
Design for a Calendar - Humpty Dumpty, having fallen from the wall - safe however as he had been hard-boiled. Date: 1933

Comic postcard, Pretty woman with a bicycle Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Struggling hard to earn a living Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Cockerel scratching for a living Date: 20th century

Building demolished manually, Bromley, Kent
A commercial building in Bromley, Kent, being demolished the hard way, by hand. Date: circa 1950s

Comic postcard, Lodgers and landlady - carving the poultry Date: 20th century

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - and NO matches
The Caption is ??? and NO matches. The Natzi wearing a saucepan on his head is confronted across a broken wooden fence by two boys, one with a make-shift bayonet and the other with a Union flag

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - England expects
The Caption reads - England Expects presumably evoking the Nelsonian flag signal to his fleet. It was everymans war. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1941

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Watch your step
The postcard caption reads Watch your step. The little girl is wearing white. Warime privations meant that fine materials for wedding dresses were hard to come by

With the distressed hop pickers in Kent - a series of drawings by ILN Special Artist Mr H. C. Seppings Wright showing the poor conditions for hop pickers in Kent during bad wet weather

Skating, the Hard Frost and the Fire-plug. Apprentices and dandies ice skating on a frozen canal 82, woman with kettle at a frozen waterpump in a cold winter 83

Waterman, Ticket Porter, Fellowship Porter, Coachstand and New Milk from the Cow. Waterman, Ticket Porter and Fellowship Porter 79

Workmen on oil rig supply ship off The Lizard, Cornwall
Workmen on the supply ship of the oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles south west of The Lizard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Winchman on oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles off The Lizard
Winchman on the oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles south west of The Lizard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Bicycle in Daks 1940
Advertisement for the Daks suit from Simpson of Piccadilly, ideal for wartime wear in clean, dust-resisting whipcord, hardy corduroy or practical grey flannel. Date: 1940

Manufacturing hard steel rails for the railway. Date: 1880

Cartoon, John Bull and William Gladstone - Now, William, if you don t get on a little faster, I shall have to put somebody else on the job

Men playing the Roman game of La Ruzzica, Italy
Men playing the Roman game of La Ruzzica (or La Rotuola, similar to throwing the discus), Italy. The circular object is made of heavy, hard wood. Date: early 19th century

Blue rush, Juncus inflexus (Hard rush, Juncus glaucus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany

Soapmaker cutting hardened soap with a copper
Soap boiler making soap in a factory. A man stirs a vat of boiling fat and ley, while another cuts the hardened soap with a copper wire in wooden frames

Advert, James Mellis & Co, Prestonpans, Scotland
Advert for James Mellis & Co, Soap Manufacturers, Prestonpans, Scotland. 1905

Emigration - A melancholy prospect. 19th century

Front cover of How to be Happy though Married, E J Hardy
Colour front cover of How to be Happy though Married, Being a Handbook to Marriage by Reverend E J Hardy. Published by T Fisher Unwin, London, 1885. Date: 1885

Front cover of Manners and Rules of Good Society, or Solecisms to be Avoided, By a Member of the Aristocracy, published by Frederick Warne and Co, London, 1887 Date: 1887

Front cover of Manners for Men By Mrs Humphry
Colour front cover of Manners for Men by Mrs Humphry, " Madge" of " Truth", showing a lady and gentleman greeting each other cordially

Young Kayan man making a blowpipe, Borneo, SE Asia
Young Kayan man shaping a piece of hard jagang wood to make a blowpipe, Borneo, SE Asia (then part of the British Empire). (1 of 6) Date: 1922

Curtis British Entomology Plate 134
Diptera: Platyura flavipes = Orfelia nemoralis (Yellow-legged Fungus-gnat) [Plant: Catapodium rigidum (Poa rigida, Hard Meadow-grass)] Date: 1824-39

In a hard-fought battle between Massena and Wellington, a charge by Norman Ramsays cavalry is one of the decisive incidents. Date: 5 May 1811

Employee Does Paperwork Date: 1948

Alger Seeks Inspiration Date: 1950

Portrait of a Condottiere by Giovanni Bellini
Portrait on wood of a Condottiere (a leader or member of a troop of mercenaries, especially in Italy) by Giovanni Bellini (circa 1430-1516) Date: circa 1485

At the Close of the Day - Farm Horses fed by the children
At the Close of the Day - The Horses say hello to the Farm children (and receive a treat in return) on their return to their stables after a hard day on the fields... Date: 1923

MAKING GLOBES 1930S
Making globes: The girl is pasting newspaper over a globe shape. The globe is then baked in an oven until hard. The boy is preparing a half globe for joining. Date: 1930s

ASPARAGUS SALAD
An intriguing salad combination - asparagus, slices of hard boiled egg and peas. Date: 1940s

ELECTRICITY IN STEAM
A Newcastle workman discovers the hard way that steam conducts electricity. Date: 1840

Entertainer
London characters : the STREET ENTERTAINER works hard for his living, for theres plenty of competition on the pavements from rival acrobats, jugglers, escape artists and strong men. Date: circa 1870

BATTLE OF KOENIGGRATZ (also known as Sadowa) The Prussian victory, though hard- won, leads to Austrian collapse, victory for Prussia, and the creation of the German Empire Date: 3 July 1866

BABY MAKING MACHINE
The Great French Baby-making machine - Papa is exhausted by having to work so hard, but Maman is delighted... Date: 1906

Wolves attack villagers on the Russia-Latvia border
On the Russia-Latvia border, wolves are driven by the hard winter to attack villagers. Date: 1939

Tourists in a Greek street
Tourists from Western Europe find the smells in a Greek street hard to take. Date: 1896

Official War Artists filmed in Out of Chaos
Six war artists at work, filmed for the Two Cities film " Out of Chaos" - aimed at generating interest in the National Gallery War Artists Exhibition, but also in modern painting generally

Barefoot boy with mattock, Sierra Leone
A barefoot West African farm boy pauses from working on a smallholding outside Freetown, Sierra Leone. He wears a crucifix on his forehead and carries a heavy digging mattock Date: circa 1982

Boys push loaded cart
Two small boys struggle to push a cart heavily loaded with gas cylinders through the streets of Srinagar, Kashmir Date: 1986

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