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Training Ship HMS Conway - Working with the SextantThe naval training ship HMS Conway was established in 1859 and for many years was moored on the River Mersey near Liverpool. Here, some of the ships boys are seen using a sextant. Date: 1898
Spain - The Alcazar Interior, SevilleBlack and white lantern slide of royal palace, the Alcazar. Here, we can see the geometric patterns frequented by Muslim architecture in the interior arches
Training Ship HMS Conway - Boys on the Upper DeckThe naval training ship HMS Conway was established in 1859 and for many years was moored on the River Mersey near Liverpool. Here, the ships boys and officers are seen on the upper deck. Date: 1898
Yvette Guilbert music hall singer 1865-1944Yvette Guilbert (Emma Laure Guilbert) French music hall singer. Known as a ?diseuse? for her monologue-like patter songs. Here at her dressing-table preparing for a performance
May Lilian Levey music hall male impersonatorMay Lilian Levey male impersonator, dancer, pantomime principal boy. Here dressed in top hat and tails with cane. Called herself the ?premier male character comedienne?
Wee Georgie Wood music hall comedian and actor 1894?-1979Wee Georgie Wood comedian, actor and writer. Here dressed as Vesta Tilley in uniform with cigar and cane. Card entitled Vesta Tilley. Date: circa early 1900s
Dot Stephens music hall vocalist and dancerDot Stephens vocalist and dancer. Here dressed as ?Mother?s Sailor Boy?. Travelling between halls, she stepped out of the wrong side of the train and had both feet amputated
Bessie Wentworth music hall male impersonator 1873-1901Bessie Wentworth (Elizabeth Mary Andrews) male impersonator and ?coon singer? of plantation songs - a genre which would be unacceptable today. Here wearing a naval uniform and holding a cigarette
Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, China Station, c. 1927Vintage c.1920s photograph: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet, GCB DSO was a Royal Navy officer. During the First World War he served as commander of the Harwich Force
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Here is the NewsThe Caption is Here is the News, and this is yours truly reading it. With radio being the most direct source of News, the broadcasts were avidly listened to
Stars of the West - a group of young ladies who scintillate Hollywood, 1930 - Bernice Claire seen in First National talkies including Spring is Here (top left), the Sisters G
Holiday timeWhy don you Come Here with Your Family. Young girl on the beach laden with all her dolls. Artist: Agnes Richardson Date: circa 1913
Chairman of the Ypres Last Post Committee with buglesThe Ceremony of the Last Post, in which firemen buglers play the Last Post under the Menin Gate at 8pm each night is, in its simplicity, one of the most moving acts of Remembrance in the world
Christmas Truce Memorial, Peace Village, MessinesThe memorial carries the words A Lull in the Hate and refers to the football match played between the Germans and the British at Christmas 1914
Welsh National Memorial Dragon, Hagebos - Iron CrossThis fine memorial in Belgium is not only to the 38th Welsh Division, but to all Welsh Forces who fought in the Ypres Salient. It is similar to the dragon at Mametz on the Somme
Menin Road South CWGC CemeteryThe cemetery was used by the 85ths Staffs, 9th East Surreys and Field Ambulances from January 1916 to 1918. It contains UK, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand
Sherman tank Memorial, Leopoldsburg Railway StationLeopoldsburg is in Belgium and it was directly behind the start line of Operation Market Garden. Here was a huge engineer dump built up to support the XXX Corps ground forces whose job it was to
Xmas. Posting cardsHere goes a little wish upon its way? Postcard illustration of children posting letters. Series 5078. Artist: Alfred Edward Philp Date: circa 1910
Swansea Boys Camp Band, OxwichIn 1906, the boys of the Swansea Union Cottage Homes and the Swansea Industrial School camped together for several weeks by the sea at Oxwich. Here, the entire camp is lined with some of their tents
Zuni (Pueblo) Indians, New Mexico, USAZuni Indians (part of a larger group known as Pueblo or Village Indians) in New Mexico. The Zunis lived in multi-storey houses using a ladder to move between floors
Recruits, 1780.Engraving by Watson and Dickinson after W H Bunbury, 1780.This caricature was published during the American War of Independence (1775-1783)
Q. A. I. N.s In NormandyPhotograph: Q.A.I.N.S In Normandy.Members of Queen Alexandra?s Imperial Nursing Service. (Nursing Officers) have arrived in the bridgehead.Here is a truck load of them on the way to their
Talbot Manor Home for Boys, BournemouthThe Talbot Manor Home for Boys, Bournemouth, was opened in 1890 by the Waifs and Strays Society (now the Childrens Society). Here, the boys are at work in the Homes garden. Date: circa 1921
Military patients at Grove Hospital, Tooting Grove, SurreyThe Grove Hospital, Tooting Grove, during the First World War when it became the Grove Military Hospital. Here, military patients, some wearing the hospital blues uniform
Voisin Triplane Bomber had three crew and four engines Here seen in its original form, November 1915
Junkers Ju 90 -the Luftwaffe used this militarised airliner to supply its forces in North Africa Here, one takes a mauling reportedly from a Martin B-26 Marauder
Consolidated B-24D Liberator -shown amid Pacific palms Here the Liberators long range was a vital asset, the aircraft being used by both the US Army and Navy, as well as the RAF
Childs Fairground Stall, England. Take your Tickets Here. Date: 1920s
WW2 Trojan Vintage Staff Car from H. T. DilwaraWorld War 2 Trojan Vintage Staff Car from H.T. Dilwara, . Writing on the windscreen says NO TROOPS PAST HERE Date: 1938
Nansens North Pole Expedition - Explorer Captain Otto Sverdrup Seen Here in his Cabin, England. Picture taken on the initial leg of Fridtjof Nansens first journey to the North Pole
Spain - House of PilateBlack and white lantern slide of a view of the courtyard in the Casa de Pilatos. Serving as the reisdence of the Duke of Medinaceli
Spain - The Gate of Lions at the Cathedral, ToledoBlack and white lantern slide of the Gate of Lions at the Cathedral Toledo. Largely considered to be the magnum opus of Spanish Gothic style
Avro Anson C. 19 VM388 RAF Biggin HillAvro Anson C.19 VM388 was a Royal Air Force communications and Transport aircraft. Here photographed at Biggin Hill in 1961. Date: 1961
Plate - WWI humourPlate - Here with a loaf of bread beneath the row. A muttered curse, but ne er a whine. And thou - beside me, singing in the wilderness. The wilderness is paradise enow. Good condition
A painted wooden trench sign entitled DO NOT STAND ABOUT HERE - EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT HIT, SOMEONE ELSE WILL BE ! Inscribed - Issued by the 46th (North Midland)
Neuve Chapelle - WWINeuve Chapelle. Including a separate hand-written description as follows - Here enemy made a counter-attack (under cover of a mist) in mass formation
War Work at Westwood Works, PeterboroughFolio of 12 drawings showing War Work at Westwood Works, Peterborough, incorporating Perkins Engineers Limited and Joseph Baker and Sons Limited. Rudolph Ihlee, Neac, (1883-1968), Exhib. 1910-1955
Plate - Here with a loaf of bread, beneath the rowPlate inscribed Here with a loaf of bread, beneath the bow. A muttered curse, but ne er a whine, and thou - beside me, singing in the wilderness. The wilderness is paradise, enow
Training Ship HMS Conway - Boys on the Monkey YardThe naval training ship HMS Conway was established in 1859 and for many years was moored on the River Mersey near Liverpool. Here, some of the ships boys are seen on the monkey yard. Date: 1898