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WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Refresher Course
The Caption is Refresher Course They are sitting in a Forces Club. These were run by the NaFI and the WVS among others. Maybe the girl works there. A little dog is feeding at a bowl

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - A Piece of Cake
The Caption is A piece of cake. This latter was an RAF expresssion for an easy fight. Through the window can be seen an aeroplane. This was the year of the Battle of Britain

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Coo - you ought to have seen ours
The Caption reads Coo! You ought to have seen ours. The bombs look like what were called Butterfly bombs. These were anti-personnel weapons dropped for people to pick up

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - The result of careless talk
The Caption is The Result of Careless Talk. This is a play on the wartime slogan Careless talk costs lives. The Prime Minister exhorts This is a time for everyone to stand together and hold firm

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - I ll make short work of this
The caption is I ll made short work of this. The enthusiastic look on the girls face suggests that she will do exactly that

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Black Out
The caption is Black Out! a play on the need to cover all windows and lighting so that German bombers could not see their targets, and also putting the cat out

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Longing to see you
On the back of the card Churchills message is Stand together and hold firm. The little girl is in her Sunday best and presumably believes that her journey is Really Necessary.Cute Kids WW2 Wartime

Riviera Rivalry as Tennis and Fashion hold their courts at Cannes, 1927. Fashion sketches by A. Fried of Miss L. Dibble, Lady Dudley, Lady Dunedin and Miss Greville Soames Date: 1927

Two film photographs: top right an ensemble of 150 in the film revue titled The March of Time (MGM), 1930 and bottom left an ensemble from Hold Everything, a Warner Brothers talkie, 1930. Date: 1930

Funny little toddler boy pretending to be a Strongman
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Three young Italian sisters by their Christmas Tree
Three young Italian sisters playing with their toys underneath the Christmas tree. Date: 1911

Working class gent with his two young daughters
Working class gent walks proudly along a British seaside seafront with his two young daughters. Date: circa 1920s

Extended family outside stone county home
A countryside scene with parents, son and Grandmother all stood outside their lovely stone cottage. The son appears to be holding two pails of milk. Date: circa 1910s

Pretty young girl holding a Stowers promotional fan
A photograph of a smiling pretty young girl set within an oval art nouveau frame. She is holding a promotional fan for Stowers Lime Juice Cordial! Date: 1905

Christmas Card, Puppy with telephone and holly - Hold On. 20th century

Processing cod, Gadus morhua, on board a factory
Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua 88, and scenes on board a factory ship, men and women gutting and salting fish on deck 90, 91, and dropping the fish into the hold 89

Chinese junk, Qing Dynasty. Flat-bottomed, three-masted ship with compartmentalized hold. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste

Crowd held back, FA Cup Final, West Ham v Bolton
The crowd being held back at the FA Cup Final between West Ham United and Bolton Wanderers at Wembley, 28 April 1923. There were so many spectators that they were spilling over onto the pitch

Poster, Get your grip on the Nip, WW2. 1940s

Lady in Toronto, Ontario, Canada posing with a bear cub circa 1929

Victorian Scrap, Girl holding kitten in straw hat
Victorian Scrap, Girl holding a kitten in a straw hat. 19th century

Cast iron figure, Hitching Post
Popular Art in the USA - cast iron figure, Hitching Post, used for tying horses to. late 19th century

Holding up the pillar
Three men and two small children pretend to be supporting the weight of a rather precariously leaning pillar - part of quite a grand countryside entrance way. Date: late 1930s

Telegraph poles for railway, Tanganyika, East Africa
Men holding up cast iron telegraph poles destined to run along the railway line in Tanganyika, East Africa (then part of the British Empire, now Tanzania). Date: 1922

Skiing misfortune
A Skiing misfortune as a skier takes a tumble trying to navigate through a clump of trees on a Swiss alpine slope. Date: 1924

Heaven give you many happy days - As after the dark night comes the glad day. So after sorrows reign doth joy hold sway. Heaven give you many happy days. From Shakespeare

Miss Lily Brayton and Mr Henry Ainley
Miss Lily Brayton, Actress (1876-1953). In the role of Rosalind in the William Shakespeare play As you Like It, alongside Henry Ainley (1879-1945) in the role of Orlando. Date: 1911

Soldier with a crossbow and one of the first cannons
The Wars of the Roses. A Soldier with a crossbow and one of the first cannons ever used. 15th century

Womens corset 1911
Latest fashionable corset to provide the best shape for the womans dress

Ramsay MacDonald and Benito Mussolini, Ostia, 1933
James Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister, being welcomed to Ostia, Italy, by Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, 1933

Communard forces reinforcing their position at Montmartre, digging trenches and placing cannon. Leftwing National Guard soldiers supported the Commune and helped to hold Montmartre

Leaving For the Prom Date: 1947

Lovers Intimate Embrace Date: 1881

Firemen at Work Date: 1880

Bermuda - Fisherman bring the catch ashore (hopefully more than the one specimen being showed off!). Date: circa 1910s

Prize Giving at the General Hospital, Hereford
Formal group of nurses standing and sitting on raised platform with various dignitaries sitting in central row. Two matrons at far left hold bouquets of flowers

Nurses with babies in hospital nursery
Five nurses standing around a table covered with baby feeding equipment in the nursery of the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh. Four of the nurses hold babies, one being bottle fed at left

Sailors swab the decks after refuelling their ship
Sailors, many in bare feet, clean the decks after coal has been put into the hold. Coal was known by the sailors as black diamonds

Cartoon, four relaxed gentlemen commuters hold a discussion in a smoking compartment of a train. One puts aside his paper in order to listen more intently. Date: 1893

DIVING FOR PEARLS
Diving for pearls in the Persian Gulf. Date: 1870

TWO AMONG THE REEDS 1879
A couple moor among the reeds, with only a donkey to chaperone them - but if he becomes too pressing, she can hold him at bay with her parasol... Date: 1879

MEETING OF MERCHANTS 1850
Albert and the Lord Mayor of London hold a meeting at the Mansion House, where leading merchants and manufacturers are invited to support the Exhibition project. Date: 1850

LEVEE FOR TRADESPEOPLE
Albert and the Lord Mayor of London hold a levee at the Mansion House, where leading merchants and manufacturers are invited to support the Exhibition project. Date: 1850

Japanese Parasols
Five Japanese women in traditional costume, three of which hold flat circular parasols of varying sizes. Date: late 19th century

CHINA CLAY / UNLOADED
Shooting a lorry-load of china clay into the hold of a waiting steamer. Discovered in the UK in the 1740s, St. Austell is one of the main sources of China Clay. Date: 1930s

RUSSIA / 1921 / MARRIAGE
A civil marriage, conducted by a provincial commissar. The happy couple hold the Red Flag as they take their oaths. Date: Circa 1921

Protestants persecuted, France 1703
Protestant homes in France, where they might attempt to hold religious congregations, are attacked and burned. Date: 1703

CHARLES DARWIN CARTOON
CHARLES DARWIN The advent of mankind is celebrated by a congregation of apes, who hold a lamp to Darwins book The Descent of Man (1871). Date: 1809 - 1882

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