Hole Collection (page 4)

WW1 - Home Front - Zeppelin Raid on Southend - bomb damage
WW1 - Home Front - Zeppelin Raid on Southend - incendiary bomb damage. Date: 1915

WW1 - Home Front - Naval Raid on Scarborough - shell damage on the lighthouse. Date: 1914

The Dogger Bank Incident or Russian Outrage
The Dogger Bank Incident (or Russian Outrage ) occured on the 22nd October 1904, when the Russian Fleet (sailing to reinforce the 1st Pacific Squadron stationed at Port Arthur during)

Dean Hole - Vicar & Squire
Dean Samuel Roberts Hole (1819-1904) - Vicar & Squire of Caunton - Dean of Rochester, Sportsman and Writer - and... cultivator of Roses

A cheeky mouse tickles a scruffy white dogs nose
" I just love to tickle you" - a cheeky little mouse playfully tickles a scruffy white dogs nose. Date: 1916

Removing Flax from the Lint Hole, Co. Antrim - a view of two men wading in the lint hole and removing flax to two others with a horse and cart. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim)

Bottlenose dolphins - blowing air bubbles underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions. Complex play / creative behaviour

Bottlenose DOLPHIN - two, facing, one on top of the other (tursiops truncatus)

Bottlenose DOLPHIN - blows bubbles from blow hole, facing camera (Tursiops truncatus). air bubbles rising. Complex play / creative behaviour

Road accident involving a bus, Elgin Avenue, London
Road accident involving a bus which has fallen down a large hole in Elgin Avenue, West London, on 5 May 1946. The advert on the side of the bus says: Look Your Best in Windsmoor. Date: 1946

Game, The Silver Bullet or The Road to Berlin, WW1
Game, The Silver Bullet or The Road to Berlin (The New War Game - manufactured by R.F.& S.). Inscribed Olga. With love from Winifred. Aberystwyth

Australian Aborigines hunting Kangaroo with boomerangs
Australian Aboriginals hunting Kangaroo with boomerangs and young Aboriginal children swinging on ropes tied to a tree. Date: circa 1903

Making pith helmets for the German Afrika Korps - WWII
Making Type I pith helmets for the German Afrika Korps - WWII. Insertion of the ventilation cap on the top of the helmet. Date: 1942

Bar Room ceiling of The Glory Hole Tavern in Colorado
" Bottoms Up" the rather fun and risque painting on the Bar Room ceiling of The Glory Hole Tavern in Colorado, USA. Date: 1953

Starting a hole in a coal mine

Coal miner starting to make a hole Victorian period

Tunnel St Gotthard Pass, Switzerland, photo c. 1870's
Vintage 19th century photograph - tunnel/cave St Gotthard Pass, Switzerland, photo c.1870's

Christmas card in the shape of a sail, with a little boy in sailors uniform. Date: circa 1890s

Clowns face on a hat-shaped New Year card
Clowns smiling face on a hat-shaped New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card with a pen breaking through it. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card with a pencil breaking through it. Date: circa 1890s

78 rpm record cover, Saville Pianos Ltd, offering piano tuning and repairs, records and musical instruments. 20th century

Cover of ILN 17th September 1859
Cover of the Illustrated London News, 17th September 1859, featuring a report on the Great Eastern ship and a view off Dover from one of the saloon ports sketched during a gale. Date: 1859

The Long Hole, Bangor - a view of the fishing boats in the foreground and the Seacliffe road behind. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Bangor). Date: circa early 1900s

Jean Bells Well, Bellaghy - a view of a well hole with three children sitting to the left. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Londonderry; Bellaghy). Date: circa early 1900s

Trepanation. Miniature. 14th c. Treatise on anatomy by Mondi
Illustration of trepanation. Miniature. 14th century. Treatise on anatomy by Mondino de Liuzzi (1270-1326). Italian anatomist nad profesor of Bologna

Thermopolium of Asellina. Pompeii. Italy
Thermopolium of Asellina, tavern specializing in the sale of hot beverages. Stone bar with holes to place the amphorae containing drinks

Little girl climbing on a fence, Balham, SW London
Little girl climbing on a fence on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Model of the Devil at The Devils Hole, Greve de Lecq, Jerse
Model of the Devil at The Devils Hole, Greve de Lecq, St Mary, Jersey, England. Date: 1939

Ship in dry dock with damaged hull. Date: early 20th century

Suffragette Votes for Women Ceramic Cat
A dark grey pottery figure of a cat with ribbon bow around its neck. This example has a hole at the top of the head and could have been used as a match holder or small vase

Blitz in London -- bombing near the Monument in the City. Date: circa 1940

Blitz in London -- Ricardo Street School, WW2
Blitz in London -- Ricardo Street School, East London, being used as a fire sub-station, received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb on 1 November 1940

Shell hole caused by German bombing, WW1
A shell hole caused by German bombing on the Western Front in France during World War One. The type of bomb, the Minenwerfer, was nicknamed a Moaning Minnie by British troops. Date: circa 1916

Corsair flying boat damage
A large hole in the hull of the Imperial Airways flying boat Corsair, the result of a forced landing on the River Dangu, Belgian Congo (Zaire) in March 1939

The Screw Em Out golf hole cleaner by Heath Robinson
A typically convoluted contraption from William Heath Robinson, the first in a series entitled, Very Patent Aides to Sport, showing the Screw-Em-Out golf hole cleaner in action on a golf course

Ancient Grain Measures and Calvary at Gruyeres, Switzerland
Ancient grain measures and the Calvary at Gruyeres, Switzerland. After the opening was closed, grain was poured into the receptacles under the watchful eye of the bailiff to ensure that the merchant

Yangon, Myanmar - The Rangoon Gazette with inset photograph of The Mandalay Palace at Mandalay, Myanmar, the last royal palace of the last Burmese monarchy. Date: 1905

Christmas card in the shape of an autumn leaf. Date: circa 1890s

LCC-LFB Fireman using the sliding pole
Following a visit to the United States, the Chief Officer (Captain Eyre Massey Shaw) saw these devices in American firehouses, and brought the idea into his own fire stations

GLC-LFB - Fire at the Grocers Hall, City of London
A major fire at the Grocers Hall in the City of London. Firefighters work from a slated roof, attacking the fire through a hole made in the slates

Blitz in London -- Tottenham Court Road, WW2
Blitz in London -- workmen clear out a bomb crater in Tottenham Court Road after an air raid

The Bargain Stone, Wolverhampton, England. In bygone days men would seal deals by shaking hands through the hole seen in the top part of the stone! Date: 1950s photo

Soldiers WWI
Soldiers sheltering in a grenade pit in Flanders during World War I

Tigress and cubs by a pool. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Black Hole of Calcutta
The Black Hole of Calcutta, in which only 23 of 146 prisoners are said to have survived. (This has now been shown to be a myth)

Soldier on the Western Front, Northern France, WW1
Soldier (Albert Auerbach) on the Western Front in Northern France during the First World War. Date: 1918

British soldiers in German dugouts, WW1
British soldiers in abandoned German dugouts, WW1. 1914-1918

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