Hole Collection (page 8)

An old dog fox scratching at the ground. Date: 1926

Cartoon, Tiddy Doll the great French Gingerbread Baker, drawing out a new Batch of Kings, his Man, Hopping Talley [Talleyrand], mixing up the Dough, by James Gillray

Title image, Alice in Wonderland -- Alice watches the White Rabbit entering the rabbit hole. Date: early 20th century

Shoe design in pink and green. Date: circa 1930s

Shoe design in blue. Date: circa 1930s

Shoe design in blue and yellow. Date: circa 1930s

Shoe design in maroon and pink. Date: circa 1930s

Snail and grasshoppers racing, Les Images en Musique
Snails with grasshopper jockeys taking part in a race, with a mole at the finishing line, illustration in Les Images en Musique

Early WW1 trenches in the Aisne district, October 1914
Interior view of a trench constructed by the British in the Aisne district, an early example of the trench system which would come to dominate warfare on the Western Front during the First World War

The Way of War with Civilians, WW1
The Way of War with Civilians -- a cross-section of an English home, showing how it could be adapted for military purposes during the First World War. Date: 1914

South Africa - The Kimberley Mine, Kimberley
The Kimberley Mine, Kimberley, near Bloemfontein, Frances Baard, Northern Cape, South Africa. Captioned The Biggest Hole in the World Date: 1900s

Brandy Hole, Hullbridge, Essex
Brandy Hole, Hullbridge, Hockley, near South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, England. Date: 1950s

The Village, Hutton-le-Hole, Yorkshire
The Village, Hutton-le-Hole, York, near Pickering, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1920s

Boy with dog, Balham, SW London
A boy sitting on a dustbin in front of a house in Balham, SW London, with a dog on his lap. Date: circa 1961

Cartoon, Asphyxiating gases, WW1
Cartoon, Asphyxiating gases, showing a French soldier standing in a hole and holding his nose. He says: They re not dead yet, but they already stink! Date: 1915

Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, So Obvious
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, So obvious, published in the Bystander, 1916. Date: 1916

Pierce Cunningham Homestead
The log cabin with sod roof built by the trapper John Pierce Cunningham 1n 1885 near Jackson Hole in what is now the Grand Teton National Park

Where to Live by Bairnsfather
Where to Live - (Advt) A mock advertisement by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather offering a dug-out in a trench for let. Date: 1915

Boy drinking up champagne from a feast
Rests of the feast. 1885. Engraving. Date: 1885

Josephs Well, Holy Land
The supposed location of Josephs Well. According to biblical legend, Josephs jealous brothers threw him into a pit or empty well before going home

People on the beach
Slide showing a photograph of people on the beach with two women lying in a shallow hole in the sand in the foreground. Part of Box 366. Date: circa 1900

Rome, Italy - The Mammertine Prison
Black and white. Low-ceilinged room with a carving and mantlepiece to one side. There is a hole in the floor with a low ridge around it (possibly a well or some kind of drainage device?)

Well of Philippus, Holy Land
A woman washing clothes at the Well of Philippus, Holy Land. Date: 1920s

Darkling Beetle - emerges from day shelter in sand where he buries itself to escape heat of the day (Sympiezocnemis gigantea). sand dunes of Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - Spring - March

Wooden wedges are used to fix a leakage - an old pipe-line carrying chemicals. desert near Kumdag -Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April

Siberian Lemming muzzle adult nibbles grass by the entrance of the burrow (Lemmus sibiricus ). tundra near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Forest dormouse, adult, climbs out of its shelter (a tree-hollow) (Dryomys nitedula). in deciduous forests of South Ural Mountains, nocturnal; South Russia, summer

Sand Martins - quarrel over nest holes in a sand wall of a ravine near river Bolshoi Ugan (Riparia riparia). near Ugut settlement; Uganskii Nature reserve, Siberia, Russia; spring

Arthur Bourchier as Old Bill, Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1
Arthur Bourchier in the role of Old Bill, the popular character created by Bruce Bairnsfather. Bourchier played the part in the original production of The Better Ole

Steppe / Horsfields Tortoise - burrows for shelter in the soil - for the night (Agrionemys horsfieldii ). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Testudo - April

Steppe Tortoise - emerges from an overnight shelter under bushes (Agrionemys horsfieldii). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Horsfields Tortoise - Testudo - April

Sphere cover - artillery negotiating shell craters, Matania
British artillery in difficulty among shell craters in August 1918. Shell craters were created by explosions, could easily subside and filled with water in wet weather

Boy scouts resting during a hike, Mauritius

The Channel Tunnel - hints to engine drivers, Heath Robinson
Heroic endeavour of an engine-driver to stop a leak. An engine driver sticks his head in a hole threatening to flood the Channel Tunnel - a humorous scenario envisaged by William Heath Robinson

British staff car avoids shell hole
A British Staff Car veers to one side to avoid a large shell hole in the middle of the road on which they are hurrying. Narrowly avoiding ending up in the roadside ditch

Using a shell hole as a wash-tub, WW1
French peasant women on the Western Front display a keen sense of carrying on as they use a water-filled shell-hole measuring twenty-five feet in diameter

Blitz in London -- public shelter, Fieldgate Street, WW2
Blitz in London -- men clearing up after a direct hit on a public shelter in Fieldgate Street, East London, on 5 September 1940. Date: 1940

Bystander cover - Derby scheme attesting Bairnsfather
Front cover of The Bystander magazine featuring an illustration by Fred Buchanan which is a pastiche of Bruce Bairnsfathers famous The Better Ole cartoon (in the same magazine)

Old Bill plaque relating to the Old Fort - Shell Hole
Old Bill plaque relating to the Old Fort (Durban, South Africa) Shell Hole. Commemorative Ware

A Funk-Hole near Bullecourt, 1917, by Lieutenant W (Will) H Dyson (1880-1938), Australian Imperial Force. Dyson joined the Army

Indian sappers in a mine hole
Sappers, probably of the British Indian Army, in a mine hole. Date: circa 1890s

The Seven Good Deeds of Bonzo (Friday) -- he removes an infernal machine (a leaking hot water bottle) from the bed. Date: 1923

Bonzo Quite Agrees! by George Studdy
Bonzo Quite Agrees! He falls into a hole in the road, which confirms that the maintenance work is necessary. Date: 1923

What to do in the case of air or sea raids, WW1
What to do in the case of further air or sea raids during the First World War. Showing cross sections of buildings, and photographs of air raid damage to buildings in Kings Lynn

Ruined brickwork in Le Barque, Western Front, WW1
A close-up of ruined brickwork in Le Barque, on the Western Front in France (Somme) during World War One. Date: circa 1917

British officers observing, Western Front, WW1
British officers in a trench or shell hole, doing observation work on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Gordon Highlanders resting in shell hole, WW1
Gordon Highlanders resting in a shell hole on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British troops away from front line, Western Front, WW1
British troops taking a break away from the front line, on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

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