Hook Collection (page 5)

Fisherman with pollock, Lands End, Cornwall
Fisherman landing a four pound eight ounce pollock near Lands End, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Long-billed black cockatoo
Plate 6 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph. Date: 1832

Patient fishermen, illustration by William Heath Robinson
A party of benevolent philanthropists rewarding the patience of unfortunate fishermen, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

Agonus cataphractus, or Pogge, also known as Hook-Nose, Armed Bullhead, Lyrie, Sea Poacher and Noble. Date: 1863

Blackburn Skua with arrester wire hook down landing aboard an aircraft carrier

Reverend Forbes Oncidium, Hook var Atratum
Reverend Forbes Oncidium, Hook. var. Atratum.. Illustration drawn by C. de Bruyne and chromolithographed by P. de Pannemaeker from Lucien Lindens Lindenia, Iconography of Orchids, Brussels, 1902

Sword hilt with knob and hook in iron and silver from the 17th century.. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt

Black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine, Harrison, London, 1800

Hook-billed mallard, Anas platyrhynchos.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own Natural History of British Birds, London, 1794-1819

Shrikes, hook-billed vanga and gonolek.. Handcolored engraving on steel by Annedouche after a drawing by Edouard Travies from Richards New Edition of the Complete Works of Comte de Buffon

Female pedate feuillaea, Feuillaea pedata or Telfairia pedata Hook.. Named for Mr. Charles Telfair, superintendent of the Royal Garden at Mauritius. Illustration by E.D. engraved by Weddell

The Hook of Holland Express, Seven Arches Bridge, Essex
The Hook of Holland Express, Seven Arches Bridge, near Brentwood, Essex, England. Great Eastern Railway (Showing interior vignette) Date: 1900s

WW2 Christmas card, The Weeks Ration
WW2 Christmas card, showing a butcher in his shop, a reproduction of a painting entitled The Weeks Ration. The verse inside reads: When we queue for our chop in the butchers shop

Black Rhinoceros - resting - head only (Diceros bicornis). Kenya

Suffragette W. S. P. U Group Marshall Sash
A sash produced for the Womens Social and Political Union, made in green moire or watered silk fabric. It has Group Marshal in silver letters and a metallic silver tassel at one end

The Channel Tunnel - hints to builders, Heath Robinson
An unaccountable delay in the Channel Tunnel. A hold up due to the hook on a line belonging to a fisherman in a boat above the surface - unforeseen problems with the Channel Tunnel imagined by

LFB Dennis dual-purpose pump, Lambeth HQ
Lambeths (D61) pump at its base station, on display in Brigade headquarters drill yard. Side mounted pump outlets together with hose-reel tubing and two hook ladders can be seen

Lord Mancroft visiting LFB headquarters
Lord Mancroft (2nd Baron Mancroft, 1914-1987), Conservative politician and government minister (Chief Inspector of Fire Services), visiting LFB headquarters

Merryweather fire engine with detachable ladder

Firefighter using hook belt at top of ladder
Firefighter using his hook belt at the top of a ladder

Button hook made from a WWI bullet case
Button hook made from a First World War bullet case with a fixed Officers coat badge and sleeve button. Trench Art

Loot by William Heath Robinson WWI
An unsuspecting gentleman walking his dog is being robbed by a group of Germen soldiers in a zeppelin using a hook and some rope. 1916

LNER leaflet designed by H. L. Oakley
Leaflet cover for the LNER Continental Services designed with silhouettes by H. L. Oakley of the ports, Harwich, Hook of Holland, Grimsby and Hamburg. Date: 1924

Captain Robert Hook, lifeboatman
Coxswain Robert William Hook (1828 -1911) of the Lowestoft lifeboat Samuel Plimsoll, the saviour of more than 200 lives. Pictured here at Lowestoft harbour entrance in 1883, in a heroic pose

Silhouette of Scotsman in kilt
Silhouette of a Scotsman in a kilt, carrying a shepherds crook. Date: 20th century

Scene from Miss Hook of Holland, an English musical comedy with music and lyrics by Paul Rubens, book by Austen Hurgon and Rubens

Nursery Rhymes -- man fishing, boy on road
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a man fishing. Below -- a little boy walking along a road in the dusk. Date: early 20th century

Aerial view of seaplane
Aerial view of a seaplane floating on the water, about to have a hook attached to it from a crane

Walter Farquhar Hook
WALTER FARQUHAR HOOK English churchman, vicar of Leeds, later dean of Chichester. Date: 1798 - 1875

JAMES HOOK Musician and writer Date: 1746 - 1827

Theodore Hooks Grave
THEODORE HOOKs grave Date: CIRCA 1840

James Clarke Hook
JAMES CLARKE HOOK artist Date: 1819 - 1907

Theodore Hooks Home
THEODORE HOOKs home Date: CIRCA 1840

Theodore Hook - 6
THEODORE EDWARD HOOK Writer and wit Date: 1788 - 1841

Theodore Hook - 3
THEODORE EDWARD HOOK Writer and wit with his autograph Date: 1788 - 1841

Theodore Hook - 5
THEODORE EDWARD HOOK Writer and wit Date: 1788 - 1841

Theodore Hook - 4
THEODORE EDWARD HOOK Writer and wit with his autograph Date: 1788 - 1841

LFB recruits taking part in hook ladder training at HQ -- having reached the top of the tower with a single hook ladder, the recruits learn the two-man hook ladder drill

Interior of a Northern Irish Cabin Date: circa 1903

German woman - crocheting for her brother at the front - WW1
A German woman (Gertrude Konigshain) works on a piece of crochet - possibly a favour to her brother (?) fighting at the front during WW1

The Lady of the Lake - Old Soak fished out of the water
The Lady of the Lake - A Drunken Old Soak is fished out of the water by a dapper gent in a punt. Her bottle heads for the bottom and perhaps the dunking has sobered her up! Date: circa 1915

A rather tall tale of the largest fish ever caught
" My Father e once caught a fishas big -as our street!" " Well, then, it must ave bin a Whale." " Garn, e were baitin wi Whales!" Date: 1901

The first Blackburn B-24 Skua II L2883
The first Blackburn B-24 Skua II, L2883, to have an arrester hook fitted

Photographic, 10841493
10841493

Hawker Audax I K2012 with extended message pick-up hook
Hawker Audax I, K2012, with extended message pick-up hook

Vought F8U-1 Crusader comes in for a landing
Its arrester hook down, a Vought F8U-1 Crusader comes in for a landing during instrumented tests of new arresting gear installed on Hensley Field, Dallas

A McDonnell XP-85 Goblin approaching modified B-29B-65-BA for hook-up to a trapeze lowered from the rear bomb-bay

An early Hawker Sea Fury X TF901
An early Hawker Sea Fury X, TF901, with a four-blade propeller and short hook

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