Hose Collection (page 8)

Doublet, Hose & Points
The man holding stones wears hose & a doublet attached by means of laces called points (poins). His boots have a slightly pointed toe. Another man wears a full length gown. Date: 15th century

Costume / Early C16Th
Figures taken from tapestries depicting clothing of the early 16th century. Both the front and back views are given. Date: early 16th century

Royal Costume 1566
Man: jewel-encrusted trunk hose with panes & bombast padding, doublet & cloak. Woman: tight bodice, large under-sleeves, deep fur cuffs, ornate petticoat. Date: 1566

Lady & Messengers 1560S
Men: doublets, large sleeves with panes & bows, voluminous hose & canions with bows at the knees, or buskins & spurs. Noblewoman: ornate petticoat, feather fan. Date: late 1560s

Court Dress C16Th
Man: trunk hose with panes & padded with bombast, doublet, cod-piece, cloak, flat cap & feather, cut-fingered pumps. Woman: sleeves with deep fur cuffs, Spanish farthingale. Date: mid 16th century

French Court Dress C16Th
Man: trunk hose with panes & padded with bombast, doublet, cod-piece, cloak, flat cap & feather, ermine lined gown. Woman: bodice & skirt fastens down the front with bows. Date: mid 16th century

Burgundian Dress C. 1450
Hat with burlet, doublet with puffed over-sleeves, jerkins (jackets) with pleats or ermine trimmed & with hanging sleeves, hose & piked shoes (cracowes) or piked buskins. Date: circa 1450

Men of Bourgogne C. 1450
Embroidered jerkin (jacket) with hanging sleeves worn over a doublet, hose, piked side- lacing boots with spurs, fur- lined & trimmed jerkin with side vents, chaperon (hat). Date: circa 1450

Frenchmen of 1470
Short fur-lined jerkin (jacket) with hanging sleeves, hose, piked shoes (cracowes), long gowns - one with dagged sleeves, small round caps & hats & a chaperon with liripipe Date: 1470

Mens Costume of C15Th
Various social classes from farmer to judge: hose, hood with tabs, pouch suspended from belt, piked pattens & shoes (cracowes), houppelande (gown) with hanging sleeves. Date: 1425

German Huntsmen C16Th
Clothing worn by German hunters. Many of the garments, doublets, hose, even caps, are paned - a form of decorative slashing. Date: circa 1515

German Costume C. 1615
Men: doublet with tabbed border, high standing collar, voluminous hose or breeches, shoes with roses, cloak, ruff. Woman: bodice & over-skirt hitched up to reveal petticoat Date: circa 1615

French Court Dress C1520
French court dress: paned & bombasted trunk-hose, cod- piece, doublet & jerkin with fur-collar & wings, gown, ruff, ermine cape & cut- fingered pumps. Date: mid 16th century

German Nobles Circa 1650
German nobles: bucket-top boots & boot hose tops or shoes with roses, ruff or lace falling collars, doublet with pointed front, side fastening breeches, Brandenburg coat. Date: 1650s

French Cavaliers C17Th
The costume of French Cavaliers include: doublets, ruffs, trunk-hose, capes, cocked hats with feathers & very high boots reaching above the knees with tabbed tops. Date: early 17th century

Englishman of 1415
Short belted tunic, long sleeves : jewelled cap, and two-colour hose, more suitable for the parlour than the field of battle Date: circa 1415

Englishman 1530
He wears an embroidered shirt beneath layers of clothing notable for the padded shoulders and puff sleeves contrasting with the simple hose covering his legs Date: circa 1530

Four C14 Notables
Four men in short garments, three with unmatching hose, evidently the current fashion; two carry swords, one at the side, the other in front Date: 14th century

Joseph Noulens
JOSEPH NOULENS French diplomat, noted for his ability to put out fires... Date: -

Gaspard II De Coligny
GASPARD II DE COLIGNY SEIGNEUR DE CHATILLON French Protestant leader Date: 1519 - 1572

A large Stove Conservatory. Date: 1873

The conflagration, Mexico -- firefighters at work. Date: circa 1900s

London Fire Brigade, Southwark HQ, London -- Making up and bringing up horses to get away home after District Call at Headquarters. Date: circa 1905

London at night - Washing down the streets - Piccadilly 2am
London at night - Washing down the streets around Piccadilly at 2 o clock in the morning - " While London Sleeps". Date: circa 1920s

Firefighters in action at a fire in a merchants yard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Victorian Scrap, fire brigade in action outside a burning building. circa 1880s

Plump man and pig on a Christmas and New Year card
A plump man and a pig on a Christmas card, with a quotation from Hamlet: A little more than kin, and less than kind. Date: circa 1890s

Frontispiece illustration by Cecil Aldin, The Snob. Showing a footman carrying a small dog to his aristocratic master. " The dawg, My Lord." Date: 1904

Memorial to Sir Francis Drake, Plymouth Hoe, Devon
Memorial to Sir Francis Drake at Plymouth Hoe, Devon, on the site of the original bowling green where he is said to have heard about the approach of the Spanish Armada. Date: circa 1980s

French Theatre -- Messieurs de Mallepaye et de Baillevant
Messieurs de Mallepaye et de Baillevant -- Monsieur Baillevant holds his empty purse upside down. Date: 15th century

Costume of a common man, 12th century.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days, Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834

Pierre Rogiers, troubadour and musician, 12th century.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days, Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834

French royal gardener in work wear, 14th century.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days, Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834

French royal valet in hunting wear, 14th century.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days, Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834

Portrait of Right Honorable James Craggs the younger (1686-1721).. Handcolored engraving from Civil Costume of England from the Conquest to the Present Period drawn by Charles Martin

Charles Brandon, Earl of Suffolk 1484-1545, brother in law to Henry VIII.. Handcolored engraving from Civil Costume of England from the Conquest to the Present Period drawn by Charles Martin

Claude of Lorraine, first Duke of Guise (1496-1550), in brown cape over slashed jerkin.. From a portrait of him at the age of 30, lithograph signed by J. Jacquet. Handcolored illustration by E

German man competing in a sleigh race, 16th century.. The rider is Matthew Schwartz, a citizen of Augsburg. He wears a plumed cap, brown doublet over slashed crimson sleeves and trunk hose

Spanish noble, 16th century, in cape, jerkin, trunk hose and stockings, ruff and velvet cap.. Handcolored illustration by E. Lechevallier-Chevignard, lithographed by A. Didier, L. Flameng, F

WW2 Christmas card, London Fire Brigade and Auxiliary Fire Service. Date: 1939

WW2 greetings card, firemen in action
WW2 pop-up greetings card, firemen in action (NFS, National Fire Service). Date: circa 1942

Fireman showing boy how to use a hose
Fireman showing a little boy how to use a hose

Firefighters in action at a fire, Exminster, Devon
Firefighters in action at a fire in Exminster, Devon, surrounded by smoke and debris. Date: circa 1970s

Firefighters in action at a gorse fire

Firefighters in action at a farm near Crediton, Devon

Scouts from Fiji, South Pacific, during Bob-a-Job Week, giving a dog a bath. From left to right, they are an English Sea Scout, a Fijian Scout, and an Indian Scout

Boy scouts practising firefighting, Egypt
Boy scouts practising their firefighting skills, Egypt

Fire at 13 Essex Road, Islington Green, N1
LFB firefighters in action at the premises of C F Anderson & Sons Ltd, Timber Merchants, 13 Essex Road, Islington Green, N1, on 13 September 1958

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