Investigating Collection

Entrance to the dockyard, Portsmouth
Entrance to the dockyard at Portsmouth, where Lieutenant Commander Lionel Kenneth Phillip Buster Crabb (1909-1956) disappeared on 19 April 1956

Adventure of the Second Stain, Sherlock Holmes
THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN Holmes on the scent: Holmes & Watson discover a hidden trap door. " It hinged back like the lid of a box." Date: 1904

LIONEL BUSTER CRABB Commander Crabb, underwater sabotage agent and alleged double-agent, who disappeared whilst investigating the Russian cruiser Ordkhonikidze Date: 1910 - 1956

A Bear-faced steal - Wagon raided in the USA by a brown bear (another on the way...) - it is unclear what was contained within the barrels which piqued their excitement... Date: 1905

PRISON REFORM / J HOWARD
John Howard (1726-1790), investigating the French penal system, is visited by an officer of the Prefecture Date: circa 1775-79

Investigating UFO landing, Socorro, New Mexico
Socorro, New Mexico: investigating traces of a landed UFO seen by a policeman (Zamora)

Victorian Greeting Card - Inquisitive Mouse
Mouse investigates a candle. Date: circa 1890

Cat investigating boots on a Victorian scrap
Cat investigating a pair of boots on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Lionel Buster Crabb, frogman and diver
Lieutenant Commander Lionel Kenneth Phillip Buster Crabb (1909-1956), British Royal Naval frogman and MI6 diver (some would say sabotage agent and alleged double agent)

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Miss Peel. circa 1935

Harry Price and Joad
Psychical researcher and author, investigating an allegedly haunted 16th century bed in Chiswick, with professor Joad, 15 September 1932

Entrance to the docks, Portsmouth
Entrance to the docks at Portsmouth, where Lieutenant Commander Lionel Kenneth Phillip Buster Crabb (1909-1956) disappeared on 19 April 1956

Patricia Rose, former girlfriend of Lionel Buster Crabb
Patricia Rose, former girlfriend of Lieutenant Commander Lionel Kenneth Phillip Buster Crabb (1909-1956), British Royal Naval frogman and MI6 diver

Susi - investigating something for Susi. 1950s

Susi - finding a bone with her name on it
Susi - finding a large bone with her name on it. 1950s

Sallyport Hotel, Portsmouth
Reception of the Sallyport Hotel, Portsmouth, where Lieutenant Commander Lionel Kenneth Phillip Buster Crabb (1909-1956) stayed on the night of 18/19 April 1956

Binocular microscope large Best. London, around 1890
Binocular microscope large Best. Signed: R. & J. Beck Ltd London 19901. London, around 1890. The Large Best microscope was the top product of R. and J

Transmission electron microscope EM9. Signed: Carl Zeiss. 1964

Weber, Wilhelm Eduard (1804-1891)
Weber, Wilhelm Eduard (Wittenberg, 1804, Gottingen, 1891). German physicist. Nineteenth-century engraving

Train derailment, Borough Market, London SE1
Train derailment at Borough Market, near London Bridge, SE1, on 12 August 1958, showing the three sections of the train taken from the London Bridge end of the track. Date: 1958

The Christmas Stocking by Muriel Dawson. A little girl investigates her Christmas presents. Date: 1926

Two chaps unsure which end of a hairy dog is which
Fido. " Which is is ead and which is is tail, Billie?" " I dunno. Pinch im an see which end of im barks." Date: 1895

LFDCA-LFB Fire investigation unit at a hotel fire
The fire investigation unit would attend both large and small fires. Its specially trained crew would seek to determine the cause of a fire wherever possible

Metropolitan police dog investigating suitcase contents
A Metropolitan Police dog investigating the contents of a suitcase, in a sparsely furnished room used for training purposes. Date: circa 1960s

Francis Grose on Site
FRANCIS GROSE antiquary, depicted investigating an old ruin Date: 1731 - 1791

Policeman at a building society premises
A policeman at a London branch of the Halifax Building Society, making notes in his notebook

Policemen on a stake-out
Non-uniformed police officers and detectives on a stake-out sit in a large unmarked car, watching and waiting

Harry Price and C. E. M. Joad lying in and investigating a s
Photograph of Harry Price and C. E. M. Joad lying in and investigating a sixteenth-century carved walnut bed, alleged to be haunted, at a private museum in Chiswick, 15 September 1932. HPG/1/12/2

Workshop - National Laboratory of Psychical Research
Undated photograph of workshop in the laboratory of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research where instruments were constructed and kept in repair. HPG/1/2/1 (iii)

Conan Doyle as Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the guise of his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes

Baby Elephant Pickpocket at Olympia, London, 1893
Sketch showing one of Barnum and Baileys elephants investigating the pocket of a female visitor to the circus, Olympia, London, 1893

Boy and Panther
An over-inquisitive youth, investigating a menagerie parked overnight in a siding in a French railway station, is mauled by the panther who inhabits the wagon

Price, Joad at Brocken
Harry Price (right) and Professor C E M Joad at the Brocken, Germany, June 1932, investigating the mountains alledgedly magical features as part of the Brocken experiment

Police & Footprint
Investigating a robbery, a policeman finds a clue : a footprint in a flower-bed

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