Jacks Collection

German Playing Card Pack
An assortment of playing cards: kings, queens and knaves

Brian Jacks
World Champion for the arm dips, Brian Jacks gives a demonstration. Jacks was a British judoka who won Britains first medal at a world championship, taking a bronze in Salt Lake City in 1967

Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert
Cicely Courtneidge (1893-1980) and her husband Jack Hulbert (1892-1978) appearing in their latest film Jack's The Boy'. Date: 1932

Jack's Visit to Greenwich IV - at the gates, flag signalling, lighting the gun, fencing

Jack's Visit to Greenwich I - signing the register, the Great Harry, cannon taken at Copenhagen, model of the Battle of Trafalgar, a ship adorned

Jack's Visit to Greenwich III - Father Thames, the Queen, needle and compass belonging to Captain Cook, Greenwich boys

Jack's Visit to Greenwich II - the Anson Room, model of Portsmouth Dockyard extension, something like a chest, an old friend, a queer vessel

Hawker Hunter F(GA). 9 XJ692
Hawker Hunter F(GA).9 XJ692 W (msn 41H-688083), of No.43 Squadron, at RAF Lyneham in August 1964, on jacks for functionals

The New Top-Flat Rescue Apparatus in Action
Apparatus for rescuing people from high buildings that have been damaged from heavy bombing. Date: 1941

AMX international AMX
Aeronautica Militare - AMX international AMX, of 3 Stormo at Amendola Air Base, near Foggia, on jacks with undercarriage removed for maintenance - inspection

Large group of French Schoolgirls dressed as a deck of cards
Large group of French Schoolgirls from Clermont-Ferrand posing for a photograph wearing wonderful playing card costumes - the whole deck is featured, including Kings, Queens, Jacks

George Pontin
Jacks Return. A sailor returns home from the sea. Artist: George Pontin. Date: circa 1907

Jack Hulbert, British comedy film, Jacks the Boy
Jack Hulbert in the British comedy film, Jacks the Boy. 1932

Exercising in bed
A woman exercising on her bed, using a Cush-up, patented by Marian Jacks of Old Bond Street who specialised in corrective anatomy

ELIZABETH IIs SILVER JUBILEE A childrens tea party in a street in Horley, south-east England. The paper cups are decorated with Union Jacks. 1977

LFCDA-LFB Aerial ladder platform (ALP)
The Bronto-Skylift ALP being demonstrated at the Brigade headquarters, Lambeth SE1. This combination of a hydraulic platform

Brian Jacks at Carn Brea Leisure Centre, Redruth, Cornwall
Brian Jacks (b. 1946), British judoka (judo practitioner) and champion (top), with David Denmead of St Ives, demonstrating during a teaching session for young people at Carn Brea Leisure Centre

GLC-LFB Turntable ladder
A Saxon Dodge 30 metre (100 foot) turntable ladder showing the outrigger jacks deployed which provide stability to the ladder when in use

Playing Taba, a variant of Knucklebones, Argentina
Customs of the countryside, Argentinian gauchos playing Taba a variant of the game of Knucklebones, Argentina. The game is played in a field where the taba or talus bone is thrown to the air

WW1 - Cartoon - Britain Joins In
WW1 - Britannia with sword and British flag ready, she marches across Britains landscape declaring war on Germany. " For friendship and honour"

Jacks Pet. Edwardian humour. The sailor with the housemaid. Date: circa 1905

An extremely rare porcelain coffee cup - WWI
An extremely rare porcelain coffee cup and saucer manufactured by S. A. de Fuisseaux Baddour, Belgique, 1914. Cup inscribed Heroic Tommy in Belgium with the Union Jack and the handle has the black

Sir Richard Tangye
Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye, civil engineer and industrialist, manufacturer of engines and other heavy equipment. Seen here in the late 1850s with the Great Eastern steamship before its launch to

Advertisement for Kelloggs breakfast cereals (Sugar Frosted Flakes) -- three child models (Adrienne Poster and two others). 1959

US Sailors and Swedish Coastal Artillerymen - Stockholm
Two US battleships of the 2nd Division of the Atlantic Fleet, of USS Connecticut class. Namely USS Louisiana (BB-19), Kansas (BB-21) and/or the New Hampshire (BB-25)

Three of a Kind and Two Jacks - a very solid full house card hand in Poker - cheekily represented here! Date: circa 1920s

Bob Manchesters The Cracker Jacks a 20th century idea. Date c1900

Bob Manchesters Cracker Jacks everything new. Date c1899

Car Chasses Carriage
At Charpennes, France, a thief hi-jacks the carriage of M. Rodarie, who gets a motorist to pursue the robber : after a long chase, involving pistol shots, the thief is stopped. Date: 1909

IN THE SPACESPHERE (Charles Cloukey) The Earthman hi-jacks the spaceship, using his useful slug-gun Date: 1931

Mini Railway Ride 1940S
A train on the miniature Ravensglass-Eskdale Railway, Cumberland, at the station, carries several carriages full of passengers

Swiss Playing Card Pack
An assortment of playing cards: kings, queens and knaves

Song of Sixpence 1 / 3
Two liveried servants carry in an enormous pie... (1 of 3)

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