Jolly Collection (page 7)

Waiting for You in Blighty - WW1 postcard
Jolly First World War postcard showing a British soldier about to go home on leave the delights waiting for him in Blighty from pretty girls and a comfortable armchair to a cosy pub

Jolly time on the ice
A winter scene depicting a happy skating scene. Date: circa 1906

Barnardos Girls Home, Barkingside
A smiling group of young children as jolly as sandboys sit on a bench at Dr Barnardos Girls Home, Barkingside Date: Date unknown

The Four Seasons, Summer by John Hassall
A jolly summer scene by John Hassall featuring children having fun on the beach, digging in the sand, tumbling about and laughing. 1902

H. L. Oakley and friends at Scarborough, July 1914
A jolly group, with arms linked on the beach at Scarborough, in the month before the declaration of World War One. Fifth from left is Harry Lawrence Oakley, the famous silhouette artist

Tatler front cover, Christmas number 1915
A gloriously patriotic front cover design by Annie Fish, featuring Fishs creation, Eve, dressed in a flamboyant military uniform and waving a Union Jack flag. 1915

Greetings card with cherubs watering heart flowers
Christmas and New Year card featuring a jolly scene as winged cherubim water heart flowers with green watering cans. Date: circa 1910s

Five jolly sailor boys are we. Five boys wearing blue jumpers, red hats and red stripey bathing drawers at the seaside. Date: C.1905

Nursery Rhymes -- Jolly Miller, Tom Thumb
Nursery Rhymes. Above, the Jolly Miller, carrying a sack. Below, a woman sits at a table, watching Tom Thumb riding a tiny horse. Date: early 20th century

Jolly Old Christmas by Smyth
An engraving of King Cheer enjoying Christmas festivities. 1844

Boys Cookery Class
A jolly group photograph of a classroom of boys, with their teacher, at the London County Council School of Cookery for boys. Date: 1930s

Bathing Japes
Three jolly girls in bathing costumes and one lucky chap, sheltering under an umbrella next to their car! Date: early 1930s

Larking about in a River
A jolly group of young people larking around in their bathing costumes in a river! Date: early 1930s

Happy Boys Fishing
Four happy boys enjoy a day out fishing together in a stream. Date: early 1930s

Advertisement for Remington shavers -- three models posing as a happy family (J Fenton, Sarah Branch and Jane Hancock). 1959

Japanese Geisha laughing Date: circa 1904

Marlow, Buckinghamshire - Jolly Boats on the River Thames. All Saints Church and the Marlow Bridge can be seen. Date: circa 1904

A jolly Norway woman with her skis Date: circa 1909

China - Hangchow (Hangzhou) - Lingyin Temple - Buddha
China - Hangchow (Hangzhou) - Lingyin Temple (The Temple of the Souls Retreat) - Reclining Buddha Date: circa 1930

Jolly lady and her bouncy pet dog
A jolly lady and her bouncy pet dog having some laughs and quite a few japes outside what appears to be a temporary military building (a Nissen hut, barracks or mess hall)

United we Stand, Devided we fall! A Sailor, a soldier and a Policeman stagger home arm in arm from the fair. Date: circa 1909

Five jolly Dutch Country Girls - Marken, The Netherlands
Five jolly Dutch Country Girls at Marken, a peninsula in the Markermeer, in the Netherlands and a former island in the Zuiderzee

Royal Marines at Deal, Kent - The Commandants Galley Date: circa 1906

Fun Seaside Transport - Bubble Boating. This postcard was presented as an award for correct dictation in 1931! Date: late 1920s

Racegoers - Mr Jo Leigh, J. Watt and Captain Mitchell
Mr Jo Leigh, J. Watt and Captain Mitchell - three well-known racing types in the 1890s standing around having a chat. Date: circa 1890s

Self portrait of the Engish caricaturist Phil May
Self portrait of the English caricaturist Phil May (1864-1903). Date: 1899

Sudanese old man with a very toothy grin
Sudanese jolly old man bedecked with colourful textiles and strings of small shells with a very toothy grin (or lack thereof!). Date: circa 1910s

Frolicking beauties on a Florida beach - USA Date: circa 1940s

Young Gent - 12 Months before marriage - care and fancy free! Date: 1905

Racing Illustrated - A doubtful starter - a seaside donkey is les than keen on taking a corpulent holidaymaker for a stroll across the sand... Date: circa 1903

Two Edwardian Couples on a jolly jaunt in the countryside. They stop beneath a large tree and are lucky enought to be snapped by a passing photographer. Date: circa 1908

Humorous Pharmacy postcard
Young Boy: " Gimme three-pennorth of pills. Chemist: " Anti-bilious?" Young Boy: " No Sir - Fathers bilious!" Date: 1905

Jolly French beauty trying on her new hat. She seems to have forgotten to put her dress on first.... Date: circa 1890s

Family on a tandem - Bermuda
A jolly holidaying family on the Western Atlantic Island of Bermuda - riding into town on a tandem bicycle. There is a seat for everyone, including a small pet monkey! Date: circa 1940s

Christmas card in the shape of a battered top hat -- May you spend a jolly time under the old roof. Date: circa 1890s

German Monks 1930S
Six jolly monks of the Gorheim Franciscan monastery, Germany. Date: early 1930s

Jolly Dogs of Dogville. From Once Upon a Time no. 151

The Jolly Dogs

Dog, Boy and Book
A jolly game that boys and puppies can share alike - tearing up a book ! Date: early 20th century

Choice Spirit & Buck
A buck : a dissipated & dishevelled looking man of fashion with a cudgel tucked under his arm & a choice spirit in a bicorne hat. Date: 1790

The jolly flat boat men. Group of men on flatboat in river, playing musical instruments, relaxing, and dancing. Date c1847

For hes a jolly good fellow. Date c1891 Dec. 31

Sporting Gal and her horse - Thoroughbreds
Thoroughbreds A smiling, jolly Sporting Gal and her fine horse (and doesn t he just know it...). Date: circa 1910

Lady having fun on a rocking horse
Young Lady having fun on a rocking horse I hear you are fond of backing horses, how would you like to have a bit on this one? Date: 1931

Christmas in the 1930s - Dicky Bird by Val Soey
Two jolly looking friends, wrapped up warm against the cold, sit on the dicky seat of a convertible car as it zooms through the snow

Good Cheers, Women war work, World War II by Helen McKie
Jolly illustration by Helen McKie showing a female ATS worker serving cups of tea to a sailor, an airman and a soldier during World War II. Date: c.1940

All Clear by Helen McKie - ARP wardens on bicycles
Jolly illustration by Helen McKie showing a rather lecherous looking older male Air Raid Patrol warden cycling alongside a young, pretty female colleague. Date: c.1940

Edwardian lady skating
" Jolly Edwardian lady in white hat, scarf and muff ice skating. " Maud is admired by all". " Date: c.1908

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