June Collection (page 3)

Alcock & Brown - 3
Captain Alcock and Lieutenant Brown terminate their successful first crossing of the Atlantic by air by crashing their Vickers Vimy in an Irish bog

Quatre Bras / Hamilton
Wellington defeats Ney at QUATRE BRAS, foiling Napoleons plan to prevent the joining of the British and Prussian armies

Ufos / New Mexico / Villa
UFO whose 3 occupants talked with Paul Villa, giving him instructions how to make his own flying saucer 1 of 2

Ufos / New Mexico / Villa
Not a UFO, but an experimental disc made by Paul Villa to a design generously offered by visiting aliens from Coma Berenices 2 of 2

RMS Olympic on maiden voyage
Postcard labelled the Titanic, though it is in fact the Titanics sister ship, RMS Olympic, during her maiden voyage. The small tender, Magnetic is by her side

Epsom Derby - 1954
Epsom Downs, the Gentlemens Mobile Toilet, provided by Ewell Council 3rd June 1954

Lear / Nonsense / Tring
There was an Old Person of Tring, who embellished his nose with a ring; He gazed at the moon, every evening in June, that ecstatic Old Person in Tring

Ford Car Advertisement
A woman stops in her new Ford Cabriolet convertible by a small provincial theatre to show off her new costume to fellow co-stars

Battle of Solferino
Austrian forces, opposing the unification of Italy, are defeated in a decisive battle at Solferino, near Verona, Italy, by French and Piedmontese forces

Hastings, Sussex - Lightning over the sea from the beach
Hastings, East Sussex - Lightning over the sea from the beach - June 6th, 1904. Date: 1904

SMS Bayern sinking after being scuttled, Scapa Flow, WW1
The German battleship SMS Bayern sinking after being scuttled in Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow, Scotland after the end of the First World War. Date: 21 June 1919

Poster advertising Norway for the summer season, from June to September

Poster advertising aviation week at Rouen, 1910
Poster advertising an aviation week at Rouen, 19 to 26 June 1910

Sea Girls the Summer Sees by Edmund Blampied
Colour illustration by Edmund Blampied (pseudonym, Blam ) depicting a group of girls relaxing on a sailing boat

Hiker & Camper Mag / 6. 31
Front cover depicting a gate and stile which lead the walker along a path through a field

Queen Victorias First Council, Kensington Palace, 1837
Engraving showing Queen Victoria holding her first council with the British government, eleven am on the morning of her accession, 20th June 1837

The Coronation of Queen Victoria, 1838
Engraving showing the Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey, 28th June 1838

No News to Speak Of by David Wright featuring a glamorous, half-dressed woman lounging on a boudoir-style chair as she pens a letter

Napoleon at Waterloo
Napoleon on the battlefield, watched curiously by a Highlander

Americans Omaha Beach
American troops landing on Omaha beach, Normandy, France, as part of the Allied D-Day landings

Gads Hill House
The fine red brick house at Gads Hill, near Rochester, Kent. It was here that Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870, while writing his novel " Edwin Drood"

Field / Cloth / Gold: Debay
FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD Francois I of France meets Henry VIII of England for a social/political get-together near Calais

ALACOQUEs VISION 1675
Marguerite-Marie Alacoque has her fourth (and last) vision of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, at Paray-le-Mondial, France : this will lead to the Catholic cult of the Sacre Coeur

Votes for Women Hyde Pk
Photograph showing the scale of the Votes for Women demonstration in Hyde Park on 21 June 1908; many women and men attended; some hold banners

George Wilson / Pedestrian
GEORGE WILSON The " Blackheath Pedestrian", born in Newcastle 24 June 1766. Long distance walker and walking match champion

Napoleon at Waterloo
As the tide of battle turns against him, he realises that he has lost the battle

Magna Carta / Rogers
King John, pressured by the barons and threatened with insurrection, reluctantly signs the great charter on the Thames island of Runnymede

Waterloo [Crofts]
Napoleon among his men as the battle draws to a close and he faces defeat : his carriage awaits to take him from the field

Battle of Ligny / Napoleon
Gneisenau at the battle of LIGNY, where Napoleon defeats Bluchers Prussians

Wellington reorganizes his defence - Battle of Waterloo
7pm - June 18, 1815. The Duke of Wellington reorganizes his central defence after the loss of La Haye Sainte. At the same time, The Prussians once again regain control of Plancenoit

First issue of Blast magazine, 1914
The title page of the first issue of Blast: Review Of The Great English Vortex, dated 20th June 1914. Edited by Wyndham Lewis

D-Day - Assault of American troops
US Assault troops wading ashore. D-Day began on June 6th, 1944 at 6:30am and was conducted in two assault phases - the air assault landing of allied troops followed by an amphibious assault by

The Hiker & Camper 1934
Stylised front cover of The Hiker and Camper magazine featuring an advertisement for Stormgard rain capes, leggings sou westers & rucksacks, all necessary for keen hikers

Police Officer and Dog
Metropolitan Police dog handler taking his dog out of a police van

Waterloo Belle Alliance
NAPOLEONIC WARS The second Prussian regiment attacks at Plancenoit (Belle Alliance)

Ludwig Ii / Grendamour
KING LUDWIG II OF BAVARIA As a young man - he reigned from March 1864 until June 1886

Edward IV Crowned
Edward IV is crowned at Westminster

Hungarian Grand Prix
Rudolf Caracciola for Mercedes at the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest. He took the first championship title in 1935 and again in 1937 and 1938

Hungarian Grand Prix
The start of the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest

Battle of Cluys / Froissar
At the battle of SLUYS, the English fleet of 200 totally defeats the French fleet of 70, capturing or destroying virtually every vessel

Aviator John Alcock 1919
Captain in the Royal Air Force, he was the pilot of the first direct transatlantic flight in June 1919 with navigator Arthur Whitten Brown

Battle of Naseby
THE BATTLE OF NASEBY The Royalist army is defeated by the larger Parliamentarian forces at the decisive Battle of Naseby

Smithfield Market
The last occasion of old Smithfield Market

The Queens House Ghost on the Tulip Staircase. In 1966, a retired Canadian Reverend and his wife visited the Queens House, Greenwich, London

Death of Sir Henry de Bohun, killed by Robert Bruces axe at the Battle of Bannockburn, 23-24 June 1314, part of the First War of Scottish Independence. Date: 1314

TEIGN VALLEY STEAM TRAIN
One of the last trains to run on the Teign Valley Line, from Chepstow to Exeter, Devon, England. The line was closed completely in June 1958. Here a train goes over Ide bridge. Date: 1958

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