Kings Collection (page 26)

Kings County Alms House. Elderly woman seated next to a bed at the Kings County Alms House

Shenley Fields Cottage Homes, Kings Norton, Worcester
View of the village street at Shenley Fields Cottage Homes, established in the 1880s by the Kings Norton Union to house pauper children away from the workhouse

British Ballad, Sir Cauline, Knight
SIR CAULINE (Sir Cawline) British ballad telling the story of Sir Cawline who is in love with the kings daughter and has to do some great deed to be worthy of her

British Ballad, The Cruel Sister
THE CRUEL SISTER (The Twa Sisters - The Miller and the Kings Daughter) British ballad first known to have appeared on a broadside in 1656

British Ballad, Sir Cauline
SIR CAULINE (Sir Cawline) British ballad telling the story of Sir Cawline who is in love with the kings daughter. He falls ill from it so has to do some great deed to be worthy of her

The Royal Visit to Jamaica
The Queen holds her first investiture outside Britain: the Chief Justice of Jamaica, Sir Kenneth O Connor, Kneeling to receive the accolade on 27th November 1953

Cetinje, Montenegro - Palace of the King
The Interior of the Palace of the King of Montenegro at Cetinje - Montenegro came under the juristiction of the King of Yugoslavia following the end of World War One

Lieutenant - Kings Own Scottish Borderers in Full Dress. Wearing medals: DSO and Queens South Africa medal (1899-02) (with five bars). Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

British attack at Gallipoli WWI
Kings of Scottish Borderers attacking trench J10 at Gallipoli during World War I

Cowes - Isle of Wight - Kings Cup Winner
Sir Maurice Fitzgeralds Ketch Julmar - the winner of the Kings Cup at Cowes during the Cowes Week Regatta, 1911

Valley of the Kings, Tomb of Seti I, wall painting. Photograph by Lionel Coates

Valley of the Kings, tomb of Rameses VI, 1186 - 1085 BC, wall painting, the immortal spirit in Everyman, with arms raised. Photograph by Lionel Coates

King George VI in 1939
King George VI (1895 - 1952), picture in a Field Marshals service uniform in October 1939, shortly after the outbreak of war

Palermo, Sicily - Cappella Palatina
The Palatine Chapel (Italian - Cappella Palatina) is the royal chapel of the Norman kings of Sicily situated on the ground floor at the center of the Palazzo Reale in Palermo

Festival of the Kings - Baku, Azerbaijan
Festival of the Kings (celebrated across Europe) on the 6th January - Baku, Azerbaijan. A festival to celebrate the Three Kings - 12 days after Christmas Day. Date: 1904

Kings Norton Union Cottage Homes, Shenley Fields, Worcester
Rockery garden at the cottage homes at Shenley Fields, Worcester, established in the 1880s by the Kings Norton Union to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Railway Sleeper - Kings Cross Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing tramp at Kings Cross Station dreaming of wealth as he clutches a copy of the Financial Times. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Kings Cross Demolished
The demolition of Kings Cross. Date: 1845

Kings X Demolished
Demolition of the Kings Cross, a monument to George IV that served as an exhibition hall, a police station and finally a beer shop. It was not much mourned

Kings Cross
Intended as a monument to George IV, this building originally had a statue of him on top, but it was so dreadful that it was removed, as will be the cross itself in 1845

Morocco - Marrakesh - Tombs of the Saadien Kings

KINGs LYNN, Norfolk
The ferry at Kings Lynn, Norfolk

The Fall of the Kings Horse
This photograph shows the fall of the Kings horse at the 1913 Derby. The fall was caused by Emily Davison who ran infront of the horse and subsequently died from her injuries

The Valley of the Kings, Thebes
Photograph of the Valley of the Kings, Thebes where the excavation of the Tomb of Tutankhamun took place

Sydney, c. 1930s
Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, 1900s
Kings Cross, Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in the 1900s

George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923)
Photographic portrait of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923), c.1922. Lord Carnarvon was the wealthy, English amateur egyptologist who financed Howard Carters excavations in the Valley

The Castle of Elmina, Gold Coast, 1873
The Castle of Elmina which both the British and the Ashanti Kings tried to capture sits on the shore of the Gold Coast. In 1873

Madame Tussauds Museum, London, 1884
Engraving showing a number of views of Madame Tussauds waxwork museum, London, 1884. These images show the museum shortly after it moved to its Marylebone Road premises that year

The Sport of Kings by Chloe Preston

London Birdseye 16
Bird s-eye view of London at the end of the 19th century : Euston Road and Marylebone Road, Kings Cross to Paddington

Etats-Generaux
Louis XII, though ruling as autocratically as most kings, finds it prudent to consult his subjects from time to time : he holds a seance of the states-general at Tours

Signora Collini, born at Torino in 1794, first singer of the Kings Theatre, Haymarket, London in 1809- 1810

Madrid Royal Palace
The palace of Madrid, the ordinary residence of the kings of Spain; the place before the palace is thronged with a fine variety of vehicular traffic

TETISHERI wife of Pharaoh TAO I (17th dynasty) ruled from Thebes, while the Hyksos kings ruled the north

The Earl of Carnarvon the initiator of the explorations in the Valley of the Kings. Born in 1866, Carnarvon sponsored Howard Carters excavations of the royal tombs in Thebes

Joffre meeting the King and Prince of Wales
George V and the Prince of Wales meeting General Joffre and President Poincare on October 21st, 1915, during the Kings visit to France

Fleeing An Exploding Star
THE STAR KINGS by Edmond Hamilton. Red spacecraft speed away from an exploding star, three being blown apart having not got far enough away

The Sun in 1585
SOL drives his chariot over the Earth, where kings are being crowned, holding court, riding in procession, receiving homage and punishing offenders

Ruins of Persepolis
General view of the ruins of Persepolis, capital city of the ancient Persian kings, largely destroyed by Alexander of Macedon

Tehran Royal Palace
The palace of the kings of Persia

France Reims
General view of the town, dominated by its magnificent cathedral where the kings of France used to come to be crowned. A diligence is passing in the foreground

Wells Cathedral 1939
The famous West Front of Wells Cathedral, Somerset, England, which has over 600 figures of Kings, Queens, Princes, Ecclesiastics and Nobles sculpted onto its facade

Duc D orleans as Deputy
The duc d Orleans, nominal heir to the throne, speaks in the Chambre des Deputes : but France has had enough of kings for the time being

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

Masons Song
Song On Masons and Masonry with amazing words : Their godlike Actions reach ye Skies, Heroes & Kings revere their Name and Poets sing their deathless Fame

French Palace Guard 17C
One of the French Kings guards that attend in the palace - possibly to Louis XIV

England / Woodstock
A charming corner of Woodstock, Oxfordshire, an ancient town with Royal connections, on the edge of the Cotswolds

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