Laid Collection (page 4)

Charles Marie Danremont
CHARLES MARIE DANREMONT French military commander, standing by a table on which a map is laid out. That strange object on the table is his helmet. Date: 1783 - 1837

Fleet Laid Up / Gen Strike
Fishing trawlers and liners laid up at the Fleetwood docks, owing to shortage of coal due to the General Strike Date: 1926

Valley of the Kings
Entrance to the Valley of the Kings, where many Pharoahs were laid to rest. It was here that Howard Carter discovered the un-robbed tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. Date: 1848

Humboldt / Centenary / Berli
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT Centenary celebration in Berlin for the German scientist and traveller: the first stone is laid for a monument in his name Date: 1769 - 1859

Mojave Maze
Mystic maze of the native American Mojave people, laid out with stones on the desert floor near Needles, California Date: 1923

Laid up for repairs
Young Dutch boy laying across mothers lap gets his trousers darned. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1915

Harborne Industrial School, Birmingham - Dining Hall
Tables laid for a meal in the dining hall at the Harborne Industrial School, Birmingham Date: circa 1903

Manchester Warehousemen and Clerks Orphan Schools, Cheadle Hulme - dining hall laid out with a meal buns and bread and butter. Staff stand at the rear. Date: early 1900s

Art deco iIllustration for dinner time showing well-dressed woman opening curtains to reveal an elegantly laid out dinner table 1920s

Horse-drawn wagons on frozen Lake Baikal
Horse-drawn wagons on the frozen Lake Baikal. Tracks were laid across the ice during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. Date: 1905

The Empire Cookery Book - Long table set out for dessert
The Empire Cookery Book - Long table set out for the dessert course. Date: 1920s

Illustration, A Song of the English, Deep Sea Cables
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

St Vincents Boys Home, Hull - Dining Room
St Vincents Boys Home, Hull. Tables laid out for a meal

St Marys Waifs and Strays Home, Felixstowe - Dining Hall
St Marys Waifs and Strays Home, Felixstowe. The dining hall is being laid out for tea, with mugs, plates and stacks of sliced bread

The Best Laid Schemes of Mice and Men, by Bairnsfather
The Best Laid Schemes of Mice and Men - Old Bill had thought of a splendid idea for the next battle, and, frankly, was rather hurt when a Staff Officer condemned it A cartoon by Captain Bruce

North Melbourne Town Hall
Slide showing a black and white photograph of the Town Hall in the city of Melbourne in Australia. The foundation stone of the Town Hall was laid on 29 November 1867 by the visiting Prince Alfred

Melbourne University Buildings
Black and white photographic image of Melbourne University buildings. The universitys foundation stone was laid 3rd July 1854, the buildings were officially opened on 3rd October 1855

Street egg seller
New laid eggs, eight a groat. Street egg seller. From Old London Cries (1885) Date: 1885

Gymnasium Lord Mayor Treolars Home, Alton, Hampshire
Inmates exercising in the gymnasium at Lord Mayor Treolar Cripples Home and College, Alton. Some have crutches laid on the floor next to them. Date: Date unknown

Laying the foundation stone, Baden Powell House, London
Scene during the laying of the foundation stone for the new Baden Powell House in Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The site was acquired in 1956, and Ralph Tubbs was appointed architect

Trowel, Baden Powell House, South Kensington, London
The trowel used by Lady Olave Baden Powell in 1959 when she laid the foundation stone for the new Baden Powell House in Queens Gate, South Kensington, London

Magnetic mine by G. H. Davis
The German magnetic mine: the first diagrams of its working and the methods by which it is laid. Diagrams showing the delicate electrical mechanism which reacts to the weak magnetic field set up by a

The foundation stone of the Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum
The ornate silver trowel used on 8th May 1849 by Prince Albert to spread the mortar on the foundation stone of the New Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch, near Friern Barnet

Nursery Rhymes -- Golden Egg
Nursery Rhymes -- two scenes from the Goose that laid the Golden Egg, showing Mother Goose and her owl outside her cottage (above), and two men on a country road with the golden egg (below)

Street scene in Berlin, Germany, at the end of the Second World War, with soldiers and children. A sign reads: This Axis has been laid from El Alamein to Berlin via Africa, Italy, France, Belgium

Glenarm Church (1796). Barralet, John James c1747 - 1815 (Unknown pupil of). Date: 1796

Presbyterian Meeting House, Glenarm. Barralet, John James c1747 - 1815 (Unknown pupil of)

Marchioness of Antrims Cottage, Glenarm Deer Park (c1796). Barralet, John James c1747 - 1815. Date: 1796 (circa)

View in Home Park, Glenarm (1796). Barralet, John James c1747 - 1815 (Unknown pupil of). Date: 1796

View in Glenarm Deer Park. Barralet, John James c1747 - 1815

The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London - looking North
The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London. Designed by Edwin Lutyens, the permanent structure was built from Portland stone between 1919 and 1920 by Holland, Hannen & Cubitts

Turkish Railway Network - Celebrating 10 Years of the Republ
Turkish Railway Network - Celebrating 10 Years of the Turkish Republic in 1933 - with 2000km of railway track laid. The portrait shows Prime Minister Ismet Inonu (Prime Minister between 1925 and 1937)

School drawing, Goya
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). School drawing. Charcoal drawing with clarion touches on grey laid paper. Drawing

No se descuida el Borrico
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). No se descuida el Borrico. 1816-1820. Paintbrush Chinese ink on laid paper

Firefighters and a van with equipment laid out

LCC-LFB Lambeths emergency tender and crew
A London A class emergency tender with built-in electrical generator, in use from the early 1950s until the 1960s. Showing Lambeth fire stations (D61)

Bleaching Ground at Monteiths Dye Works, Glasgow
The bleaching ground at Monteiths Dye Works, Glasgow. Long lengths of cloth are being laid out on the ground. Date: 1843

Girl collecting eggs from the hens
Young farm girl carrying a basket of new laid eggs. Front cover of Little Chicks Play Book. Artist: Millicent Sowerby Date: circa 1920

Cartoon on Laziness
" Whats that! You ve got the sack at the Munition Works! - What for?" " I Dunno - I never done nothing!" Date: circa 1915

Painting Pantomime Sets
Pantomime preparations - painting scenery. The huge canvasses are laid out on the floor and the sets are painted onto them using long handle brushes. Date: 1930s

Hammerblow Cure
In the Correges, France, there is a tradition that a child can be cured of certain ailments if laid on a black- smiths anvil and a mighty blow struck close to its head. Date: 1901

Turks Build Boat Bridge
In the course of their war with Russia, the Turks build a bridge of boats to enable them to cross the Danube from Tschaiten to Widdin. Logs are laid from one boat to another. Date: 1877

Inside the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps
View inside the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps, at a height of 2300 metres. Wooden planks have been laid down for tourists to walk on. Date: circa 1940

People working in a vegetable garden
People working in a neatly laid out vegetable garden in 18th century France. Date: circa 1760

The Hotel de Ville, Louvain
An Oasis in a Desert of Devestation: The Hoteld de Ville, almost untouched amid the ruins of Louvain. With the church of St

Burns / Cotters Saturday
THE COTTERs SATURDAY NIGHT His bonnet rev rently is laid aside, his lyart haffets wearing thin and bare; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide

The Goliah steamer paying out the electric wire
The first submarine electric telegraphic despatch from Dover to Cape Grinez, near Calais. Here, the cable is laid out as the Goliah steam ship sails from England to France

Trafalgar Day, 21 October 1895
Commemorating the nineteenth anniversary of the victory of the Battle of Trafalgar. Crowds gather round Nelsons column in Trafalgar Square on 21 October 1895. Wreaths are laid on the steps

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