Lines Collection (page 18)

WWI album of Lieutenant-Colonel P Syrcold
A First World War album containing 41 photographs dated between 1914 and 1916, belonging to Lieutenant-Colonel P. SYRCOLD of the 1st/4th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment, 48th Division

Le Tommy Anglais and Types Canadiens, WW1
Le Tommy Anglais and Types Canadiens, by Jean-Jacques Berne-Bellecour (1874-1939), drawn for Dans Les Lignes Anglaises, published 1917. Date: 1917

King George V examining memorials on the battlefield
King George V visiting the British lines on the Western front and reading the inscription on a memorial to a fallen soldier. The Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) is in the background. Date: 1914

Y. M. C. A canteen in WWI
Y.M.C.A canteens and other organisations during World War One, providing troops with cigarettes and tobacco, and often the luxury of cooked meals

Poster, 26th International Fair of Thessaloniki, 3-24 September 1961. Date: 1961

Poster advertising Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM) -- the Flying Dutchman, Fiction becomes Fact

Extraordinary array of game and fish with local butcher
A butcher proudly displaying his game and fish ready for Christmas. This photograph was taken in, Malmesbury, Wiltshire. England. Date: circa 1925

Middle-aged man with a pipe

Preliminary artillery bombardments in Battle of Flanders
Keeping the gunners posted as to targets and ranges in action: Telephoning instructions from observation-officers to the batteries from a captured German dug-out. Date: 1917

Brtish observation balloon 1917
The first coming of light, early in the morning of Battle of Broodseinde during the First World War, as the " eye" of the artillery is finished its preliminary intensified firing

Army artist making sketches of enemy lines, WW1
A British Army artist shown working from the slender cover on top of the first line trenches in order to sketch the enemy lines. 1915

Directing the Way at the Front by B Bairnsfather
A cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather, commenting on the somehat unusual landmarks used to mark routes around the First World Wars front lines. Date: 1915

Making a German officers mess a success by W H Robinson
Humorous drawings by William Heath Robinson, of German officers mess, including preparing toast for tea during an advance, cavalry officer having a bath, having a quite cup of tea while on horseback

A Rest from the Firing Line by Will Owen, WW1
A British soldier, hopes to enjoy some time away from the firing line but ends up working just as har. Date: 1915

Supply silhouetted, WW1 silhouettes by H. L. Oakley
The transport lines feeding supplies up to the front line trenches on the Western Front during World War One, pictured by the famous silhouette artist, Captain Harry Lawrence Oakley. Date: 1917

Night Work in silhouette, H. L. Oakley
A series of silhouette vignettes by H. L. Oakley depicting night time activity behind the British lines during World War One

Scenes from behind the front line in Flanders, H. L. Oakley
Scenes of French life behind the front lines, familiar to British soldiers billeted in France during the First World War, cut on the spot with scissors by Lieut. (later Captain) H. L

The Camden Town railway: the Minories Viaduct, 1851
The iron viaduct crossing the Minories, London, 1851. An example of an enclosed railway bridge, building to prevent horses in the road beneath taking fright from the noise

The Camden Town railway: the Bow Spring bridge, Stepney, 1851
The Bow Spring bridge at Stepney Station, London. Designed by L. Clare and constructed by Messrs. Fox and Henderson, the bridge spans the 80 foot width of Commerical Road

The Camden Town railway: the Great Northern Railway viaduct
The viaduct of the Camden Town railway crossing the Direct York railway, as viewed from the bridge at the upper end of Maiden Lane, London in 1851. Copenhagen Fields can be seen on the horizon

Big gun transported in bad weather, Western Front, WW1
A British big gun being transported to the front lines in bad weather on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Pigeon loft on Western Front, France, WW1
A pigeon loft near the front lines on the Western Front in France during World War One. The pigeons were used for sending messages. Date: circa 1916

French cavalrymen on Western Front, WW1
Two French cavalrymen riding through British lines to go into action on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Night scene inside Australian lines, Western Front, WW1
A night scene inside Australian lines on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Pilot and observer about to set out, Western Front, WW1
A British pilot and his observer getting instructions through their CO via photographs and maps before setting out for the German lines on the Western Front in France during World War One

Theatre of war on Western Front by G. H. Davis
The theatre of war on the Western Front at the start of the Second World War: the region of the Maginot and Siegfried Lines

Number Engaged by Pat Charles
An impression by Pat Charles of the latest fiances and fiancees to announce their engagement in 1932, all interconnected by telephone lines

Football behind the lines
In the Wings of the Theatre of War: Behind the Centre of the Fighting Line in Belgium. A scene of much activity near the front line in Belgium

Advert for British Railways 1943
The ever rising tide. War production is rising like the tide and the need for rail transport rises with it. But this increase in traffic is only one of the Railways many wartime loads

Repairs to Petrograd Tramways, 1923
Repairs underway on tramlines in central Petrograd (St Petersburg) in 1923. Date: 1923

Ludgate Circus, London. St Pauls Cathedral can be seen in the background. Date: C. 1910

Trolley bus, Ostende-Blankenberghe-Knocke
A trolley bus of four carriages serving Ostende, Blankenberghe and Knocke, Belgium

People on ships deck playing a game
People on the deck of a ship, playing a game involving wooden models of racehorses, with a racecourse marked out in white

Scottish troops at Contalmaison, France, WW1
Scottish troops at Contalmaison, France, during the First World War. Date: September 1916

Autres Temps; Autres - Modes By Felix De Gray
This picture shows three fashionable ladies of the eighteenth century considering a group of women dressed in fashion of the 1920

A captured gun being transported 1916
A German position gun captured during the battle of the Somme, by the French army passing through French reserve lines, drawn by ten horses ridden by helmeted and cloaked French artillery drivers

Pluto Pipe-Lines across the Channel by G. H. Davis
Series of illustrations showing the workings of the Pluto ( Pipe Line Under The Ocean ) pipes across the English Channel which pumped millions of gallons of petrol from Great Britain to France during

Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Franco-Prussian War 1870
Graf FERDINAND VON ZEPPELIN (1838-1917) has a narrow escape in 1870 during a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines in the Franco-Prussian War. 1870

Underground Construction
Construction workers and engineers work to build tunnels for one of the early London Underground lines. Date: 1860s

ELIZA COOK Poet, best known for her lines in fond memory of an arm-chair to which she was deeply attached : with her autograph Date: 1818 - 1889

James Woodhouse
JAMES WOODHOUSE the Poetical Cobler dashing off a few lines instead of sticking to his last. Date: 1735 - 1820

Harvest Stooks
The pattern of harvest - a delightful scene of the Northamptonshire countryside, near Everdon Stubbs, with the lines of the oat stooks following the field outline. Date: 1950s

Field of Crops
A field with lines of crops possibly potatoes. Date: late 1960s

Bell Model 47B-3, CF-FJA, patrols hydro transmission lin?
Bell Model 47B-3, CF-FJA, patrols hydro transmission lines in Ontario, Canada, c1949

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - Pit and Railway Tracks
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto - The Pit and Railway Tracks. Date: circa 1910s

Cuba - Havana - Vives and Cristina Avenues Date: circa 1908

Singapore - Street in the Chinese Quarter. Washing is put out on a pole in front of the houses - in some instances (as described on the reverse of this card) resembling a scarecrow! Date: 1910s

Village of Saint Rhemy-en-Bosses, Italy on the Swiss border
The village of Saint Rhemy-en-Bosses, Italy on the Swiss border. Date: 1902

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