Lives Collection

Propaganda poster: careless talk costs lives
Second world war propaganda poster warning people that careless talk costs lives. Tell nobody -- not even her

Lochness Monster
A dramatic picture of the supposed giant water creature that lives in Loch Ness, Scotland and its small offspring, followed by divers holding underwater cameras

Gillette Razor Advert
Begin early... shave yourself - the Gillette Safety Razor lives up to its name

Bewick / Honey Badger
(mellivora capensis) aka RATEL This mustolid is so named, curiously enough, because like Pooh it is excessively fond of honey. It lives in South Africa

Wartime poster, save bread, serve potatoes
Wartime poster encouraging people to save bread (and you save lives), serve potatoes (and you serve the country). Depicting a loaf of bread inside a lifebelt. 1940s

Grace Darling, rowing with her father
Grace Horsley Darling (1815 - 1842), daughter of the lighthouse keeper, William Darling, on the Farne Islands, seen here rowing with her father to the sinking steamboat the SS Forfarshire in 1838

The ship Kapunda, 1887
The British emigrant Ship, Kapunda, which was run down and sunk off the Coast of Brazil with the loss of 298 lives in 1887

St Matilda / Butler Lives
SAINT MATILDA Queen of Henry I of Germany, noted for her philanthropy; she founded many convents

Hypnos, God of Sleep
HYPNOS is the Greek god of sleep, known as SOMNUS to the Romans; he lives in a cave in the Cimmerian country where the sun never shines

Careless Talk Costs Lives - WWII poster
Poster warning of the dangers of gossiping and inadvertently giving away national secrets to the enemy during World War Two

View of the luxurious reading room onboard the Titanic
A view of one of the many luxurious interior features of the Titanic; the reading and writing room. First class passengers travelled in style onboard the Titanic, having free use of the gym

Soho, London - Shaftesbury Avenue - Queens Theatre with neon sign for Private Lives by Noel Coward, directed by John Gielgud. 1973

Channel Isles Squid
Fishermen of Jersey, Channel Islands, desperately fight this giant squid, but two of them lose their lives in the battle

Grace Darling, lighthouse keeper's daughter
Grace Horsley Darling (1815 - 1842), daughter of the lighthouse keeper, William Darling, on the Farne Islands, who rowed with her father to the sinking steamboat the SS Forfarshire in 1838

Board of Trade Rocket Apparatus for Saving Lives from Shipwr
Engraving showing Board of Trade equipment for use to help shipwrecked sailors, 1886. The items are (from left to right, top to bottom)

Second Coxswain Mann of the Aldeburgh Lifeboat Station, 1909
Photographic portrait of Second Coxswain Mann, of the City of Winchester and Dresden, both Aldeburgh lifeboats; credited with saving hundreds of lives

Kronos Eats his Children
VILLAGE LIFE:butcher works, monk distributes charity, man sits in stocks, others plough irrigate, wash fleeces, as Saturn/Cronos (Time) flies by

Gertrude Lawrence by Autori
Stylised caricature of Gertrude Lawrence (1898 - 1952), British actress and musical comedy performer at the time she was appearing in Private Lives by Noel Coward at the Phoenix Theatre in London

Princesses of Schleswig-Holstein
Princess Marie-Louise and Princess Helena Victoria (Thora) of Schleswig-Holstein, the daughters of Princess Helena and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein

P&O Liner SS Delhi, 1911
Photograph of the P&O liner SS Delhi at sea in 1911. Built in 1905 the Delhi was wrecked in a gale off Cape Spartel, Tangiers, in 1911

Saint Bruno / Butler Lives
SAINT BRUNO alias BRUNO THE GREAT Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lorraine

Birkenhead Wrecked B+W
Laden with soldiers, the troopship strikes a rock off Simons Bay, South Africa : 184 are saved by the boats, 454 lives are lost

Baa Baa Black Sheep / 1884
Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool? Yes Sir, Yes Sir - three bags full. One for the master and one for the dame, and one for the little boy who lives down the lane

TARSIER
(tarsius bancanus) This is probably the Western Tarsier, which lives in the East. It is classified as a prosimian

Daily lives in London during the Blitz
Four images relating to air-raided London in October 1940. Top left shows cast members at the Windmill Theatre which was the only theatre to remain open; the cast slept in the theatre on mattresses

Sectional drawing of the Lusitania showing the German U-boat responsible for the torpedo which sunk it in 18 minutes on May 7th 1915, with the loss of 1200 lives

Plain-Wanderer
COLLARED PLAIN WANDERER pedionomus torquatus Only one species is known, and it lives in Australia

Lusitania Sinks (Dixon)
The Cunard passenger liner sinks, with the loss of 1198 lives, after being torpedoed off the Irish coast by German U-boat U-20, while returning to Britain from America

Loyola / Butler Lives
IGNATIUS LOYOLA Spanish saint, founder of the Jesuit Order

SUETONIUS, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (69 - after 122). Vita Duodecim Caesarum (The Lives of the Twelve Caesars) by

HMS Glorious, aircraft carrier
Royal Navy - HMS Glorious, aircraft carrier, at anchor, steaming up. HMS Glorious was the second of the three Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War

HMS Glorious 77
Royal Navy - HMS Glorius, aircraft carrier, at anchor in Grand Harbour Valetta.. HMS Glorious was the second of the three Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First

RMS Titanic, Thomas Andrews
RMS TITANIC - THOMAS ANDREWS 1873-1912: Thomas Andrews was Titanic's chief designer and one of the heroes of the disaster

WW2 - Careless Lives
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, Careless Lives, written by Desmond Leslie. The image shows tw opposing side profiles of young women

Lady Member of the Caravan Club, cooking
A Lady Member of the Caravan Club who lives in a Donkey Tilt Cart, cooking Date: 1914

Lady Member of the Caravan Club in donkey tilt cart
A Lady Member of the Caravan Club who lives in a Donkey Tilt Cart Date: 1914

Lifeboat rescue, and every soul was saved alive Date: circa 1890

In Memoriam
An etching which acts as a tribute to the lives lost during World War 1, elements include a memorial stone, which reads 1914-1915, 1916-1917 indicating those that have died during this period

White Star Line, RMS Titanic - six books. A Night to Remember by Walter Lord (2nd impression), The Titanic and The Californian by Peter Padfield (first edition, 1965), The Titanic

Home Sweet Home down South - Kentucky, USA. A slightly-derogatory view of the run-down home of a black family in the deep south of America. Date: 1907

P & O Sketches in Pen and Ink, by Harry Furniss
Cover design, P & O Sketches in Pen and Ink, by Harry Furniss. Rare hardbound volume, published by The Studio of Design and Illustration Supply Agency, London, 204 pages

White Star Line, RMS Titanic - collection of publications
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - book collection including Titanic Voices, Beyond Reach, The Night Lives On, Raise the Titanic, and The Death and Life of a Legend. Date: 20th century

Robert Falcon Scott, Terra Nova Expedition, Antarctic
Robert Falcon Scott Terra Nova Expedition - important archive of 52 negatives taken by Lt. Henry Birdie Bowers during the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition that claimed the lives of Scott

RMS Titanic - engraved commemorative beaker
RMS Titanic - post-disaster engraved commemorative beaker, 1635 lives lost. 5 inches

A grave tree carving
A grave tree, from a south pacific island expedition in 1925. Each mark represents an episode in the dead chiefs life. This was published in the book green islands in glittering seas

Coal miners strike
The conference of the miners federation of Birmingham meeting to discuss the coal miners strike. The names, reading from left to right, are: Sitting--Mr. H. Duff, Mr. T. H. Cann, Mr. M. C. Kerrell

Memorial for French soldiers who fell at Waterloo
The new monument commemorating the (roughly 25, 000) French soldiers who died in the Waterloo (18th June 1815). The French Military club erected this eagle in memory of those lost

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