Lost Collection (page 2)

British merchant ship war losses by G. H. Davis
British merchant ship war losses during the Second World War: the toll of oversea supplies. Britain lost through enemy action 2570 ships and over 11 million tonnage

Why We Lost by William Heath Robinson
Some of the things that made cricket so difficult for Englishmen in Australia. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans Date: 1921

John Maclean, Scottish teacher and revolutionary socialist
John Maclean (1879-1923), Scottish schoolteacher and revolutionary Marxist socialist. He was imprisoned for his opposition to the First World War, and lost his teaching post

REBEL ANGELS SUMMONED
The rebel angels summoned to the conclave Date: First published: 1667

World War One Royal Navy Rhine Patrol Flotilla - Motor Launches, Deutz, Cologne/K� Germany. Showing also the lost Deutz Suspension Bridge crossing the Rhine. Date: 1918

Silhouette, Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast
Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast -- silhouette showing a shipwrecked man standing on a raft, waving to a ship on the horizon

Milton / Comus / Stars 1634
the Stars That nature hung in Heav n, and fill d their Lamps with everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely Travailer. Date: First published : 1634

Some Titanic officers lost in disaster
Photograph by AJF Bond of Bodmin of six officers of RMS Olympic taken on the bridge of the ship on the ships maiden voyage

The Lost Ball - Heath Robinson Cartoon
The Lost Ball. Golfers try in vain to retrieve a lost ball in a lake on a golf course. It appears that a passing fish has swallowed it!

Royal Navy losses in both World Wars, 1945
Illustration showing the ships lost by the British Royal Navy during the Second World War (main picture) compared with those lost during the First World War (inset bottom right)

Bullion Office. Bank of England. Chopper for Light Sovereign
Engraving of a mechanical chopper used to deface gold coins, which were under weight. In June 1842 the Bank of England recalled millions of gold sovereigns which through wear had lost weight

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

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

Roman Fire Engine / Pump
Roman fire engine, consisting of two double-cylindered force pumps worked by means of a rocking beam (now lost)

Amazing Stories scfi magazine cover, Bermuda Triangle
The non-gravitational vortex, in which ships are mysteriously lost in the Atlantic Ocean

Man being attacked by a parrot and cat in a drawing room. More Miseries. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed and etched by Thomas Rowlandson to accompany Reverend James Beresfords Miseries of

Lost World Swamp / Doyle
The swamp of the pterodactyls. Date: First published: 1912

Babes in the Wood. The children are lost in the depths of the forest. Date: circa 1918

Peter Pan and Wendy

Sporting Gal and her horse - Dumb Luck
Dumb Luck Sporting Gal and her horse bemoaning the lack of success in the previous race. Dobbin is still the lucky recipient of a chunk of finest Tate & Lyle... Date: circa 1910

Kiralfys grand spectacle of Paradise lost. Includes portraits of Julia Seaman, Kiralfy Brothers, and others. Date c1873

Blind Italian soldier - WWI
Italian soldiers blinded during World War One - a poem explaining their fate. Date: circa 1918

Met Police officer giving directions
A Metropolitan Police officer in Central London, giving directions to a young woman in a Rover 90 saloon car, with the Houses of Parliament in the background

Asking Directions
A gentleman asks a hiker for directions

De Gaulle Declaration 2
De Gaulles declaration to occupied France that France has lost a battle but has not lost the war, reassuring his country that victory will eventually restore France

Marquis of Anglesey
HENRY WILLIAM PAGET, first marquis of ANGLESEY soldier, lost a leg at Waterloo, later lord- lieutenant of Ireland

Doyle / The Lost World
The approach to the plateau

Cannae Battlefield
19th century view of the battlefield of Cannae, where Hannibal routed the Romans : they lost 50, 000, he lost only 5700 though greatly outnumbered

Reverie Date: 1890

MILTON / REBEL ANGELS / DORE
The rebel angels are defeated Date: First published: 1667

Cage of Sir Winston Churchills pet budgerigar Toby
" Waiting" for its vanished occupant: The cage of Sir Winston Churchills pet budgerigar Toby which escaped from a hotel in Monte Carlo on February 14 1961

Surrender of King John II of France at the Battle of Poitiers, 19 September 1356, during the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). Date: 1356

Royal Air Force de Havilland DH. 98 Mosquito FB Mk. XVIII
Royal Air Force de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB Mk.XVIII PZ467 Tse-Tse. Armed with a 57mm (6 pounder) Molins quick-firing gun, the first Mk.XVIII was flown on 25 August 1943

Ye Olde Bull and Bell Pub, Ropemaker Street, London, EC2. Proprietor - Walter Edwin Hallpike. Destroyed in the Blitz, circa 1941. Date: circa 1938

RMS Titanic, Roger Bricoux, cellist, band member
RMS TITNIC - ROGER BRICOUX ARCHIVE: Important portrait commissioned by Roger's mother Marie. As soon as the sinking of the Titanic hit the front page of every newspaper in the world

1832 Victorian Map of Bodmin

WW2, Little Bo Peep
This illustration shows Peter the Royal Air Force Pilot, helping Little Bo Peep, by giving her the location of her lost sheep, after spotting them from the skies. Date: circa 1940

King Bunker Looks Into The Nest
A childrens short story illustration which shows King Bunker finding his lost golf ball in a bird's nest. Date: circa 1944

The Print Seller's Shop Window, Henry Graves, London Date: 1862

Blackburn B-88 YB. 1 WB797
Blackburn B-88 YB.1 WB797, demonstrating single-engined flight at the SBAC Farnborough International Air Show held from 5-10 September 1950

At The Fair
A pair of illustrations showing scenes of women at a fair, the figure of an old man on a cart is clutching the skirts of a lady, inviting her to visit the hall of lost steps. Date: circa 1901

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortresses flying on a mission
United States Army Air Force - Boeing B-17G Flying Fortresses, of the 323rd Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bombardment Wing The Ragged Irregulars, flying on a mission from RAF Bassingbourn

Music cover, The Lost Child, sung by George Ford
Music cover, The Lost Child, the admired comic song, sung by George Ford, words by Thomas Hood Date: circa 1860

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

Canadian Pacific Railway - Minton ceramic dinner plate, believed to be from the RMS Empress of Ireland. The present owner fully restored the plate, removing the corrosion built up when in the water

RMS Lusitania - three sheet music covers. Lusitania, Two Step and March by Leslie H Stowe; Lusitania Two Step, and Lusitania March and Two Step by John M Gray. Date: 20th century

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