Message Collection (page 9)

WWI Field Message book
First World War Field Message book containing many detailed drawings of shells, guns, trench designs. Also included is a Field Writing Pack containing notepad, envelopes and postcards

Help to Win the War by Buying Aeroplanes at 2, 500 each
Business Mens Boom Week (March 4th - 9th 1918) - A Message from the Sky to the People of Bridgwater and District. Help to Win the War by Buying Aeroplanes at 2, 500 each

Lord Wooltons message to kitchen staff, WW2
Lord Wooltons message to kitchen staff, stressing the importance of well cooked food and the avoidance of waste during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

Diagram, The Riddle of the Ranks, WW1
Diagram, The Riddle of the Ranks, showing how a message can be deciphered during the First World War. Date: 1914

Frontispiece, Sketch magazines stars messages to soldiers
A rather beautifully drawn frontispiece to a special supplement of The Sketch magazine introducing several pages of photographs of leading stage stars whose photographs were published along with a

Women Signallers Territorial Corps, WW1
Women demonstrating their skills at the headquarters training school of the Women Signallers Territorial Corps in 1916. From left

Buy Victory Loan leaflet
A Message from the Skies - a Victory Loan leaflet dropped from British air balloons during the World War One war savings campaign. Date: 1917

Training in taking telephone messages
Men of the London Fire Brigade being trained in taking telephone messages. Date: 1930

Lord Otho A. FitzGerald, Vanity Fair, Spy
LORD ORTHO AUGUSTUS FITZGERALD (1827-1882) the third son of the 3rd Duke of Leinster. MP for Kildare, Treasurer (1866) then Comptroller of the Household from 1868 to 1874

My Ladys Valentine by Charles Robinson
A cupid with very impressive wings delivering a Valentines to a lucky recipient. Date: 1904

A French messenger dog delivers an important signal from Hea
A photograph of three French soldiers, who do not appear to be wearing an official uniform, reading a message that has been delivered in the collar of a dog. 1916

British soldiers love of tea 1917
How the fighting soldiers get their cuppa at the Front. Canteen on the troop-train with a number women workers waiting for the soldiers to return from the front

Message Valve
A London office worker sending messages through a valve. Date: early 1930s

Election propaganda postcard for the Liberal Party, featuring a quote from The Chancellor of the Exchequer (and future Prime Minister) David Lloyd George on 30th July 1909

Buy War Bonds and Stamps - USA - WW2
Patriotic Postcard from Alantic Cuty ( proud to become a part of the US Army Air Force ) encouraging the American populace to purchase War bonds

King George Vs message to the Fleet - WW1
In August 1914 at the outbreak of the Great War, Vice-Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe was appointed to the supreme command of the Home Fleets, with the acting rank of admiral

Queen Alexandra
Alexandra of Denmark (18441925) - Queen consort of the United Kingdom and Empress of India as the wife of King-Emperor Edward VII

Wounded soldier dictates a letter to his Mother, aided by a kindly member of the nursing team. Date: 1904

Hawker Audax I K2012 with extended message pick-up hook
Hawker Audax I, K2012, with extended message pick-up hook

LEO XIII (1810-1903). Pope (1878-1903). His Holiness the Pope sending a Jubilee phonographic message to the American people. Engraving

Princess Elizabeths first radio broadcast
Princess Elizabeth gives her first radio broadcast, little sister, Princess Margaret at her side. Talking of the Second World War, she proclaimed, We know... that in the end all will be well

Bell Demonstrates Phone
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL successfully demonstrates his device at Boston, sending a message to North Conway, a distance of about 230 km. Date: 1877

Blitz in London -- bombed sub-station, South London, WW2
Blitz in London -- a South London sub fire station was obliterated by enemy bombing. Showing firefighters in defiant mood, declaring themselves NOT BEATEN

LCC-LFB fire scene, Cluny Place, Bermondsey SE1
Firefighters in action at a major fire in Cluny Place, Bermondsey, SE London, affecting adjacent warehouses. The fireman with a walkie-talkie is relaying messages between the senior officer

A message from Mars. Illustration shows congressmen standing outside the US Capitol as a tall humanoid, dressed in pink, steps off a flying ship

Kitsch Italian Valentines Card
Promise of Love A kitsch Italian Valentines Day Card. Date: circa 1930s

A message from America. Poster showing sailors loading ammunition into a cannon. Date c1943. A message from America. Poster showing sailors loading ammunition into a cannon. Date c1943

Woman putting a love letter in a tree

Cinema projectors, Regal Cinema, Walton, Essex
Cinema projection equipment in the Regal Cinema, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. The projector on the left showed only still images from hand made glass slides which were overlaid onto the running film to

Girl and boy posting a letter
A little girl and boy posting a letter on a greetings postcard. The message on the back is addressed to an aunt, offering best wishes on her saints name day, Sainte Marie (15 August)

The Wreck of the Titanic - page from the Sphere
Page from the Sphere which reported in great detail on the sinking of the Titanic. Top part of the page shows the wireless telegraph message with the SOS and CQD signals

The Carrier Dove. The Return. Two women holding a bird with a message Date: ca. 1847

Sea Scouts receiving signals by flag. October 1935

Message from King George V after marriage of Princess Mary
Message from King George V to his people after the marriage of his only daughter Princess Mary to Viscount Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood, on 28th February 1922

Shepherd bellows into horses ear
Rather Hard of Hearing A young Shepherd fails to get the message across to his trusty steed, who appears to be stone deaf. Date: circa 1910s

Royal wedding - Douglas Stuart advertisement
Advertisement in the royal wedding souvenir number of The Sketch for Douglas Stuart of New Oxford St, London, suggesting a toast to H.R.H the Duke of York and his charming bride-to-be

H. L. Oakley - silhouette artist
Jolly silhouette self-portrait by H. L.Oakley (1882-1960), renowned silhouette artist, who depicts himself with a knapsack and suitcase (complete with H.L.O initials) on tour

British Chaplain writes for a wounded soldier
A British Chaplain writing home for a wounded British Tommy, seated on a stretcher with injuries to his right leg circa 1916

General de Gaulles first manifesto to Frenchmen. Being mounted up on a wall by a French Sailor and French Soldier. Date: circa 1945

Dog and Blank - 3
A bloodhound invites you to write your own message on this greeting card. late 19th century

A wireless operator
An illustration of an wireless operator sat at his desk receiving a message. Date: 4th May 1912

Dog and Blank - 1
A labrador (?) invites you to write your own message on this greeting card. Date: late 19th century

Dog and Blank - 2
A terrier invites you to write your own message on this greeting card. Date: late 19th century

Military Pigeon Loft and attendants - Kazakhstan Date: 1904

A canine courier of the great war, an officer writes a message as the dog waits to deliver it in the trenches. The dogs were three times faster at delivering messages compared to man

British pilot with messenger pigeon, WW1
A British seaplane pilot in the cockpit, attaching a message to the leg of a messenger pigeon during the First World War. Date: early 1918

Ten per cent more poster, 1948
Large poster with a personal message from Prime Minister Clement Attlee, asking the British public to put in maximum effort in to increase industrial production output by ten per cent

Three soldiers using lamp for signalling, France, WW1
Three soldiers of a Pioneer Battalion using a daylight lamp for signalling at the side of a railway track near Feuchy, Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: May 1917

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