Messages Collection

Flags of Royal Navy
Some of the signal flags of Royal Navy including the Royal Standard, White Ensign, Union Jack

Carrier Pigeon poster
Poster warning people of the dangers of shooting carrier pigeons who may be carrying life or death messages. Carrier pigeons, we are told, are a vital part of RAF

SOS message from Titanic
A wireless message received by the Russian steamer Birma from the Titanic about five minutes after Titanic struck the iceberg that sank her

Seaplane carrier pigeon, WW1
A carrier pigeon housed on board a seaplane for the delivery of messages during the First World War. This particular bird delivered a message (no)

Mary Qoss Messenger
A pigeon carries messages for Mary Queen of Scots, imprisoned at Tutbury, to Babington who is plotting to rescue her and set her back on the throne again

First Metropolitan Police-Dogs
Front cover photograph showing two London policemen with the first Metropolitan police-dogs in 1938, thirty years after the first dogs were used by the North Eastern Railway Police to patrol Hull

Invisible ink
Coded invisible ink message demonstrated by German spy Kurt H de Rysbach, 1915 Date: 1915

Dogs Love Chocolate
Punch has been trained by his owner to carry messages and pick up litter. Here he tries to use the chocolate dispenser

Western Front, France, 1918
Telephone and pigeon men in a shell hole. Telephone lines are broken so messages have to be sent by carrier pigeons on the Western Front in France during World War I on 25th April 1918

Izvestia Distributed
Copies of the Moscow newspaper Izvestia (it means messages or reports) are distributed to soldiers of the Red Army. Fortunately, many of them can read

Showgirls Changing Room
No doubt the envy of all his friends, this page boy has the important task of delivering messages and cards backstage, where most are prohibited from entering - hope he knocked!

Notes concerning Borley Rectory. The Marianne messages at Borley Rectory; tracings enclosed Date: 1929-circa 1939

WW2 Birthday Card Messages
The inside of a WW2 birthday greetings card which shows a dog unloading a basket containing positive messages and wishes, ducks wearing tin hats celebrate at the scene. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Birthday Card Ive Written Em Down?
A WW2 birthday greetings card which shows a little duck wearing a soldier's tin hat, beside a dog who is writing down an Official list of messages of good fortune and warm greetings

WW2 Scouts And Guides
This illustration portrays a British WW2 boy scout and girl guide, these young people helped Britain in the war effort performing roles including hospital assistance, making ration bags

Coiling of the Atlantic cable on board H. M.s Agamemnon prior to the 1858 expedition to lay cable from Britain to North
Coiling of the Atlantic cable on board H.M.S Agamemnon prior to the 1858 expedition to lay cable from Britain to North America

Messrs Glasse and Elliott's Atlantic Telegraph Cable Works yard at East Greenwich, London. The 1, 250 tons of telegraphic cable being laid out in five coils to go on-board the H.M.S

Spanish Civil War. Propaganda postcard for the Republican rearguard, with messages from Spanish president Negrin and Catalan president Companys. Propaganda Undersecretaryship. SPAIN

The wireless warfare: How the Admiralty's wireless installation that spook to any Britsih warships within 1600 miles of Whitehall

Winston Churchill's funeral, mourners reading messages left
Sir Winston Churchill laid to rest in the churchyard of St Martin's in the Oxfordshire village of Bladon, mourners reading messages left. Date: 30th January 1965

Officers and signallers have stationed themselves in a loft or attic in the upper storey of a damaged building, whose windows command a view the enermy's postion

Gunners are unable to see the targets at which they are firing, they depend on the information from the aircraft, this is a typical photograph taken during the great Allied advance on the Western

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - On Leave
This little lass looks as if she is going on holiday - she has an umbrella! Despite the war people still took breaks and this sort of postcard featured regularly in messages back home

WW2 - Orders by means of the Ardente Loud Hailer
Captain to Captain - The Commander of a Corvette at Sea giving orders by means of the Ardente " Loud Hailer, " which has a remarkable Acoustic Range 1941

Patriotic poster, Buy British - Broadcast this message
Buy British - Broadcast this message to your friends. Part of a government campaign to tackle a balance of payments crisis, reinforced by a speech by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII)

Carrier pigeons - including testing the pigeons, playing an important role in the war effort of World War Two. 1941

French regimental pigeonnier releasing a carrier pigeon. Pigeons were found useful in World War One to send messages and had not been entirely superseded by wireless telegraphy. Date: 1916

Guglielmo Marconi with his Assistants Kemp and Paget, behind is the experiments kite. Date: 12th December 1901

Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1937), Italian inventor and electrical engineer, shown in photograph with his apparatus, after receiving signals at Newfoundland

Transatlantic success, the forest of the telegraph poles at Poldhu Station, Cornwall, from which the first ever wireless message was sent across the Atlantic to Newfoundland. Date: 12th December 1901

Marconis wireless telegraph message, Dover 1899
Guglielmo Marconi, shown here in the photograph with his latest invention, sending a wireless telegraphy from Dover Town Hall to South Foreland Lighthouse, through four miles of cliffs

The spark that speaks across the Atlantic to Canada, Guglielmo Marconi transmitter Date: 1907

Guglielmo Marconi reading a wireless telegraph message on tape from a across the Atlantic, on board the Italian Cruiser, Carlo Alberto. Date: 1902

A device used to float messages down the Seine and out of the city. Date: 1870 / 1
A device used to float messages down the Seine and out of the city. Date: 1870/1

The exterior of a pigeon-loft in the rue Magenta, Paris, where birds would arrive carrying messages from outside the city (2 of 2) Date: Jan-Feb 1871

The interior of a pigeon-loft in Paris, where birds would arrive carrying messages from outside the city (1 of 2) Date: Jan-Feb 1871

The pigeon post : messages from outside Paris are brought in by the birds, magnified by a projector and transcribed Date: Jan - Feb 1871

1883 one cent postal card for Joseph Gosselin
A very very early American one cent postal card printed for messages/orders to be sent to Joseph Gosselin, Importer of lace pictures and religious articles, 198 Grand Street, New York City, USA. 1883

Baby Scouts -- telegraph wire
Baby Scouts -- While Tiny, aged just ten months and a half, brings scouting messages by telegraph. Date: 1900

JULIAS BUREAU
Julias Bureau, created by journalist W T Stead, claims to receive messages from the Borderland : Punch mocks... Date: 1893

From the Western Front To Willie with compliments 1916
Sergeant seen lying down beside a large shell bearing the message To Willie with compliments on the side. During WWI gunners often sent massages etched in chalk on shells. Date: 1916

Diy Heliograph
A simple heliograph is easily constructed, and uses the suns rays to transmit messages, in morse code, over distances up to 100 kilometres

Mercury. Roman god of trade. (identified as the Greek Hermes). Bronze statuette. From the Ribes Valley, Ripoll?s. Episcopal Museum. Vic. Catalonia. Spain

Signalling equipment on the Western Front, WW1
The various instruments used by signallers in transmitting messages on the Western Front during the First World War. In the left hand top corner are the aerial cables conveying telephone or Morse

WW2 Poster -- ATS Carry The Messages
ATS Carry The Messages. Recruitment poster, Auxiliary Territorial Service. Colour photolithograph by Beverley Pick, published by HMSO. Date: 1940

Naval Signal Flags - Greeting - Christmas Postcard. The translation of this flag series translates as: Keep a Bright. Look Forward (signalled by International code). Date: circa 1910s

C W A Scotts second wife, Greta, receiving messages
C.W.A. Scotts second wife, Greta, receiving messages of congratulations after his winning of the Schlesinger Portsmouth to Johannesburg race. 1 October 1936

Scouts learning morse code
Nine Boy Scouts of the 1st Coulsdon Group sit around a table learning morse code, under the watchful eye of their Scout Leader. 1950

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