Miserable Collection (page 2)

Street music: a ballad singer, 1865
A ragged ballad singer sings on a street corner. Ladies in crinolines hurry past him, but three ragged children show interest. Date: 1865

Street music: orphan ballad singers
Orphan ballad singers perform in a street. An audience of children listen, whilst a woman seated on a bench looks thoughtful

Doing the Lakes - Rain in the Lake District disturbing the enjoyment of ones holiday! Twixt Mist and Rain and Lake and Mere, We re never short of water here. Date: 1930s

The Waning Moon I m going down-hill fast, My bones are cold, its raining, My money spent, my chances past, I m waning, waning, waning! Date: circa 1910s

London Travel Chaos
A miserable scene at a London bus stop, commuters nearly fighting to get onto buses, perhaps during a tube strike. Date: 1980s

London Bus Queue
A miserable scene at a London bus stop, showing a crowd of people waiting for a bus during the Rush Hour. Date: 1979

Optimist and pessimists - postcard by George Ranstead
Postcard by George Ranstead, amateur soldier artist of the Great War featuring three miserable looking hairy men with long beards, looking with suspicion at an optimist who is grinning broadly

Fed Up Dog by George Ranstead
Cartoon drawing of an extremely glum looking dog by George Ranstead, an amateur soldier artist of the Great War who served in the Army Pay Corps

Still Smiling by George Ranstead
Humorous postcard by George Ranstead, an amateur artist of the Great War who served in the Army Pay Corps. This particular postcard, with the cheeky caption

A London Coster
A London street coster, with his cart of fruit. A veritable cornucopia, wonderfully displayed on a white cloth and as spectacularly opulent in its variety, as the coster is dour in face!

Testing Candidates for the Post of Milk Sourer at a Cream Cheese Factory. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Military tailor and in family in Bethnal Green
This is a room occupied by a military tailor and his family at No. 10 Hollybush Place in Bethnal Green in the East End of London

Dour Butler at Doors
A rather dour butler opens the doors of an Edwardian mansion

An Old Shepherd & Dog
An old shepherd looking thoroughly dejected as he stands in the cold with his sheepdog

Mother Skinflint / Thrift
MOTHER SKINFLINT, THE THRIFTY HOUSEWIFE You re a genius for saving! Yes, everyone knows. You would skin a flint and starve the crows!

Somerset House 1742
Old Somerset House, in the Strand : before demolition to make way for the present grander edifice, Crowds are watching a procession of the Seald Miserable Masons

Piccadilly Circus at night
A view of Piccadilly Circus at night, with some rather miserable-looking people

Trenches under Rain
Ankle-deep in water which is added to by the pouring rain, huddled under wet capes in a muddy trench shared with rats - who needs an enemy to make trench life miserable ?

Nebuch. Takes Jerusalem
The army of Nebuchadnezzar II king of Babylon, attacks Jerusalem, sacking the city and taking the Jews into exile where they will be very miserable

Miserable Girl
Oh Aldyth, I am the most miserable girl in the world !

Passengers Despondent
NOAHs ARK - The passengers feel miserable as the forty days and forty nights seem to last for ever

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