Neighbours Collection

Map / Europe / Poland 1772
A German map of Poland and its neighbours in the late 18th century

Handel as a Child
GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL Young Georg Friedrich is found by his parents at the keyboard in the middle of the night... Date: 1685 - 1759

People sitting on street, Whitechapel, East London
Locals sitting out on the street or chatting with their neighbours. The location is probably at the corner of Old Montague Street and Dunk Street in the Whitechapel area of East London

Two neighbours chatting over a fence. Date: circa 1950s

The Arms Race
The more the nations try to outdo their neighbours in the arms race, the more their own people suffer... Date: 1909

The Sower of Tares
The wicked man sowing tares, in his neighbours field

Easter egg customs in a Russian village
In a Russian village, friends and neighbours exchange eggs and kisses at Easter

Obsessed Alchemist
An alchemist, obsessed with his quest, works at his furnace while friends and neighbours drink and enjoy themselves

Map / Asia / East Indies
India and its neighbours : note that Burma is named India beyond the Ganges

Comic postcard, two women chatting - alimony Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Neighbours chat over garden fence Date: 20th century

JOHN COLLINGTON: Ne-er-do-well & wife beater, poacher, hiring hitmen & getting others to menace his neighbours. Buried 6 of his dead children in the orchard to save money! Date: 1696/7 - 1750

WIDOW REMARRIES 1950
At Campine, when a widow remarries, the neighbours thoughtfully improvise a band to keep the ghost of her dead husband away Date: 1950

GAS LIGHTING IN 1807
THE GOOD EFFECTS OF CARBONIC GAS !!! - neighbours complain of the smoke or of being asphyxiated, pedestrians whinge about the smell and one coughs himself to death... Date: 1807

MARRIAGE/BELGIUM 1950
At Campine, when a widow marries again, the neighbours thoughtfully improvise a band to keep the ghost of her dead husband away Date: 1950

REMARRIAGE CUSTOM
At Campine, when a widow marries again, the neighbours thoughtfully improvise a band to keep the ghost of her dead husband away Date: 1950

Comic postcard, Man and woman, garden fence Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Scotsman chats with neighbour Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two neighbours chatting Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Neighbours chatting about work Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Neighbours chatting in garden Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Neighbours chat in the street Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Boy and girl, garden fence
Comic postcard, Boy and girl smiling over the garden fence Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Women looking over garden fence Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Neighbours chatting at the gate Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Vicar calls at womans house Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, gossiping neighbours Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two women in conversation Date: 20th century

America - Washington On His Way To Inauguration At NY
George Washington Met By His Neighbours On His Way To Inauguration In New York Date: April 1789

Fishermans cottage at Mousehole, Cornwall, England. His boat can be seen on the left, and under the cottage is the curing cellar for pilchards. Date: 1922

Childrens Christmas party 1847
Little ones in high glee, the room decorated with holly and brilliantly lighted with candles. Neighbouring children come to celebrate the Christmas season

VISITING A BRETON MUM
A Breton mother is visited by her neighbours, as she lies in the lit clos (enclosed bed, or cupboard-bed) typical of country homes in Bretagne. Date: circa 1900

It is a little-known fact that the Belgians were delighted when their kindly, amiable neighbours invaded their country, fraternising with them happily... Date: 1914

FALL / ENGLISH SETTER / 1966
YANKEE OF NEIGHBOURS Owned by Ercolani. Date: 1966

WIFE AS HOME DOCTOR
A German housewife can - and indeed should - become a home doctor, skilled at taking care of her family and neighbours Date: 1905

WELL AT MOULINS, FRANCE
In this well in the rue des Grenouilles, at Moulins, France, maitre Jean Cabuche, being drunk, fell and was drowned, polluting the water for his neighbours Date: medieval

MARRIED AGIN / PHIL MAY
Her neighbours note Sals bandaged head and black eye as a consequence of her having married again. Date: 1892

HUSBAND / WIFE / BLACK EYE
Her neighbours note Sals bandaged head and black eye as a consequence of her having married again. Date: 1892

NEAT FRENCH VILLA
A neat French villa with a few touches of art nouveau (but not too much to alarm the neighbours) at La Varenne Saint- Hilaire (Seine) Date: 1909

POINTING FINGERS 1933
Villagers suspect a girl of sin : Cast off by the husband she loved, Margaret stumbled past the prying eyes of the neighbours : they, too, believed the wicked lies Date: 1933

Old man with dog in garden
An old man with his dog, sitting in a garden. A woman sits in her garden in the distance. Date: circa 1910s

Tour De France Muller
Local hero Joseph Muller wins the Strasbourg section of the race, to his neighbours jubilation. Date: 1923

Witches Old and Young
Old witch, young witch : in their village home, Guillemette Babin helps her mother Radegonde brew potions for working magic on their neighbours

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - chatting with neighbour. circa 1910s

Jane Barlow
JANE BARLOW (1856-1917) Prolific Irish author, Irish idylls, Irish neighbours, Irish Ways and A Creel of Irish Stories - for example. At her writing table. Date: 1895

Recycling Pig Swill
The Lobb Brothers (Charles & Henry) collect pig swill in special pails, twice a week from the homes of 25-30 neighbours, who are pleased that their waste is recycled. Date: 1930s

Cartoon, The Martians, WW1
Cartoon, The Martians. During the First World War, the residents of Mars complain to their neighbouring planet about the noise, and ask them to be more considerate. Date: 1918

G Stephenson - West Moor
George Stephenson (1781 - 1848) Engineers cottage at West Moor

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