Notices Collection

WW1 - Recruitment Poster - York Railway Station
WW1 - A series of Recruitment posters calling on Men of the North to join the Armed forces - York Railway Station, 1914. A large noticeboard with a message urging me to join up

Town Crier in pony and trap, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
James Smith, Town Crier of Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, in pony and trap. Seen here passing the butchers shop owned by J Potter, where cuts of meat are on display

Front page, The London Gazette
Front page of a 17th century issue of The London Gazette, described by some as the worlds most boring newspaper. It contains official government notices and news items, and dates back to the 1660s

Sign at Gleneagles
A sign at Gleneagles golf course, explaining the procedure of sounding a siren in the event of a dangerous thunderstorm. Date: 1933

Polling Station, Referendum Day, 5 June 1975
Scene outside a Polling Station in the London Borough of Wandsworth, 5 June 1975. A Referendum was being held on the UK's membership of the EEC (now the EU), which it had joined in 1973

HUNDING SUSPICIOUS
Act One : Hunding notices the resemblance between his wife Siglind and the visitor, Sigmund (they are indeed brother and sister, and will be lovers)

Hunding Suspicious Music Opera Wagner Die Valkure
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The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London - floral tributes
The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London - some of the floral tributes lain beneath the monument on Remembrance Day. Designed by Edwin Lutyens

People visiting the Monkey House at London Zoo. Date: circa 1900s

ELECTION NOTICES 1978
Notices explain to the voter the practices of the election Date: 1978

STREET DOOR LEFT OPEN
Do you know as your street- door is open ? - a policeman on night duty notices servants carelessness Date: 1849

Sweetshop and tobacconist in Peckham, London
Taken in the late 1960 s, this sweetshop and tobacconist was run by Mr and Mrs Price. It was on the corner of Sumner Road and Garnies Street in Peckham, London

Telegraph House notice, home of Bertrand Russell
Telegraph House notice -- private road, please drive slowly, children, no right of way. The house was constructed on the site of a West Sussex semaphore-station

Newsagents Notice Board
An assortment of notices on a newsagents shop notice board, including Flats to Let and Light Removals. Date: 1970

ANCXF Signal Office, Minden, Germany
Man working in the ANCXF (Allied Naval Commander Expeditionary Force) Signal Office, Minden, Germany, August 1945, at the end of the Second World War. 1945

Man at work, The London Gazette
Man at work at his desk in the offices of The London Gazette, near Fleet Street, London. The publication has been described by some as the worlds most boring newspaper

People at work, The London Gazette
People at work in the offices of The London Gazette, near Fleet Street, London. The publication has been described by some as the worlds most boring newspaper

Two inner pages, The London Gazette
Two inner pages of an issue of The London Gazette, described by some as the worlds most boring newspaper. It contains official government notices and news items, and dates back to the 1660s

Man outside the offices of The London Gazette
Man standing outside the offices of The London Gazette, near Fleet Street, London. The publication has been described by some as the worlds most boring newspaper

Gazette of Madrid. 18th century. Number 17. 1791. Royal Prin
Gazette of Madrid. 18th century. Public journal. Number 17 Tuesday 1st March, 1791. Royal Printing

Gazette of Madrid. 18th century. Number 1. 1781. Royal Print
Gazette of Madrid. 18th century. Public journal. Number 1. Tuesday 2nd January of 1781. Royal Printing

Caricature, Sir Squire Bancroft and Mowbray Morris
Caricature, Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926), English actor-manager, and Mowbray Morris, theatre critic, with other critics in the background enjoying food and drink in the Critics Buffet

Events / Australia / 1854
Two poster notices from The British Governor of Victoria, Sir Charles Hotham, pronouncing martial law following the rebellion at the Eureka stockade. Date: 3rd December, 1854

Social / France / Street 22
Parisian street scene including a hurdy-gurdy man and street notices on wall. Date: 1822

Box, Primus notice lantern plates
Cardboard box originally containing twelve Primus notice lantern plates, glass plates prepared on one side so that notices can be written on them in ink, and displayed to an audience

Page design, two young women, School Silhouettes
Page design in School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA. Depicting two young women in their room, one doing exercises on the floor

Suffragette-Proof House of Commons. A suffragette-proof palisade or bunker guarded by a policeman is erected at the House of Commons

Suffragette Husband Minds Babies. Husband minds the babies while wife sleeps in bed. Pro-suffrage notices on the wall. Regretfully, he thinks

Two women in control room, WW2
Two women taking messages in a fire station control room during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

National Coal Strike, 1912
National Coal Strike of 1912. A man inspects an important notice of a coal strike which has closed Cannon Street Station, London. Date: 1912

Notices in a bartering shop
Notices in English and German in the window of a bartering shop. A pile of long-playing records can be seen on the right. Date: circa 1940s

Cheeky Cockney man quizzes a London Policeman
The wit of the Classic London Cockney - cheekily enquiring of a Policeman (leading home a small lost child): - " Whats e done, Guvnor?" !!! Date: 1892

Browns Fire Alarm: Break Glass, Pull Knob, Wait For Engine

19th century Insurance Company Fire Notice, County Fire office, with an image of Britannia with lion and shield

Refugee notice WWII
One of the notices in a refugee centre during World War II exhorting Belgian refugee women in an advanced state of pregnancy to register their names here. 1939-1945

Making a discovery
Whilst sketching in the gardens of a church, Dr Syntax notices the advances of a gentleman towards a young lady

Sangers Circus USA stall, Haverfordwest, South Wales
Scene at Sangers Circus during its visit to Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, showing a USA-themed stall in a field

House requisition WWII
Empty houses in Chelsea are requisitioned by the Town Clerk for refugees and bear this notice on their doors during World War II

Newsagent & Much More - Oxford
Sawyers Newsagent, Stationer, Confectioner and Tobacconist in Oxford. A magnificent photographic postcard showing a General Store on an Oxford street selling pretty much anything you can imagine

The House Agent s. An Estate Agent looks through a large ledger detailing House to Let

A New Way of Posting a Libel

News from the War
Citizens of St Petersburg read notices posted on walls, telling them how the war with Japan is going

News from the War 2
Due to press censorship, residents of St Petersburg learn how the war with Japan is progressing from notices posted on walls

Boxing Day / Cruikshank
Scene featuring puns on boxing day : a child has his ears boxed; two men are boxing; notices advertise coaches to Boxhill; boxes are carried on shoulders

Social / Paris Rain 1890
A rainy Paris street: a gentleman with his trousers rolled up notices a lady holding up her skirts

James Watt as a Boy
JAMES WATT as a boy, he notices the force of steam in the family kettle, and this starts him thinking

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