Open Collection (page 4)

Opening ceremony by Queen Victoria, Great Exhibition 1851
25, 000 grangers and dignitaries with season tickets attending the grand opening by Queen Victoria on the 1st of May 1851 of the temporary glass structure, The Great Exhibition, Hyde Park, London

Party of people picnicking at Henley Regatta
A party of people picnicking at the Henley Royal Regatta, an annual rowing event held on the River Thames near the town of Henley-on-Thames, South Oxfordshire. Date: July 1888

The output of the Duke of Choiseul (1719-1785) of St. Peter
Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691-1765). Italian painter. The output of the Duke of Choiseul (1719-1785) of St. Peters Square in Rome, 1754. Gemaldegalerie. Berlin. Germany

Group of working men with a dog, France
Group of working men sitting on barrels, with a dog, France. Date: circa 1920s

Three women with a dog at an open window
Three women with a Jack Russell terrier at an open window. Date: circa 1900s

British soldiers bathing in the open air, WW1
British soldiers bathing in the open air during hot weather on the Western Front, World War One. Date: circa 1916

Man checking car engine in a field
A man in shorts, checking his car engine while parked in a field

Meissonier on Location
ERNEST MEISSONIER French artist, famous for his military scenes, sketched at work in the open air, while his dog sleeps. Date: 1815-1891

LFDCA-LFB Vintage fire engine in a Clapham street
A former Middlesex Fire Brigade pump escape which was visiting Clapham fire station. Middlesex was absorbed into the enlarged London Fire Brigade in 1965 with the creation of the Greater London

Victoria Park, London
A charming view of the boating lake at Victoria Park, London, the largest open space in Londons East End. Date: 1950s

Open gateway into an Italian garden
An open gateway into an Italian garden. The statue of a boy is framed inside the archway

Barnardos Ever Open Door, Southampton
Exterior of Barnardos Ever Open Door hostel, Southampton Date: circa 1905

Lloyd George and Balfour in Paris, WW1
David Lloyd George (left), British Prime Minister, and Arthur James Balfour (right), British Foreign Secretary, riding in an open topped car

Entrance to Bishops Palace, St Davids, South Wales
The wide gothic-style entrance to the medieval Bishops Palace, with a man standing at the open gate, in St David s, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Blackpools Tram Cars
Blackpools Luxury Tram Cars, including double ( Balloon ) and single decker varieties and a fully open boat tram. Many of these vintage tramcars are still running

Vintage Car and grand building
An enormous open-top saloon/sedan luxury car standing in front of an impressive arcaded facade/entrance to a large building

Malta - Piazza Pont Anna Floriana with two open-sided, trams

A Happy Party of Little Motorists. Six young children are taken for a spin in an open-top car. They are all wrapped up warm against the elements. Date: circa 1905

Police Ambulance - London
A fantastic photograph (hand-coloured) of a Police Ambulance in London, with open cab and a large alarm bell fixed at the front

Spanish Republican Refugees heading for the French Border, 1
Photograph showing some of the Republican refugees who fled Spain for France after the Fall of Barcelona, January 1939. In the first two days the French border was open in 1939, 35

Victoria-Albert / Carriage
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert taking an airing in Hyde Park, London in a fine open carriage led by four blinkered greys

New London Bridge Open
The opening of new London Bridge - barges on the Thames, crowds on the shore, flags flying and a balloon over Southwark cathedral

Race to Gretna / Newhouse
ONE MILE FROM GRETNA A couple desperate to marry race to Gretna Green in a four horse open top carriage but are pursued by those who wish to stop them

Open Gateway
An open gateway with a fine gas lamp hanging at the point of the arch and two large wooden doors both opened fully. The open portal reveals a view though to an attractive small stone house in

Hadrians Wall / Winshields
A view of a section of Hadrians Wall at Winshields. The wall marked the northern limits of the Roman Empire, and was ordered by the Emperor on a visit to Britain in AD122

16Thc Dentist
A barber surgeon treats a patient in the open air

Royal Procession 1804
The Royal procession takes king George III to Westminster to open Parliament

Baseball in a Field
A game of baseball in an open field, spectators round the perimeter : a formally dressed umpire watches as the pitcher makes his run-up from the centre of the diamond

Song of Sixpence 19C
When the pie was open the birds began to sing, and wasn t that a dainty dish to set before a king?

Covenanters prayer meeting in the glen of Drumclog, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, prior to the Battle of Drumclog, Sunday 1 June 1679

Comic postcard, People falling out of car on bumpy ride
Comic postcard, People falling out of a car on a bumpy ride Date: 20th century

Arab Bazaar, Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1906

Comic postcard, Scotsmen wearing wrong kilts after going for a swim Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, People in a charabanc for Coronation
Comic postcard, People in a charabanc, going to the Coronation Date: 20th century

Lady in two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage. circa 1890

Advert for the Lagoon, swimming pool, Orpingon 1933
Advertisement for The Lagoon in Orpington, Kent, an outdoor swimming pool measuring 200 feet by 75 feet and opened in 1933

Le Contretemps - Peeping-Tom spying on a fashionable lady
Le Contretemps - A Peeping-Tom spying on a fashionable lady in a bedroom

Thomas Rowlandson, The Honeymoon - When the old fool has drunk his wine, and gone to rest - I will be thine. circa 1816

Bottlenose dolphin, underwater, blowing heart shaped bubbles. Digital manipulation

Riddarholm Place, Stockholm, Sweden, showing Senate House and Statue of Gustavus Vasa. 1819

Kazakh yurt - exterior, with open door. 20th century

Londons Grand Guignol, Little Theatre, Adelphi, London
Londons Grand Guignol, Little Theatre, John Street, Adelphi, London. circa 1920s

Blackpools Tram Cars
Blackpools Luxury Streamline Tram Cars, including double ( Balloon ) and single decker varieties and a fully open boat tram

Iron & Steel Co, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada
Blast furnaces and open hearth, Dominion Iron & Steel Company, Sydney Harbour, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Date: circa 1905

Kaiser Wilhelm I and his grandson - future Kaiser Wilhelm II
Kaiser Wilhelm I (1797-1888) and his grandson - future Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941) waving to crowds (seemingly) below - A Greeting to the People. Date: 1887

Old lady leans out of her house window - St Martin, France
An old lady leans out of her house window and pokes a rose bush with a stick. St Martin, μe de R, France Date: 1991

Corner shop Stoke
A man wearing an overcoat walks past two children and a newsagents corner shop in a rundown area of Stoke on Trent Date: 1987

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