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C J M Barbaroux
Charles Jean Marie BARBAROUX (1767-1794) French scientific writer and revolutionary who joined the Girondins and alas, paid the price on the guillotine at Bordeaux. Date: circa 1790

Stationery, C E Julian & Sons, Truro, Cornwall
Stationery, C E Julian & Sons, Family Purveyors and Poultry Dealers, 4 Pydar Street, Truro, Cornwall, with handwritten details. 1919

Thanet VAD Motor Transport Group and stretcher bearers outside The Yarrow Home for Convalescent Children (date - journal). Sir Alfred Yarrow opened this home in 1894

Yarrow Military Hospital, rear view
Yarrow Military Hospial, Broadstairs, rear view. Sir Alfred Yarrow (1842-1932), shipbuilder and philanthropist, opened the home in c. 1895

Nurses, Yarrow Military Hospitsal
Group of fifteen female nursing staff, taken at the Yarrow Military Hospital, Broadstairs in December 1914. The women are, with one possible exception, the one standing 4th left

WW2 era poster advertising H Samuel jewellers for good watches and fine jewellery, with a photograph of a soldier looking at his watch. Date: early 1940s

Paid Out In Washers. Old Dog Track, Stockton on Tees 1970s Date: 1970s

Foden Steam Lorry - Wagon Accident, Unknown Location
Foden Steam Lorry/Wagon Accident, Unknown Location, . Paid for by an Ocean Motor Policy Date: 1910s

Suffragette Old Man Paid to the Cause. A suffragette addresses a gathering of women. Speaker says, My old man paid 100 to the cause for every day I was in jail

WW2 poster, De Havilland productivity -- lost last week 1034 working hours, a gift to German industry, reward of national gratitude will be paid for their recovery

Man protesting against playing of football during WW1
Frederick Nicholas Charrington (a member of the brewing family) protesting against the playing of football during the First World War

Rent-Payer Murdered
Tenant farmer James Brennan, who has paid his rent contrary to Land League instructions, is shot by moonlighters through a window while sitting with his brother. Date: 14 December 1880

Weighing Barge Load
Calculating the weight of a barge load by displacement of water, on the Grand Union Canal, England. Barges are paid according to weight of freight being carried. Date: 1950s

Actor delighted to receive news of well paid role
Theatrical Appointment - Ten Quid a week. An actor delighted to receive news of his forthcoming lucrative contract! Date: 1892

Bailiff very well treated
Bailiff (who has been very well treated and settled with) - " Well good-bye, Sir. See you again soon, Sir, I ope!" Date: 1902

Maria Theresa (1717-1780). Empress of Austria (1740) of the House of Habsburg. The painting was made as a present for Flandes, which paid for the empress dress. Oil on canvas. BELGIUM. Ghent

Shwedagon Pagoda -propitiating Gnats - Rangoon

Settlement Certificate from Newington, Oxfordshire
A 1747 settlement certificate relating to Alecksander and Marcy Chalk of Newington, Oxfordshire. The certificate guaranteed that if the Chalks needed poor relief while living elsewhere

The town-hall, Charleston, Ills. where Lincoln addressed the people of the town when he paid his last visit to his stepmother in February 1861

Kishineff must be paid for - with interest. Illustration shows Nicholas II, emperor of Russia, sitting on a throne, wearing a large skull topped with a cross as a crown; a Japanese man is offering

Street music: Unwelcome musician, c. 1835
A rotund servant bribes a noisy street musician with three pence to move on, as his playing is disturbing the master of the house

Prince George naming the new lifeboat, Walton, Essex
Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902-1942), at the naming ceremony of the new lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. The boat was named EMED

Great Dane has X-Ray
A Great Dane lies quietly as an x-ray is taken of his front paw, which was an ultra-modern piece of equipment paid for by donations by animal lovers when this picture was taken. Date: late 1960s

Recruitment poster, Train to Win, featuring a woman in nurses uniform. Apply to the Employment Exchange, government training schemes with paid allowances. Aimed specifically at women. 1940s

Air cadet on Pay Parade
Cartoon of an RAF trainee air cadet at Heaton Park, Manchester during World War Two eyeing up money at a Pay Parade (at which the cadets are paid)

Matchbox making at home, East End of London
A woman with her three children engaged in making matchboxes at their home in the East End of London. The work, which involved pasting and assembling the boxes, was notoriously badly paid

Poor Rate Receipt, Kidderminster Union
A receipt for a poor rate payment by A Gristwood of the Borough of Bewdley to the Kidderminster Union in September 1923. The Unions operation was financed by the poor rate - the forerunner of

Lear / Nonsense / Rhodes
There was an Old Person of Rhodes, who strongly objected to toads; He paid several cousins, to catch them by the dozens, that futile Old Person of Rhodes

The Ashanti War (1873-74) - paying woman porters
Here women porters or carriers from the Fante tribe (under British protection) are being paid at Cape Coast Castle. The second Ashanti War fought between, 1873-74, was between King Kofi Karikari

Gold Shovelled like Coal. A Curiosity of a Siberian Mine. Spa
Illustration from sketches by Special Artist Julius Price in Siberia showing Russian women working on the Siberian gold mines, shovelling ore like coal. Women are paid badly, worse than men

Birthplace of Sir John Franklin, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, 1859
Engraving showing the house in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, where the British naval commander and explorer, Sir John Franklin, was born in 1786

Thomas Guy
Born in 1644, Guy completed his education and went on to represent Tamworth in Parliament. He moved to London and spent eight years as a booksellers apprentice

The Second Mexican indemnity on its way to Vera Cruz, 1846
Engraving showing a party of men on mules, carrying the gold of the second indemnity from the Mexican Government to the United States Government, ont their way to Vera Cruz, 1846

Thomas Guys tomb
The tomb of Thomas Guy in the chapel at Guys hospital. Born in 1644, he completed his education and went on to represent Tamworth in Parliament

Policeman and Children, West India Docks, London, 1936
Photograph showing a policeman surrounded by children from the East End of London, prior to their setting off on a day trip to the countryside, at West India Docks, London, 1936

A help yourself grocery - checkout
Photograph taken from a United States supermarket in 1948, where Britains queues and rations are unknown, showing a woman being served at the checkout

Household Shopping Without Tears
The coffee counter of an American supermarket, untroubled by rationing in 1948. The concept of the supermarket where all manner of goods could be bought in one place

A help yourself grocery
Photograph taken from a United States supermarket in 1948, where Britains queues and rations are unknown. The concept of the supermarket where all manner of goods could be bought in one place

Large Welsh Banquet / 1846
The Cyfarthfa Banquet given by William Crawshay to the ladies of Merthyr Tydfil and the vicinity in acknowledgement of the high honour paid to his son and bride on their return

A French Collector
A French collector has just paid a successful visit to the marche aux puces (flea market)

Tax Receipt 1802
Receipt for taxes paid by William Deedham, including Window Tax, Male Servant, Carriages & Horses, but no dog. All this set him back upwards of 23 pounds

Hester Thrale / Home
HENRY AND HESTER THRALE Thrale Place, Streatham, where Dr Samuel Johnson paid frequent visits to his friends, Henry and Hester Thrale

Ransom Money Paid
Ransom money is paid to Turks to release captured French knights

Cable Passing Out
The cable passes out from the hold of the Great Eastern onto the deck where it is paid out : a team of crewmen keep constant watch to make sure it runs smoothly

Tips all Round
The traveller has paid his bill and leaves the inn, only to find that every man and womans hand is raised against him

CAB RUNNER
He waits at a railway station for passengers with a lot of luggage, then he runs beside their cab hoping to be paid for helping to unload the luggage at their destination

Tolls 15th Century
Flemish merchants pay a toll in order to cross a bridge - tolls were paid on entering a town or crossing bridges or passing through some lords lands

Tate Gallery Postcard
The Tate Gallery, Millbank, London, opened in 1897 : the architect is Sidney R J Smith Junior, and Sir Henry Tate, the sugar refiner, paid for it out of his own pocket

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