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Wind in Willows / Grahame
Wind in Willows/Grahame

Badger & Mole / Willow
Badger & Mole on their way to rescue the Toad: " Crossing the hall, they passed down one of the principal tunnels". Date: First published: 1908

Admiral Nelson and Captain Hardy during Trafalgar
During the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, it was shortly before Nelson was mortally wounded that a shot struck the fore brace bits on the quarter deck and passed between Nelson and Hardy

His Masters Vice
Bonzo asleep with his head in a glass after helping himself to the Masters drinks supply. Date: circa 1922

Tower Bridge 1930S
A close-up photograph of Tower Bridge, a bascule bridge and a famous London landmark, closing after a steamship has passed through it

Fruits of Idleness - a young man has passed out from drinking too much alcohol. circa 1830s

Boats at Boulters Lock, Berkshire, 1907
Photograph showing the crowd of boats queuing for Boulters Lock, Berkshire, on Ascot Sunday, 1907. The day this picture was taken 1300 boats passed through the lock

Wwi / Italy / Sacile Advance
Following their victorious crossing of the Piave and Monticano, British troops passed through Sacile over hastily-made pontoon bridges

Fox Meet in Street Aldin
All involved in the fox hunt make their way along the street, while a mongrel dog and lesser folk are passed by

Cartoon of David Lloyd-George as Queen Victoria, 1911
Cartoon of David Lloyd-George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, then Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer, who had just passed the National Insurance Act and thereby earnt The Bystanders scorn

Fruits of Freedom, A Free America, WW2 patriotic cover
Fruits of Freedom, A Free America, WW2 patriotic postal cover envelope passed by US Army Examiner Date: 1941

How syphilis is passed on, 1920s projection slide

Raiders Passed!
An illustrated front cover for Raiders Passed!, written by John Hunter, no. 1 in the pulp fiction series, The Sexton Blake Library. Date: circa 1940s

Comic Score Card for Bridge Playing Card Game No. 6 Date: 1920s

Miss Mollie Dangar
A portrait pencil drawing of Mary Beatrice Dangar, or Miss Mollie Dangar, the later wife of A. Denis Wigram Allen, an Australian solicitor and aviator

Cameo portraits of seven Allied Generals
Posted from the BEF in France the card shows the team United against the Barbarians'. Passed by Censor 1332. WW1 Date: 1915

Len Murray Lionel Baron Epping Forest 1922 2004
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Hunterian Museum Royal College Surgeons Iln Import
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A sing-song in the British Embassy at Madrid, during the early stages of the Spanish Civil War, 1936. A number of British citizens in Madrid had sought refuge in the Embassy

Salmon in Canada - Canning
Photograph showing a long stream of cans of salmon rolling through the machine, each turn hermetically sealed in closed tins in which the fish is preserved. Date: late 1890s

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - That ll stop your careless talk
The Caption is P raps that ll stop your careless talk!. Three little kids cover-up a younger toddlers mouth with a spotty hankerchief

Holy Trinity Church, in Marylebone, Westminster, London, is a Grade I listed former Anglican church, built in 1828 by Sir John Soane

Passed by the censor. Article in Britannia & Eve, 1942, giving advice about writing to men posted abroad in wartime. Date: 1942

Gas Bus the first one [in photo] was in public service between Kingston and Epsom Downs yesterday [2 Nov 1939]. Towed by the bus, the trailer produces gas from a stove burning solid fules

THE TAUBE HAS PASSED
LE TAUBE EST PASSE A German aircraft has just passed, machine-gunning civilian women.. fact ? or French propaganda ? Date: 1916

Heinkel He162A-2 Red 2 (Werknummer 120227 / Air Min 65 / VN679 / 8472M). One of eleven He 162s captured and delivered to the Royal Aircraft Establishment

Happy Easter - German greetings card showing a young lad, his large green shorts held up by red braces, wheeling a basket of Easter Eggs passed a group of rather non-plussed chickens! circa 1910s

Travel Through Egypt
Girls of Araby. Arabian women in traditional costume carrying fruit and wine. Hilda Dix Sandford illustrated this image as her ship passed through the Suez Canal en rooute to Australia circa 1908

Thames wherry being passed by a steam ferry - Essex, England
Thames wherry (with many-times-repaired sails) being passed by a steam ferry - off the coast of Essex, England. Date: 1911

Death of King George V - the last bulletin, 20th January 1936. Date: 1936

Couple water skiing passed the Hotel Saint Georges, Beirut
A couple water skiing passed the Hotel Saint Georges, Beirut, Lebanon. Date: circa 1911

LFCDA-LFB Southwark training school squad group photo
Recruit squad group photograph (listed as 12/87), with Station Officer instructor Trevor Dean. After the recruits have passed their final exams they are deemed probationer firemen

GLC-LFB Southwark training school squad group photo
Recruit squad group photograph (listed as 14/79), with Station Officer instructor, after the recruits have passed their final exams and are now deemed probationer firemen

Colonel Victor Barker aka Valerie Arkell-Smith (1895-1960) a woman who passed herself off as a man and did not tell his wife when they married

Intoxication - drawing by Paris-based artist Jan Olitzki - a woman has passed out under the effects of a heavy night on the tiles - in so doing her top has unfortunately descended

Passed by the Censor
Officers of an unknown battalion and regiments pose for their official photograph. Nobody can see who they are however as they are all wearing gas masks

A Sectional Boat used by Sir Henry Morton Stanley in Africa
Engraving of a sectional boat, used by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) during his 1874 expedition to central Africa, being carried by a number of local porters

School Certificate
G Percy Carter of the Asylum for Fatherless Children Reedham, Surrey passed " Excellent" in Geometry of the first grade for children in elementary day schools

Solar Eclipse 1919
The eclipse of the sun - a photograph taken by British observers in Brazil, showing the prominence, like an explosion, which passed around the sun

The Farmers Wife by Eden Phillpotts (4 November 1862 29 December 1960). First produced at the Repertory Theatre, Birmingham, on 11th November 1916 and at the Royal Court Theatre, on 11th March 1924

Mourning card, King George V
Mourning card, In Loving Memory of His Majesty King George V who passed peacefully away January 20th 1936. R.I.P. Date: 1936

Reform / 1832 / Birmingham
Political Unions gather at New-Hall Hill, Birmingham, to press the case for the Reform Bill. The Bill was passed successfully through the House of Lords on 7 June 1832. Date: May 1832

Cartoon, Ten centuries have passed, WW1
Cartoon, Ten centuries have passed. An allegorical female representing the medieval period holds the famous sword named Durandal (or Durendal), from the time of Charlemagne

WW2 birthday card, dog in uniform, passed by censor (inside). Date: circa 1942

China - Hong Kong shweing peak and peak railway
Lantern slide of Hong Kong shweing peak and peak railway. In 1881 Alexander Findlay Smith first put the project of a Peak Railway into shape

WW1 Recruitment Poster -- A Resolution
Recruitment poster, printed by A Thom and Company, Dublin. A Resolution passed in the Trenches. By an Irish Regiment (2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment)

Envelope from Firminy, near Dunkirk, WW1
Envelope containing a letter dated 29 January 1915 from the architect and artist Ormerod Maxwell Ayrton (1874-1960) to his uncle Alfred Ayrton at Lloyds Bank, Chester, England

Searchlight command by G. H. Davis
Searchlight command: the men who point the way for Britains anti-aircraft guns and night fighters during the Second World War

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