Plain Collection

WW2 poster, We shall not flag, Winston Churchill speech
WW2 poster, We shall not flag, we shall not fail. Winston Churchill speech, 4 June 1940. Date: 1940

Leon Trotsky / Iln 1920
LEON TROTSKY or LEV DAVIDOVICH BRONSTEIN Russian Communist leader in 1920, at the height of his popularity as the Peoples Commissar for War

Slieve Gallion - a view across a plain with farmhouses and fields to the mountain in the distance. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry). Date: circa early 1900s

Longest Day at Stonehenge, Wiltshire
People gathering at Stonehenge, Wiltshire on the longest day of the year, on or near 21 June 1912. This photograph shows a daybreak pilgrimage by members of The Universal Bond of the Sons of Men

LCC-LFB engines and crews, Whitechapel fire station
Located at 27 Commercial Road, East London, Whitechapel fire station opened in 1874. It was also a superintendent station (district headquarters) and was known as Station No 27

Glastonbury Tor / 1908
Glastonbury Tor seen from the plain of Avalon

Adana, Turkey - The Bridge
Adana, capital of Adana Province in south east Turkey. The ancient Antioch on the Sarus. One of the largest cities in Turkey - the gateway to the Cilician Plain

Old Sarum Plan
An exact plan and section of the castle of Old Sarum, above Salisbury Plain, showing the East or Kings Gate, the West, or Queens Gate and its proximity to the River Avon

East View of Old Sarum
East view of the ancient city and castle of Old Sarum, above Salisbury Plain. The Celts referred to it as Sorviadum meaning the fortress by the gentle river (the River Avon)

Watney, Combe, Reid & Co Illustration
An advertisement illustration for Watney, Combe, Reid & Co, a leading brewery in London, simply showing the phrase What we want is Watneys, on a plain brick wall. Date: circa 1939

Traffic Police C. 1900
Three police officers, one in uniform and two in plain clothes working together to catch speeding motorists. The two plain clothed policemen hold stopwatches

WW1 B Lines, Bulford Camp, Bulford, Amesbury, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England. Date: 1910s

Fly agaric, Agaricus muscarius.. Fly agaric, Agaricus muscarius. Chromolithograph of an illustration by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke from A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi, Robert Hardwicke

Lattice fungus, Clathrus cancellatus.. Lattice fungus, Clathrus cancellatus. Chromolithograph of an illustration by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke from A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi

Public schoolboys at Tidworth Pennings camp
Boys enjoying the camp bath at Tidworth Pennings camp on Salisbury Plain, where four thousand public schoolboys of the Junior Division of the Officers Training Corps were put through their paces by

Princess Diana and Prince Charles visiting the Met Police
Princess Diana and Prince Charles on a visit to the Metropolitan Polices burglary squad. Date: circa 1980s

Sanitary ware, Plate 42, showing wash basins, urinals and toilet bowls in a range of styles. Date: circa 1880s

Lincolnshire Scenery
The flat plain and a rolling sky : this picture is typical of south Lincolnshire, England and was taken near Boston, on the Boston to Heckington road. Date: 1930s

Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England. circa 2008

Sotnia of Cossack Women
Sotnia of female Cossack cavalry exercise on the Nikolsk-Oussourisk plain

Costume / Orange Seller
London characters: an ORANGE GIRL offers her wares to passers-by in the street, a valuable source of vitamin C if they only knew it

Shepperton Flood 1929
Three men wading through the River Thames, towing a boat loaded with a crate containing a large sow, part of the animal farm belonging to Mrs. Brown of Shepperton, England

Samuel Cody & Wife
At Laffans Plain, Aldershot in Hampshire, Mrs Cody, (as a passenger) becomes the first woman ever to fly in England

view of the town of Cardigan, Wales
Vintage 19th century photograph - view of the town of Cardigan, Wales

Emetic mushroom, Russula emetica 1, and orange cups, Peziza aurantia 2.. Emetic mushroom, Russula emetica 1, and orange cups, Peziza aurantia 2

Plain of Notre Dame de Lorette from Souchez, WW1
Ablain St. Nazaire - plain of Notre Dame de Lorette from Souchez. By Captain Edward Handley-Read, RBA (1869-1935), Machine Gun Corps

Liverpool Philharmonic Hall exterior, 1849
The exterior of the then-new Liverpool Philharmonic Concert Hall, at the time of the Liverpool Music Festival, 1849. The style is described by The Illustrated London News as " Roman-Italian

Kerensky / K Bulla
ALEKSANDR FYODOROVICH KERENSKY Russian Revolutionary leader

Costume / 13th C Nobility
A medieval nobleman and his wife: he wears armour and carries a sword; her plain white dress is decorated with embroidery and ermine

Country Hunt in India
Sporty Englishmen are accompanied by a motley pack of hounds as they seek to recapture the glory of the chase on an Indian plain

New Woman Poster ?1896
The New Woman: a bookish frumpy young woman in plain clothes & monocle sits on a stool surrounded by improving books. She also smokes judging by the cigarette in the corner

Plain-Wanderer
COLLARED PLAIN WANDERER pedionomus torquatus Only one species is known, and it lives in Australia

Anarchist Conspirators in London - Arrest at Club Autonomie
Arrest at Club Autonomie - struggle to handcuff an anarchist. Date: 1894

Suffragettes Plain Things at Meeting. A bevy of buck-toothed, grinning suffragettes applaud the speaker at a Votes for Women meeting

CAT - Persian cat in hat and tie

WW1 Soldiers Preparing for Camp, Bulford Camp, Bulford, Amesbury, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England. Date: 1910s

Interior of church, Heuru, San Cristobal, Solomon Islands
Interior of church, Heuru, San Cristobal (Makira), Solomon Islands. Date: 1906

Balaclava and sleeping cap knitting patterns, WW1
Patterns from a plain helmet or balaclava cap (top) and a sleeping cap taken from a Great War era Baldwins knitting booklet with instructions for knitting various comforts for soldiers at the front

A Plain Power Loom, linen production, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

Linen manufacture, Plain power loom Date: late 19th century

Bristol Challenger-England at Salisbury Plain, May 19th 1912 Date: 1912

Plain coating loom in a woollen mill in Bradford, Yorkshire, late Victorian period

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, Miss Purl And Plain
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. Miss Purl and Plain don't look the same but they should both be crowned with fame, long hours they knit for the boys out there

Chapel, Commanderie templiere d'Avalleur, Bar-sur-Seine
Chapel and commanderie templiere d'Avalleur, or Templar commandery of Avalleur, aerial view, founded 1167 and used by the Knights Templar until 1312 when the order was dissolved

Battle of Otumba (7th July 7, 1520). Confrontation between the army of the Aztecs against Spanish troops led by Hernan Cortes

Shell Motor Spirit Silver Trophy, Samuel Cody Archive
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: The Shell Motor Spirit Silver Trophy, 1912, by Mappin and Webb, hallmarked London 1912, with fine model of Cody?s Flyer, Type No

View of Lingmethang plain, Bhutan, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to capture Lhasa

Advert, Great Player's cigarettes, with cricketers
Advert, Great Player's Medium Navy Cut cigarettes, with caricatures of cricketers (cards to collect) Date: 1926

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