Plucky Collection

WW2 - Chef cooking in a bombed-out street - Blitz, London
WW2 - His restaurant and kitchen destroyed by German bombing, a Chef continues to cook al fresco in a bombed-out street - Blitz, London. Date: circa 1941

Robin in the trenches, WW1 by Philip Dadd
Sat on the End of my Bayonet like a bloomin Christmas Card, he did. Illustration depicting an incident described by a private soldier, writing home during the winter campaign of 1914-15

The Channel Scorcher - Fantasy Card showing an Aviator
The Channel Scorcher - Fantasy Card depicting a plucky cross-channel Aviator! Louis Bleriot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft on 25th July 1909

A Dramatic Rescue
A daring rescue : when a woman stumbles on the line at Bois- Colombes she is saved by a plucky railwayman from emulating Tolstoys heroine Anna Karenina... Date: 1900

Rosita Forbes at Jaghbub crossing the Sahara Desert
Rosita Forbes (1890-1967), English travel writer and explorer at Jaghbub (a remote desert oasis village in the eastern Libyan Desert)

Football Terms Illustrated - A Plucky Try - Running for bus
(Rugby) Football Terms. Illustrated. A Plucky Try. A rather portly and ruddy-cheeked Mother and her sailor suit-clad son make a futile attempt to catch their bus after a busy morning at the shops

Scouting Benefits
Before joining the scouts, a boy gets into all kinds of trouble : when he joins, he becomes resourceful, plucky and keen as mustard

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