Pool Collection (page 17)

Swimming Pool aboard a ship of the NYK Line, running the route between California and Japan. Date: circa 1920s

WW2 - Rationing of petrol illustrated on this postcard, a little boy relaint on his ration book to keep his car running! Date: circa 1942

Billiards Illustrated - Spot Barred
A relaxing Vicar, just about to don his tripey bathing suit and take a dip at a likelt spot, is thwarted by a zealous landowner

Public Washing facility - Antibes, France
Public Washing facility ( Lavoir ) - Antibes, France Date: circa 1910s

Outdoor Bathing Pool, Folkestone, Kent. 165 long and 75 wide. Possibly the opening day, suggested by the queue to get in, the brass band ready to play and the bunting out! Date: circa 1930s

Iran - Qom - Lady Fatima Ma-Sumah (Mosque)
Iran - Qom - The spectacular Lady Fatima Ma-Sumah Mosque. Date: circa 1920

Crystal Cave, Hamilton Sound, Bermuda
Stalactites in the Crystal Cave, Hamilton Sound, Bermuda Date: circa 1910s

Bathing pool, Castle Harbour Hotel, Bermuda Date: circa 1940

Silurian landplants
An artists impression of the the earliest vascular plants which developed beside freshwater pools during the Silurian (443 to 417 million years ago)

The Emperors Pike
Late 17th or early 18th century oil painting by an unknown artist of the pike which is reputed to have lived in a pool in Lautern for 267 years

MARTI i ALSINA, Ramon (1826-1894). River pool. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Monistrol de Montserrat. Museum of Montserrat

A garden pool. ca. 1350 BC. 18th Dynasty. Wall painting from the tomb of Nebamun. Egyptian art. New Kingdom. Painting. UNITED KINGDOM. London. The British Museum. Proc: EGYPT. Luxor. Thebes

Sacred Turtle pool - Rangoon - Sacred Turtle pool Date: 1952

Shwedagon Sacred Pool - Rangoon - filled with stagnant green water, being dribbled into eyes, ears, and mouth from dipped fingers. Date: 1952

Red Sea - Sudan - S.S.Salween shipboard swimming pool and play area - not normally supplied - but vital as there were lots of children. Date: 1951

Entrance to Kensington & Chelsea District School, Banstead
Entrance to the Kensington & Chelsea District School for pauper children at Banstead, Surrey (later known as Beechholme). As well as cottage homes, each housing 40 children

The fish in the pool. Source unknown

Fairies washing

The Story of Pear Blossom. From Jack and Jill Book 1963

Fliptail the Otter

Children playing montage

Boy on Beach
A boy on a rock-strewn beach discovers the wonders of the mighty deep : perhaps he will grow up to be a marine biologist ? Date: 1910

Slippery pole sack fighting at a London Fire Brigade sports event

Firefighters night out at the Festival Gardens, Battersea
Firefighters enjoying a night out with dolphins at the Festival Gardens, Battersea, SW London

NFS (London Region) Southall horse rescue, WW2
Firefighters from K2Z Southall fire station area attempting to rescue a horse that fell into a deep, water filled ditch and was unable to get out unaided

Samuel Clemens, half-length portrait, standing at end of pool table. Date c1908 Jan. 11

Laundry in a hot spring - Reykjavik, Iceland
Women do their household laundry in a hot pool - Reykjavik, Iceland. Date: circa 1910s

Salzburg, Horse Pool, Austro-Hungary. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

La mare aux biches

A Pool Room Branch (Chouteau & Manchester). These boys were
1353 - - - A Pool Room Branch (Chouteau & Manchester). These boys were playing pool and smoking in the pool room while waiting for papers

The Pool of Hezekiah, Jerusalem, Holy Land. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Activity in pool and barroom, Pilottown, Louisiana. Date 1938 Sept

Swimming pool built by children of town, Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Date 1938 July

Construction workers playing pool in company commissary, Shasta Dam. Shasta County, California. Date 1940 Dec

Sea Urchins by Charles Robinson
Lovely illustration showing two girls in pretty swimsuits finding a small baby in a rock pool. Date: 1927

Pool hall. Shasta County, California. Date 1940 Nov

Sapphire Pool, Yellowstone National Park. Date c1902

Five polar bears on holiday at London Zoo
Visitors to London Zoo in 1911 were attracted to the bear pits where five young performing bears, the property of Doris del Monte of Copenhagen, were spending a weeks holiday

Titanic - the greatest shipwreck in the world
Double page spread from The Sphere showing interior views of the White Star passenger liner, RMS Titanic, including the luxurious Parisian cafe, the gymnasium

View from Charing Cross Bridge and Pool of London
View from Charing Cross Bridge (top), showing the River Thames, Cleopatras Needle on the left and St Pauls Cathedral in the middle distance

Titanic - Palatial appointments of the liner sunk after iceb
A double page spread from the Illustrated London News following the sinking of the Titanic, showing some of the most well appointed interiors of the luxurious ship including a four-poster bed in

The Garnet Pool. White Mountains. People looking at a river pool at sunset in the American countryside. Date: ca. 1865

Persian Garden - Chiraz, Iran
Chiraz (Shiraz) in southwestern Iran - a Persian Garden Date: circa 1910s

Manin swimming pool
The hot summer 1943. A man takes a refreshing bath in the swimming pool. Date: 24th July 1943

German couple bathing in a pool
To enable Fritz and Frau to cool their portly persons -- a plump German couple bathing in a swimming pool, watched by two slimmer people sitting on a diving board

Bagh-e Fin at Kashan, Iran
Fin Garden, or Bagh-e Fin, located in Kashan, Iran - a historical Persian garden. Within the garden is Kashans Fin Bath, where Amir Kabir, the Qajarid chancellor

A Romp on the Rocks
Little boy gets too close to the crabs claws Date: Circa 1880

Mill Pool Geese
Geese on a mill pool, a scene in Northamptonshire, England. Date: 1960s

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