Posts Collection

Haltwhistle Milecastle
A view toward the Haltwhistle milecastle, on the southern side of Hadrians Wall. The milecastles served as stationing posts along the length of the wall system

Izmir (Smyrna) - Torbali
A rather chaotic scene at the Horse Racing course at Torbali close to Izmir (Smyrna)

Scene with lobster pots at Beesands, Start Bay, Devon
Scene with lobster pots and rowing boats at Beesands, Start Bay, Devon. circa 1970s

Mikhail Kalinin
MIKHAIL IVANOVICH KALININ Russian statesman, cofounder of Pravda, held many senior posts in Soviet government

Vyacheslav Molotov
VYACHESLAV MIKHAYLOVICH MOLOTOV, Russian statesman whose revolutionary career began in the 1905 rising, and played a leading part in 1917, followed by senior posts

Chap Posts a Letter
A smart cyclist stops to pop a letter into a Royal Mail letterbox

Lady Posts Letter 1906
A lady goes out in her evening dress and cloak to post a letter in a London street

England Vs Wales 1902
A penalty kick sails between the posts, giving Wales a 9-8 victory over England at Rectory Field, Blackheath, England

Posting Letter into Sack
A woman posts her letter into a postmans sack which he carries around with him

WWII September 1939 Circular sandbag redoubt
Anti-aircraft post on the East Coast constructed of sandbags, formed in the first week of the Second World War. Date: 1939

Lion Brewery
The Lion Brewery Co is a British heritage brewery that was founded in 1836 in Lambeth, London. For over a hundred years, the brewery shipped its heavily-hopped ales to trading posts

WW2 Birthday Card, Keep Smiling!
A WW2 birthday greeings card, Blessed are they who do not keep awake at night - But dream of happier times ahead! The image portrays a content old man asleep in bed

Sir George Robert Tyler
A portrait photograph of the Right Honourable The Lord Mayor 1893-4, Sir George Robert Tyler, he held other posts including Sherriff of London for 1891-2, councilman and alderman from 1887

Sea Platform
A watercolour painting of a small lantern lit viewing spot, upon a platform lined with wooden posts on the calm sea. Date: circa 1914

In Memoriam, Heroic Musicians of the Titanic who died at their posts like men - Wallace Hartley, bandleader and violinist; Percy C Taylor, cellist; Georges Krins, violinist; Roger Bricoux

British Army, Light Refreshments, Heath Robinson
British Army, illustration by W Heath Robinson. Captioned Our Special Artist with The British Army: The Relay System for Conveying Light Refreshment to Advanced Posts'

Britain's First Foreign Postcard
In 1875 postcards were first allowed to be sent abroad. A Congress in Berne in 1875 agreed to the formation of the General Union of Posts within which Members could send postcards to each other

Peter Hain, Labour politician, campaigning outside a bank
Peter Gerald Hain (b 1950), British Labour politician, has served in various ministerial posts, including Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales

American Indians. Salute to a dead chief in the far North We
North America Indians in passing a burial place never omit to pay respect to the memory of a Chief who has gone to the happy hunting ground

Proposed design published in The Illustrated London News for the cast-iron decorative street lamps that would align the River Thames on the Embankment, London. Date: 1870

Designs for the Electric Lamp on the Thames Embankment 1870
Proposed design by Timothy Butler of children climbing and an overflowing cornucopia. Published in ?The Illustrated London News

SULLA PROSCRIBES FOES
Sulla, now dictator, posts lists of proscribed citizens who oppose his politics, and are condemned to death Date: 81 BC

Umbrella Cottage, Lyme Regis, Dorset. Date: circa 1909

Rugby School and playing fields
The playing fields of Rugby School, where the game of Rugby football was allegedly started when a pupil (William Webb Ellis) picked up the ball and ran with it during a school football match in 1823

Advert, Mackenzie Brothers, Ironfounders, Edinburgh, Scotlan
Advert for Mackenzie Brothers, General Ironfounders, Slateford Road, Edinburgh, Scotland. 1905

Variety of Telegraph machinery including a Single needle telegraph of Cooke Date: circa 1850

RAF gunners keeping watch at their posts during a raid Date: circa 1940

Sad End of a German Spy Behind the British Line, WW1
The Sad End of a German Spy Behind the British Line. He foolishly endeavoured to obtain information from our sign boards!

Chief Justice John Jay 1794 Date: 1794

Group of nurses outside hospital
Large group of nurses and staff standing and seated at steps of hospital building, with two lamp posts on either side of door. Date: circa 1930

New public pillar post box 1857
New freestanding public post box of 1857, set up in the streets of Metropolis, designed by A. Copper, C.E. of Great George Street and Mr. W. J Wills superintended the ornamentation. Date: 1857

Telegraphic message boy
Telegraph boy employed to deliver telegrams, holding his leather satchel with an important sealed message, which is probably sent up by a Manchester or Birmingham manufacturer to one of the London

Maginot Line fortifications by G. H. Davis
With Asparagus anti-tank defences: Maginot Line fortifications at the start of the Second World War. A typical frontier work, with galleries within a hillside, leading to pill boxes

Flares in the night sky over a battlefield, WW1
Flares in the night sky over a battlefield during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Valentine Card / Cupid
Cupid posts a billet-doux - Sweet little love letter, go on your way

London Trade Card - Mrs Holts Italian Warehouse at the two Olive Posts in the Strand. Selling Italian silks, satins, velvets, damasks, fans, hats, as well as various Italian foodstuffs. 18th century

Spain. Avila. Los Cuatro Postes (The Four Posts). 16th centu
Spain. Avila. Los Cuatro Postes (The Four Posts). Shrine built by Francisco de Arellano, 16th century. In the background, panorama of the city surrounded by the wall, 12th century

Soldiers near the wire on the eastern front, Russia, WW1
Russian soldiers near the wire on the eastern front, Russia, during the First World War. On the left is the photographer Donald C Thompson (1885-1947). Date: circa 1917

Whatas or Patukas - Maori Food Storehouses. They are elevated from the ground by posts, to protect their contents from rats. Top left is an ordinary patuka for holding seeds

Beating the tom-tom, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Natives in a village beating the tom-tom, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1920

Coastal path in West Sussex
Coastal path on a windy day in West Sussex, England. circa 1966

Sports at Kimberley, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Sports ground with rugby posts at Kimberley, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Date: circa 1904

Huntley & Palmers Girls leaving work - Reading, Berkshire Date: 1906

St James Street, London - Street Crowded with people and vehicles. Decorations on Lamp posts. Part of Box 247 Boswell Collection

Emanuel Freteau
EMANUEL MARIE MICHEL PHILIPPE FRETEAU de Saint-Just French statesman who held important posts in the Revolutionary government but was decapitated for his views. Date: 1745 - 1794

Charles Este, Bishop
CHARLES ESTE English churchman who held several ecclesiastical posts in Ireland, culminating in the bishopric of Waterford. He wrote Latin verses at college. Date: 1696 - 1745

James Earl of Berkeley
JAMES, 3rd earl of BERKELEY, British naval commander, active throughout his life, initially at sea, in later life in administrative posts related to the Navy. Date: 1680 - 1736

Sir Henry Bentinck
SIR HENRY JOHN WILLIAM BENTINCK British military commander who took part in all the major battles of the Crimea, later held various posts at court. Date: 1796 - 1878

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