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Background imagePosts Collection: Sports at Kimberley, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

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

Background imagePosts Collection: Huntley & Palmers Girls leaving work - Reading, Berkshire

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

Background imagePosts Collection: St James Street, London

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

Background imagePosts Collection: Emanuel Freteau

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

Background imagePosts Collection: Charles Este, Bishop

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

Background imagePosts Collection: James Earl of Berkeley

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

Background imagePosts Collection: Sir Henry Bentinck

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

Background imagePosts Collection: French Post Box

French Post Box
A Parisienne posts a letter in a public letter box, and a gent hurries up hoping he hasn t missed the post, while the postman waits to make his collection. Date: circa 1818

Background imagePosts Collection: French Postbox

French Postbox
La petite Poste aux Lettres a lady posts a letter in a Paris street, a man comes hurrying to catch the post, the postman waits till its time to collect the mail Date: 1831

Background imagePosts Collection: Pointed stakes of the Eastern Front, Russia, WW1

Pointed stakes of the Eastern Front, Russia, WW1
Pointed stakes on the Eastern Front, Russia, First World War, to supplement a shortness in supply of barbed wire. Date: circa 1917

Background imagePosts Collection: Well-kept section of the Eastern Front, Russia, WW1

Well-kept section of the Eastern Front, Russia, WW1
A well-kept section of the Eastern Front, Russia, during the First World War, with lines of wire creating a double barricade in front of the Russian trenches. Date: circa 1917

Background imagePosts Collection: German delegates listen to peace terms after WW1

German delegates listen to peace terms after WW1
The Fate of the German Empire. The German delegates listen to the reading of the Peace Terms. They are: Dr Melchior; Herr Leinert (President of the Assembly), Dr Landsberg (Minister of Justice)

Background imagePosts Collection: Graphic cover - periscope on the battlefield, WW1

Graphic cover - periscope on the battlefield, WW1
Front cover of The Graphic featuring a photograph of a British officer posing inside a German armoured observation post captured by the British in Flanders Date: 1917

Background imagePosts Collection: The German use of church towers as observation posts in WW1

The German use of church towers as observation posts in WW1. This report in the Illustrated War News, dated 1917, claims that the Germans attacked Rheims Cathedral on the premise that it was being

Background imagePosts Collection: Three Brunei scouts

Three Brunei scouts securing ropes, Borneo, south-east Asia

Background imagePosts Collection: Enemy Observation Posts Removed by Heath Robinson, WW1

Enemy Observation Posts Removed by Heath Robinson, WW1
War Inventions - Not Needed Now! William Heath Robinson imagines America in the field 3. Enemy observation-posts removed with despatch. Date: 1918

Background imagePosts Collection: Watercolour scene with beach and observation post

Watercolour scene with beach and observation post
A watercolour scene showing a beach with an observation post built on stilts. A woman in a swimming costume sits on a rock looking out to sea

Background imagePosts Collection: Fierce shot blasts Goalkeeper into his own goal

Fierce shot blasts Goalkeeper into his own goal
A fearsome shot from an opposing striker smashes into the face of a hapless Goalkeeper, carrying the ball and the keeper back over the line

Background imagePosts Collection: View of the Grand Canal, by William James

View of the Grand Canal, by William James
A View of the Entrance of the Grand Canal, Venice, with Santa Maria della Salute and Numerous Gondolas, by William James (fl. 1730-1780)

Background imagePosts Collection: Venice, the Grand Canal, by William James

Venice, the Grand Canal, by William James
Venice, the Grand Canal: San Geremia and the Entrance to the Cannareggio, by William James (fl. 1730-1780)

Background imagePosts Collection: Blitz in London -- firewatchers at observation post, WW2

Blitz in London -- firewatchers at observation post, WW2
Blitz in London -- firewatchers on duty on the clock tower of the Smith Building, Albert Embankment, SE1, next to London Fire Brigade Headquarters

Background imagePosts Collection: Blitz in London -- Smith Building, SE1

Blitz in London -- Smith Building, SE1
Blitz in London -- the Smith Building was located next to the London Fire Brigade Headquarters on the Albert Embankment, SE1

Background imagePosts Collection: Hotel de ville, posts and telegraphs, Vichy, France

Hotel de ville, posts and telegraphs, Vichy, France. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Background imagePosts Collection: Londons South Bank

Londons South Bank
Looking upstream from Westminster Bridge, London, at eventide. Photograph shows the South Bank of the River Thames - the Albert Embankment, part of St. Thomass Hospital, etc. Date: 1930s

Background imagePosts Collection: Albert Embankment Lamps

Albert Embankment Lamps
Lovely Victorian lamp posts and benches on the terrace of County Hall, Albert Embankment, London. The Embankment was built 1866 - 1869 by Sir Joseph Bazalgette Date: early 1950s

Background imagePosts Collection: Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp by Jeffryes

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp by Jeffryes
Stylised illustration by Jeffryes showing a man in evening attire rather bemused by a huge, bending street lamp. Date: 1930

Background imagePosts Collection: Five people playing a ball game in a field

Five people playing a ball game in a field

Background imagePosts Collection: Mudeford Boathouse - Devon

Mudeford Boathouse - Devon
Boathouse at Mudeford, Devon. Pencil drawing by Raymond Sheppard

Background imagePosts Collection: Camels at a Fondouk

Camels at a Fondouk
Camels at a Fandouk (trading post), Algeria, North Africa. The Fandouks are the old inns and trading posts for a city. Animals of the traders were housed inside the courtyards of the fandouk

Background imagePosts Collection: German observation post 1917

German observation post 1917
A German observation post on the Lens Arras Road on the Western Front in France during World War I in June 1917

Background imagePosts Collection: Observation post 1918

Observation post 1918
A soldier in a canvas and steel observation post near Souchez on the Western Front in France during World War I in May 1918

Background imagePosts Collection: Auriol Wood 1918

Auriol Wood 1918
A gap in the barbed wire through which Australian troops advanced to capture a row of machine gun posts near Auriol Wood on the Western Front in France during World War I in September 1918

Background imagePosts Collection: Observation Post

Observation Post
A steel tree used as an observation post by the Australian forces at the Battle of Messines, Western Front, Belgium during World War I in 1917

Background imagePosts Collection: Battle of the Aisne 1918

Battle of the Aisne 1918
French artillery observation post near Vendresse during the Battle of the Aisne on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1918

Background imagePosts Collection: Cavaignac Proclaims

Cavaignac Proclaims
General Cavaignac, given dictatorial powers, posts proclamations to restore order in Paris

Background imagePosts Collection: Sir Kingsley Wood (1881-1943)

Sir Kingsley Wood (1881-1943)
Photograph of Sir Kingsley Wood, the Conservative MP, seen in 1938 - the year that he held the posts of Minister of Health and Secretary of State for Air

Background imagePosts Collection: Ayrton and Perry

Ayrton and Perry
Portrait engravings of Professor William Ayrton and Professor John Perry, electrical engineers. Ayrton held the post of Professor of Natural Philosophy

Background imagePosts Collection: Venezuela Maracaibo

Venezuela Maracaibo
The village comprises a cluster of houses built on posts embedded in the sea-bed

Background imagePosts Collection: Keeping Watch Etc

Keeping Watch Etc
The Tchenomorski keep watch on their Circassian neighbours from lofty observation posts : they fill their homes with smoke to drive away their other enemies, mosquitoes

Background imagePosts Collection: Dogs Playing Football

Dogs Playing Football
A group of four dogs play a lively game of football, one of them is about to score a goal

Background imagePosts Collection: Nadezhda Krupskaya

Nadezhda Krupskaya
NADEZHDA KONSTANTINOVNA Russian revolutionary, married Lenin 1898, exile in Siberia, took part in the Revolution and held several posts in the communist government

Background imagePosts Collection: Wembley Workmen 1930

Wembley Workmen 1930
Workmen fixing goal posts at Wembley Stadium two days before the 55th F.A. Cup Final, when Aresenal defeated Huddersfield Town (2-0), in front of a 98, 488 crowd

Background imagePosts Collection: Girl Posts Parcel 1880S

Girl Posts Parcel 1880S
A little girl in a huge fruit festooned bonnet, arms full with a doll, umbrella & muff, looks up at the high slot on the red pillar box & wonders how she will ever reach it

Background imagePosts Collection: Rioting at Berlin

Rioting at Berlin
Lamp-posts topple, railings buckle, paving stones are uplifted, doors battered when democratic demonstraters attack a ministers residence in the Wilhelmstrasse



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