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Delivery van as carnival float, Manchester Street, DerbyDelivery van belonging to Burrows and Sturgess, soft drinks manufacturer, being used as carnival float, outside the companys depot in Manchester Street, Derby
Advert, Mr Goodman, Surgeon Dentist, denturesAdvert for Mr Goodman, Surgeon Dentist, A Complete Set of Dentures for One Guinea, Bold Street, Liverpool. 1885
Medieval wrestlingTwo men wrestling for the prize of a rooster, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876
Medieval wrestling boutsMen wrestling with their coats on the ground (top), men wrestling for the prize of a rooster (middle), and men wrestling on shoulders of others in the game of Hippas, 14th century
Cock-throwing game, 14th centuryThe winner of a cock-throwing game is carried on a pole with his rooster prize, while another boy follows with a cudgel and banner
Sword fighting for prizes, 14th centuryTwo fencing students fighting a mock duel with bucklers and cudgels, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England
Swordfight to music, 13th centurySword fighting to music for prizes, 13th century. Performers with swords and shields in a show duel accompanied by bagpipe music
Sword fighting, 13th centurySword fighting for prizes, 13th century. Performers with swords and shields fighting in a swordplay show. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports
Boys racing to grab a victory wreath from a young girlThe prize of the sprint race. Boys racing to grab a victory wreath from a young girl. After an illustration by Jean-Henri Marlet in le Bon Genie, 1826
The fairground game of quoits or hoopla, jeu du lapin, 1815. Satirical print by showing the Duke of Wellington winning Napoleon Bonaparte as the prize
Exhibition of prize cattle, Portman Square, LondonExhibition of prize cattle by the Smithfield Cattle Club at the Horse Bazaar, King Street, Portman Square, London, December 1841. Date: 1841
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950). Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, political activist and winner of Nobel Prize in Literature
Fancy Dress Ball at Princes Skating Club, LondonFancy Dress Ball at Princes Skating Club, Knightsbridge, London. Present, from left to right, are: Violet Cuninghame (Folly), Myra Hamilton (Pierrette, 3rd prize), May Lyle (Geisha)
Stationery, Taylor Walkers Prize Beers. 1943
John Gully, English prize-fighting boxer
Bookplate inside The Ice Desert, by Jules Verne -- Victoria Street Sunday School, Derby, January 1901, presented to Alfred Watson for Regular Attendance and Good Conduct, signed by R Richardson
Two women with prize fruit at a Kentucky fair, USATwo women with a table of prize fruit at a Kentucky fair, USA
Aeroplane flight by Henri Farman 1908Record aeroplane flight at Paris by Henri Farman (1874 - 1958), Anglo-French aviator. Wins the Deutsch-Archdeacon prize of 50, 000 francs
James Braid, Professional Golfers DinnerBlack and white photo of James Braid, the Scottish golfer being presented with a diploma having been elected Vice-President of the Professionals Golfing Association. Date: 22nd March 1950
Fancy dress costume - The Stamp LoverAn unidentified woman wearing a fabulous fancy dress costume on the theme of The Stamp Lover, complete with a regal crown. She wore the costume to a fancy dress ball at St
design for the foreign departmentSecond Prize design for the foreign department. Messer Banks and Barry. Full page including text. 1857
Dr Gustav Stresemann, German Chancellor, Foreign Minister in the Weimar Republic (1923-1929), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926. 1926
Handbill, Grand Match of Cricket Epsom Downs, SurreyHandbill, Grand Match of Cricket, Epsom Downs, Kent versus Surrey. 1820
Stationery, Kitchen Ironmongers, Shipston-on-Stour, with handwritten details, total account eleven shillings and sixpence. 1905
Prizewinning Jersey cow. circa 1900
Cartoon, Metropolitan Prize Puzzles No. 2 -- dismay on the faces of the market stall sellers as a horse and cart trample all over the baskets of veg. 1883
Little girl in fancy dress as a powder puffPhotograph of a little girl who won first prize dressed up as a powder puff at the municipal fancy dress ball at St. Andrews Hall, Norwich, in 1922. Date: 1922
Racehorse, Gray Cloud, Alberta, CanadaPrizewinning racehorse, Gray Cloud, Alberta, Canada, 25 July 1912. 1912
National Fire Brigades Association certificate, confirming First Prize to Southend Fire Brigade in the Combined Motor Pump Competition held at Basingstoke, dated 8 September 1922
Sir William Ramsey (1852 - 1916), Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904
Ts Eliot / RothensteinThomas Stearns Eliot, poet, playwright and literary critic. Received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 Date: 1888-1965
Professor Paul Ehrlich (1854 - 1915), Nobel Prize-winning German Jewish physician and scientistand Dr. Sahachiro Hata (1873 - 1938) prominent Japanese bacteriologist, working in Frankfort laboratory
Nurses prize giving, Llandough Hospital. Formal group of 16 nurses, matron, probable mayor and mayoress, two other gentlemen. Date: 1936
Formal Nurses? prize giving groupFormal Nurses prize giving group. Group includes 18 nurses, each holding a diploma tube and wearing a badge, some also with a book-like item, plus a senior nurse and elderly lady, both with bouquets
Prize Giving at the General Hospital, HerefordFormal group of nurses standing and sitting on raised platform with various dignitaries sitting in central row. Two matrons at far left hold bouquets of flowers
Nurse receiving an awardNurse Annie Singleton, pictured here, won the gold medal prize for nursing in her graduating year from Acton Hospital. She is being presented with that gold medal by a visiting senior military nurse
Nurses Prize Giving DayGroup of four nurses in uniform inspecting a book prize Date: circa 1949
Presentation of prize to nurseNurse receiving prize of book with matron in background Date: circa 1949
Hospital prize-giving ceremonyThe prize-giving ceremony at Leeds General Infirmary for graduating student nurses. Presentation of a hospital general nursing certificate to a student nurse. Date: 1930
The Schneider Trophy 1929 - Calshot Spit, EnglandPhotograph from the Schneider Trophy of 1929 held at Calshot Spit, England. The Coupe dAviation Maritime Jacques Schneider (commonly called the Schneider Trophy or Schneider Prize)
Cartoon, Metropolitan Prize Puzzles No. 1 -- traffic at Marble Arch, Central London, before the introduction of the Congestion Charge. Date: 1883
Baby Show at the Surrey Zoological Gardens 1855The great Baby Show at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, London. The whole neighbourhood of Kennington seemed to come with their babies for two days in October
Lillie Bridge Sports Ground Riot, LondonRioters wreck Lillie Bridge Sports Ground when prize race is called off - the stadium ablaze Date: 1887
StonemasonChristmas card. Glad be thy Christmas, Happy thy New Year. Portrait of a classical stone mason at work. A prize design for The Recorder 1882. Artist: (Possibly) Frederic Leighton. Date: 1882
Tucks Great Postcard Competitions - Sandwich Man and VendorLondon Life - Raphael Tuck and Sons " Great" Postcard Prize Competitions - Sandwich Man and News Vendor. Prize pot of 6
Large hunted deer - Germany. Date: circa 1910s
Louis Bleriot Arriving at Croydon Airport 27 July 1929, ?Louis Bleriot Arriving at Croydon Airport 27 July 1929, on the 20th Anniversary after His First Crossing of the English Channel on Sunday 25th July 1909 Date: 1929
Louis Bleriot and His Wife Alicia (Alice) Standing on th?Louis Bleriot and His Wife Alicia (Alice) Standing on the Bleriot Memorial, Northfall Meadow, Dover, UK, 27 July 1929, on the 20th Anniversary after His First Crossing of the English Channel