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Nelsons Flagship Foudroyant - Blackpool, LancashireThe decaying hulk of Horatio Nelsons Flagship Foudroyant wrecked on the beach at Blackpool, Lancashire. On 16 June 1897 during a violent storm when under tow
The HMS Victory - brought in to Portsmouth HarbourThe HMS Victory - in Portsmouth Harbour. Fitted up as a Naval School of Telegrapha before becoming a floating signal school proper (as can be seen on this card) until 1904
Model of HMS Victory of 1737Model of HMS Victory, as displayed in the South Kensington Museum, 1865. HMS Victory, launched in 1737, was a three-decker first-rate warship of 100 guns
Demobilisation after WwiScenes at Crystal Palace at the end of the WWI showing soldiers demobilising at a rate of over 4000 a day
Satirical ballooning imageA rude satirical image of large and small balloons tied together, lifting a cannon, entitled The Montgolsier. A first rate of the French Aerial Navy. A Fart, an Ass, a Fool, A Monkey, a Nothing. 1783
The One Pound Look by Ricardo BrookFront cover of The Bystander special issue focusing on the fall in the value of the pound during the first half of 1920. Here a rather aristocratic looking gentleman is fashioned out of a pound sign
Joule / Electricity TestJames Prescott Joule, English physicist, measures the rate at which heat is produced by an electric current. The joule, a unit of work or energy, is named after him
Shannon CopierThe Shannon No-chemical Letter Copier copies at the fantastic rate of forty letters a minute - whats more a juvenile may operate it. How does it work? Shannon aren t saying
Statistics relating to Bournville Village in the 1920s
White Star Line, RMS Titanic, Harland and Wolff employeeWhite Star Line, RMS Titanic, rare bookpost real photo postcard of Titanic in Belfast written by a Harland and Wolff employee
Zeppelin airship, timetable and rate chartZeppelin airship: French and English transatlantic passenger timetable and rate chart. Shows the transatlantic maiden voyage of the Hindenburg. Folded. 4 x 8 inches. Date: 1936
The World's First PostcardThe idea of a postal card which could be used at half the letter rate was that of Heinrich von Stephan in 1865. Later that year
Stevens silk postcard of King Edward V11Stevens silk postcards are much sought for by collectors. This one, addressed to My Darling, carries an apology for an earlier card sent through the mail at a halfpenny
Anti-ratecapping demonstrationA demonstration in London against ratecapping, which allowed Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Government to restrict local council spending
John Smith, British Labour MP and Party leaderJohn Smith (1938-1994), British Labour MP and Party leader, seen here giving a speech with a bar chart beside him, showing inflation statistics. Date: circa 1990s
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News vendor in Regent Street, London. Date: circa 1960s
Advert for L. N. E. R - When Beauty Travels 1928When Beauty Travels, advert for L.N.E.R. Beauty need now have no qualms about undertaking long-distance travel, at any rate, not on the L.N.E.R. Flying Scotsman. 1928 advertisement 1928
ROOSEVELT & RAILROAD BILL ROOSEVELT & RAILROAD BILLSatirical cartoon on obstruction to the railroad rate bill Date: 1906
Gardener at Henri IV cottage, Montmartre, Paris, FranceA gardener waters his plants outside a thatched cottage said to have been the home of King Henri IV, or at any rate where he entertained his lady friends. Date: circa 1905
War Pay PosterInformation poster encouraging soldiers to save some of their pay during WWI in the form of savings certificates, earning a high rate of interest and free of income tax
Indian soldiers using a Bren gunPhotograph of Indian soldiers using a Bren gun. A gas-operated weapon, the Bren used the same. 303 ammunition as the standard British rifle, the Lee-Enfield
Postcard, Spanish flag and coins. Date: 1900s
Postcard, Mexican flag and coins. Date: 1900s
John DudleyJOHN DUDLEY Gentleman famous enough to have his portrait taken, yet not enough to rate a mention in our reference books. Date: ? - 1580
Laurent Jean BabilleLAURENT JEAN BABILLE French avocat in the Parlement de Paris, but despite his many honours, he doesn t rate a mention even in the big Larousse dictionary... shame ! Date: 1712 - ?
Baron de Stael 1895Baron de Stael, despite his evident eminence, this gentleman does not rate a mention in our reference books. Which accounts for his indignant expression. Date: flourished 1895
WW1 poster, War Loan, subscriptions here, five shillings upwards, with a 4.5 per cent interest rate. Date: 1914-1918
Sopwith Triplane single-seat fighter, serial no. N500, completed on 28 May 1916. Evaluated in northern France by RNAS pilots, who were impressed by its rate of climb
Stork on the dole - falling birth rate in the 1920sOn the Dole! by David Wilson. Cartoon showing a stork feeling rather unemployed as he sits on a chimney pot above the roof tops of a snow covered town
Recruit undergoing heart tests, WW1Testing a new recruit whose heart conditions the Army authorities are doubtful about. Rather worryingly, the photograph shows the man sitting with one bare foot
1916 - Just arrived by Lawson WoodA British soldier alights from a train at a station only to be met by his wife and a surprise addition to the family. Date: 1915
The Patriots by Annie FishHumorous illustration by Annie Fish showing an officer returning home on leave to discover his wife has patriotically given birth to triplets. Date: 1915
Shakespeare Tree UsedCasket made from the wood of a mulberry tree, planted, or at any rate owned, by Shakespeare. Date: 1847
Moses MendelssohnMOSES MENDELSSOHN German philosopher - ranked with Socrates, at any rate in the estimation of this artist! Date: 1729 - 1786
Leodamas - 2LEODAMAS Athenian statesman, noted orator who doesn t rate a mention in the Oxford classical dictionary... Date: flourished 372 BC
Maria Eleonora HocheckerMARIA ELEONORA HOCHECKER French artist (or at any rate, working in France) - known for her participation in a project depicting butterflies. Date: circa 1790
Georges M LegagneuxGeorges M. Legagneux, who, with a passenger, in a flight from Paris to Brussels (195 miles), broke the speed record, covering the distance at the rate of 63mph
Hydrological EquipmentEquipment used by the River Board Engineers on the River Ouse, near Skelton, Yorkshire, England, for hydrological surveys, including the rate of flow, measurement, etc. Date: 1960s
Studholme BrownriggColonel STUDHOLME BROWNRIGG British soldier in the Crimea, who did not distinguish himself sufficiently to rate a mention in any of our reference books. Date: CIRCA 1854
Poor Rate Receipt, Kidderminster UnionA receipt for a poor rate payment by A Gristwood of the Borough of Bewdley to the Kidderminster Union in September 1923. The Unions operation was financed by the poor rate - the forerunner of
How John Bull FeltAfter surviving the hundred pages of cartoons and skits showered upon him in our recent Special " Falling Pound" Number
A Sovereign RemedyJohn Bull holds the hand of a rather unhealthy looking pound note in a satirical illustration which alludes to the falling value of sterling against the dollar in 1920
Will it Come to ThisA possible scenario due to the falling value of the pound against the dollar in 1920. A brashly dressed cigar-smoking American changes a dollar at a bank and when asked how he would like it, replies
NeroA rather drunk looking man smoking a pipe and playing an accordian sits ignoring the British pound note beside him going up in flames
A Gentle ReminderThe Dollar: Say, you two guys are looking a bit chippy; whats happened? The Sovereign & the Franc: Oh, just a bit of a scrap in France, old son: had you forgotten
Golden GrainA satirical picture of an American reaper with a huge scythe representing the rate of exchange being sharpened with a lathe representing sterling currency
Pity the Poor RatepayerPity the poor ratepayer - as he is presented with bills by Joseph Chamberlain and his colleagues for education and gas, poor rate, pin money and the Queens taxes