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Halifax Bomber Halifax Bomber
Halifax Bomber - Handley Page Long-range Bomber. One of the most formidable in the World. Four Rolls-Royce Merlin Engines. Four-gun Bolton Paul Rear Turret. Date: circa 1940s

The French Memorial - Lyle Hill, Greenock
The Free French Memorial - Lyle Hill, Greenock with Cardwell Bay and Gourock in background - Scotland. The war memorial (built in the shape of the Cross of Lorrain)

Tazio Nuvolari - D Type Auto-Union
Tazio Nuvolari, probably the finest driver seen in this period, on a D Type Auto-Union with 3-litre, twelve cylinder, 450 hp rear mounted engine

Promotional Recruitment card for the U. S. Navy
Promotional Recruitment card for the U. S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois. 2200 recruits under training have formed a giant anchor, with Rear Admiral John Downes US Navy

The Shield of Achilles, used in his battle with Hector. Scenes include the earth, sky and sea, the sun, the moon and the constellations, two beautiful cities full of people, a field being ploughed

How to recognise rank in the Royal Navy-a wartime advert for Dunlop fort tyres. Date: 1941

British Mark IV tank with Tadpole Tail, WW1
British Mark IV tank with Tadpole Tail, introduced in 1917 and used during the latter part of the First World War. The Tadpole Tail was an elongation of the rear horns to increase trench-crossing

Getting Off at the Seaside
If you want to " Get Off" at the seaside, do it THIS way - not THIS way! A man has more success getting off with the ladies than he does from an irate beach donkey! Date: circa 1910s

Strictly Confiential by Muriel Dawson
A little boy and girl sit together on a bench, the boys arm around the girl as they discuss secrets

Ploughing a field
A farmer operating a hand plough, pulled by a team of two white horses. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Soho, London - rear entrance of NCP, Peter Street W1
Soho, London - two people relaxing outside the rear entrance of the NCP car park, Peter Street W1. 1973

Crew inspection of the Vickers Vimy selected for the England to Australia flight. In the front from left: Capt Ross Smith, Lt Keith Smith and Sgt W.H. (Wally) Shiers. In the rear cockpit is J.M

Airship of Uranus
Airships of planet Uranus are powered by taking in air at the nose, compressing it and blasting it out at the rear. Maybe we on Earth could develop some such technology ?

The Horse Cartoon, 1931
Cartoon, by H.M. Bateman, showing a large chauffeur driven car crashing into the rear of a horse-drawn hansom cab or cart

Continental Boat Express
The (rear of) the double-headed Continental Boat Express train at Folkestone, Kent, England, the Southern terminal for the short sea route to Boulogne and Calais, France

Clondalkin Round Tower, Co Dublin - a rear view of a round tower with other buildings around it. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Dublin: Clondalkin). Date: circa early 1900s

LCC-LFB Shand Mason motor steam fire engine
The motor steam fire engine with independent pumping and propelling engines was developed later than the Merryweather Fire King self-propelled steam engine

Northrop T-38A-10-NO Talon 58-1194, Buzz Number TF-194. The first production aircraft, with the rear cockpit canopy blanked off for flight testing

Boulton Paul Overstrand Bomber - RAF
Boulton Paul " Overstrand" High-speed Day or Night Bomber, powered by two Bristol Pegasus 600hp engines. No.101 (B) Squadron. Date: 1935

Hawker Hector rear view with access panels removed 1936
Hawker Hector, rear view with access panels removed, 1936. Date: 1936

Gentleman Gardener seated proudly in small home greenhouse
A smart Gentleman Gardener seated proudly in his small home greenhouse. Date: circa 1910s

Gloster Meteor Mk. 8 - Mk. 7 combination G-ANSO
Gloster Meteor Mk.8 - Mk.7 combination (ex GAF) G-ANSO, at the 1954 SBAC Farnborough air-show. Built as an F Mk.8 airframe with strengthened outer wings, the Ground Attack Fighter (GAF) aka Reaper

Air vent and Cromwell statue, Salford, Manchester
An air vent and a statue of Oliver Cromwell make an unusual pairing at the rear of Buile Hill Park Hall in Salford, Manchester. Date: circa 1980

1st Southern Military Hospital, Stourbridge
The infirmary of the Stourbridge Union workhouse at Kingswinford, during its First World War occupation as a military hospital when it became part of the 1st Southern General Hospital

Zeppelin Interior 1
The interior of a Zeppelin in the course of a bombing raid on England : the rear nacelle during an attack by British fighter planes

Sir Richard Keats - 2
Rear admiral SIR RICHARD GOODWIN KEATS British naval commander Date: 1757 - 1834

The Old Hall, Burton-in-Kendal, Cumbria - Rear view. Date: circa 1910s

Curtiss Hawk 75 fuselage interior looking rear from the baggage compartment. 9 May 1938. Date: 1938

The rear car of Airship R9

WW1 - Royal Air Force - Pilots and Observers mark targets
WW1 - Royal Air Force - Pilots and Observers mark enemy german targets and positions. Date: circa 1918

Barnardos Edinburgh Castle Mission Hall and Coffee Palace
Edinburgh Castle at Limehouse, East London, was a former gin palace and music hall, re-opened by Thomas Barnardo as a British Workmans Coffee Palace with a Mission Hall at its rear. Date: circa 1906

ST. GEORGEs HALL 1930S
The rear of St. Georges Hall, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, with St. Johns Gardens in the foreground of the photograph. Date: early 1930s

Geisha hairstyle viewed from rear - Japan
Beautiful photograph showing the complicated shapes, folds and pinning of a Geisha hairstyle viewed from rear - Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Basket Sleigh - Byrds Antarctic Expedition
Basket Sleigh from Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jrs 3rd Antarctic Expedition of 1940. Photograph taken during preparations for his trip, which had received official US backing

Airco Dh-5 War Plane
A pilot stands in front of the propellor of his Airco DH-5, a biplane fighter which had improved vision due to the the upper wing being closer to the rear of the cockpit. Date: circa 1917

Willys Knight Six Sedan
Auto Willys Knight Six Sedan Rear View. Rear of an automoblie

Chicago Stockyards 8
Sheep hang by their rear legs as they pass towards the attentions of the butchers at the Chicago stockyards

Backward Glance by David Wright. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Peeling Potatoes - Fish & Chip Shop, Morecambe, Lancashire
A young girl peeling a large tub Potatoes in the rear yard of a Fish & Chip Shop at Morecambe, Lancashire. Date: circa 1901

Washing Potatoes - Fish & Chip Shop, Morecambe, Lancashire
The proprietor/owner washes Potatoes in a rotary hand-cranked washer prior to peeling at the rear yard of a Fish & Chip Shop at Morecambe, Lancashire. Date: circa 1901

Pewter plate
Large pewter plate with a reeded edge, marked with the initials FHM and various hallmarks, made in England before 1735. Date: pre 1735

Lighting up the face of the Clock Tower, London 1900
Every night the caretaker climbs the spiral steps of the the Clock Tower (Elizabeth Tower) to ignite the gas lights behind the dials of the infamous clockface so that London can see the time

Temple of Zeus or Jupiter at Mount Olympus
Elevation and plan of the Temple of Zeus or Jupiter at Mount Olympus. Pianta ed Elevazione del Tempio di Giove Olimpico. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremere de

Vultee BT-13 Valiant Sprayer Conversion N75133, re built by Ken Tyler of Long Island as a single-seater with a 125 US gal capacity spray tank in the rear cockpit area. Date: circa 1958

Comic Postcard - feeble Vicar not tempted by a pretty girl
Comic Postcard - ( My Word !) Get Thee behind me Temptress - a feeble and effete Vicar not tempted by a pretty girl, although one wonders if she is quite his type anyway... 1910

Comic Postcard - Gent and two ladies on a bench - This is what I saw last night
Comic Postcard - Gent and two ladies on a bench - " This is what I saw last night, were you there?" Date: 1910

Pregnant Guppy N1024V under construction with On Mark Engineering at LAX - March 1962. the conversion was carried out in stages

Dassault-Breguet Mystere 20 1st prototype F-WLKB at the 1964 Paris Air Show, shown with the two 3, 300 lbf Pratt & Whitney JT12A-8 turbojet engines originally fitted

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