Returning Collection (page 6)

Met Police centenary celebrations, Buckingham Palace
Scene at the Metropolitan Police centenary celebrations, showing the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VIII) and senior police officers including Lord Byng (Commissioner of Police)

Pichegru Arrested
General Pichegru is arrested on grounds of treason : he is deported to Cayenne but will escape : returning to France he plans a royalist rising but is betrayed and strangled. Date: September 1797

The General Strike - lorry transporting passengers
A lorry-load of Londoners in Kingsway, returning home after a days work during the General Strike. In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts

Wellington at Review
WELLINGTON and fellow officers returning from a review at Wimbledon : this is a year before Waterloo. Date: 1814

Farmers Coming Home
Farmworkers returning to the farm after a hard days graft in the fields, England. Date: early 1930s

Japanese - Geisha Girls - Studio Photograph
Japanese - Geisha Girl about to pat back a soft ball - Studio Photograph Date: circa 1906

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Torpedo Boat Squadron returns to base having engaged the enemy. Date: circa 1904

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Evacuee Son returns home
Evacuee Son (who has had a growth spurt!) returns home to a surprised Mother!! Date: circa 1940s

Two Royal Navy Divers return to deck. Date: 1903

France - Le Havre - Return of a fishing boat
France - Le Havre - Return of a lugger fishing boat into harbour on a stiff breeze. Date: circa 1910s

Prodigal son sees a return home as dangerous to his health
The prodigal son (likely a cad and bounder who has run up a large debt on the family account back home in Blighty) seeing a return home as the poor option !

View toward St Marks Square, Venice, Italy
Return of the Bucentoro to the Molo on Ascension Day. View toward St Marks Square, Venice, Italy Date: 1732

WWII servicemen at Pennsylvania Railroad Station, New York, New York, USA. Date: 1942

The penultimate Handley Page Halifax CVIII PP337
The penultimate Handley Page Halifax CVIII, PP337, was sold to Norway as LN-OAT for Vingtor Airways in August 1947, returning in October 1948 to become G-ALEF for Eagle Airways. Date: 1947

Radioplane OQ-19A radio-controlled target demonstrated at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, after returning to the ground by parachute

roadside stalls - Pegu
Roadside stalls - Pegu - Bottleneck entering city, at one-way bridge built by returning British army, with a maximum three-year guarantee

Peary & Cook / Assiette
Returning from the North Pole, Robert Peary returned home to find Frederick Cook claiming he had reached it the previous year. " What a hole, the Pole!" Date: 1909

Returning sails at Takanawa. Print shows sailboats, some anchored and some under sail. Date between 1844 and 1848

Returning sails from distant shores. Print shows a cluster of thatch-roofed and more substantial buildings in a coastal village, sailboats laden with cargo approaching shore

The Czar sees his forces returning

Returning sails at Yabase. Print shows a bird s-eye view of a village and coastline with the sails of returning ships visible through the clouds. Date between 1804 and 1810

Returning sails at Gyotoku

Return of the guards from the Crimea, street sketch
Return of the Grenadier guards from the Crimean War, a street sketch in London with the guards being greeted enthusiastically by civilians

North Lancashire Regiment cheer their return to war
An inspiring picture showing the men of the the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment cheering gaily when ordered to take their turn in the trenches. Date: circa 1915

Eight beautiful places in Yokohama - ships returning to pier. Japanese print shows a man and a woman standing on the docks as a steamboat returns to the pier. Date 1861

Returning thanks

Wi-Jun-Jon - The Pigeons Egg Head. Tribal chief of the Assiniboine Indians going to Washington. Returning to his home. Date: ca. 1858

Sailor on a train
Sailor returning to his ship waves goodbye to loved ones Date: 1905

Return of the guards from Crimea, Parliament Street
The return of the Guards from the Crimean War: the welcome in Parliament Street, London, where bouquets of flowers were thrown. Date: 1856

Review of the guards returning from the Crimea, Hyde Park
People fraternising with the guards at the review in Hyde Park, London, after their return from the Crimean War. Date: 1856

Reception of Queen Victoria by review of guards, Hyde Park
The rapturous reception given to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, by the Guards at the review in Hyde Park, London, after the regiments return from the Crimean War

Comic wartime scenes on the Western Front, showing a happy soldier going on leave, an unhappy soldier returning, and an officer of the 8th Yorks returning from the German trenches having stolen a

Soldiers in the rain

Horse Racing - Won in a Canter. The victor in this race trots back to the paddock having taken the win. The jockey has been adorned with a victory wreath. Date: circa 1920s

Tennis Illustrated - Comic Postcard - A Weak Return A Policeman aids a totally sozzled young gentleman to return to his abode into the rather shocked care of the housemaid. Date: circa 1903

Australian gunners returning from trenches, France, WW1
2nd Australian Division machine gunners returning from the trenches in northern France during the First World War. The ruined village of Contalmaison can be seen in the distance. Date: September 1916

British prisoners of war arriving at Hull from Germany, WW1
British prisoners of war arriving at Hull, being repatriated from Germany towards the end of the First World War. Date: circa 1918

The Returning Sun
THE RETURNING SUN Date: 1908-1909

Boildieu and Paintings
FRANCOIS ADRIEN BOIELDIEU The French musician is also an assiduous art collector, and draws this caricature of himself returning home with the days catch. Date: 1775 - 1834

Returning from Mass
Churchgoers returning from Mass by horse and cart, County Tipperary, Ireland. Date: 1930s

Leonaert Bramer
LEONAERT BRAMER Dutch artist from Delft, studied and worked in Italy before returning to the Netherlands to work for the house of Orange and Nassau. Date: 1596 - 1674

British prisoners from Kut returning to London, WW1
British prisoners captured after the Siege of Kut (1916), seen here on their return to London via Cannon Street Station. They are NCOs and other men, officers having returned a few days earlier

Women in the cornfields. Artist: Anon. Women returning home from work in the fields with a ration of wheat to make their own bread Date: 1900

Brtish troops returning from fighting, France, WW1
British troops returning to a French town by bus for a rest after heavy fighting on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

American troops arriving home, Hoboken, USA
American troops arriving home by ship at Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, after the end of the First World War. Date: circa 1919

Jamaican villagers returning home from market on their donkeys Date: circa 1909

The Kings Africian Rifles returning from the Nandi Expedition. 4 March 1906

Royal procession leaving St Pauls Cathedral, London
The royal procession leaving St Pauls Cathedral, London, returning to Buckingham Palace after the service of dedication and official opening of the Festival of Britain

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