Rush Collection (page 6)

View of Fleet Street, London, with flags and garlands for the Silver Jubilee celebrations. Date: 1935

Going to War
The French people rush enthusiastically into war with Prussia... Date: July 1870

Piling Onto a London Bus
A mad scramble to get onto a London Routemaster bus, which is offering a 25p Fare Deal. But will there be enough seats for everyone? Date: circa 1980

Croquet - postcard illustrating side strokes and drives
Croquet - a fantastic postcard of exquisite quality illustrating a wide variety of side strokes and drives. Date: circa 1910s

Skaguay, Alaska, USA
Skaguay (Skagway), Alaska, USA Date: circa 1902

John Marten Rush Cripps (1887 -1950)
John Marten Rush Cripps (8 December 1887 to 1950) was awarded Pilots Certificate No698 for qualification at the Grahame-White School, Hendon, on 2 December 1913. Date: 1950

General Strike 1926

A great field in a grand rush. Nineteen jockeys horse racing. Date c1888

A rush for the heat. Date c1884

Rush City by Gus Heege. Date c1894

Market Reports Series - Sugar in Good Demand
One of the Market Reports illustrated postcard series. Sugar was in good demand! Two toddlers reach out from their high chairs in vain toward the sugar bowl

Weber Rush present Charles Ross Mabel Fenton in Weber
Weber & Rush present Charles Ross & Mabel Fenton in Weber & Fields biggest and best musical production, Twirly whirly. Date c1904

Rush for daily newspapers for news of 1848 Revolution
Crowds outside the publishing office of the London Telegraph daily newspaper, anxious for news of the revolution happening in Paris at this time

Gold Mining in California. Date: 1871

Broadway and 155th Street, New York
Broadway at 155th Street, with cut out figures cars and airplanes added. The cut-outs are painstakingly placed so as to almost look a part of the picture

The Autmn Sale Scramble
A policeman doing his hardest (!) to control a baying horde of women at the Autumn Sale. Date: 1906

Royal wedding 1893 - presents displayed
A crowd of people rush to admire the royal wedding presents on display at the Imperial Institute. The gifts came from the wedding of George Duke of York(later King George V)(1865-1936)

Poster: Buses give way to tanks. Pleasure travellers must give way to war workers! Avoid rush hours. 1940s

Rue de Lafayette, Paris 1927. Date: 1927

Our Local Express (2 / 2)
A satirical look at an express train service (2/2 - see 10425389). 1907

Cyclists in Hamilton, Bermuda
Cyclists in Bermuda - this postcard is captioned " Rapid Transport" Date: circa late 1930s

American and French ammunition, France, WW1
American and French ammunition being transported to the front at the start of the Aisne-Marne Offensive in northern France, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 18 July 1918

Our Local Express (1 / 2)
A satirical look at an express train service (1/2 10429191). 1907

EARLs COURT 1968
Rush Hour in the Earls Court area of London. Date: 1968

London Commuters
London commuters, most of them men in suits, walking over a bridge during the rush hour. Date: late 1970s

London Bus Queue
A miserable scene at a London bus stop, showing a crowd of people waiting for a bus during the Rush Hour. Date: 1979

Waterloo Commuters
Passengers and commuters leaving one of the platforms at London Waterloo railway station, England. Note all the old- fashioned railway carriage doors. Date: 1981

British Victory Loan advertisement, WW1
A British advertisement, encouraging people to invest in war bonds just after the First World War has ended -- Join the Rush to buy Victory Loan

Soldier emerging from trench, WW1
A soldier emerging from a trench to rush a German position during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Gold Rush / Australia
GOLD RUSH A group of prospecters discuss where to search next Date: 1850 s

Bust Supporter
MAKE YOUR HUSBAND PROUD OF YOU - what greater incentive could a lady need to rush out and buy a Joujou to support her bust ? Can be worn next to the skin, whats more. Date: 1920

Australia Sunday Digging
During the Gold Rush: Sunday at the diggings. Date: circa 1850

Commuters Await Train
A crowded platform of rush hour commuters waiting for a train on Malden station. Date: 1930s

Gold prospectors at Coolgardie, Western Australia
Gold prospectors at Coolgardie in Western Australia -- the streets were filled with swagger and riot. Date: 1850s

Gold mining, Australia
Ivanhoe gold mine, Australia

Advert for Chaplin in The Gold Rush
Advertisement for a showing in March 1943 in East London, South Africa, of the release of a new version of " The Gold Rush" starring and directed by Charlie Chaplin with a musical score

Stanfield Hall murder trial
The interior of the court house at Norwich during the trial of James Blomfield Rush (which started on 29th March 1849 and lasted for 6 days)

Notice of Death from Union Workhouse, Maldon, Essex
A Notice of Death sent from the Maldon Union workhouse to the next of kin of William John Rush. If relatives or friends did not undertake the funeral arrangements

Alarming prospect 1853 / Leech
Alarming prospect - The single ladies ladies off to the diggings. The early days of the Victorian gold rush were famously male dominated

Park Lane - Brook Street Gate - London

Fire Brigade - Abadan Oilfield, Iran
A group of Iranian firefighters practising the swift deployment of the hose from their engine at the Abadan oilfield, Iran

Birds-eye view of Oxford Street, London
A birds-eye view looking down a busy Oxford Street, London, the heart of the retail centre of the capital. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

The Cafe de la Paix, Boulevard Capucines, Paris
Undated photograph of outside of the Cafe de la Paix, Boulevard Capucines, Paris. HPG/1/14/5 (vii)

Sketches from the New Zealand Gold Rush. Gold-diggers out Pr
Engraving of four men with picks and shovels travelling through the mountainous region in New Zealand where gold had been found

Gold in New Zealand 1853
The New Zealand gold field: discovery of gold near the source of the Kapanga Stream, about 40 miles from Auckland; miners camped close to the river pan for gold

America. San Francisco, California, from the Bay
By 1868, 20 years after the gold rush, San Francisco has grown to be a thriving metropolis with 70-80, 000 inhabitants

Fleet Street in election time showing the rush for newspapers as the new edition arrives off the printing presses

San Francisco, California, 1850
Engraving showing San Francisco, viewed from the South-West, 1850. Founded as a gold rush town, San Francisco had a population of only 10-15, 000 people at this time

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