Scenes Collection (page 15)

Advertisement for Lotus, open-toe heeled shoes. Date: 1950

Ascot Sunday outside Boulter's Lock 1908
Ascot Sunday on the River Thames, early morning boats waiting their turn outside Boulter's Lock, to pass though it. Date: June 1908

Glorious Goodwood 1907
Watching the races from the enclosure. Date: 1907

At Boulter's Lock, Maidenhead. Date: 1913

Old Tower Fox Hunting Scenes Scene 1885 1880s
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Dick Turpin almost certainly a different version of the story. The central image shows Turpin, aghast, as Black Bess, who has carried him to York, is carried dead on a stretcher

Soho, London - Street Scenes - Movie Poster for the Classic, Piccadilly, offering all-night shows - Tales of Terror, Theatre of Death and The Evil Eye. 1973

Czech Republic. Prague. St. Vitus Cathedral. West facade. Ty
Czech Republic. Prague. St. Vitus Cathedral. Archivolts and tympanum. Gothic Revival. West facade. 19th century. Castle complex

Greek art. Tomb of the Diver. 5th century BC. Symposium, nor
Greek art. Tomb of the Diver. 5th century BC. Using a true fresco technique. Symposium, north wall. National Museum of Paestum. Italy

Byzantine Icon. Crucifixion. XIV century
BYZANTINE ART. GREECE. ICON with the crucifixion scene. Attributed to the circle of the Venetian painter Paolo Veneziano. Mid-fourteenth century. Byzantine Museum. Athens

Missing children waiting to be reunited. Date: 1887

Pavement artist drawing with chalk on the streets of London, with a curious crowd around him. Date: 1874

A repouss鬠chased and engraved jardini貥 entitled Die Wiedereroberung, Lembergs (The reconquest of Lemberg). Extensively embossed with battle scenes, the town of Lemberg

Royal mourners at George V funeral
King Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, left and his brothers walking slowly down to Euston Road, behind their Father's funeral cortege of the late King George V

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). La guardia a bordo, el alma y el fusil espectantes (The guard on board, the soul and the gun expectant)

French war film, Verdun
The grim realism of war captured in the French film, Verdun, telling the story of the ferocious German onslaught and the heroic French defence

Teaching Mothers to Care for their Infants 1907
In a parish in St. Pancras, Battersea, poor mothers being taught how to care for their infants. Date: 1907

Various stages in order of making the palm oil and vegetable fats into a finely-scented eramic soap in Joseph Crosfield & Sons, Soap Works at Bank Quarry, Warrington, Cheshire. Date: 1907

Laurence Stephen Lowry, English artist
Ls Lowry (Laurence Stephen Lowry, 1887-1976), English artist born in Stretford, Lancashire, best known for his industrial street scenes with stylised human figures

Christmas Morning Swimming Handicap in Serpentine 1906
Various scenes of the annual competition at Serpentine lake at Hyde Park, London on Christmas day morning. Date: 1906

Three scenes during the official opening of the Rotherhithe to Wapping Steam Ferry, London. The images (clockwise from top) show

Queen Victoria's funeral. Royal cavalcade passing the Wellington Monument, the future King, Edward VII and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany riding behind the coffin. Date: 4th February 1901

Club Life - What we are coming to
Inside a Gentlemen's clubs where women were strictly not allowed. An engraving showing what would happen if women were invited too. Date: circa 1860s

Clock Tower, London 1899
The famous clock of the Houses of Parliament. Date: 1899

Symbolising the true spirit of the peace celebrations, the Cenotaph in Whitehall to "The glorious dead" Sir Douglas Haig (left foreground) saluting as he rode by. Date: 19 July 1919

Troops marching in triumph through the dense crowds of people, passing the Admiralty Arch on the way to the saluting-base, to celebrate the end of World War One. Date: 19 July 1919

Monument raising above the other buildings, designed by Sir Christopher Wren. Date: 1897

Christmas-Eve dinner time in the East End club-house, where everyone brought their own dinner to cook themselves, over the community oven with one frying-pan

A study in an infant school, where the young children are learning their left and right hands. Date: 1898

Becket, Saint Thomas. Saxon prelate and politician, archbishop of Canterbury. Scenes of the martyrdom and death of St. Thomas Becket that decorate the apse of the Church of St Mary in Barcelona, Spain

It took two men several hours three times a week to wind up the Clock Tower (Elizabeth Tower), so Londoners could get an accurate time. Date: 1877

Big Ben and the Clock Tower 1887
Behind the scenes of the famous Big Ben, clock tower at Westminiter Palace, London. Date: 1887

Girls learning how to do laundry correctly, maybe to do domestic work when leaving the orphanage. Date: 1900

Bathing at Broadstairs 1857
Women taking a dip in the sea at Broadstairs, this was a cheaper destination to get to by train from London. Date: 1857

Broadstairs Jetty 1857
Victorains walking alone the jetty, on a summers day. Date: 1857

General Election 1857
Election scene. Taking place between 27 March - 24 April 1857, led by Lord Palmerston, finally won a majority in the House of Commons as the Conservative vote fell significantly. 1857

Crosfield's soap works, Warrington 1886
Various scenes of the packing and distribution of Crosfield's Soap, Bank, Quarry, Warrington, Cheshire. Date: 1886

NAPOLEON DEATH MASK
NAPOLEON I/SCENES Death mask taken from his body in Les Invalides, Paris. Date: 19th century

Inniskillings in transit
The Inniskilling Fusiliers, stationed in China, are ordered back to Europe to die on the western front : a shipboard scene after leaving Tientsin (now Tianjin). Date: circa 1914

WYCLIF'S ASHES SCATTERED
After his death, the Council of Constance condemns Wyclif for heresy : his body is exhumed, burnt and the ashes cast into the brook Swift, and carried to the wide world... Date: 1384

WALLENSTEIN DEAD
The body of WALLENSTEIN, assassinated by agents of emperor Ferdinand II for being too ambitious, is contemplated by the astrologer Sent, who predicted some such event. Date: 1634

AFTER A B ATTLE
A true picture of a field of battle - death and destruction, rather than glory and heroism, are the realities of warfare : a scene from the Napoleonic wars. Date: 1800 - 1815

THE DEATH OF HEREWARD
HEREWARD THE WAKE And with a shout of Torfrida, which made the Bruneswald ring, he hurled the shield full in the Breton's face and fell forward, dead'. Date: 1072

SCHILLER RECITING
SCHILLER AND HIS FRIENDS (1750 - 1805), The poet recites Die Rauber to a group of admiring friends, 1780

A market of line caught halibut fish at Aberdeen Fish Market, Scotland. Date: 1950s

ROUSSEAU AD WIFE
Jean Jacques Rousseau addresses his wife immediately before his death - to her considerable alarm. Date: 1778

Auctioneering fish at a quayside market, an early morning scene at Oban, Argyllshire, Scotland. Date: 1950s

RASPUTIN DEATHPLACE
The Yusopov palace, Saint Petersburg, where RASPUTIN was done to death (with some difficulty) by a group of unpatriotic Russian nobles. Date: 1916

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