The seat of a hero: Spitfire pilots cockpit, 1940The cockpit, with its amazing array of dials, is the epitome of intensive mechancial warfare of World War Two. Date: 1940
Invergarry Castle in the Scottish Highlands - the seat of the Chiefs of the Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry, a powerful branch of the Clan Donald
England / Blenheim PalaceThe seat of the duke of Marlborough
Yale University - New Haven Connecticut - The Wrexham Tower and Harkness Quadrangle
Statue of St Peter, Basilica di San Giovanni in LateranoStatue of St Peter in the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano (Basilica of St John Lateran) in Rome, Italy. This cathedral is the official ecclesiastical seat of the Bishop of Rome, ie the Pope
Chiswick House / Cooke sCHISWICK HOUSE, the seat of the duke of Devonshire - view in the gardens
Bicycle Made For Three - Continental Pneumatic AdvertBicycle Made For Three - Continental Pneumatic Tyre Company (of Hanover, Germany) Advertisement. The pair at the rear of the bicycle appear to be contributing slightly less to the forward momentum as
German Fokker D VII fighter plane, WW1A German Fokker D VII fighter plane on an airfield towards the end of the First World War. It had a 180 hp Mercedes engine, and was a single-seat fighter plane
Airco DH2 De Havilland biplane on an airfield, WW1An Airco DH2 De Havilland fighter biplane on an airfield during the First World War. It was a single-seater scout with a Gnome Monosoupape 100 horsepower engine. Date: 1915-1918
The Zen priest Ikkyu Osho. Date: circa 18th century
Reichstags Dome by Norman Foster (b. 1935). Berlin. GermanyDome of the Reichstag, seat of the German Parliament, designed by Norman Foster (b.1935). Interior. Berlin. Germany
Pierrot and Columbine -- Smile, PleaseColumbine tickles a gloomy Pierrot with a peacock feather and asks him to Smile, Please!
Child Reads at WindowPicture Books in Winter: " Summer fading, winter comes; Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs, Window robins, winter rooks, & the picture story books."
Oxton House, Devon, seat of Rev. John Beaumont Swete. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1827
Woburn Abbey / AckermannWoburn Abbey, Bedfordshire: seat of the Duke of Bedford
Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries and Galloway, the seat then of the duke of Queensbury, today of the dukes of Buccleugh
Boy / Hairdressers 1930SA seat inside a model toy car ensures a boys co-operation at the hairdressers Date: 1930s
England / Alton TowersAlton Towers, Staffordshire, seat of the earl of Shrewsbury - begun 1814, much added to, greatly admired for its magnificence indoors and out Date: circa 1840
A mobile dental surgery, belonging to the French armyA French motor lorry has been converted to make a dentist laboratory, to care for the teeth of the soldiers. The adjustable seat can just be seen
Archery Meeting 1822The Meeting of the Royal British Bowmen in the Grounds of Erddig (Erthig) Park, Denbighshire, Wales - the seat of Simon Yorke Esq
Churchill / Horse / 1915WINSTON CHURCHILL He resigns his parliamentary seat to return to the army during the early months of the First World War
Basildon Park / E DayesBasildon Park, Berkshire: the seat of Sir Francis Sykes
Chiswick Hse from GardenChiswick House viewed from the garden: seat of the late Earl of Burlington
Edinburgh / From Arthur sEdinburgh: from Arthurs Seat Date: 1880s
Mytton / Short Cut HomeThe seat of John Mytton (1796- 1834), the eccentric English squire of Halston, Shropshire. The view is from the back showing a circular garden and extensive parkland. Date: 1820s
Social / Knights Hill 18CA gentleman farmer on his horse at Knights Hill, Surrey, seat of Lord Thurlow. The farm labourer carries a harvest barrel
Newstead Abbey / WebsterThe Seat of the late Lord Byron
Colonel James Skinner holding a Regimental Durbar, 1827.Watercolour with gouache on European paper by Ghulam Ali Khan (fl 1817-1855), 1827.Inscribed in Nastaliq script lower left
Arthurs Seat Hotel, Sea Point, Cape Town, South AfricaArthurs Seat Hotel and Grounds, Sea Point, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. Date: circa 1930
Funerary stele of Democleides (4th century BC)Greek art. Funerary stele of Democleides (4th century BC). Marble relief depicting a warrior sitting sad and meditating on the stern of a ship. Beside him, his helmet and shield
Fairey Campania two-seat seaplaneFairey Campania two-seat carrier-borne reconnaissance or coastal patroller seaplane, which entered production in early 1917. It was mounted on a wheeled trolley for takeoff from a ships flight deck
Pilots cockpit of a spitfire 1940Cockpit, with its amazing array of dials, is the epitome of intensive mechanical warfare. 1940
British RE8 biplane and pilot, WW1A British Royal Aircraft Factory RE8 two-seater biplane with the pilot in the cockpit, used by the Royal Flying Corps for reconnaissance and bombing during the First World War
British BE 12 biplane on an airfield, WW1A British Royal Aircraft Factory BE 12 single-seater biplane on an airfield, used by the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. It had a 150hp RAF 4a engine. Date: 1915-1918
Bone-Shaker Bike C1830It has pedals, but no chain, and no pneumatic tyres - hard work to propel, and hard on the seat... Date: circa 1830
Snooker room with two playersView inside a snooker room, with two players. The snooker table is in the foreground, with three balls on it. The players are both seated in the background
Inuit Seal Hunting (4 / 5)Patence Rewarded. An Inuit seal hunter pulls a caught seal out through the hole into which he was fishing with a combination of the baited rope and a thin spike or barbed spear
Comic Sex / Squeeze Seat" Do you think you could squeeze me in a seat?" "... it would be better in the park after the show!"
Bunty Pulls The Strings by Graham Moffat. First of a set of six cards by artist E. Chandler. Each card is edged by a green and blue tartan border
Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830-1916) and Ferdinand I of AusFranz Joseph I of Austria (1830-1916). Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary and Ferdinand I of Austria (1861-1948). Emperor of Austria. Photograph, 1908. Colored
Voiture Henriod 1900 veteran motor carVoiture Henriod 1900. A neat little two-seater (with a little seat at back for baby or dog) - tiller steering - motoring at its simplest ! Date: 1900
FELIX HALLFelix Hall, Essex, the seat of Daniel Matthews esquire. Date: circa 1760
Aberdeen, Scotland - Heading out for a drive in a lovely open-top car. Note the elaborate face covering a scarf assembly swathing the lady passengers head, protecting her from the elements! Date: 1903
Viscount and Viscountess Astor and their childrenA photograph taken at Lord Astors seat, Clevedon, Taplow, Bucks. Lord Astor was M.P. for the Sutton Division of Plymouth until 191, after he succeeded Lady Astor represented the position
Woman on a Train Date: 1950
Pretty Parisian Girl lacing up her brown leather bootsLes Bottines Jaunes (The Yellow Boots) by Leo Fontan (although the boots appear in this reproduction as brown!) - a pretty Parisian girl lacing up her brown leather boots Date: circa 1919
Goddess Sekhmet, Sculpture. Medinet Habu. EgyptGoddess Sekhmet, goddess of war, represented with head of a lioness and the human body and crowned with the solar disk. Sculpture in the mortuary temple of Ramses III (1187-1156 BC). New Kingdom
Royal Aircraft Factory FE 8 single-seat fighter plane, first flown on 8 November 1915. It became obsolete by 1916. Seen here is serial no