Setting Collection (page 4)

WICKER MAN (1)
The WICKER MAN in which the ancient Britons are supposed to have placed victims, setting it alight as a burnt offering to their gods Date: BC

Photograph showing a time-fuse from a German shrapnel-shell which burst over British lines. Date: 1915

The Calais Ferry Boat leaving the Pier, Dover, Kent - setting off across the English Channel. 1934

Hospice du Grand St Bernard on the Great St Bernard Pass, Switzerland. A hospice for travellers was founded in 1049 and named after Saint Bernard of Menthon

Sunset at Kynance Cove, The Lizard, Cornwall, with a silhouetted couple. Date: circa 1970s

TEA SERVICE 1930S
Lovely cups and saucers with matching milk jug, sugar lumps in a glass bowl and biscuits on a plate, but sadly, no tea! Date: 1930s

CREAMED POTATOES & PEAS CREAMED POTATOES & PEAS
Creamed potatoes and peas, topped off with a poached egg. What could be nicer? Date: 1950s

JACKET POTATOES
Stuffed baked potatoes, an excellent supper dish for a cold evening. The potatoes can cook without attention and the filling can be left waiting until a moment before serving. Date: 1940s

POACHED EGG & PEAS POACHED EGG & PEAS
The rather unappetising combination of poached egg, mashed potatoes and peas. Date: 1940s

FRESH SALAD
A fresh salad, including lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, onions and raddishes. Date: 1930s

STUFFED TOMATO SALAD
Tomatoes stuffed with cottage cheese, served with watercress, lettuce, etc. Date: 1930s

DINNER PARTY SETTING
Setting a dinner party table does not end with putting the glasses, silver & cutlery in their proper places. Food & decoration should be colour co-ordinated for effect. Date: 1940s

WOOD WITH BLUEBELLS
A fine display of bluebells in an English woodland setting. Date: late 19th century

REDHILL FARM SCHOOL 1856
Boys setting off for the days work at the Philanthropic Farm School at Redhill, Surrey, England. Date: 1856

WATER MILL / RUSTIC FRANCE
The water mill at Eu, France in an ideal rustic setting Date: circa 1840

Duke of Wellington visits the Great Exhibition 1851
The Duke of Wellington visits the Great Exhibition site, as items are unpacked by workmen. Date: 1851

FASHIONS FOR SHOOTING
A well dressed shooting party, in tweeds, plus-fours and trilbies, stop for a spot of luncheon in a pleasant rural setting. Date: 1938

Dairy Woman in Her Cart
A milkwoman poses for the photographer before setting out on her rounds in a two- wheeled horse-drawn cart holding two churns from which she will ladle out milk Date: circa 1905

WOMENS WORK TEAM CHINA
Womens mutual aid team setting off for work on a communal farm Date: 1951

BILLINGSGATE - DORE 5
Setting out the fish at BILLINGSGATE market Date: 1870

Blackmore Vale - Wessex
Blackmore Vale, Dorset: the setting for one of the episodes in Thomas Hardys novel, Jude the Obscure Date: 1906

CHARLES VI & WENCESLAUS CHARLES VI & WENCESLAUS
German Emperor Wenceslaus of Luxembourg With Charles VI of france holding ultimately unsuccessful negotiations to end the Papal Schism (setting is probably Rheims Cathedral). Date: Ca 1390

WATER PUMP (GIGUET)
A cutaway view of a water pump in a French rural setting. Date: circa 1880

GRAPEFRUIT BREAKFAST
What could be nicer than tucking into a dish of fresh grapefruit for breakfast, with the prospect of a boiled egg, followed by a pot of tea in fine China cups? Date: 1930s

Setting up at the Great Exhibition 1851
SETTING UP Goods arriving for the Great Exhibition Date: 1851

KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH
Prospectors buying stores at Victoria, British Columbia, before setting out for the Klondike Date: 1898

GEORGE ELIOT / MILBY
GEORGE ELIOT Market Day at Milby, the setting for Janets Repentance in Scenes of Clerical Life Date: 1819 - 1880

Royal Air Force de Havilland DH. 98 Mosquito B Mk. IV DK336
Royal Air Force de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk.IV DK336. Seen in the photo is the common affliction of the Mosquito; drooping main Undercarriage doors

Anna Zinkiesen - Johns Noah and Jack Tars! The Chelsea Arts Club Ball. It was Noahs Night at the Royal Albert Hall, with a Noahs Ark designed by Augustus John. Date: 1930

Madame Sarah Bernhardt in Izeyl at Dalys Theatre - Izeyl watching Prince Siddartha from the porch of her house. Date: 1894

Hambleden, Buckinghamshire. Date: circa 1980s

An Exotic Oriental Beauty - Western Fantasy Card. Date: circa 1910s

Java, Indonesia - Small shelters on the riverbank Date: circa 1930s

Girl wearing high-quality skirt with remarkable hairstyle, redolent of the late 17th century... Date: circa 1910s

Ashtabula, Ohio, USA - Shoreline of Lake Erie Date: circa 1920

Cleveland, Ohio, USA - Sunset on Lake Erie Date: circa 1931

Rio Girardini - Canal in Venice, Italy
Rio Girardini in the late afternoon light - Canal in Venice, Italy. Date: circa 1905

Kabuki Theatre - Japan - Three performers
Traditional Japanese Kabuki Theatre - Japan - Three performers, one seated in an outdoor moonlight setting by a fence, the other two inside. Date: circa 1902

The River Nile and the Pyramids of Giza, Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1910s

Sudan - Dinka Porters
Porters of the Dinka people, the major ethnic group of South Sudan - shown here as part of a group transporting the baggage of (seemingly) a group of colonial officials. Date: circa 1910s

Panorama. Red Riding Hood
Red Riding Hood. Cut-out postcard enabling children to cut out the fairyland figures & place them in a theatrical setting. Date: 1921

Alphonse Mucha
Female piper in an Art Nouveau setting. Date: circa 1895

Carole Lombard & William Powell sailing to Honolulu
American actress Carole Lombard pictured on board a boat ready to set sail for Honolulu with her first husband, actor William Powell

Fox hunting scene
Horses & hounds chasing a fox in a rural winter setting. Date: circa 1903

Halifax Childrens Holiday Home, Norland, West Yorkshire
The rural setting of a holiday home for poor children from Halifax. The picture was taken from Ladstone Rock. Date: Date unknown

Primula Juliae (Juliana Primrose), a flowering plant of the Primulaceae family, named after the person who discovered it in April 1900 in the Caucasus Mountains of south west Russia

Enclosed planet earth as perceived by Cosmas
The enclosed planet earth as perceived by Cosmas, with the planet in the form of a tabernacle

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