Shell Collection (page 32)

Four and Twenty Tailors went to kill a snail, the best man amongst them durst not touch her tail. She put out her horns like a little Keyloe cow

Ammunition / Woolwich / 1862
Casting shot and shell for 100-pounder Armstrong guns at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London Date: 1862

Military / Weapons
Bomb-shell and fire-ball Date: 16th Century

High-speed passenger launch PL3 for Shell of Venezuela

Shell fast passenger launch PL4 powered by 2 Deltic 18 engines

Trench Mortars in the Great Advance
A British 6 inch trench mortar bombarding a strong point in the enemys line during the new British advance over the old Somme battlefields in 1918

Dragonfly (Aeshna Cyanea) emerged from exuvia
A close-up view of a Dragonfly (Aeshna Cyanea, Southern Hawker) which has just emerged from its exoskeleton or exuvia

Two soldiers loading a mortar from a trench during the First World War

Holidays in Spain and Portugal with Thomas Cook
Cover illustration for Holidays in Spain and Portugal, the Balearic Isles, Andorra, Madeira, Malta, Gibraltar and Cyprus, with Thomas Cook & Son Ltd and Dean & Dawson Ltd

Shell Shock by George Ranstead
An original pen & ink drawing illustrating a play on words. A young man with shell shock looks away in terror at a cracked hard boiled egg

Lowestoft - The damage of the bombardment of 1918
Lowestoft - Graphic illustration of the damage caused by bombardment to a private house on the Esplanade from the German Fleet of April 25th 1916

Tophane and the Bosphorus, Istanbul
A panoramic view of Tophane and the Bosphorus, set within the frame of a large shell

Man from Porto da Cruz, in Funchal, Madeira
A man belonging to a Porto da Cruz folklore group, using a shell as a bugle. He is taking part in street entertainment in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira

Destroyed German field kitchen WWI
German field kitchen destroyed by shell fire near Framerville on the Western Front during World War I

Shell crater WWI
Shell crater at the Chemin des Dames on the Western Front during World War I

Battle of Oppy WWI
German troops advancing in extended order, shells can be seen bursting in the distance while other troops take cover in a shell hole during World War I on the Western Front

German bombing patrol WWI
German bombing patrol in a shell hole on the Western Front during World War I. Note the Disc grenades being taken from special carrier attached to messenger dog

Exploding shell WWI
Shell exploding near German troops manning a trench on the Western Front during World War I

Resting soldiers at Gallipoli WWI
A shell from an Asiatic Annie bursting in the sea. Men resting on the beach road from Cape Helles to Gully Ravine, under shelter of the cliffs at Gallipoli during World War I

German WWI War Loans poster
German war loans poster showing the looming body of a tank against a sky littered with shell explosions

Algeria - Staoueli - Rue Centrale. A Motor Racing circuit was here and a Grand Prix race was held between 1928 - 1930

William Peel throwing a live shell
Captain William Peel (1824 - 1858) depicted in the act of bravery that won his first Victoria Cross during the Crimean War

The Galata Tower and Pera District, Constantinople
The Galata Tower and Pera District, across the water, set within a border of a Mother of Pearl shell

Tower of Seraskierat, Constantinople, set with the border of a seashell

Signallers 1916
Signallers of the Royal Garrison Artillery use a daytime lamp while sheltering in a shell hole near Fricourt Wood during the battle of the Somme

Mametz 1916
A British 4.5 inch Howitzer, the standard British field artillery unit of World War One, in a captured German gun position

Armetieres 1918
A British shell bursting in Armentieres and a soldier running to evacuate the town on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1918

Flers-Courcelette 1916
New Zealand troops create a new trench by linking up shell craters, somewhere near Martinpuich, on the first day of the Battle of Flers-Courcellete

British front in France 1918
Four soldiers in a shell hole on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1918

Shell cases 1916
A large dump of empty shell cases at Fricourt, a village captured by the British on the 2 July, during the opening phase of the Somme campaign

Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line 1918
German ammunition lorries destroyed by shell fire near Queant at the Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line on the Western Front in France during World War I in September 1918

Marcoing 1917
British soldiers pushing a water cart out of a mud filled shell hole near Marcoing during the Battle of Cambrai on the Western Front in France during World War I in November 1917

Howitzer 1917
12 inch Howitzer gun and ammunition under camouflage netting at the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

Soldiers washing 1917
Soldiers washing in a shell hole in Blangy on the British Front in France during World War I on 5th June 1917

Ruins of Peronne in 1917
Ruins of the town of Peronne on the British Front in France during World War I in 1917

Washing in a shell hole 1917
A British soldier washing in a shell hole in France on the British front during World War I on 21st April 1917

Battle Menin Road Ridge 1917
Shells bursting on the main road to Zonnebeke running over newly captured ground at the Battle of Menin Road Ridge in France on the British front during World War I on 20th September 1917

British Front 1915
A soldier in a shell crater on the British Front Line on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1915

Battle of Ypres 1918
Ruins of the Cloth Hall in Ypres with the remains of limbers and horses caught in shell fire in the foreground on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I on 29th September 1918

Houplines explosion 1916
A shell bursts at Houplines, near Armentieres on the Western Front

Battle of Albert 1916
British forces attack German trenches near Mametz on the the first day of the Battle of Albert. The British suffer heavy casualties on this first day of the Somme campaign

A shell explodes 1916
A shell bursts amongst the barbed wire entanglements on the battlefield at Beaumont Hamel, a village ultimately taken by the British during the Battle of the Somme

Battle of Pilkem Ridge
Shell carrying pack mules moving forward through the mud near Ypres at the Battle of Pilkem Ridge, Western Front, Belgium during World War I on 1st August 1917

Battle of Ypres
Enemy shell bursts during the third battle of Ypres, Passchendale during World War I on 4th September 1917

The Three Little Pigs meet a white goose and chick
A composite illustration of two childrens stories -- a little pig builds a house (left), watched closely by a wolf getting ready to blow it down

Steel Frame Building construction - London
The building of the Film House - 142 Wardour Street - an early photographic example of the technique of steel frame construction - still the favoured method of putting up a building seen everywhere

Queen Mother / Fiji Nz
ELIZABETH, THE QUEEN MOTHER During a royal tour of New Zealand, the Queen Mother visits Fiji and takes part in a traditional Yaqona ceremony and drinks from coconut shell

Carrying away an unexploded bomb
Volunteer carrying away an unexploded bomb, which fell in Bromley, Kent - one of a payload of twenty two bombs

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