Sixty Collection

Victoria Tower on Castle Hill, Huddersfield, Yorkshire
View of the Victoria Tower on Castle Hill, overlooking Huddersfield, Yorkshire. The tower was opened in 1899 to commemorate Queen Victorias 60+ year reign. Date: 1940s

The Arrival of the First Thor Ballistic Missile to RAF Bom
Photograph of the delivery of first Thor Ballistic Missile to an RAF Base in Norfolk, 19th September 1958. Sixty-five feet long

Captain Collins of Brighton, with his family
Captain Fred Collins of Brighton, who ran three pleasure boats called the Skylark and was a familiar figure on Brighton Beach for sixty years

A Sixty-Five Pounder Opening Fire, by James McBey, WW1
" Zero". A Sixty-Five Pounder Opening Fire, drypoint print by James McBey, First World War. Referring to a bombardment in Palestine in the early morning of 19 September 1918. 1920

Railway signal at night
Colour-light signalling, a modern innovation in the early 1960s, on an electrified railway line. Electrification of busy routes demanded a system of train control that was rapid

The Whirl of the World, Palladium Theatre, London
The Whirl of the World, Charles Gullivers revue in 25 scenes, by Albert de Courville, Edgar Wallace and William E Wells, at the Palladium Theatre, London, with a chorus of sixty. circa 1920s

Six-Sixty Safety Valves, wireless radio 1920s Date: 1920s

Sir Henry Irving, actor, after a rehearsal of Ravenswood
Sir Henry Irving, actor manager, after a rehearsal of Ravenswood, a play by Herman Merivale, based on the story of the Bride of Lammermoor - he played the lead role of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood

John Seymour Lucas, artist, portrait by John Singer Sargent Date: 1905

John Seymour Lucas, artist, in suit of armour
John Seymour Lucas (1849-1923), artist, in one of his suits of armour Date: late 19th century

The Motor Picture Book, What, Only Doing Sixty? Date: 1930

Comic postcard, Hot bath before retiring Date: 20th century

Poster advertising the NSPCC, Diamond Jubilee Year Appeal - In 60 years the NSPCC has come to the rescue of 5.5 million children - please help us, if you can. Date: circa 1944

Joke notice, Lost Hours
Joke notice, Lost, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, Two Golden Hours, each set with Sixty Diamond Minutes. No Reward is offered, for they are Lost For Ever. early 19th century

Four costumes for the Eclipse Ball, a pageant ball to take place on 17 December at the Park Lane Hotel, London, in aid of St Johns Hospital, Lewisham

Cutting sixty miles of tunnel in Paris
Cross-section of plans for the tunnel extension to the Paris Metro under the Paris Opera House 1903

Anna Neagle as Queen Victoria
Anna Neagle, actress, as Queen Victoria. She played the role in two films, Victoria the Great (1937) and Sixty Glorious Years (1938). 1930s

Cadillac-Fleetwood Sixty Special

Tatler cover - 60 years of social change - 1959
Front cover of The Tatler for 30 December 1959 with two opera-bound couples gazing across a span of sixty years. The contemporary girls wears a Susan Small dress in pale coffee-coloured pure lace

Queen Victorias Jubilee Celebrations
View of two illuminated buildings on the evening of Queen Victorias Jubilee Celebrations, 20 June 1897. The Junior Constitutional Club (above)

Queen Victoria, Jubilee Celebrations
Archbishop of Canterbury doing homage to Queen Victoria after the service at St Pauls Cathedral during her Jubilee Celebrations on 20 June 1897. Date: 20 June 1897

Queen Victorias Jubilee Celebrations, view of London
View of London illuminated, with St Pauls Cathedral in the distance, for Queen Victorias Jubilee Celebrations on 20 June 1897. Date: 20 June 1897

Sixty-three Steps, Barrow Bridge, Lancashire
Sixty-three Steps, Barrow Bridge, Bolton, near Horwich, Lancashire, England. Date: 1900s

Cutting sixty khaki uniforms at once, WW1
Scene at a garment manufacturer in New Jersey, USA, which was able to turn out 50, 000 khaki uniforms a day for Allied troops by a cutting process which allowed sixty pieces of fabric to be cut at

Harold Wilson with red budget briefcase
Harold Wilson (1916-1995), British Labour politician and Prime Minister (1964-1970 and 1974-1976), pictured with the red budget briefcase in one of the rooms at 10 Downing Street

Col. Michael Corcoran, at the Battle of Bull Run, Va, July 2
Col. Michael Corcoran, at the Battle of Bull Run, Va.-July 21st 1861: The desperate and bloody charge of the Gallant Sixty Ninth, on the rebel batteries. Date 1861?. Col

Brig. -Genl. Michael Corcoran - of the Irish Brigade late col
Brig.-Genl. Michael Corcoran - of the Irish Brigade late colonel of the gallant N.Y. Sixty Ninth. Print shows Michael Corcoran, half-length portrait, facing slightly right

Sixty-one and nineteen-nine - who will march to set us free?. Illustration shows a large gloved hand labeled Plutocracy with a design showing the US Capitol emerging from dark clouds to crush a group

Colonel Michael Corcoran

Swallow Falls
The beautiful Swallow Falls, north Wales, where the River Llugwy, after joining the Conway, hurls itself into a chasm sixty feet wide, in three falls. Date: 1940s

Battle of Arras 1917
Battery of 60 pounders firing in the open at Feuchy Chapel, which is 3.75 miles from Arras and was the limit of the first days advance on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1917

British troops in France 1915
Soldiers getting ready to fire a 60 pounder gun in the Bois Grenier sector on the Western Front in France during World War I on 12th January 1915

The crater of an exploded mine
A photograph showing one side of a crater left by the detonation of a buried mine by the French army as part of the Somme offensive of 1916

Whale Attacks Liner
Sixty whales attack a German liner Prinz Sigismund in the Atlantic, but it escapes them

Sir Henry Morton Stanley and his men exit a forest, Central
Engraving showing Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) (centre with walking stick), the Anglo-American journalist and explorer, and his companions leaving a dense forest, Central Africa

Hair transplant
Entitled, If the War Makes you Lose Your Wool - Try This, this illustration shows an early form of hair transplanting, championed by a Dr. Szekely of Budapest

Murder of Rizzio 1566
David Rizzio, the Italian secretary of Mary Queen of Scots, is murdered by Marys husband Henry and his group of conspirators, who stab him sixty times

Elizabeth I Deer Hunt
Queen Elizabeth I at a deer hunt. As a keen devotee of the sport, she hunted regularly until she was sixty-seven years old

Mascagni / Cav - Liebig
Sixty curtain calls greet the first production at the Teatro Costanzi, Rome - a resounding success which will be followed by enduring popularity

Poas Volcano, Costarica
Every thirty to sixty minutes, the sulphur lake starts to boil (2nd picture of three)

Tin Miners / Camborne
Miners climbing from the sixty- to the fifty-fathom level in King Edwards mine, near Camborne, Cornwall

60 Huguenots Massacred
Sixty Huguenots are massacred by Francois, duc de Guise at Vassy

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