Sliding Collection

Fire Station Billiards Room

Morris Eight
Popular family saloon with a sliding head - i.e. you can open the roof. Date: 1936

Invention of the Cube Car. This box-like car, designed by French-Vietnamese designer and engineer Quasar Kahn, was produced in limited numbers between 1967

Dickens / Christmas Carol
Bob Cratchit sliding on the ice at Cornhill on Christmas Eve Date: First published: 1843-44

LCC-LFB fire station appliance room with engines
London firefighters turning out on a fire call from Wandsworth fire station, SW London

LCC-MFB Kensington fire station, W London
The appliance room of the former Kensington fire station which was located in King Street, W8. It was built in 1871 and closed in 1905 when the new Kensington fire station was opened

Batgers Crackers
A girl in a yellow party frock and matching hat slides down a staircase on a tea tray while a motley group of revellers in fancy dress cheer her on

Stock poster showing runner sliding past catcher. Date c1897

Market Reports - Commodity Market
Market Reports - A Fall in Copper created some excitement! 1903

Plunging elephants at the London Hippodrome
Elephants plunging into the tank at the London Hippodrome, the climactic scene at the London Hippodrome during their Christmas production for 1903-4 The Golden Princess and the Elephant Hunters

Suppose we found snow fairies there, by Minnie Asprey. circa 1918

Mr Pickwick
Artists interpretation of Mr Pickwick and friends sliding on the ice from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. Artist: Charles Brock. Date: 1908

The Bunnies ride into a big stone Date: 1924

The Bunnies ride down the hill in a basket Date: 1924

Modernist House At Gidea Park
A photograph of a modernist house built at the Modern Homes Exhibition on the Gidea Park Estate, designed in 1934 by architects Francis Reginald Stevens Yorke

Public Meeting Room at a traditional Japanese Hotel
A large public meeting or funtion room at a traditional Japanese Hotel. Date: circa 1920s

Japan - Traditional Reception Room with Tokonoma
A Tokonoma, the decorated Alcove of a traditional Japanese Reception Room, complete with sliding screen doors and tatami mats

Large Traditional Japanese Hotel room with tatami mats. Date: circa 1920s

Piano Slide, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936

Jumbo's joy in the hot weather: Elephants shooting the chute at the Franco-British Exhibition held at White City, London 1908 Date: 1908

Comic postcard, Large woman sliding into the sea Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Edinburgh Exhibition - man collides with woman Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Helter Skelter, Edinburgh Exhibition Date: 20th century

Regency man riding a horse sliding down a hill on its hind legs, its forelegs straight. A man with a peg leg and eyepatch tumbles behind. How to Travel Upon Two Legs in a Frost

Regency man trying to stop a horse entering a tavern. Drinkers laugh at his struggles to control his horse, as a stage coach rides off in the distance. A Horse with a Nose

Cartoon, Sliding on Thin Ice (Roman Catholicism)
Cartoon, Sliding on Thin Ice -- a satirical comment on the Roman Catholic Church, the Popes claim to infallibility, and the attraction of High-Church Protestant Anglo-Catholics towards Catholicism

Cartoon, A Suggestion, London Underground escalator
Cartoon, A Suggestion, a comment on the escalator (moving staircase) at Earls Court Station on the London Underground. Showing people sliding down the parcel chute in the middle

Early camera
Details of an early model of a camera requiring the use of plates. 19th century

Boys sliding on ice (glissoire) and sledding on ice (traisneau), after an engraving by Claudine Bouzonnet Stella, 17th century

People at a funfair, sliding down a chute

People sliding and skating on ice
Decorative Christmas frieze, People sliding and skating on ice

Christmas card, children on a sleigh in the snow
Victorian Christmas card, children on a sleigh in the snow, with turkeys running away in the foreground. 19th century

Advertisement for the Mount Railway, Madeira
Advertisement for the Mount Railway Company of Madeira, offering excursions for tourists, with return passage between steamer and pier, toboggan or return by railway

Local men with tourist car in Funchal, Madeira
Local men with a tourist car in Funchal, Madeira, designed to entertain visitors by sliding down the steep slopes of the town. Date: circa 1910

Street scene with tourist cars in Funchal, Madeira, sliding down the steep slope from top to bottom. Date: circa 1910

Cartoon - Going down to a watering place, for the benefit of Bathing. early 19th century

Soccer Players Date: 1958

GAME / WINTER / SLIDING ICE
Children sliding on the ice Date: 1888

BASEBALL FOR LADIES
Young Lady Baseballlists The very novel and already successful idea of manager W.S.Franklin and the belles of the Ball and Bat. Date: 1890

Children sliding on the ice, circa 1890
A boy and a girl slide on the ice. Date: circa 1890

WW1 - Battle of Dogger Bank - Sinking of SMS Blucher
WW1 - Battle of Dogger Bank - A photograph showing the sinking of the German battle cruiser, SMS Blucher, after being shelled by the British in 1915

Christmas card, Three children sliding with dog. 20th century

Indian Mound Park, Hannibal, Missouri, USA
View of Indian Mound Park, Hannibal, Missouri, USA, with people in an outdoor swimming pool. Date: circa 1925

Whos Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? by Lawson Wood
Humorous colour illustration by Lawson Wood depicting his orange utan character, Gran pop sliding away on some ice from the shadow of a wolf. Appropriately, he is accompanied by three little pigs

LCC-LFB Fireman using the sliding pole
Following a visit to the United States, the Chief Officer (Captain Eyre Massey Shaw) saw these devices in American firehouses, and brought the idea into his own fire stations

Satirical cartoon, The March of Intellect, showing a street scene with balloons in the sky above. 1828

The Blucher sinking
A photograph showing the sinking of the German battle cruiser, the Blucher after being shelled by the British (led by Sir David Beatty) during the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1915

The Slider by Arthur Watts
Skaters in a winter sports resort watch with some consternation as a chap slides onto the ice in only his shoes. Date: 1930

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