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Background imageSmashed Collection: Cartoon, The Dropped Pilot, WW1

Cartoon, The Dropped Pilot, WW1
Cartoon, The Dropped Pilot, twenty-four years after Tenniel. In Tenniels Dropping the Pilot cartoon of 1890 Kaiser Wilhelm II watches as Bismarck disembarks from the ship (of state)

Background imageSmashed Collection: All went well till the wheels came off

All went well till the wheels came off. Cartoon strip from the Bonzo Annual, 1935 Date: 1935

Background imageSmashed Collection: South Africa - a toddler looks down guiltily at broken eggs

South Africa - a toddler looks down guiltily at broken eggs
South Africa - a toddler looks down guiltily at some broken eggs, spilled out from their laden basket. Date: circa 1930s

Background imageSmashed Collection: Scottish soldier writing home on a spiral staircase, WW1

Scottish soldier writing home on a spiral staircase, WW1
A resourceful Scottish soldier sits on a section of spiral staircase on the Western Front during the First World War to write his letter home. Date: 1914-1918

Background imageSmashed Collection: Damaged building and van, Bridge Inn

Damaged building and van, Bridge Inn, near Redruth, Cornwall, with people posing alongside. circa 1920s

Background imageSmashed Collection: Cromer Express railway train wreck, Witham, Essex

Cromer Express railway train wreck, Witham, Essex, 1 September 1905. Date: 1905

Background imageSmashed Collection: Parnall Heck 2C G-AEGI

Parnall Heck 2C G-AEGI, seen with race number 33 at Elmdon for the 1949 Kings Cup Air Race. On 29 July 1949, G-AEGI flew in the Kings Cup Race at Elmdon airport

Background imageSmashed Collection: WW2 - Bomb Damage to Houses of Parliament, London

WW2 - Bomb Damage to Houses of Parliament, London
In the course of the German bombing of London during the Second World War, the Palace of Westminster was hit by bombs on fourteen separate occasions

Background imageSmashed Collection: Suffragette W. S. P. U Hammer Brooch

Suffragette W. S. P. U Hammer Brooch
Suffragette brooch or badge in the shape of a hammer, inscribed on the head, March 1912. The silver brooch was presented to those W.S.P.U members who had smashed windows for the cause

Background imageSmashed Collection: Tennis - Then and Now

Tennis - Then and Now
This cartoon from 1928 remembers fondly the days when tennis was an amateur pursuit. 1928

Background imageSmashed Collection: West End riots: shops damaged by rioters, 1886

West End riots: shops damaged by rioters, 1886
The damage caused by rioters to Messrs T. Goode and Co, a large china ware shop on South Audley Street, during the 1886 West End riots

Background imageSmashed Collection: Tennis Book Cover

Tennis Book Cover
Cover design for Goodbye Summer ! by Catherine Mary Maesorley, an epic tale of smashed hopes, happy returns mixed partners and love all Date: circa 1900

Background imageSmashed Collection: Mid Pleasures and Palaces by C Watson Mill

Mid Pleasures and Palaces by C Watson Mill
Image from a promotional letterhead for Mid Pleasures and Palaces by C. Watson Mill. First produced at the Grand Theatre, Mansfield, 23rd September 1912

Background imageSmashed Collection: Boonville railway train wreck, New York State, USA

Boonville railway train wreck, New York State, USA
Boonville railway train wreck, on the New York Central Railroad, New York State, USA, 4 July 1908, in which five people died. Date: 1908

Background imageSmashed Collection: Railway strike 1911: Aftermath

Railway strike 1911: Aftermath
Several scenes in Liverpool where rioters have vandalised public property. Date: August 1911

Background imageSmashed Collection: Railway strike 1911: Tramcar damage by strikers at Glasgow

Railway strike 1911: Tramcar damage by strikers at Glasgow
One of thousands of tramcars damaged by strikers at Glasgow. Date: August 1911

Background imageSmashed Collection: Railway strike 1911: Affecting holiday crowds

Railway strike 1911: Affecting holiday crowds
Strikes causing massive disruptions for holiday makers leaving and entering London. Crowds of people escaping from London trying Margate steamers at London Bridge

Background imageSmashed Collection: Suffragette Militant Broken Windows

Suffragette Militant Broken Windows. Worksmen repairing windows at Messers Bakers Regent Street, London, after they were smashed by Militant Suffragettes Date: circa 1914

Background imageSmashed Collection: Suffragettes Annie Kenney & Helen Fraser 1907

Suffragettes Annie Kenney & Helen Fraser 1907. Shows Annie Kenney and Helen Fraser (1881-1964) campaigning against the Liberal candidate, George Esslemont

Background imageSmashed Collection: German gun destroyed by British firing, Western Front, WW1

German gun destroyed by British firing, Western Front, WW1
A German gun destroyed by British firing on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Background imageSmashed Collection: Smashed up German trench at Morval, Somme, WW1

Smashed up German trench at Morval, Somme, WW1
A smashed up German trench at Morval on the Somme, Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Background imageSmashed Collection: United we Stand, Devided we fall

United we Stand, Devided we fall! A Sailor, a soldier and a Policeman stagger home arm in arm from the fair. Date: circa 1909

Background imageSmashed Collection: Nursery Tale - Humpty Dumpty

Nursery Tale - Humpty Dumpty - HD takes a nasty fall and it is unlikely that all the Kings Horses or indeed all the Kings Men will be able to exact a repair... Date: 1880

Background imageSmashed Collection: Paris Riot Church Raid

Paris Riot Church Raid
The church of Saint-Joseph in Paris is sacked by anarchist rioters: alters were smashed, pictures trampled under foot & a bonfire made of the chairs. Date: 1899

Background imageSmashed Collection: Strike / Vehicles Damaged

Strike / Vehicles Damaged
Police and civilians around a bus, the windows of which have been smashed by stone-throwers in the Old Edinburgh Road, Glasgow Date: 1926

Background imageSmashed Collection: Metropolitan Police car with smashed bonnet

Metropolitan Police car with smashed bonnet
A Metropolitan Police car with a smashed bonnet and its door falling off

Background imageSmashed Collection: The Culprits by Muriel Dawson

The Culprits by Muriel Dawson
An accident in the garden. A sweet little girl in a pink pinafore and blue bonnet looks at a bird who perhaps she is going to blame for smashing a plant pot holding a red geranium

Background imageSmashed Collection: Lowestoft - The damage of the bombardment of 1918

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

Background imageSmashed Collection: Ruins of Fort at Sed Dul-Bahr

Ruins of Fort at Sed Dul-Bahr
Ruins of the Fort after the Battle at Sed Dul-Bahr

Background imageSmashed Collection: Arras 1917

Arras 1917
Soldiers of the Black Watch Wancourt-Hensel Sector amongst the ruins of a smashed German strongpoint near Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in October 1917

Background imageSmashed Collection: Battle of Flanders

Battle of Flanders
A British working party resting beside smashed German trenches and dugouts near Boesinghe, Belgium at the Battle of Flanders during World War I on the Western Front on 5th August 1917

Background imageSmashed Collection: Air Raid damage off Piccadilly during the Blitz

Air Raid damage off Piccadilly during the Blitz
Air Raid damage off Piccadilly, London on 19th September 1940. A lampost and parked car have been heavily damaged by falling masonry from bombed buildings

Background imageSmashed Collection: Lear / Nonsense / Whitehaven

Lear / Nonsense / Whitehaven
There was an Old Man of Whitehaven, who danced a quadrille with a raven; But they said, Its absurd to encourage this bird! So they smashed that Old Man of Whitehaven

Background imageSmashed Collection: Lear / Nonsense / Gong

Lear / Nonsense / Gong
There was an Old Man with a gong, who bumped at it all day long; But they called out, O law! you re a horrid old bore! so they smashed that Old Man with a gong

Background imageSmashed Collection: Broken China Doll

Broken China Doll
A little girl with a jagged fringe, cries her eyes out over her broken china doll, with its smashed head and limbs

Background imageSmashed Collection: Poster : Force of Arms

Poster : Force of Arms
we have Smashed the Enemy by Force of Arms !

Background imageSmashed Collection: Shop Windows Smashed

Shop Windows Smashed
The windows of Swan & Edgar Ltd smashed by suffragettes

Background imageSmashed Collection: 1798 Rebels Destroy Home

1798 Rebels Destroy Home
Rebels destroying a house and furniture : property smashed with hammers and axes, floorboards ripped up and set on fire, piano danced upon



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