Solo Collection

Angels of Mons, cover design for piano music
Angels of Mons (Reve Mystique), cover design for solo piano music by Sydney C Baldock, inspired by rumours of angelic intervention in the fighting (Battle of Mons, Belgium)

The Spirit of St Louis
Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St Louis, sets off from New York on his solo flight across the Atlantic

Amy Johnson - pioneering English pilot
Amy Johnson (later Mollison) CBE (1903-1941) - pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia

Amy Johnson CBE (1903-1941) - pioneering English female pilot - pictured standing in front of her Gipsy Moth just before she undertook a 19-day solo flight to Australia

Markham / Percival Gull
Beryl Markham, English pioneer aviator, and her Percival Gull: she was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from London to North America

Choirboy singing solo in a church, Horley, Surrey
A choirboy singing solo in front of a modern stained glass window at Salfords Church, Horley, Surrey. He is holding a book entitled English Praise

Earhart / Lockheed Vega
Amelia Mary Earhart (Mrs Putnam) and her Lockheed Vega: she was the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo (1932)

Beryl Markham (1902 1986), British-born Kenyan author, aviator, adventurer, and racehorse trainer. Photographed here, just after flying from Abingdon to Cape Breton Island

Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay - sung by Lottie Collins
" Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" is a vaudeville and music hall song. The songs first known public performance was in Henry J. Sayers 1891 revue Tuxedo, which was performed in Boston, Massachusetts

Pantomime artist Will Evans with his children
Will Evans (1866 -1931) was an eccentric comedian who performed in pantomime from a young age, and appeared on the music halls in the 1890s

Traffic Accident Group
A Metropolitan Police Traffic Accident Group, consisting of two Triumph motorcycles and one Wolseley 6/110 motor car, fitted with radio transmitter and loudspeaker

Can-Can Dancer
A solo dancer in a huge white hat displays a lot of frilly undergarments as she dances

Saint-Saens Photo
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS French composer, photographed as solo pianist in 1910. Date: 1835-1921

FALLA, Manuel de (1876-1946). Spanish composer and pianist. Works for piano solo and for piano and voice. Edited in Madrid

The highland fling. Originated in Scotland. A solo Highland dance that gained popularity in the early 19th century. Artist: Sydney Carter Date: 1905

Heath / Avro Avian Plane
Mary Lady Heath, Irish aviator, and her Avro Avian: she was the first woman to fly solo from England to South Africa

Lindbergh / Ilz 1927
Charles Augustus Lindbergh with the Spirit of St Louis after his record solo flight across the Atlantic

Four solo dancers, December 1923: Margaret Craske late of Diaghileff's Russian Ballet; Audrey Ashby, Phyllis Calvert and Marjorie Daw Date: 1923

Russia - Tsar Nicholas II in a canoe
Russia - Tsar Nicholas II going for a spin in a perissory (perissoire), a type of long canoe. Date: circa 1905

Music cover, The Official RAF March Past, WW2
Music cover, The Official RAF March Past, by H Walford Davies, pianoforte solo, showing Spitfire Fighter Planes, WW2 Date: circa 1940s

Music cover, Glowing Embers by Evan Marsden, Narrative-Intermezzo, piano solo Date: 1924

Music cover, The Girl on the Film, Valse, by Albert Sirmay, Gaiety Theatre Musical Play, London Date: 1913

Music cover, The Dancing Mistress Valse, on melodies by Lionel Monckton, arranged by H M Higgs Date: 1912

Ling-Temco-Vought A-7D Corsair II 73-1015
United States Air Force (USAF) - Ling-Temco-Vought A-7D Corsair II 73-1015 War Eagle V (msn D-411), of the South Carolina Air National Guard during a Coronet Solo deployment at RAF Wittering in July

Music cover, Piano Selection, film version of The Mikado
Music cover, Piano Selection, arranged by Geoffrey Toye, film version of The Mikado by Ws Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan Date: 1939

Ling-Temco-Vought A-7D Corsair II
United States Air Force - Ling-Temco-Vought A-7D Corsair II, of the South Carolina Air National Guard during a Coronet Solo deployment at RAF Wittering in July 1978

General Dynamics F-16A Block 10 Fighting Falcon 79-0325
United States Air Force - General Dynamics F-16A Block 10 Fighting Falcon 79-0325 (msn 61-110), of the South Carolina Air National Guard, during a Coronet Solo deployment to RAF Wittering

Music cover, Theme from Tchaikovsky Concerto
Music cover, Bette Davis in The Great Lie, Theme from Tchaikovsky Concerto in Bb Minor, arranged as piano solo by King Palmer. Date: 1942

Turner Layton (1894-1978) began a solo career in Britain in 1935 as a popular cabaret artiste and music hall peformer. He also had a successful career as a recording star. Date: 1937

Ronald Stevenson with Dmitri Shostakovich
Ronald Stevenson (left, b 1928), British composer, looking at a musical score with the Soviet Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Two dancers: Virginia Marvin - left - and Barbara
Two dancers in 1927: Virginia Marvin (left) had been with Mikhail Mordkin as solo dancer and in the Eastern tour company of the Shubert Operetta My Maryland

Second Waltz Medley - Piano solo with arrangement for piano accordion. Banks Music House, 25 County Arcade, Leeds. circa 1920s

Jean Batten, New Zealand aviator
Jean Batten (1909 - 1982), New Zealand aviator. She made a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world, including the first-ever solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936

Music cover, In a Monastery Garden, Albert W Ketelbey
Music cover, In a Monastery Garden, Characteristic Intermezzo, by Albert W Ketelbey, arranged for piano solo. Date: 1915

Music cover, Sanctuary of the Heart, Meditation Religieuse, by Albert W Ketelbey. Date: 1924

Piper PA-24-260B Commanche G-ATOY Myth Too (msn ). The aircraft flown by Sheila Scott (OBE) on her record-breaking solo round the world flight, taxiing in to a reception committee. Date: 1966

FALL / PAPILLON / 1984
RINGLANDS SOLO owners: Staff & Munn Date: 1984

Tarantella
A solo dancer performs the tarantella Date: 1908

GREEK SOLO DANCER
Female solo dancer

FALL / GORDON SETTER / 1974
SHOW CHAMPION BURNBECK SOLO Owned by Pither. Date: 1974

Earhart in Ireland
Amelia Earhart lowers herself from her aircraft at Londonderry after her solo transatlantic flight West to East Date: 1932

Miss Nellie Rennisons Swiss Ladies Orchestra, with a programme of music including pieces by Rossini, Nilssen and Sullivan. Also including four solo female singers. circa 1905

Front cover of The Tatler - Miss Amy Johnson
Portrait of Amy Johnson, CBE (1903 -1941), on the front cover of The Tatler, 6th August 1930. Amy Johnson was a pioneering English aviatrix

Mr Louis Napoleon Parker playing a solo on the Megaphone
Mr Louis Napoleon Parker (1852-1944) " playing a solo" on the Megaphone at the Warwick Pageant of 1906 (the only way he could successfully direct a vast cast)

Hotel Baraboedder, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia
Outside the Hotel Baraboedder, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. Showing the ladies of the native ruler of Solo (Surakarta) going for a ride in a car. Date: circa 1920

Music cover, The Artists Life, piano solo, the famous waltzes by Johann Strauss. 1932

Music cover, Waltz Medley, piano solo with arrangement for piano accordion, the most popular waltz melodies of the past 50 years. 1935

Music cover, The Dam Busters March, by Eric Coates, arranged for piano solo. 1954

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