Spend Collection

TS Mercury - Market Day
Market Day at the Training Ship Mercury - boys spend their small weekly allowance in the institutions shop, with bags of sweets apparently popular

Comic postcard, Little girl with a penny for the toilet Date: 20th century

Off Duty R. A. F. Men
A pair of illustrations showing various ways in which British Royal Air Force servicemen might spend their time off duty, examples include playing darts and writing letters to home. Date: 1941

Comic postcard, Woman looking for nearest toilet Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Scotsman discusses runners training Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Scotsmen discuss football match Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Scotsman and taxi driver Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Scotsman outside barbers shop Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, four Scotsmen spending a penny Date: 20th century

Patriotic poster, Buy British - Look at it from Both Sides
Look at it from Both Sides - One the one hand employment, on the other - moneu to spend. - Buy British and be self-supporting

Poster, Spend your Holidays in Jamaica, loveliest and most romantic tropical isle. early 20th century

Poster, Winter in the Vallee de Joux, Jura, Switzerland
Poster, Spend the Winter in the Vallee de Joux, Jura, Switzerland. Lithograph by A Marsens, Lausanne. circa 1938

SOCIAL SCENES / ITALY / 20TH
NIGHTLIFE A fashionable group spend the evening by the water with their friends. Date: 1929

PERSEPHONE (BOISSARD)
Persephone (= Proserpina) is abducted by Hades (= Pluto); eventually it is agreed that she will spend half the year down there, returning to Earth for the summer months

PAOLO & FRANCESCA PAOLO & FRANCESCA
Virgil and Dante contemplate Paolo and Francesca as they whirl by, condemned - like other adulterous lovers - to spend eternity in each others arms

Traveller in Switzerland
A traveller, possibly on the Grand Tour, contemplates the mountains: Ev n now, where alpine solitudes ascend, I sit me down a pensive hour to spend Date: 1800

Saint Brendan & Judas
Saint Brendan, sailing westward, comes across Judas, condemned to spend eternity on a mid-Atlantic rock, where he is reproached by Jesus for ever and ever and ever

James Watt / Heathfield
JAMES WATT His house at Heathfield, in Handsworth, Birmingham, to which he moved in 1790 to spend the rest of his life. Date: 19th century

Cartoon, Explanation, WW1
Cartoon, Explanation. Three old age pensioners outside a restaurant discuss earnings and taxation. The plump man says he pays no taxes because he spends all his money on food. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Good sense, WW1
Cartoon, Good sense. An extravagant wife explains to her soldier husband why she had to buy such expensive clothes, and travel home by taxi. Date: 1916

French line, Compagnie General Transatlantique, Paris
Advert for French line, Compagnie General Transatlantique, Paris, 1927 Spend the Winter in North Africa Date: 1927

British visitors spending money in Switzerland
Thats the way the money goes in Switzerland today: how British visitors spend their 75 quota. Date: 1947

Suffragette N. W. S. P. U Christmas Card
Suffragette N.W.S.P.U Christmas Card. Christmas card produced by National W.S.P.U with Best Wishes for Xmas and the New Year 1908-1909 with medallion by Sylvia Pankjurst and the quotation

The future when the boys come home. How to win this war. Don t spend your money on clothes. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps

Christmas card in the shape of a battered top hat -- May you spend a jolly time under the old roof. Date: circa 1890s

Hudson Eight Saloon De Luxe, aimed at the family who are ready to spend a few hundred pounds more. Date: 1937

Street Trades / Bread
London characters: the BAKER spend his nights baking, then in the day he carries his loaves from door to door. Does he ever sleep ? Date: circa 1870

Female Types / Quadrille
Two demure young ladies who spend their leisure time playing easy quadrille duets on the piano. Date: circa 1850

The Sunday Question
Cartoon asking whether the working class should spend Sunday in the public house, or being educated in a museum or art gallery

Louis and Henry
The controversial pope Alexander III is supported by Henry II of England and Louis VII of France : he will spend the next few years in exile in France

Seamans Mission Chaplain on a merchant ship, 1906
Photograph showing a Mission to Seamen Chaplain sitting on a merchant ship, sharing his tobacco with the crew, 1906. Mission boats were at work in many of the worlds largest ports, at this time

Mission to Seamen Chaplain distributing Papers, 1906
Photograph showing a Mission to Seamen Chaplain distributing papers and magazines to a merchant ship crew, on their vessel, 1906

Mission to Seamen Service on board a Barge, 1906
Photograph showing a Mission to Seamen Service being held on the deck of a barge, 1906. Mission boats were at work in many of the worlds largest ports, at this time

Fencing on board a Troopship, 1876
Engraving of soldiers fencing on board a troopship, perhaps the Himalaya - judging by lifebelt in the background. When troops were ordered to distant wars or postings

Deck Quoits on board a Troopship, 1876
Engraving of some soldiers playing deck quoits on board a troopship. When troops were ordered to distant wars or postings

Boxing on board a Troopship, 1876
Engraving of soldiers boxing on board a troopship. When troops were ordered to distant wars or postings, the long journeys under canvas meant plenty of time to spend on deck sports and pastimes

Cock Fighting on board a Troopship, 1876
Engraving of soldiers cock fighting on board a troopship. When troops were ordered to distant wars or postings, the long journeys under canvas meant plenty of time to spend on deck sports and pastimes

Shop Display 1940S
A window display at Lovegrove & Sons family grocers, inviting people to Come and Spend Your Points Here, i.e. to use up their rationing coupon points during wartime

Red Guards Petrograd
The Red Guard spend much of the time driving round the streets of Petrograd waving their guns for the benefit of photographers

Dainaides Punished
The Danaides, all but one of whom murdered their husbands on their wedding night, are condemned to spend eternity in hell fetching water in vessels with holes in them

Three Ladies in a Car
Three ladies, who evidently spend a good deal of time in the sun at heavens knows what risk to their complexion, drive in their convertible with the windscreen down

Social Scenes / Italy / 20Th
NIGHTLIFE A fashionable group spend the evening by the water with their friends

Relaxing in a Deckchair
Sitting back in a deckchair and putting you feet up. What better way is there to spend an afternoon

Wwi / Germans at Cafe
German soldiers on leave, spend time relaxing at a cafe

Russian New Year
RUSSIAN LAPPS New years day is a solar festival here : the sun is encouraged to spend longer in the sky by games and ceremonies

Wayside Inn, Bosnia
This wayside inn in the Balkans is without doubt the most picturesque pub in our files ! Whether you d want to spend the night here, though, is another matter

Drunken Blind Granny
Blind Granny: a half blind, drunken nuisance who would beg by using her paricularly long tongue to wash her blind eye then spend the money on drink. Poems were written about her!

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