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Admiral Nelson and Captain Hardy during Trafalgar
During the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, it was shortly before Nelson was mortally wounded that a shot struck the fore brace bits on the quarter deck and passed between Nelson and Hardy

UFO abduction in New Hampshire, USA
A UFO abduction in New Hampshire, USA. Betty and Barney Hill, driving at night, see a UFO. Later they are stopped by the aliens, taken on board the flying saucer and subjected to a medical examination

Sayers V Heenan 1860
English champion Tom Sayers fights the American challenger for the belt. Unresolved, the fight is stopped by the police

Man & 1948 Triumph motorcycle
Man on his 1948 Triumph Trophy 500cc motorcycle road side circa 1950

Doukhobors Stripping
Men of the Second Pilgrimage are stopped at Yorkton, where they undress : the Canadian Police arrest them and order them to get dressed, then take them back to the settlement

The Battle of Pacocha; Action between HMS Shah and Ameth
Engraving showing the battle between HMS Shah and Amethyst and the Peruvian Ironclad turret ship Huascar on the 29th May 1877

Never-stop railway at British Empire Exhibition 1924
Diagram showing step-on, step-off method, where people walked slowly onto the moving carriage that went around the British Empire Exhibition, in Wembley, designed by William Yorath Lewis

English Touring Motorcyclist at Dojran, North Macedonia
An English Touring Motorcyclist - stopped off at Dojran, a city on the west shore of Lake Dojran in the southeast part of North Macedonia. circa 1909

General Jean Meiser
A sculpture of General Jean Meiser of the Belgian Army, Commander of the Legion of Honour. Labelled as a heroic defender of Dixmude who stopped the German army on their way to the channel ports in

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

Ray Bernard, left-wing campaigner, giving a speech
Ray Bernard, a left-wing political campaigner, giving a speech in the street. Various people have stopped to listen. Date: circa 1950s

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Comic postcard, Fight the good fight! Date: 20th century

Stopped at a barricade, a pass from the Paris Commune, 1871. Two fashionable women in crinoline dresses and hats show papers to a soldier with rifle. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

On the Paris Ramparts during the war of 1870. Soldier, gentleman and fashionable women on the snow-covered ramparts during the Siege of Paris, Franco-Prussian War. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

2nd Worcesters Memorial, Geluveld Mill
This commemorates the famous battle of 31 October 1914 when the Worcesters, together with the 1st South Wales Borderers, stopped a German attack that was close to breaking through to Ypres

Abraham offering up Isaac for sacrifice
Abraham offering up his son Isaac for sacrifice is stopped just in time by an angel

Columbus arrives at San Salvador
Christopher Columbus and his caravels arrive at Guanahani island, later renamed San Salvador by Columbus. Row boats are heading towards the islands from where the three ships are anchored. Date: 1492

de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk G-AOSU (msn 0217 - ex RAF WB722) at Newcastle Airport. In 1977, this aircraft was in the process of conversion to the Supermunk prototype

The drivers of these Turkish ox-carts have stopped to give their animals a rest, or themselves, or both. Date: 1890s

Waving to Engineer Date: 1947

Asking For Directions Date: 1928

LION IN PASSENGER SEAT
One way to avoid being stopped for speeding is to have a large lion in the passenger seat... Date: 1909

Sabbatarians stop delivery of post on Sunday
Sabbatarians achieve a short lived victory, having stopped the delivery of post on Sundays. Though pleasing to Post Office workers, it infuriated the public. Date: 1850

Scottish Womens Hospitals Elsie Inglis
Shows the second unit from the Scottish Womens Hospitals for Foreign Service, prior to their departure from Cardiff in April 1915

Mercedes Gleitze, swimmer, pulled from the water
Mercedes Gleitzes second English Channel swim is stopped. She is hauled from the water against her will. Date: 1927

Napoleon halting the pillage of Rome
Scene during the Italian Campaign in the Revolutionary Wars -- Napoleon halting the pillage of Rome by his invading French army

Medieval Debauchery
HEREWARD THE WAKE Surrounded by his drunken men, Hereward (far right) sees Martin Lightfoot departing (far left) with the letter and realises that he must be stopped

Be-medalled General Sir H. Smith-Dorrien
General Smith-Dorrien Commanded the British Second Corps that stopped the Germans at Mons. Date: circa 1915

Main road to Malindi, Kenya, East Africa
Men with a car on the main road to Malindi, Kenya, East Africa. circa 1922

1958 BSA motorcycles & sidecars
1958 BSA motorcycles & A7/A10 sidecars parked roadside in the late 1950s

Anthony Wilding and Norman Brookes, tennis at Wimbledon
Anthony Wilding and Norman Brookes as " gentlemen in waiting" on the weather at the 1914 Wimbledon tennis championship in July 1914

Austin car, Talybont Reservoir, Brecon Beacons, Wales
Austin car parked alongside the Talybont Reservoir, Brecon Beacons, Wales. Date: circa 1960s

District Railway line - London Underground - A sudden stop! (see: 10176658) Date: circa 1910

The Host Who Forgot To Approve The Dish by H M Bateman, this illustration shows a group of people about to have dinner, but the host has forgotten to approve the dish

Things I Should Like To See II by Bateman. A Dentist having a tooth stopped. One Dentist filling the tooth of another. The look of fear and pain is clear of his face

Country road with sheep, Sardinia, Italy
Country road with sheep and shepherd, Sardinia, Italy. Date: 1972

Susi - rain stops play. 1950s

Train Stopped by Snow
A night train stopped by snow - workers clear the drift by the lights from the locomotive. Date: 1854

Massive fire damage at hat factory after 1906 fire, showing the extent of destruction, yet manufacture was stopped for only 6 weeks Date: 1906

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, suspended
R.M.S. Queen Mary at the John Brown shipyard, December 1931. Work on the ship, then known as Cunard No. 534, had been suspended on 13th December 1931 as Cunard had run out of funds

Queen Mary Ocean Liner crisis stops work
Tragedy comes to Clydeside. On 10th December 1931, almost exactly a year after signing of the contract for the construction of Hull Number 534, know as Queen Mary Ocean Liner

British Gunners under fire
A British artillery battery, on its way to take up a position further forward, is stopped in its tracks by an enemy shell which lands in the road immediately ahead. Date: July 1917

Two men with Austin car
Two men with an Austin car, parked at the roadside under a signpost in Brecon, Wales

Man with his Austin car, parked at the roadside for repairs or maintenance

British transport halted on a road, Western Front, WW1
A line of British transport halted on a road on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Measures for foiling troop carriers by G. H. Davis
Meeting the threat of airborne invasion in Britain during the Second World War: suggested measures for foiling German troop carriers

Advert for the General Electric Company 1944
Tanks can t run on toasters. Many manufacturers dedicated their factories to making military tanks, aircrafts and weapons for the War effort, and stopped making household goods. Date: 1944

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