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Nursery Rhymes -- cutting skirt, mouse-drawn cartNursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- There was an old woman, as I ve heard tell, she went to market her eggs for to sell; she went to market all on a market day
Mother Goose illustration -- There was an old woman, as I ve heard tell, she went to market her eggs for to sell... and she fell asleep upon the Kings Highway
Driver and charabancDriver standing in front of his charabanc outside a pub
Ramsgate, Kent - Habour scene with boatsRamsgate, Kent - Harbour scene with fishing boats and pedestrians. Date: circa 1900
England / CrawleyA view of the High Street, Crawley, Sussex, England, showing the distinctive sign of the George Hotel, which - supported on stout timbers, extends across the road. Date: 1950s
Railway Porter rather rude to sizeable female passengerStout Party - " And can t I get to X - without walking?" Railway Porter - " Well, theres the coal Train, Mum." Stout Party - " How much will it cost me
The Mayor of Middle Wallop not appreciating ShakespeareThe sublime ignorance of the Mayor of Middle Wallop. The Mayor of Middle Wallop (who is interested in the decoration of the new theatre in M.W.) - " Oos that Gentleman you re painting
Bass & Cos Extra StoutLate 19th Century printed tin advertising sign for Bass & Cos Extra Stout late 19th century
John Bull at Wembley, a man swings on a suspended platform with a bull dog at his feet Date: C.20th Century
Police escorting cart during Dock Strike, LondonPolice escorting a cart during the London Dock Strike. During the strike it was practically impossible for any transport to be moved without a police escort
Belgium - Ypres - Cafe selling British BeerBelgium - Ypres - Hotel de la Gare Restaurant selling British Bass Beer, attesting to the number of tourists from the UK flocking to the town after the end of World War One. Date: circa 1920s
A fair knock-outA middle aged couple sitting indoors eating pickled onions and drinking stout beer, when the man reads in the newspaper that the First World War has ended " blime, lizer, the Wars over"
Guinness Brewery, Dublin - Scald BankUnloading empty casks at the Guinness Brewery, Dublin - Scald Bank. Date: 1920
Female BlacksmithsGerman women blacksmiths at work. Date: early 1930s
Female BlacksmithA German woman blacksmith heating her irons in the furnace. Date: early 1930s
Dapper Rambling FellowA dapper rambler pauses on his way to admire the countryside. He wears a flat cap, plus- fours with wool socks, carrying a stout walking stick. Date: 1930s
Two Gents Drinking C1860Two smart-looking gents at a London bar counter, one with a short, the other with a stout and bitter; if they get peckish, there are sandwiches under a glass dome. Date: circa 1860
Origin Species, CH Bennett, Money saver - tortoiseSlow and sure. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of money saver from a tortoise. A stout old gentleman, patient, industrious, conscious of the true value of money
Hero Worship - postcard by Lawson WoodHero Worship - a postcard by Lawson Wood showing a housewife doting on her portly husband (bursting out of his uniform), having served him a meal and provided him with an ale and a comfy chair
Marlborough House, London, 1936Photograph showing Marlborough House, with the personal standard of Queen Mary flying over it (left of image), London, 1936
A Surf-Boat, Sri Lanka, 1887Engraving of a Sri Lankan (then Ceylon) surf-boat, under sail, riding the waves, from The Graphic, 1887. With an outrigger and fairly large sail, this vessel looks a stout craft
Golf Equipment SetA golf ball, some tees and a stout three-wood, presented as an elegant golfing tableau
Billingsgate BrutesA genre scene, seemingly charming. In reality a young woman at a doorway is intimidated by two stout Billingsgate fishwives into buying their stinking fish
Boy / Norfolk Jacket 1893English schoolboy wears a knickerbocker suit with Norfolk jacket, white shirt with turned down collar, woollen socks & stout laced boots. Date: 1893
Girl, Pearls & StoutA smiling, respectable looking blonde, wearing a blouse, tweed skirt & pearls, enjoys a glass of stout while sitting in front of a modern tiled fireplace
Girl & Guinness 1950SA gleeful brunette model in red polo neck jumper & pearlised earrings gives a cheery wave as she holds up a glass of stout. It looks like she has taken a sip
The Monks Rock, near the Faeroes, is a menace to shipping and has sent many a stout sailor to Davy Joness Locker
Costume / NavvyA London navvy wearing a white smock, peaked cap & stout boots, smokes his pipe as he digs a ditch. A lantern alerts passersby to mind the hole
Victorian Lady KnittingA Victorian woman knitting
Children in East End StreetThree little girls from Londons East End wear aprons or pinafores over their plain frocks. One girl wears a hat another wears black wool stockings & stout boots
Female Type / Halifax 1870Princess line jacket body with round collar & lace cuffs, kilted under-skirt, tunic with patterned border draped at the front, gauged at the sides & finished with a rosette