Talking Collection (page 8)

Cartoon, A false rumour, WW1
Cartoon, A false rumour from the Western Front. Four market women talk about cannibalism among the troops. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Soldier returning from leave, WW1
Cartoon, a French soldier returning from leave tells his colleague what it was like. At every point someone pointed to the Keep Quiet notice, although what he had said was entirely innocent

Winston Churchill during election 1927. Date: 1927

The Lord Mayor by William Heath Robinson
The Lord Mayor held a long council, illustration by William Heath Robinson to Bill the Minder. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C. Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library Date: 1947

French veterans listen to a WW1 soldier
A military circle in Paris. French veterans from another war listen to a First World War soldier tell them about the current conflict. Date: 1916

Lady conversing with a parrot by Fortunino Matania
A woman in fashionable Victorian dress seated near a window conversing with a pet parrot. A spinning wheel and grandfather clock form part of the backdrop. Date: 20th century

Page design, big moments in my life, School Silhouettes
Page design for big moments in my life, in School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA

Rumpler D I German fighter biplane (serial no. 1589/18) which came too late to take part in the First World War. It was apparently difficult to build

Cartoon, There are none so deaf, WW1
Cartoon, There are none so deaf, showing a typical pessimist talking about the war to two women in a restaurant. Surrounding them is a border of barbed wire, keeping out any item of good news

Cartoon, At Biarritz, WW1
Cartoon, At Biarritz. A man who is optimistic about the war chats in the sea with a fellow-bather. Date: 1915

Elderly woman with dog, Balham, SW London
An elderly woman sitting on a bench, talking to a dog, in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Turkey (January 1913). Coup of the Young Turks. In the picture, Enver Pasha talking to the military attache at the British Embassy

Spinning a Yarn
Slide showing a photograph of two men talking on a small sailing boat. Part of Box 366. Date: circa 1900

Near Bognor
Black and white (appears sepia/brown in some lights). Two women stand talking at the end of a path surrounded by trees and fields

Favourite Sayings - Bend the sapling
Black and white lantern slide showing a young man on a ladder leaning against a mature tree tying a length of wood to the tree with a rope

Bottlenose dolphin - underwater (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions

Bottlenose Dolphin - at surface (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions

Bottlenose DOLPHIN - x two close-up (Tursiops truncatus). smiling

Bottlenose DOLPHIN - two facing camera (Tursiops truncatus )

HM Queen Mother at the Royal Cornwall Show, Wadebridge. She is talking to Show Secretary Albert Riddle whilst a prize Hereford bull looks on. circa 1982

Lectures at the Front, WW1
A lecture on scouting by a British officer in a small theatre behind the firing line on the Western Front. The audience, comprising British officers

French scout using walkie talkie
A French scout using a walkie talkie with an aerial

Scouts in Exile, in a club room, Paris, France
Scouts in Exile relaxing in a club room in Paris, France. They belong to the National Association of Russian Scouts, formed when scouting was exiled from Russia after the Revolution of 1917

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with Dowager Lady St. Levan of St. Michaels Mount, Cornwall Date: 1980s

Burmese delegation visiting LFB HQ
A Burmese parliamentary delegation visiting LFB Headquarters, 29 May 1957. Showing the LFB Assistant Chief Officer explaining the equipment in use in the Brigade to members of the delegation

Visit by HM The Queen Mother to Chelsea Fire Station on 4 July 1996. Date: 1996

King George VI with firefighters, Docklands area, WW2
King George VI with firefighters in the Docklands area of London during the Second World War (9 September 1940). Date: 1940

Queen Mary inspects the Womens Land Army, WW1
Queen Mary inspects a detachment of the Womens Land Army which marched through London with the object of attracting recruits in March 1918. Date: 1918

Merchants at a table, China. Date: circa 1890

Tea Time in silhouette
Two chic women of the 1920s enjoy a gossip over a cup of tea and a cigarette in a tea shop. Date: 1926

King Alfonso photographed talking to a woman
Who Would Be King? Photograph of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, captured by snapshotters during a trip to San Sebastien, talking to an unidentified young woman

Russian Communal Kitchen
Seven women busying themselves around a stone work top adorned with an array of large tins and pots in a 1920s Russian communal kitchen. Date: 1920 s

Pinocchio -- ill in bed
Pinocchio -- The doctors came immediately... a Crow, an Owl, and a Talking Cricket. Date: 1911

17th Century Couple Meeting at Night
This picture shows a man and woman meeting and talking by a tree at night. It shows a countryside landscape with a farmhouse in the background

Group of men on open ground, Central London
A group of men talking on a piece of open ground, with the Houses of Parliament in the background

Taking thread: Sound-Waves on a Cord 1922
Mr. W F Croll, who holds the parent, of a method of recording and reproducing sound-waves by means of a cellulose thread instead of by the generally known disc or cylinder record

Three schoolboys on a desert island meet an indigenous man Date: 1898

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Here is the News! Three women gossip over a mid-morning cup of tea. Lets hope secrets of national importance are not being flagrantly shared! Date: circa 1942

Communication - Far easier for the younger generation, even in 1903! The little girl: " Grandmother, Dad said he did not want to kiss you, by phone" - the response is a miserable Granny

Suicide - the last thng he did
" So Poor Old Mike committed suicide." " Yes." " That was the LAST thing I thought he d do." " Which it were, Sorr." Date: 1894

The honesty of an Elderly Irish Woman - Mortality
Mrs Murphy - " Shure its goin to be a moighty hard winter, Father dear; there ll be a moighty lot av us owld Folks Nipped in the BUd, oi m thinking." Date: circa 1890s

Completely bizarre conversation concerning identification
Completely bizarre conversation between two cabbies concerning identification - at least the participants seem to understand one another. Overheard on a Cab Rank

Two scruffy street boys discuss lowering of income tax
Joyful News. " Ow, I sy Billie, Fader says there ll be a penny off de income-tax nex Year." Date: 1895

Mistaken translation of saying difficult English surnames Overheard on an Atlantic Liner Colonel Moses R. Hankey - " Theres one thing I kaant understand about your English way of spelling names

A Yorkshireman at the Folies Bergere Show, Paris, France
A Yorkshireman in Paris Mr Watson (thro Leeds) - " Whats this ere Polly Burgesses like?" Date: 1894

Frenchman talking to a Priest - Picardy, France
Sketched in Picardy A Frenchman (wearing clogs) talking to a Priest (with a suspiciously red nose) in a village in Picardy, France. Date: circa 1890s

Acting conversation at the bar - former colleagues reminisce. She - " Dear me: I haven t seen you since we played in Romeo and Juliet You ARE looking well!" He - " Think so

Actors discuss rates of pay
First Budding Actor (to second budding actor) - " Oh yes, you hear about those salaries of Twenty-five and thirty shillings, but you never get em." Date: 1901

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