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Background imageThese Collection: Perch Rock Lighthouse - New Brighton Lighthouse

Perch Rock Lighthouse - New Brighton Lighthouse
Liverpool - Rock Lighthouse New Brighton - Lighthouse and crowds. Part of Box 62 Boswell Collection - Liverpool. The New Brighton Lighthouse was originally known as Perch Rock Lighthouse

Background imageThese Collection: Men at Yarrow Military Hospital

Men at Yarrow Military Hospital. These may be a mixture of staff and patients. None are wearing hospital blues though some have arm slings. Some have the RAMC badge on their arm

Background imageThese Collection: Charing Cross Dressing Station bunkers, Ploegsteert

Charing Cross Dressing Station bunkers, Ploegsteert
These are close by the Plugstreet Experience 14-18 (Interpretation Centre) and served the Dressing Station which, like many of the sites around here, used a series of Central London names

Background imageThese Collection: Buck in his own dreams: 'These sounds & sights of another world would make the hair to rise

Buck in his own dreams: "These sounds & sights of another world would make the hair to rise." Date: First published: 1903

Background imageThese Collection: Kola Dancers. India

Kola Dancers. India
Vintage 19th century photograph: Kola tribal dancers, Munda-speaking peoples, NE India

Background imageThese Collection: WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Refresher Course

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Refresher Course
The Caption is Refresher Course They are sitting in a Forces Club. These were run by the NaFI and the WVS among others. Maybe the girl works there. A little dog is feeding at a bowl

Background imageThese Collection: WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Coo - you ought to have seen ours

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Coo - you ought to have seen ours
The Caption reads Coo! You ought to have seen ours. The bombs look like what were called Butterfly bombs. These were anti-personnel weapons dropped for people to pick up

Background imageThese Collection: Feature about The Fashion of These Days, Paris, 1926

Feature about The Fashion of These Days, Paris, 1926 - exploring the question of materials, colour, line and detail, their relation to each other

Background imageThese Collection: The Five Houses

The Five Houses
These -Five Houses - were built in, what was then, the rural Tuttle Fields (now Tothill Fields) as pest-houses for victims of the plague of 1665. Date: 1875

Background imageThese Collection: Memorial to 15th Battalion Canadian Highlanders

Memorial to 15th Battalion Canadian Highlanders
This bronze plaque, mounted in a brick plinth, records the part played by the 15th on the Gravenstafel Ridge during the Second Battle of Ypres (the Gas Attacks)

Background imageThese Collection: British warships WW1

British warships WW1
These simple, stark images introduced children to British warships during World War 1. Warships great & small Artist: Charles Robinson Date: 1914

Background imageThese Collection: Anita Louise wearing a smart suit designed by Dolly Tree

Anita Louise wearing a smart suit designed by Dolly Tree in These Glamour Girls (1939). White lace ruffles cascade down the front of the white mouselline blouse to form a jabot to the jacket of a

Background imageThese Collection: Lana Turner in Dolly Tree negligee from These Glamour Girls

Lana Turner in Dolly Tree negligee from These Glamour Girls
Lana Turner in a Dolly Tree negligee from These Glamour Girls (1939) Date: 1939

Background imageThese Collection: An array of Dolly Tree gowns in These Glamour Girls (1939)

An array of Dolly Tree gowns in These Glamour Girls (1939). From left to right Anita Louise, Marsha Hunt, Jane Bryan, Lana Turner, Ann Rutherford and Mary Beth Hughes. Date: 1939

Background imageThese Collection: Anita Louise as a debutante beauty in These Glamour Girls

Anita Louise as a debutante beauty in These Glamour Girls
What does a glamour girl wear? Anita Louise as a debutante beauty in These Glamour Girls (1939) wore this sport suit designed by Dolly Tree made of cool linen in sun yellow with a single fastening

Background imageThese Collection: No4 Commando & Captaine Philippe Kieffer Memorials

No4 Commando & Captaine Philippe Kieffer Memorials
These are alongside the beach at Ouistreham-Riva-Bella and the basic flame Memorial was erected in 1984 on top of a German gun cupola

Background imageThese Collection: US 2nd Armoured Division Hell on Wheels Memorial

US 2nd Armoured Division Hell on Wheels Memorial
These fading plaques are on a wall in the Club Belambra on Omaha Beach. The wall is on what was Exit 3 used for tanks. The Division landed on 9 June and went into action on the 11th

Background imageThese Collection: Jock (K1) - a kilted Black Watch soldier cleaning his rifle

Jock (K1) - a kilted Black Watch soldier cleaning his rifle. Snaffles - Charles Johnson Payne (1884-1967). Invalided Out Of World War One

Background imageThese Collection: 1914 Fums up charm

1914 Fums up charm - a doll-formed charm with wooden head and Registration Number to back 636612. (These charms were often given to World War One soldiers as good luck charms - the wood head for)

Background imageThese Collection: Rome, Italy - Capuchin Monks Campo Santo

Rome, Italy - Capuchin Monks Campo Santo
Black and white. A crypt in which the walls are completely covered in human skulls. In addition there are three skeletons dressed in monks clothes attached to the wall in a standing position

Background imageThese Collection: Signallers with the King?s African Rifles

Signallers with the King?s African Rifles
Photograph: Signallers with the King?s African Rifles taking down a message, 1943. Captioned: Signaller taking down a messge

Background imageThese Collection: Vickers machine-gun team marching past a working party

Vickers machine-gun team marching past a working party
Photograph of a Vickers machine-gun team marching past a working party heading in the opposite direction, September 1916. From a group of 550 photographs

Background imageThese Collection: Napoleonic cut-out design Valentine heiroglyphs

Napoleonic cut-out design Valentine heiroglyphs
Design for heiroglyphic illustrations from French magazine editor Emilie Berrins 1801 pattern book Secretair der Liebe intended to be cut out and used to decorate the home or objects

Background imageThese Collection: Napoleonic cut-out design decoration: Valentine

Napoleonic cut-out design decoration: Valentine
Design for heiroglyphic illustrations from French magazine editor Emilie Berrins 1801 pattern book Secretair der Liebe intended to be cut out and used to decorate the home or objects

Background imageThese Collection: Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck Inspecting WaC (India)

Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck Inspecting WaC (India)
Photograph: Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck Inspecting Members of the Womens Auxiliary Corps (India), 1947 (c).The Women

Background imageThese Collection: Nine hospital patients in Winter Garden, Quex Park

Nine hospital patients in Winter Garden, Quex Park
Nine hospital patients sitting in the Winter Garden at Quex Park. The Winter Garden was a large conservatory which stood between the drawing room of Quex House

Background imageThese Collection: Stretcher bearers waiting for ambulance train arrival

Stretcher bearers waiting for ambulance train arrival
A group of civilians are standing by parked ambulance vehicles inside a station building at Ramsgate Town Station. On the ground nearby are several stretchers

Background imageThese Collection: Studio photo of three patients

Studio photo of three patients
Photograph by a Margate stuido photographer of three Belgian patients. They are wearing their uniform overcaots and two are wearing caps. Numbers have been written above them on the photograph

Background imageThese Collection: A Ward, Quex Park VAD Hospital

A Ward, Quex Park VAD Hospital. This ward was located in the Drawing Room of Quex House. Originally built as a small ballroom in 1883

Background imageThese Collection: Nieuport 17s awaiting delivery These single seat fighte

Nieuport 17s awaiting delivery These single seat fighters were used by all the Allies

Background imageThese Collection: Bristol 142M Blenheim IF trio (running-up), Singapore

Bristol 142M Blenheim IF trio (running-up), Singapore, April 1941 These Far East-based Blenhiem fighters did not carry radar

Background imageThese Collection: Clogs

Clogs, England. Tha Munnut Forget Thas Left These a Whoam Date: 1900s

Background imageThese Collection: Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - Matabeleland Store

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - Matabeleland Store
Black and white lantern Slide of Matabeleland Store - British South Africa. Part of Box 288, British South Africa. Boswell Collection

Background imageThese Collection: Spain - Moorish Mills, Cordoba

Spain - Moorish Mills, Cordoba
Black and white lantern slide of the Moorish Mills at Cordoba. These structures brought water to the surrounding arid land, which made it inhabitable and arable

Background imageThese Collection: Two postcards by R Cattey - WWI era

Two postcards by R Cattey - WWI era
Two postcards by R. Cattey. These were sent by Jack Jennings. 1. To his brother in the 11th Devons. 2. To Mum living at 29 Holloway Street, Exeter. Commemorative Art

Background imageThese Collection: A Relief Party making their way up the trenches

A Relief Party making their way up the trenches. On reverse of postcard - This shows the relief party making their way up to the trenches along the shell-holed and muddy roads

Background imageThese Collection: A large WWI collage

A large WWI collage
A large collage, beautifully stitched, containing flags, regimental badges, etc. These are all connected with the First World War. Commemorative Art

Background imageThese Collection: Copy of German original medallion - sinking of the Lusitania

Copy of German original medallion - sinking of the Lusitania
This is a British strike of the German original medallion made to celebrate the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine on the 7th May 1915

Background imageThese Collection: Samuel Cody at Aldershot with his first Kite

Samuel Cody at Aldershot with his first Kite Operating Squad made up of Sappers of the RE. These men were the first Air Contingent of the British Army

Background imageThese Collection: Blackburn B-24 Skua IIs from the second production batch

Blackburn B-24 Skua IIs from the second production batch, including L2953. These were delivered to the Admiralty in May 1939. Date: 1939

Background imageThese Collection: The Convair production line for Atlas ICBMs

The Convair production line for Atlas ICBMs at San Diego, California. These missiles are for the test programme

Background imageThese Collection: These photographs from the Woomera range in Australia

These photographs from the Woomera range in Australia show how an Armstrong Whitworth Seaslug ship-to-air missile destroys its target

Background imageThese Collection: Two Swiss Air Force Ju52 / 3ms A-710 and A-703

Two Swiss Air Force Ju52 / 3ms A-710 and A-703
Two Swiss Air Force Ju52/3ms, A-710 and A-703. These aircraft were delivered in October 1939 and remain airworthy today. Date: 1939

Background imageThese Collection: A line up of Avro Lancaster Is at Gravely Huntingdonshire

A line up of Avro Lancaster Is at Gravely Huntingdonshire
A line up of Avro Lancaster Is at Gravely, Huntingdonshire. These aircraft from No35 (Madras) Squadron had just returned from a 15, 000 mile goodwill tour of the USA

Background imageThese Collection: Delage which won the French Grand Prix at Montlhery

Delage which won the French Grand Prix at Montlhery
The supercharged twelve-cylinder 2 litre Delage which won the French Grand Prix at Montlhery in 1925 at 69.7 mph for 621 miles. These cars would reach 134 mph with 190 hp available from the engine



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