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Atlas and Vulcana music hall strongman, strongwoman
(Atlas) Hedley Roberts (1864-1946) and Vulcana (Miriam Kate Roberts (nee Williams) (1874-1946) - performed shows of strength and classic poses

Garland Lincoln N. 28 / Nieuport 28 10
Garland Lincoln N.28 / Nieuport 28 10 in the colours of the 94th Aero Squadron, United States Army Air Service. Garland Lincoln & Claude Flagg acquired several genuine Nieuport 28s

Macedonian Gipsies at Royston, Hertfordshire
Groups of Roma Gypsies came to England from Germany Eastern Europe just prior to the First World War and again after tensions in the 1930s

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

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

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Now this economy is here
The Caption is Now this economy is here - we ll have to darn the darns Ole dear. They have been darning since 1941 so they probably really are down to the darns

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Ladies in Waiting
The Caption is Ladies in Waiting. This colourful queue is very cheerful. They obviously know that the early bird catches the worm and they are at the top. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1945

Advert for Max Factors makeup featuring the Sisters G, 1930. They had appeared in the Universal Pictures film King of Jazz Date: 1930

Don Count Your Chickens
Don Count your Chickens Before They are Hatched. Artists interpretation of a traditional proverb. Artist: Helen GC Marsh Lambert. Date: circa 1916

Claridges Hotel
Claridges was founded in 1812 as Mivarts Hotel, in a conventional London terraced house, and it grew by expanding into neighbouring houses. In 1854, the founder (the father of biologist St)

Canadian Rifles and VCs Memorials, Passchendaele
Three flat black marble plaques mark the part played by the 3rd Canadian Division, the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles and the 3rd (Toronto)

Mourning figures German War Cemetery Langemarck
In various renovations over the years these figures have been moved from place to place in the cemetery. Now they stand at the top end of the mass grave. They were sculpted by Professor Emil Krieger

Sailor boy and his girl
Sailor boy adjusts the hat ribbon of his girl in a red dress and holding a fan. They are at a party. Artist: Ellen Jessie Andrews Date: 1904

325th Glider, 504th PIR & Polish Para Memorial, Holland
The dramatic rusting parachutes, designed by Leo Gerritsen and Henk van Hout, were erected on 17 September 1985. They commemorate the fact that these fields, designated landing area O

Troops at Kells Workhouse
Troops camped at Kells Union workhouse, County Meath, Ireland. They had been sent to the area to quell unrest caused by the Duke of Leinsters attempts to evict Irish tenants from his properties

1st Special Service Brigade Memorial, le Plain
The Brigade comprised Numbers 4, 5, 6 Commando, 45 Royal Marine Commando and No 10 Inter Allied Commando. They are all commemorated on a plaque at the bottom of the cross

13th / 18th Hussars Memorial, la Breche d Hermanville
The Regiment was equipped with Flail tanks which acted as giant carpet sweepers, having at the front huge rotating steel chains as brushes

9th Beach Group Plaque, Ver sur Mer Normandy
Royal Marines under Col Harper used the old Hotel here as an HQ from 6 June to 30 July and re-named it l Auberge d Or - the Golden Inn. They had landed on Gold Beach. Date: 2009

Comite du Debarquement Signal Memorial Bernieres
This was the first of the Monuments put up by the Comite under M Raymond Triboulet. They are found along the beaches to commemorate le Jour J

Royal Winnipeg Rifles Memorial Plaque Creully
The Little Black Devils landed on Juno Beach on D Day as part of 3rd Canadian Division. They suffered heavy casualties during the landings. This plaque is in the car park

Fatima cigarettes
Advertisement for Fatima cigarettes. They certainly do know their cigarettes, this younger crowd! Jazz era. Illustration from Delineator magazine March 1928. Artist anon. Date: 1928

Comando de Aviacion del Ejercito Grumman OV-1C Mohawk
(Argentine Army) Comando de Aviacion del Ejercito Grumman OV-1C Mohawk AE-024 Ex-US Army 68-15941 (msn 145C) to Argentine Army Aviation as AE-024

6th Airborne Division Stained Glass Windows, Ranville
There are two windows. One is to 6th Airborne and the other to St George. The first was unveiled in 1969 and the second in 1960. They are in a side-chapel in Ranville church

3210 Servicing Commando RAF Memorial ALG B3
The RAF Commando Units were trained and organised in a similar way to the Army and Royal Marines Commandos. They accompanied forward Units into battle to maintain the air strips made by

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

Pussy Cat, where have you been?
Black and white. Girl standing in a room by an open window, where a cat is sitting on the window sill. They are looking at each other. Part of Box 102, Nursery Rhymes

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

Pauline Gower (1910-1947) (left) and Dorothy Spicer alongside a de Havilland DH60G Gipsy Moth, G-aEX. They were the first to run an all-female joy-riding business, Air Tours Ltd, founded in 1931

Cartoon on Rising Prices
OUT OF THE FRYING PAN. War veteran: " They told me I was fighting for dear life, but I never dreamt it was going to be as dear as all this." Date: 1920

Ross / Victory Abandoned
John Rosss arctic expedition: Abandoning the Victory. " They gathered on the Victory for the last time, nailed their colours to the mast, and started." Date: 1829 - 33

Barnardos - What They Were
A Barnardos publicity image captioned What They Were illustrating how boys were transformed from homeless Street Arabs into soldiers and sailors supporting Britannia. Date: 1890s

Edwardian gentleman and his son identified by the photographer as a Mr Cooke and his son Jack. They were visiting the Battersby family, hatmakers of Stockport

Redheads shop, Coniston, with Annie and Kate in the doorway. They worked at the shop which is in Yewdale Road Coniston and is still run as a newsagents/souvenir shop today. Date: circa 1907

Funeral Flowers at Strathclyde, Offerton Lane, Stockport. They are for the funeral of Charles Harold Battersby who died on 12th January 1913 in Amiens, France and was buried on the 16th in Stockport

They dodge the tiger round the tub
Slide showing a picture of two men running around a barrel being chased by a tiger. Part of Box 366 Date: circa 1900

Jack the Giant Killer
Black and white. Grown man wielding stick at young boy, who is holding a sword. They are both in costume. Part of Box 102, Nursery Rhymes

Ornate Curtains
Black and white lantern slide of some ornate curtains. They are hung in a room draped in fabric with pot plants and a leopard skin rug

No use crying over Spilt Milk
Black and white. Boy carrying a hamper and pitchfork, and two girls (one is holding flowers behind her back). They are standing around a pail of spilt milk on a leafy pathway

China - Interior of a Joss House
Lantern slide of Interior of a Joss House. A Shenist temple or Chinese folk temple is a place for worshiping the variety of indigenous Chinese shen (deities, saints)

China - Taku Fort
Lantern slide of a Taku Fort. The Taku Forts or Dagu Forts ( Taku batteries ), also called the Peiho Forts are located by the Hai River (Peiho River) estuary, in Tanggu District

Temperance Tale - The Bottle part 4
Coloured lantern slide from a series entitled Bottle. In this slide, the drunken man and his family sit around a fireplace in an empty room

Suffragette Xmas Card Womans Rights
Elaborate suffragette Xmas card with purple silk banner, labelled, Womans Rights and small china dolls at each side. The lettering is in green

Women Workers WW1 Y. W. C. A Womens Day
Poster commemorating Womens Day, a fund-raising event on behalf of the Womens Wartime Workers Fund. The Young Womens Christian Association (Y.W.C.A) set up centres for munitions workers, W.A.A.C s

Suffragette Moveable Card Toy Elusive Christabel
A moveable card or optical toy referring to the W.S.P.U leader Christabel Pankhurst, who eluded police by fleeing to France in 1912

A patriotic cast iron frying pan with German soldier
A patriotic cast iron frying pan with a German soldier shaking the hand of a German woman in relief on the handle. Embossed around the diameter with Der Deutschen frau opfersinn

Photograph of Sergeant Herbert Gibson. A collection of humourous drawings sent by Bert to his girlfriend, Cissi Bell, who lived at 5 Curtis Road, Fenham, Newcastle on Tyne. They never married

A history of a Field Ambulance
MOTLEY - A history of a Field Ambulance (2nd/1st West Lancashire Field Ambulance - The Wurties), June 1918. Also 5 printed menus of the WURTIES Annual Reunion Dinners with many drawings by William

Ornaments - German Internees - Knockaloe Internment Camp
A pair of carved bone ornaments with raised foliate decoration with inscriptions - one saying Zur Freud (In Joy) and one saying Im Leid (In Sadness)

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