Ticket Collection (page 5)

A female ticket collector at platform five in a London train station

Holidaymakers on miniature train, Seaford, Sussex
Holidaymakers on a miniature train in Seaford, East Sussex. Two of the boys are wearing their school uniform. Date: 1935

Ticket to a regimental ball, Royal Assembly Rooms
Ticket in white, blue and gold design, to a regimental ball for B Company at the Royal Assembly Rooms on 9 April 1890, with the handwritten name of E Guilford. Date: April 1890

Habitual Criminals Bill
As a result of the Habitual Criminals Bill which has recently passed through the House of Lords, constables were authorised to summarily apprehend, without warrant, ticket-of-leave men

A French woman collects the tickets on the Paris Metro
As the need for more soldiers grew, many jobs normally carried out by men, women were brought in and trained to do their tasks

Paris Worlds Fair of 1900 - Circus entertainers
Circus entertainers and performers and their Caravan. Illustration by Caputo on a postcard published by Courmont Freres as part of a book of discount coupons for attractions at the Paris Worlds Fair

Railway Porter rather rude to sizeable female passenger
Stout 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

Millionairess quizzes Lord on his wealth (and evident lack thereof, despite appearances!) American Millionairess - " And have you really got a Coronet

Postcard ticket for a free sample of Cologne - The Cathedral. Date: circa 1910s

Bus drivers and conductors
People You See. Bus drivers and conductors. From Teddy Bear (7 May 1966)

Salvation Army Hostel - getting a bed ticket

Anna Eva Fay Ticket
Ticket (to admit one lady) to a seance by the American stage medium. Date: circa 1855 - 1927

Schneefernerhaus Station
A queue at the ticket office of Schneefererhaus electric railway station, Bavaria, Germany. Date: early 1930s

Spectators of balloon ascent, Paris
Aux Amateurs de Physique, Vue d Optique. An image of chaos as spectators try to get over the wall without a ticket, to watch the balloon ascent of Messrs Charles

Great Exhibition tickets
The Great Exhibition exhibitor tickets Date: 1851

A weak ticket in the field - and a weaker expected - If the Republicans have done feebly at Chicago, what may we expect of the Democrats at Cincinnati?. Cartoon showing James A

Ticket for Summer Sports Day at a Suvorov Military School
A ticket pass to the Summer Sports Day at a Suvorov Military School (a type of boarding school in the former Soviet Union and in modern Russia and Belarus for boys of 14-18)

This ticket will admit one person into the... on the day of Mr. Lunardis ascension, price three shillings. Admission ticket to one of Vincent Lunardi early balloon ascensions, probably from London

A Limited Express

Pulled over for speeding
A flapper girl pulled over for speeding by two policemen. The caption reads " You needn t say anymore, Miss. We know all the excuses. Yours is the eleventh on the list!" Date: 1928- 1929

Cinderella Dances
Programme ticket for the Queens Westminster and Volunteers Cinderella Dances Lottie Weber in 1890 Date: January 15th 1890

Handel admission ticket
Admission ticket to a performance of Samson by Handel, March 11th 1752. Date: March 11th 1752

Automatic train ticket machine, 1904
A novel idea introduced in 1904 of an automatic booking clerk available at Homerton railway station in East London, enabling early morning workmen to buy a train ticket for 2d by putting money in

W. H. Smith Library
W. H. Smith and Sons Library ticket Date: 1941

Policeman stops a man with cart
" I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Some potentially illegal night manoeuvres are thwarted by

Advertisement for railway tickets to Ghent Exhibition
An advertisement for affordable railway tickets to Ghent, Belgium, via Dover and Ostend, for the Universal and International Exhibition, taking place from April until November 1913. Date: 1913

Animal Ticket Queue
A rabbit, a cat and a dog queueing for tickets sold by a cat. Date: early 1930s

Tube Ticket Machines
London underground tube ticket machines, in the days when you could travel for only 30p = bargain! Date: 1978

Downpatrick Workhouse Admission Ticket
An admission ticket for the workhouse at Downpatrick in County Down, Northern Ireland. The voucher was issued to a destitute persons by the union relieving officer who assessed the means of poor

Booking theatre tickets 1953
A stylishly dressed woman books tickets for the theatre wearing a slim-fitting featherweight suit by Wetheralls made of snuff-colour pin check rayon

Lottery Ticket Seller
A Parisian lottery ticket seller Date: 1774

Entrance ticket, Rowton House, Hammersmith, London
An entrance ticket for a Rowton House in Hammersmith, West London. Rowton Houses, of which six were erected around London, were large, purpose-built, low-cost hostels or doss-houses for working men

Salvation Army, Thames Embankment, London
Salvation Army officers in conversation with a group of vagrants spending the night on a bench on the Thames Embankment in Central London

London County Council Night Office, Charing Cross Bridge
Applicants waiting outside the London County Councils Night Office at Charing Cross Bridge, Central London. The Office had telephone links to the citys casual wards, as well as to the Salvation Army

Salvation Army Seeking the Homeless, London
Two Salvation Army officers accost men sleeping rough on a metal bench. The Army toured London streets offering tickets to their overnight shelters

1844 poor relief work ticket
A ticket issued in 1844 by a Relieving Officer for the parish of St Mary, Islington, north London, directing the bearer to the stone yard on Wharf Road, City Basin

Vagrants Food Ticket, Hinckley Union, Leicestershire
Ticket issued to a vagrant following his departure from the Hinckley Union workhouse, Leicestershire. When he presented it to the specified person (en route to his next destination)

Six Great Western Railway tickets
Six tickets issued by the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1864 and 1865. Stations mentioned include Swindon, Wolverhampton, Oxford and London

New York Subway
Entrance to the New York subway station at 14th street and 6th avenue, downtown, in America

Titanic postcard, letter, Turkish Bath ticket stub
An RMS Titanic postcard, a letter from Harry Wilde to My dear Norah & Edie dated 7 April 1912, and a Turkish Bath ticket stub relating to the Titanic disaster

Receipt and ticket from the Titanic
A receipt for typing charges, a rebate for meals, and a Turkish Bath ticket stub from the ill-fated passenger liner Titanic

Turkish Bath ticket from the Titanic
A Turkish Bath ticket from the ill-fated passenger liner Titanic

Tattersall Racing Tickets for the Silver City Cup, Melbourne Cup, Metropolitan Stakes, Grand National Hurdle Race and Caulfield Cup in Australia in 1899

Wait Your Turn
Disgruntled members of a gentlemens club must take a ticket and wait their turn to read a copy of The Bystander during World War One - a humorous comment on the paper shortages affecting the press

Constantinople Tram Ticket
The front and the back of an Ottoman tram ticket from Constantinople written in Ottoman and English. The route taken (here between Matchka and Eminonu) is drawn in blue crayon

Struggle for tickets at a railway station
An illustration of a fight breaking out at a railway ticket office on the first day of Epsom races. Demand for transportation was always high and inevitably resulted in scuffles at the ticket office

Railway ticket printing machine
A hand leaver ticket printing machine, tickets are printed on every stroke with a consecutive number and discharged in a receiver below. The machine is capable of printing 200 tickets per minute

The Crowd, Band and Police at the F. A. Cup Final, 1923
Photograph of the crowd at Wembley Stadium before the start of the 1923 F.A. Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United

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