Today Collection (page 16)

Syria / Laodicea C1840
The ruins of Laodicea (today Latakia) : if the old city was destroyed, it is perhaps because its inhabitants were said (in the Bible) to be indifferent to religion Date: circa 1840

Music cover, To-Day I ve Made Sweet Annie Rooney My Wife, written by J C Rich, composed by Henry E Pether, sung by Michael Nolan. circa 1895

FRENCH WISKY
WISKY French private carriage of the Louis XV period, driving through todays Place de la Concorde Date: circa 1750

Trafalgar Square - Victory Loan Campaign 1919
Crowds at Trafalgar Square, decked for the Victory Loan Campaign, after signing of the Treaty at Versailles. 1919

Hannah Powell-Cotton, Commandant of Kent / 178
A studio photograph of Hannah Powell-Cotton in her uniform as Commandant of the Birchington Voluntary Aid Detachment, without hat. This jacket survives at Quex Park today (2015)

C Ward. Quex Park Vad Hospital
C Ward, Quex Park VAD Hospital. This ward was located in the second gallery of the Powell-Cotton Museum. B Ward, in the first gallery, was through the archway on the left of the photograph

B Ward, Quex Park VAD Hospital. This ward was located in one of the galleries of the Powell-Cotton Museum (currently Gallery 2 (2014)

Staff & patients in C Ward of Quex Park VAD Hospital. The patients are all wearing hospital blues with the exception of one man who is a Belgian solder (holding a tray with glasses)

WW1 poster, War Loan, Invest Today
WW1 poster, War Loan, five shillings, Invest Today, apply at nearest Post Office. Date: circa 1916

Yewdale, Coniston in the Lake District remains more or less the same to this day, though with less horse-drawn traffic today. Date: circa 1907

Ivy Cottage, near Coniston in the Lake District may well still exist but its exact location is uncertain. Ernest Battersbys friends Wilson and Nelstrop are outside the door

Skelwith Waterfall, Lake District
Skelwith Waterfall near Ambleside in the Lake District- still a popular tourist attraction today. Date: circa 1907

Midland Hotel, Marple, Cheshire
Front view of the Midland Hotel in Marple around 1906. The sign over the door identifies the licencee as Samuel Ardern. The Midland is still in business today. Date: circa 1906

Entrance to Peveril Hotel, Dovedale
Named after a legendary local figure, the Peveril of the Peak Hotel is still in business today, little changed over 100 years after this photograph was taken Date: 1909

Houses at Ashford in the Water, Peak District, Derbyshire
Believed to be Fennell Street in Ashford in the Water, the view is very similar today. Date: 1909

Peacock Hotel, Rowsley, Derbyshire whiich is still in business today Date: circa 1905

Cologne, the Dom Hotel which is still going today. Boys watch the novelty of a camerman as carriages wait outside at the prestigious hotel. Date: circa 1907

Chatsworth House, Derbyshire around 1907, and very much as it still is today Date: circa 1907

Man with bicycles outside house, known to be near Adlington in North East Cheshire. The bicycles would not look significantly out of place today

Two men outside Hotel Grey D Albion, Cannes, which is still in business today. On the right is Ernest Battersby, the photographer

Llandudno Town Centre, easily recognisable today as the same place Date: 1913

Empress Elizabeth Chapel on Schneeberg just a few years after it was opened in honour of the murdered monarch. Itremains there today, and is more or less unchanged. Date: circa 1908

Mouse Tower, Bingen on Rhine, still a landmark on any Rhine cruise today Date: circa 1908

Group at Schneeberg Hotel, Austria showing Edwardian men in conversation on the terrace of this dramatic hotel, which still exists today Date: circa 1908

The Boat, Erbistock, Cheshire / Wales border
The Boat, Erbistock, Cheshire/Wales border in 1907, enjoying the delights of a riverside pub by the Dee - something you can still do at the same pub today! Date: 1907

Dan Bank, Marple, Cheshire, June 1908 outside a small cafe or shop. Only the fence stones remain today, the building being long gone. Date: 1908

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

Coach at Dugeon Ghyll New Hotel in the Lake District, still going today. The photograph shows the attire of a coachman and his rather skinny horses Date: 1906

Edwardian man by pool at Ellesmere, Shropshire, at a pub called The Boat which is still in business today Date: 1906

Peveril Hotel, Dovedale, still in business today, and still refreshing tourists like George Barnshaw as he sat outside with his drink in 1906 Date: 1906

Jug and Glass Inn, Hartington at the entrance to the famous Via Gellia. The Jug and Glass is still in business today. Date: 1906

The Capitals Lacrosse Club of Canada (which is apparently still in existence today) visiting the Battersby Hat Factory in Stockport in 1906

WWI Poster, Questions to men who have not enlisted
4 Questions to men who have not enlisted... Enlist Today. Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster, designed to shame men of fighting age into enlisting. Date: 1916

WWI Poster, Remember the Lusitania
Remember the Lusitania! Enlist Today. Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster in letterpress, using emotive anti-German propaganda. Date: 1916

WWI Poster, Go! Its Your Duty Lad, Join Today
Go! Its your duty lad. Join today. British WWI recruitment poster depicting a mother persuading her son to join the war effort. Date: 1915

South Africa - Kaffir Caves
Black and white photograph of mouth of cave used as dwelling-place, South Africa.. This slide dates from the late 19th century. The racial term kaffir was commonly used at the time

Switzerland - Basel, Old Bridge and Three Kings Hotel
Coloured lantern slide depicting a view of the Three Kings Hotel, Basel. Old Bridge can be seen in the foreground, as can the River Rhine

Paris Exhibition 1900 - Goodes China Exhibits
Lantern slide of Goodes China Exhibits in the Paris Exhibition 1889. Thomas Goode had a well known china shop in London and he produced items for international royalty

Switzerland - St Pauls Gate at Basel
Coloured lantern slide of a large gateway into the city of Basel. It is one of three gates that still exist today, and is considered to be one of the most beautiful in Switzerland

WWI Poster, New scale of separation allowances
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, New scale of Separation Allowances for Soldiers Wives and Children... other dependents. Enlist Today and your dependents will be well provided for

WWI Poster, Are you doing your duty today?
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, England Expects, 1805, 1915. Are you doing your duty today? With the figure of Admiral Lord Nelson. Date: 1915

WWI Poster, Enlist Today
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Justify the faith of your fathers, and earn the gratitude of your children. Enlist Today! Date: 1915

WWI Poster, Think!... Join Today
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Think! Are you content for him to fight for you? Won t you do your bit? We shall win but YOU must help. Join Today. Date: 1915

WWI Poster, The Scrap of Paper, Enlist Today (Welsh version)
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, The Scrap of Paper, Enlist Today. Referring to Belgian independence and the broken treaty of 1839 (Welsh version). Date: 1915

WWI Poster, Silver Bullets that will stop the Germans
WWI Parliamentary War Savings Committee Poster, You have in your pocket Silver Bullets that will stop the Germans. Lend them to your country by investing in the War Loan Today. Date: circa 1916

WWI Poster, Help Your Country
WWI Parliamentary War Savings Committee Poster, Help Your Country, Invest 5 - Today in the War Loan. Date: circa 1916

British visitors spending money in Switzerland
Thats the way the money goes in Switzerland today: how British visitors spend their 75 quota. Date: 1947

Womens War Work WW1. Shows a woman station porter, beside the caption, A credit to their country. The accompanying rhyme states

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