Touring Collection

The William Morris Clarion van
A man stands on a Clarion van under a banner reading Socialism talking to a crowd of people congregated around him. One holds a bicycle and other bicycles are visible by the van

Group photo, Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, USA
Group photo of the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. They were an African-American a cappella ensemble who toured

West Indies Cricket Team - 1957 Tour - Signatures
The West Indies Cricket Team - Tour of England 1957. Featured are the brilliant (Sir) Garfield (Gary) Sobers, Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes, (Sir) Wesley Winfield Hall and Sonny Ramadhin

Poster, Sir Robert Fossetts Circus and Zoo, featuring lions and an elephant. Date: circa 1950s

Ladies Cycling Club
Jolly Hockey sticks! Its the Rosslyn Ladies Cycling Club, causing quite a stir as they cycle through the village of Hadham Cross, Hertfordshire, England. 1930s

Metropolitan Police Association Football Team
The Metropolitan Police Association Football Team prior to boarding a KLM four engine Fokker plane to Amsterdam. The visit was arranged following an invitation from the Dutch Police Association to

Cyclists & Windmills
Three men cyclists admire the the two windmills at Outwood, Surrey, England. The left one was built in 1665 and still stands today. The right, built 1790, blew down in a gale 1960

1909 Lozier
Autos, Old Styles. 1909 Lozier touring car parked outside on a road

Margaret Rawlings, actress, (1906-1996) theatrical and informal portraits. Captioned, White in a single night'. With description, A camera-study of Margaret Rowlings

The touring car of the future. Illustration shows a huge triple-decker touring vehicle with Dining Hall, Kitchen, Servants Hall, High Finance and Recuperation Apartment, State Rooms

Poster, Moody Manners Opera Company
Theatre poster, Moody Manners Opera Company, from Covent Garden, London, touring to principal cities with productions including Carmen, Lohengrin and Faust

Production of Gounods Faust by Carl Rosa Opera Company
Characters from Charles Gounods opera Faust in a touring production by the Carl Rosa Opera Company. Seen here are Charles Manners as Bertram, the Irish tenor Barton McGuckin as Faust

Aladdin, touring to the Opera House, Northampton, 22 February 1909(?) This seems to be a stock poster. The reverse boasts of The Funniest Pantomime ever produced. circa 1909

The West Indies Cricket Team - Tour of England 1957. Featured are the brilliant (Sir) Garfield (Gary) Sobers, Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes, (Sir) Wesley Winfield Hall and Sonny Ramadhin

PLM Poster, Touring Club de France, advertising rail travel to Algeria and Tunisia. Showing a man riding a camel in the desert. 20th century

1906 Studebaker
Automobile (cars). 1906 Studebaker Touring Car, model g-30 with eight costumed women

Tours to Mesopotamia (Iraq) with Thomas Cook & Son
Cover illustration for Tours to Mesopotamia (Iraq) under the management of Thomas Cook & Son Ltd, showing a group of three men brewing mint tea in a Middle Eastern street scene

Cooks Tours to the Riviera, Italy, etc
Poster or handbill advertising Cooks Tours to the Riviera, Italy, etc, using the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway to Newhaven and Dieppe, programme free from any office of Thomas Cook & Son

Cycling in Scotland
A touring cyclist takes in the breathtaking Scottish scenery at the Old Road, Pass of Glencoe, Invernes-shire

Newark Watermill
Two young men, cyclists, take time out to stop and admire the splendid weatherboarded Newark Watermill, Pyrford, Surrey, England

16-year-old Dinah Sheridan as Peter Pan in a touring production. 1936

The Besses o th Barn Brass Band - Paddington Station
The Besses o th Barn Brass Band from Besses o th Barn, an old industrial town situated between Manchester and Bury, in Lancashire. In 1905 the band toured France to promote the Entente Cordiale

Hardacre J Pitt
Hardacre J. Pitt An important touring manager in the decades around 1900, he used his notepaper to advertise his repertoire. This letter, from the Comedy Theatre, Manchester, is dated November 1894

Rolls-Royce Phantom
Priced at L2700, the Rolls- Royce Phantom III Continental touring saloon is the last word in comrt, speed and silence. Date: 1937

CYCLIST, 1940
A young man cycling at the Menai Bridge, Isle of Anglesey, North Wales

Be Careful Baby, by Salisbury Field and Margaret Mayo. First produced in England at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, March 1918, then the Apollo Theatre, London, April 1918

Littlebury Cylist
The old-time centre of village life is the Village Pump at Littlebury, Essex, England. This pump is still in use and is being admired by a young man on a bicycle! Date: 1940s

Cooks New Zealand Tours
Cover illustration for Cooks New Zealand Tours, showing tropical flora and fauna in a landscape. Date: 1897

Motorcycling in Scotland
Touring Scotland by motorcycle and sidecar! A glimpse through Lochy Bridge, showing the great peak of Ben Nevis in the distance, Inverness-shire

Family to Seaside C1929
A family travels to the seaside by motor cycle and sidecar, with another motor cycle following

Miranda in The Tempest by William Shakespeare, at the Opera House, Southport, 9 October 1905 for one week, Herbert Beerbohm Trees production which opened at His Majestys Theatre on 14 September 1904

Stephano in The Tempest by William Shakespeare, at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, 4 December 1905 for one week, Herbert Beerbohm Trees production which opened at His Majestys Theatre on 14 September

Ypres Battlefield Markers and signs
Over the 40 years that we have been writing about these battlefields, there has been many attempts to signpost the places of interest

English Touring Motorcyclist at Dojran, North Macedonia
An English Touring Motorcyclist - stopped off at Dojran, a city on the west shore of Lake Dojran in the southeast part of North Macedonia. circa 1909

Bloody Foreland, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. circa 1960s

Chipperfields Circus - Tiger - Kumar

Sir Alan Cobham with his de Havilland DH. 60 Moth biplane
Sir Alan John Cobham (18941973) - English aviation pioneer in the cockpit of his de Havilland DH.60 Moth G-EBKT, a light-weight, two-place, single-engine

Members of the Ballet Montmartre pose for artist, Harrogate
Members of the Ballet Montmartre (on tour in the UK as part of an all-French Variety Bill) pose for Hungarian Artist Jean-Georges Simon in Harrogate

Pop Superstar Prince performing live on stage - Parade Tour
Pop Superstar Prince (1958-2016) performing live on stage at Wembley Arena, London England in August 1986 during The Parade Tour (also called the Under the Cherry Moon Tour)

Grantham - a meeting of the Cyclists Touring Club - 1920s

Leather bound photo album, Canadian Pacific
TRAVEL: Leather bound album dating from the 1920s of around the world adventure via the Canadian Pacific. Approximately fifty pages of original photographs

Touring Whist Game Playing Cards Card Scorecard
touring, whist, game, playing, cards, card, scorecard, cupid, love, red, heart, flowers, score, wings, arrow, spades, diamonds, clubs, hearts, bow, colourful, design, 13944328

Russia - Tsar Nicholas II and the Tsarevich in Finalnd
Russia - Tsar Nicholas II and his son (Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich) walking on the shores of the Fjords, Finland. Date: circa 1909

Industrial Design And The Future Rolls Royce
An advertisement for a forthcoming book published by The Studio Limited, Industrial Design and the Future, by Geoffrey Holme. The central photograph shows a Rolls-Royce continental touring saloon

Motor Car with luxuries, tea and picnics
Photographs of women and a man, taking tea, playing bridge, and enjoying a picnic from a hamper installed in a motor car. Captioned, If Goodwood were run on the Cowes system

England cricket touring team to Australia Date: 1912

Dalgety Essex Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for Dalgety & Company Limited, promoting a black Essex standard touring phaeton with five cord tyres

Theatre goes rural
With many London theatres closed, this production of On Approval was rehearsed in a barn in Buckinghamshire, then toured the provinces. Date: 1940

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