Town Collection (#27)

Types ofantique armour
Types of antique armour - 1. roundel (shield), 2. target, 3. lead mallet used by archers, 4. iron mace used by cavalry, 5. black bill in armoury of Canterbury Town Hall, 6

Unknown French town market. Date: 1935

Unknown French town, street scene Date: 1935

Unknown French town gate arch Date: 1935

Unknown French town square, with Hotel de Ville (Town Hall) Date: 1935

Unknown French town, with street cafe. Date: 1935

Street scene, unknown French town
Street scene in an unknown French town, with Cafe and Tabac. Date: 1935

Lancashire Cotton town Knocker Up
A humourous postcard from the Lancashire Cotton Towns where knockers up were employed to waken mill workers. Notice the reference to being on strike and the caption written in Lancashire dialect Date

View over the Old Town of Monemvasia, Laconia, Greece - a small island off the east coast of the Peloponnese. The island is linked to the mainland by a short causeway. Date: circa 1950s

View of Hydra, Greece - (also known as Ydra or Idra) - one of the Saronic Islands of Greece, located in the Aegean Sea between the Myrtoan Sea and the Argolic Gulf. Date: circa 1950s

Vintage 19th century photograph: bend in the Vaal River, South Africa

Vinces on the Vinces river, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Vintage 19th century photograph: riverbank scene at Vinces on the Vinces River, a bracnch of the Guayaquil, Ecuador

Railway Pier Panama
Vintage 19th century photograph: railway Pier Panama

Lake and city of Lucerne, Switzerland, c1880
19th century vintage photograph: lake and city of Lucerne, Switzerland, c1880

1880's - dead body for cremation, burning ghat, Benares (Varanas)
1880's - dead body for cremation, burning ghat, Benares (Varanasi) India

Navy ship HMS Carlisle at Shanghai, China, 1927
Vintage c.1920's photograph: British Royal Navy ship HMS Carlisle at Shanghai, China, 1927

Vintage photograph of buildings, New Delhi, India
Early 20th century - vintage photograph of buildings, New Delhi, India

Ships in the harbour Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 1889. Vintage 19th century photograph

The Citadel from The Terrace, Quebec, Canada. Vintage 19th century photograph

Herring fishing boats coming into harbour, Wick Scotland
Vintage 19th century photograph: Herring fishing boats coming into harbour at Wick Scotland

Tunbridge Wells War Memorial, Mount Pleasant
Tunbridge Wells War Memorial, standing in front of the Town Hall/Library, Mount Pleasant. The memorial was unveiled and dedicated 11th February 1923 - the sculptor was Mr Stanley Nicholson Babb

Israel. Jerusalem. Muslim cemetery. The Mount of Olives, at background

The Prague Astronomical Clock or Prague Orloj. AStronomical
The Prague Astronomical Clock or Prague Orloj mounted on the southern wall of Old Town City Hall in the Old Town Square. Astronomical dial. Czech Republic

15th Century 19th Century 1870 Angel Apostle
15th, century, 19th, Century, 1870, Angel, apostle, astrolabe, astronomer, astronomical, clock, dial, astronomy, calendar, chronicler, circle, circular, circumference, city, council, hall, tower

15th Century Allegorical Allegory Apostle Astrolabe
15th, century, allegorical, allegory, apostle, astrolabe, astronomer, astronomical, clock, dial, astronomy, avarice, bag, circle, circular, circumference, city, council, hall, tower, Czech, Republic

Children campaigning against education cuts, Ealing
Children campaigning against education cuts outside Ealing Town Hall, West London, January 1980, where an anti-cuts meeting was being held about the possible closure of a local school

Mizpah Hotel, Tonopah, Nevada, USA, built in 1905, named after the Mizpah Mine, and the social hub of the area. Date: circa 1930

The Beggar sits forlornly on his crutches outside the town walls.. Handcolored engraving by Chretien de Mechel from Hans Holbein's The Triumph of Death

Nunnery Quadrangle. MEXICO. YUCATN. Uxmal. Ruins of city founded in the 7th c. Classic Period. Puuc style. Palace complex consists of four buildings forming a quadrangle. Eastern building

Israel Palestine Holy Land Middle East West Bank
israel, palestine, holy, land, middle, east, west, bank, 1920s, 20s, twenties, building, buildings, nablus, town, city, nabulus, moslem, muslim, islam, cemetery, graveyard, death, burial, headstone

A repouss鬠chased and engraved jardini貥 entitled Die Wiedereroberung, Lembergs (The reconquest of Lemberg). Extensively embossed with battle scenes, the town of Lemberg

Woodwork classroom for boys who continued their education at Acland County Council School, Kentish Town, London. Date: 1906

Acland County Council School, Kentish Town 1906
Conventional way of teaching where all the pupils are facing the front of the classroom while the teacher is writing on the chalkboard. Date: 1906

SPAIN. Belchite. Ruins of the old town destroyed after the Battle of Belchite (1937)

Spanish Civil War Battle Of Ebro Occupation A
spanish, civil, war, battle, of, ebro, occupation, a, village, by, scouting, parties, the, nationalist, army, picture, carlos, saenz, de, tejada, drawing, vertical, upright, black, and, white, b, w

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Cibeles Square and Puerta de Alcala (Alcala Gate, 1939). FRANCE. Paris. Library of the National Conservatory of Arts and Works

SPAIN. Belchite. Sapin. Civil War (1936-1939). Ruins of Belchite, town where the battle of Belchite took place (24th August-6th September 1937)

The Whole Art of Anti-Dive-Bomber Camouflage
British military tanks and soldiers in disguise as civilians, so when seen from above the bombers don't attack. Date: 1941

German soldiers spotting buildings far in the distance, not realising that it's a setup consisting of a miniature country town coursing the perspective to be all wrong. Date: 1941

Biddy Pearson at Daily Worker Christmas Bazaar, London
Biddy Pearson with an array of cakes at a Daily Worker Christmas Bazaar taking place at St Pancras Town Hall, London. December 1956

Desmond Tutu, South African activist and clergyman
Desmond Tutu (The Most Rev Dr Desmond Mpilo Tutu, b 1931), South African activist and Christian clergyman. He was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa

St Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire
The massive (and rather disliked) west end of St Albans Abbey designed by Edmund Beckett, First Baron Grimthorpe. Potentially the site of the place of death of Britain's First Christian Martyr

Funeral procession of Sir Robert Peel leaves Cambridge House
Sir Robert Peel leaves his home at Cambridge House, Piccadilly, London, for the last time. It will become the town residence of Lord Palmerston. Date: 1850

Battle at the Schilberg Cross-roads; Second World War, 1945
Sketch of a battle between British and German troops for control of the cross-roads in the town of Schilberg, Netherlands, 1945

A small war-torn town during the Spanish Civil War, 1937. This illustration was made by an artist attached to Nationalist forces and may be a view of Brunete

The Burning of Irun; Spanish Civil War, 1936
Photograph showing refugees from the city of Irun standing on the beach at Hendaye, France, watching their Spanish home-town burn, 1936

Refugees from Irun come ashore at Hendaye; Spanish Civil War
Photograph showing a group of refugees from the Spanish city of Irun, coming ashore onto the French beach at Hendaye, shortly after Spanish Nationalist forces had captured their home-town, 1936

Guernica after bombing, Spanish Civil War, 1937
Photograph showing the Basque town of Guernica after the Nationalist air raids, 1937. Guernica was in Republican territory when Franco's Nationalist airforce combined with the German Condor

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