Travel Collection (page 17)

Children Run on Sand
Two children and their dog scamper across the sand, carrying their spade and bucket. Date: 1913

Mark Sykes / Vfair 1912
SIR MARK SYKES 6th BARONET SYKES English diplomat and writer of travel books Date: 1879 - 1919

Tourists on camels - Egypt
Four male Tourists on a Thomas Cook tour, all about to take a trip by camel, with the help of a guide. circa 1910

Dining saloon on a London to Liverpool express train
The dining saloon on the London & North Western Railways non-stop express from London Euston to the Riverside Station, Liverpool, for the Atlantic cruise liners. Date: circa 1912

Advert for Royal Mail Line cruises, 1927, London Date: 1927

Cooks Programme of Popular Day Outings
Cover illustration for Cooks Programme of Popular Day Outings by Rail, Coach and Steamer in connection with the Midland, North Eastern, and Lancashire & Yorkshire Railways

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

Wellington poster
Poster advertising Wellington, New Zealand contrasting the comparatively rural looking town of 1844 with a contemporary photograph of a sprawling Wellington of the twentieth century

Isle of Man / Douglas
Douglas, Isle of Man: For happy holidays

Poster advertising motor coach tours in Greece, arranged by the National Tourist Organization in cooperation with the travel agencies in Greece

Poster advertising British Eagle flights to the continental sun

Poster advertising Rafaga bicycles. They don t run... they fly! Available from all the main garages in Spain

Travel to India
Poster published by the British India Press, Bombay, advertising travel to India

Poster advertising French Line to the West Indies
Poster advertising French Line cruises from Southampton to the West Indies. A service of distinction

Poster advertising the Orient Line
Poster advertising Orient Line cruises to Norway, 13 days from 20 guineas

Railway signal at night
Colour-light signalling, a modern innovation in the early 1960s, on an electrified railway line. Electrification of busy routes demanded a system of train control that was rapid

Promotional painting for Travel to India
Promotional painting by Malcolm Greensmith for Travel to India - ( Land of Inspiration )

Poster advertising the electric Simplon Line, serving the Simplon Pass from Switzerland to Italy

Poster advertising Cunard from Europe to the USA and Canada
Poster advertising Cunard departures from Cherbourg and Le Havre to the USA and Canada

Mountain travellers in Kashgar, western China
Travellers making their way through the mountains of Kashgar, western China. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Elegant Luggage
Elegant luggage for elegant ladies

Stagecoach Good Old Days
The Good Old Days, before train travel

Newquay, Cornwall 1950S
A general view of the popular seaside resort of Newquay, Cornwall, England, from Quay Hill

Bournemouth Sea Front
A crowded beach scene at Bournemouth. People sunbathe in deckchairs and swim in the sea

Margate Jetty 1912
Margate Jetty - crowds enjoy their outing to the seaside

Camel / Travel / Bridge 1924
A woman reads her guide book on the back of a camel. She crosses a Chinese bridge, watched by an eskimo, a gondolier and a Tahitian singer

Scottish Caravan Site
Cairnsmill Dairy Farm (Holiday Camp) Caravan Site, St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland. Here caravanners can enjoy television in the upper barn and children free pony rides

Male Type / Traveller 1922
Happy chap in a cosy double- breasted overcoat lined in opossum & with a fur roll collar, also a flat cap, narrow trousers with turn-ups, spats & gloves

Advert / Shillong India
Visit Shillong, India for a long holiday

Children on Beach 2 of 4
Children on the beach - two boys watching a girl cry

Gustav Hamel posting an airmail letter
The aviator Gustav Hamel posting an airmail letter which he himself will transport by air to Windsor. The first aerial mail service took place on 9 September 1911 from Hendon to Windsor

Gustav Hamel signing receipt for mail, Hendon
The aviator Gustav Hamel in the cockpit of his aeroplane, signing the official receipt for the mail, just before setting out from Hendon Aerodrome to Windsor on the very first airmail flight

Carriage to Hammersmith
A coachman drives two horses pulling a carriage away for hamersmith (sic) in this scene (presumably) from Ed Finch, his Perambulations

Strike / Volunteer Signals
An undergraduate volunteer in a railway signal box during the General Strike

Dressed for Trip C. 1920
Young woman showing the barrel-line silhouette of the period. She wears a wrap over coat with high fur collar & checker board motif on the hem & a high brimless hat

Caravaning Holiday / 1920S
A man balances on a boat in a lily pond next to where they have parked their caravan

COOKs TIMETABLE 1937
Cooks Continental Time-Table

Tom Raw : is Painted
Tom Raw, a young officer newly arrived in India, has his portrait painted

London and Swr Loco 706
London and South Western Railway locomotive no 706

Dutch in Indonesia
The establishment of Dr Toussaint at Gadok, Dutch East Indies

Coney Island Boardwalk
Coney Island, New York, on a popular holiday

Mablethorpe / 1920S Cig
On the sands at Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire

Label, Rock, Gibraltar
Label for the ROCK HOTEL, GIBRALTAR

A Lady and her Luggage
A lady and the various items of luggage she will need when travelling - small case, trunk with drawers, bag for her make-up and so on, and her handbag

Electric Fire Engine
Merryweathers electrically propelled fire-engine, which enabled 12 men to travel on the vehicle

Arrivals by German Boat
At the docks: arrivals by a German steamer; men and women, some Jewish, wait on dockside having travelled by boat from Germany

Blackpool Hotels
A busy scene showing holidaymakers entering and leaving typical Victorian boarding houses at Blackpool, Lancashire, England

White Girl in India 1901
A little white girl gives a scripture lesson to an Asian woman, with the aid of an illustrated bible

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