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Wagons-Lit company posterPoster extolling the comforts of travelling by rail when you have luxurious sleeper bunks to relax in
1938 Scott Flying Squirrel motorcycle1938 Scott Flying Squirrel 500cc twin two stroke motorcycle roadside circa 1938
Gypsy CaravansA group of travellers and their horse-drawn caravans/wagons. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
Cats in a dog cart - Louis WainExpect Us. A group of cats go for a spin in a cart pulled by two slightly disgruntled dogs! A fun postcard design by Louis Wain, the master of the anthromophisation of cats. Date: 1905
Nord Wagons-Lits posterPoster from French company PLM for the Nord Wagons-Lits London to Vichy Pullman service. A couple enjoy tea in the comfortable interior of a pullman train carriage
Sherlock Holmes theatre posterTheatre poster advertising a four-part drama of Sherlock Holmes, playing at the Grand Theatre in Halifax, the show travelling from the Lyceum Theatre in London
The Arkansas TravellerScene in the Back Woods of Arkansas. The Arkansas Traveller visiting a family in a hut with a whisky sign Date: 1870
Holmes & Watson / TrainSILVER BLAZE Holmes and Watson in a railway compartment
Silver City plane at Lydd, Kent, for Channel crossingSilver City plane at Lydd, Kent, with a car being loaded ready for a Channel crossing. Date: 1962
Advert for Louis Vuitton travelling accessories and trunks and Itylus dressmaker, London, 1926 Date: 1926
Man with Carpet BagThe carpet bag is a symbol of the travelling salesman
Catching the 5: 15 at Liverpool Street by Grace GoldenScene inside Liverpool Street Station in the City of London showing commuters and travelling swarming around the station concourse and platforms as they rush to catch trains to NE London suburbs
The Cunard Liner RMS Scythia - became a troop and supply ship during WW2. Date: 1922
Gypsies and their caravans Date: 1910s
Germany travel posterGermany wants to see you : travel poster encouraging tourism, featuring an elegant lady carrying a bunch of yellow flowers in front of a steam train from which she has presumably just disembarked
Wanstead Flats FairA travelling funfair, at Wanstead Flats, east London. Date: 1930s
Policeman talk to Gypsies on Epsom DownsTwo Policeman talk to a Gypsy family by their caravan and wagon on Epsom Downs Date: circa 1920s
Tarot Card 22 - Le Fou (The Fool)Tarot Card 22 - Le Fou or Le Mat (The Fool)
A Variety of ladies boots 1926Ladies 1920s boots in willow calf, felt lace, riding, quilted, buttoned, lace-up and rubber. Date: circa 1926
Any Girl, Any Station, Anywhere by S. Van AbbeA fashionable young woman from the 1920s wearing a fur trimmed coat and a green cloche hat, rest her sore feet while sitting on a very large trunk at a railway station. Date: 1927
Queen Victoria travelling over the Tay bridgeQueen Victoria crossing the Tay Bridge, Dundee. Later that year the Tay bridge collapsed while a train was crossing resulting in the deaths of 75 people
Fashionable PassengersIn their creations by Drecoll and Martial et Armand they can look their best while en voyage... travelling in a train carriage Date: 1924
Turbinia - steam turbine-powered steamshipTurbinia - the first steam turbine-powered steamship. Built as an experimental vessel in 1894, Turbinia wasy the fastest ship anywhere in the world at that time
Bonzo - Bostocks remarkable Sea lionBonzo a remarkable performing Sea Lion at Bostock and Wombwells Travelling Circus - pictures with trainer Zetta Hills Date: circa 1926
The Tatler travel number front cover, 1953Charming illustrated front cover of The Tatlers Travel number showing a number of well-known global landmarks with various intrepid travellers using a multitude of transport methods. Date: 1953
Edward VIII in NepalEDWARD VIII As Prince of Wales, travelling by elephant in Nepal
Travelling CharladyA travelling charlady, up a ladder, cleaning a front door, her motorcycle with its Stop Me For Cleaning, No Job Too Small sign, parked behind her!
Saint BartholomewSAINT BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE travelling and preaching Date: 1ST CENTURY
Travelling HairdresserRoadside Beauty Service. A travelling hairdresser gives a girl a fashionable haircut. Date: early 1930s
French travel posterTravel poster for the French National Railways promoting routes between Paris and London by way of the French and British coasts
Tobias Meets an AngelTobias, son of Tobit, encounters an angel while travelling on a journey, who has been sent to guide him on his way
Transport montage Ship, Balloon, Train, Car 1899 Date: 1899
Motoluxe motor rug advertisementAdvertisement for Motoluxe motor rugs, to make your motoring really comfortable by providing yourself with a warm, snug
Transfield circus familyMembers of the Transfield family, who ran a popular travelling circus in the late 19th century. Pictured in their costumes are Ann Polly, Teddy Beppo, Tom, Florrie and Rose. Date: 1953
HMS Indomitable, British battlecruiser, WW1HMS Indomitable, British Invincible-class battlecruiser, launched 1907, served in various locations during the First World War, decommissioned 1920. Seen here travelling at full speed. Date: 1914-1918
Mrs Flash Kellett, wife of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Orlando Kellett and formerly Helen Myrtle Dorothy Atherley, drawn by Olive Snell
French Riviera advertisement 1931Advertisement advising smart travellers to Follow the Crowd, Follow the Sun
The Passenger Who Dared to Feel Sea-Sick on the Queen MaryHumorous illustration by H.M. Bateman showing a passenger, green at the gills with sea sickness being observed by his unsympathetic passengers on the Queen Mary ocean liner
Portrait of Ethel Le NeveEthel Le Neve, Dr Crippens mistress. Dr Crippen, an American citizen, lived at 39 Hilldrop Cresent, Camden, London
Possible UFO sighting in IrelandWas it an Irish flying saucer or merely an airborne leprechaun? A double-page spread relating to an incident that occurred in County Waterford, Ireland on the 26th December 1965
The Cunard Liner RMS Mauretania - Second Class Lounge. Date: 1922
The Cunard Liner RMS Mauretania - Passenger Elevators. Date: 1922
The Cunard Liner RMS Mauretania - The Entrance Hall Date: 1922
American 5th Marines on a troop train, France, WW1American 5th Marines travelling on a troop train soon after arriving in France during the First World War. Several of them are waving to the camera. Date: June 1917
Queen Victoria Goes by TrainQueen Victoria travelling by train in its early days, along the Royal route to Scotland on the Great Northern Railway
Louis Vuitton advertismentAdvertisment for the Louis Vuitton showroom in New Bond street, London. 1928
Cartoon, 19th century coach at an innCartoon showing a 19th century coach arriving at an inn for a Christmas meal
Front cover design for a brochure for Liner RMS MauretaniaThe attractive front cover design for a brochure for the Liner RMS Mauretania, designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson for the British Cunard Line. Date: 1922
The Royal Tour of GhanaThe Queen and Duke of Edinburgh on a tour of Ghana, showing their arrival and welcome at Accra airport, and various scenes from the tour itself
Travellers at Jersey Airport, Channel IslandsA group of travellers make their way towards a small aeroplane on the tarmac at the States of Jersey Airport, Channel Islands. Date: circa 1970s
Queen Victoria and family entrain for ScotlandQueen Victoria, Prince Albert and the Royal children entrain for Scotland at the temporary station in Maiden Lane before the opening of Kings Cross in 1852
The Sketch travel number front cover 1956Front cover of The Sketch magazines travel number featuring a dapper couple, her in a roomy red coat and head scarf, he in tweed suit and flat cap, about to board a plane to, no doubt
Finnigans wardrobe trunkAdvertisement from 1913 for Finnigans wardrobe trunks, designed to compartmentalise clothing in a neat and orderly fashion while travelling
Travelling HairdresserRoadside Beauty Service. A travelling hairdresser gives a girl a fashionable haircut
Tobias and the AngelTobias, while travelling, meets a helpful angel
Ancient Greek BooksellerAn ancient Greek travelling bookseller holds up a scroll and has more scrolls in the basket at his feet
Gwr Broad Gauge LocoBroad gauge locomotive of the Great Western Railway : if you are travelling cross-country, you must change trains at Gloucester from broad to narrow gauge
Ladies Travelling 1399La Dame de Courcy, one of queen Isabellas attendant ladies, returns to France when king Richard II is deposed : she and her luggage are seen landing at Boulogne
Napoleon and SharkOn board the Northumberland, travelling to Saint Helena, he watches with interest when a shark is captured
Old Kingston BridgeThis oil painting shows a boat stocked with various boxes, travelling under an arch of Kingston Bridge, which spans the river Thames in southwest London
Jeremiah or George Wombwell (1777 - 1850), English zoo owner, who achieved fame and fortune with Wombwell's Travelling Menagerie, pictured shortly before his death. Date: 1850
Advert for travelling to Madeira, 1926 Date: 1926
Mobile library in an English villageEnthusiastic readers line up to enter a mobile library in an unidentified rural village in the 1950s. Date: 1950s
Travelling X-ray car, WW1A special hospital car with a travelling X-ray given by the Scottish Womens Hospitals on exhibition at Bedford College during the First World War. Date: 1915
People on a bus, Lincoln to OlympiaPeople on a bus, travelling from Lincoln to Olympia. The advertisement on the side of the bus reads: Battles, Chemists, a century of public service
Fortune flying through the sky on the wheelFortune, sprinkling a cornucopia of money and flowers on the lucky, is transported across the clouds atop the Wheel of Fortune.... Date: circa 1902
The Turn of the TuneTraveller Playing the Arkansas Traveller. The Turn of the Tune. Date: 1870
British battlecruisers HMS Indomitable and Inflexible, WW1British Invincible-class battlecruisers, HMS Indomitable and HMS Inflexible, travelling at speed on a rough sea during the First World War. 1914-1918
Royal Mail Line PosterStriking poster for the Royal Mail Shipping Line to South America, depicting a large ship or passenger liner nearing a harbour
Oxford Circus, London, c. 1880Photograph showing part of Oxford Circus (also known as Regent Circus), London, c.1880
Advert for Finnigans Dressing Cases, London, 1921 Date: 1921
Sher. Holmes in DisguiseTHE FINAL PROBLEM Holmes travels disguised as a Catholic priest. Date: First published: 1893
Travelling SawyerA travelling sawyer, with his portable saw mill, a saw and bench attached to the back of his car, whereby logs and timber can be sawn up accordingly. Date: 1930s
The Travelling CobblerChildren sit on a grass verge and watch The Travelling Cobbler repairing shoes from the back of his van. Date: early 1930s
Promotional painting for Travel to IndiaPromotional painting by Malcolm Greensmith for Travel to India - ( Land of Inspiration )
French Motorbike Champ 2Hoffmann, French motor cycling champion; to tell the truth, hes standing still, but a little retouching gives the illusion hes travelling at speed
A Lady and her LuggageA 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
Medieval TravellersA toll is exacted from a group of medieval travellers by armed guards to allow them to be taken by boat across the river to the city
Children Arrive StationChildren arriving at a terminus are met by their relatives
Cycle with a SidecarSanta travelling at speed on a cycle with a sidecar. Date: circa 1905
An etching showing the dark shape of a small ferry boat, with a man travelling on it, possibly on a lake in Scotland. Date: circa 1925
A Dry-point of two people travelling along Breton Road. Date: circa 1929
LZ 10 SchwabenThe German rigid airship LZ10 Schwaben, probably the first commercially successful passenger-carrying aircraft. Photograph showing a large number of distinguished guests. Date: 1911
