Waiting Collection (page 8)

Three cats with pudding on a Christmas card
Three cats with a pudding on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Comic postcard, Woman falling down a cliff onto the beach, with a man waiting to catch her Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man waiting for the public toilet Date: 20th century

Plaque to Royal Military Police, Bayeux Museum Grounds
Before D-Day the Police had to control the assembly areas for the troops waiting to cross the Channel and afterwards, in the confusion of the landings

Comic German postcard -- health spa toilets
Comic German postcard -- desperate men and women run towards the health spa toilets. Date: early 20th century

Comic German postcard -- health spa toilet engaged
Comic German postcard -- greetings from Karlsbad -- nine desperate, overweight men wait outside the health spa toilet. Date: early 20th century

Cat and dog waiting at a door on a Christmas card. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Three dogs with moveable heads on a Christmas card
Three dogs with moveable heads sitting at a dinner table on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Girl with Great Dane dog and doll in pram
A young girl waits for her mother, looking after a skinny Great Dane dog and a doll in a pram. Date: circa 1981

Marie Therese Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe (1749-1972), confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette of France. 18th century

Myers Inn and Liquor Store, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies
Myers Planters Punch Inn and Liquor Store, Sugar Wharf, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Date: circa 1938

Canoes and boats, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Dugout canoes waiting for boats, on the water at Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1920

Argentine soldiers waiting to surrender at Port Stanley
Photograph showing Argentine soldiers waiting to surrender their weapons at Port Stanley after the capitulation, 1982.Associated with South Atlantic (Falklands War) (1982). Date: 1982

Maccabi waits for Balfour - Triumph Gate, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Maccabi Sports Club members (Maccabees) await the arrival of Lord Arthur Balfour (1848-1930) near the Triumph Gate, Tel Aviv

Waiting in a queue for the royal courts by Matania
The long line of motor cars queuing on the Mall waiting for the official hour when the debutantes and their society mothers

Royal Hotel, Harrismith, Orange River Colony, South Africa
Dining Room with waiting staff, Royal Hotel, Harrismith, Orange River Colony, South Africa. Date: 1908

Lady Alice Egerton competing at the Marsa Club, Malta
Lady Ailce Egerton, Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) pictured on the Duke of Edinburghs horse, Mystic, which she rode in the ladies race at a gymkhana at the Marsa Club

?The Territorial Army. Ready and waiting. ? poster
The Territorial Army. Ready and waiting.? 1987. Colour photolithograph recruiting poster, published by the Armed Forces Careers Office, CP(A) 516A, June 1987

Spain and Portugal - sentubal, Municipal building - building cross over door, people waiting outside. Part of Box 149 Boswell collection - Portugal and Spain. Date: circa 1900

Scene in a French bistro. Date: 1960s

Middle-aged man outside Gents toilet. Date: 1970s

The Tables Turned by William Heath Robinson
Waits musicians rather put out of action during the festive period due to residents of one street playing jazz tunes loudly from their windows instead. Date: 1921

Zoia de Stoeckl, daughter of Baron de Stockl (Stoeckl), Russian Ambassador to the United States but previously equerry to Grand Duke Michael

Fishing boats off Brixham, Devon, waiting for a breeze. Date: 1925

Midday Dancers in Helston Floral Dance, Cornwall
Dancing couples waiting to take part in the Midday Dance of the annual Helston Floral Day, Helston, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Horse waiting by public phone box, Sale, Manchester
A horse apparently waiting to use a public phone box in Sale, Greater Manchester. Date: circa 1979

Bus stop outside Manchester Piccadilly Train Station
A bus stop outside Manchester Piccadilly Train Station, with an old poster promoting 21 Express Trains a day to London. Date: circa 1978

Col Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne - Papers
Papers relating to Col Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thornes military career and family life, 1930-1931.Including: letters relating to his marriage settlement

Queue de Luxe, illustration by William Heath Robinson
Queue de Luxe (Luxury Queue), with upper class people waiting for a bus, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

Anthony Wilding and Norman Brookes, tennis at Wimbledon
Anthony Wilding and Norman Brookes as " gentlemen in waiting" on the weather at the 1914 Wimbledon tennis championship in July 1914

Young female Proboscis monkey (called Adi by sanctuary keepers), wild but relatively tame, came with its pack to feed at Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary from rainforest and hangs around

WW1 Recruitment Poster
Come Now - Your arms, uniform and accoutrements are ready waiting for you (quotation from Lord Kitchener at the Guildhall, July 1915) - Be honest with yourself

Your Arms Uniform and Accoutrements are Ready
Come Now. your Arms Uniform and Accoutrements are Ready Waiting for you - Lord Kitchener at Guildhall, July 1915. be Honest with Yourself. Poster

Two British soldiers in a trench, WW1
Two British soldiers in a trench on the Western Front during World War One, waiting for the signal to attack. Date: circa 1916

Paddington Station, London - Platform 5 - GWR Terminus designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Date: early 1930s

Queen Charlottes Ball, 1934
The ceremony of cutting the cake performed by HRH Princess Arthur of Connaught (formerly Princess Alexandra of Fife), at Queen Charlottes Ball

Debutante queuing in the Mall by Rex Whistler
A shy debutante, accompanied by an imperious and matronly chaperone, sits in her chauffeur-driven car in the Mall, waiting to gain entrance to Buckingham Palace where she will be presented at court

WW2 - Prams with possessions return with Evacuees going home
WW2 - Prams containing possessions return to Euston, London, following Evacuees heading home after the passing of the V1 and V2 rocket attack scare - September 1944. Date: 1944

Florida Tourist Postcard - Waiting Alligators
Florida Tourist Postcard - Alligators awaiting the descent of a boy from a coconut palm tree, up which he has escaped. Their mocking message to the unfortunate youth: " Honey, come down

Augusta Sarah Cadogan
Lady AUGUSTA SARAH CADOGAN Lady-in-waiting to the Duchess of Cambridge. Date: 1811 - 1882

Damaged heavy unit at NFS, London Regional HQ, WW2
A damaged heavy unit awaiting repair at the Lambeth vehicle and equipment workshops, Daltons Drive

Horseracing - Waiting for the Starters Signal Date: circa 1910s

Lady Mary Dorothea Hope (1903 - 1995), later Lady Mary Herbert after her marriage ot Sidney Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke in 1936. Shown here as a bridesmaid at the wedding of Captain E. W

Edwardian boat interior, with table and chairs
View of the interior of an Edwardian boat. A table is set, but possibly more for drinking than eating, with a bottle and several glasses. There are three upright chairs with wicker seats

Glanamman Railway Station, Carmarthenshire, South Wales
View along the platform of Glanamman (or Glanaman) Railway Station in Carmarthenshire, South Wales, on the Great Western Railway

Salvation Army Shelter, Blackfriars Road, London
A crowd of vagrants awaiting admission to the Salvation Army shelter for men (known as The Embankment) at 115B Blackfriars Road, London

The Blessing Of Science. By Charles Robinson
The Pekingese arrives by private lift from his suite to partake of afternoon tea with his mistress. An illustration by Charles Robinson (brother of William Heath Robinson)

Emigration. Irish Emigrants Leaving Queenstown Harbour
Detailed harbour scene with hundreds of emigrants waiting for the boat for New York, steam ships in the background. In the foreground barefoot young lads are expectantly waiting

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