Wake Collection (page 3)

Ferry transporting railway wagons
A wonderful nightime photograph of the Suffolk Ferry departing Harwich with a load of railway wagons. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Scene on board the Refugee Ship North Britain, 1882
Engraving showing an informal scene as people wake up and get dressed; one woman is shown having her hair dressed and another is in her corset

Belgian peasant refugees
A Belgian peasant family with a dog-drawn cart, walk into Brussels after fleeing their homes in the wake of the German invasion of 1914

Saint George Returns
SAINT GEORGE St George is given a heroes welcome after vanquishing the dragon - which is dragged by a team of horses in his wake

Elections Versailles
In the wake of the Commune, the French elections are hotly disputed : the scene outside the Palais de Justice at Versailles

Hereward Attacks Normans
Hereward the Wake, legendary Fenland hero, leads an attack against the Normans

Hereward Surrenders
The Anglo-Saxon rebel and outlaw Hereward the Wake yields to William the Conqueror

Dansomania 1919
Dansomania sweeps across Europe in the wake of World War One austerities

Plants / Arum Maculatum
Cuckoo Pint, or Wake Robin, or Lords and Ladies, or Common Arum

Hereward & his Mother
HEREWARD THE WAKE Herewards interview with his mother and the priest Herluin, in which she accuses him of robbing the Church of God

Lightfoot Given Letter
HEREWARD THE WAKE Martin Lightfoot undertakes to be the bearer of a letter to Earl Leofric

Hereward & his Uncle
HEREWARD THE WAKE Hereward, on horseback, informs his uncle, the Prior, that he is about to be outlawed

Hereward & Lightfoot
HEREWARD THE WAKE How the swift and aptly named Martin Lightfoot overtook Hereward, who was on horseback

Alftruda Kisses Hereward
HEREWARD THE WAKE Hereward slays a bear and recues Alftruda, who smothers him with kisses

Hereward is Trapped
HEREWARD THE WAKE How Hereward was caught in a trap. He did not flinch. Dropping his reigns and driving in the spurs once more, met them in full shock

Hereward at Sea
HEREWARD THE WAKE Hereward and his men run their ship ashore at Flanders

Hereward at St. Bertin
HEREWARD THE WAKE Hereward enters the consecrated fortress of St. Bertin

Hereward the Beserker
HEREWARD THE WAKE How Hereward the Saxon hero turned into a beserker. Dressed in only a silk shirt and hose, he urges his men to join him against the Normans

Alftruda & Hereward
HEREWARD THE WAKE Alftruda, with her maids, recognises Hereward : So you could not wait for me?, she says, in a quiet whisper

Hereward Vs Normans
HEREWARD THE WAKE How the Saxon hero Hereward cleared Bourne (Lincolnshire, England) of Frenchmen (Normans). The thick of the battle melee

Hereward Learns to Pray
HEREWARD THE WAKE How Torfrida taught the Saxon hero Hereward to kneel down and pray, dogs and baby beside them. Date: circa 1070

Hereward Saves Alftruda
HEREWARD THE WAKE How the Saxon hero Hereward rescued Alftruda from the Normans in the thick of battle

Hereward Guards Alftruda
HEREWARD THE WAKE Hereward and his man lead Alftruda under armed guard to a place of safety. " Are you in arnest?" Alftruda laughed one of her strange laughs

Hereward Tricks William
HEREWARD THE WAKE How Hereward played the Potter and tricked the King (William the Conqueror): Then Hereward looked at the face of the great man and met his match

Hereward Leaves Ely
HEREWARD THE WAKE How Hereward and his men left Ely (Cambridgeshire, England) by rowing boat and how his poor mare Swallow was told to swim, but drowned

Hereward & King William
HEREWARD THE WAKE Hereward kneels before William the Conqueror and held his hands, swearing fealty to him

Santa has Visited / Nast
Too exited to sleep, these children wake at 5.00am to find that Santa has called

Sleeping B / J. Harbour
The Prince looks down on Sleeping Beauty wondering how to wake her

Salzburg New Year Custom
SALSKAMMERGUT - On several Sundays after the New Year, the young men of Salzburg (Austria) crack whips to wake nature from her winter sleep

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