Watch Collection (page 17)

Allied action at Arsuf, Middle East, WW1
Allied action on the Mediterranean coast at Arsuf in the Middle East (now in Israel) during the First World War. Sandbag defences are being held by the 2nd Battalion Black Watch

Traveller Disputes Bill
A traveller disputes the landladys bill while the hotel servants watch to see who will win : (our money is on the landlady !). 1813

Bank Holiday mobilisation activity at Sheerness, WW1
Bank Holiday mobilisation activity at Sheerness at the start of the First World War. British civilians watch the warships with interest from the deck of the Princess of Wales, Rochester

Poster warning about safety on the airfield. Watch that prop. Careless walk costs lives. Showing a pilot losing his head by walking into a spinning propeller. 1940s

Baden-Powell in Aden
The Chief Scout (Lord Baden-Powell) & the President of the Local Association watching the displays in Aden. 1930s

Sir Edward Grey, British politician
Sir Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862-1933), British Liberal politician and ornithologist. He served as Foreign Secretary (1905-1916) under Campbell-Bannerman

Mr D. F. Morgan in Aden
Mr D.F. Morgan (Commonwealth Commissioner) in Aden talking to a Yemeni Scout with other scouts sitting on the floor watching. circa 1959

Painting by William Rothenstein, The Watch on the Rhine
A painting by William Rothenstein, entitled The Watch on the Rhine, first exhibited in Canada in 1920. The painting is a comment on the defeat of Germany and the triumph of the Allies

Guard of the Hogvakten, Stockholm, Sweden
Guard of the Hogvakten at the Royal Palace or Castle called the Kungliga Slottet in Stockholm, Sweden circa 2008

Watching a puppet show
Girls and boys gather round to watch a puppet show 1904

American Scouts on parade
Troops of scouts holding Amerian flags march down a street in a parade at Albuquerque, New Mexico. Residents lines the street to watch. 29 September 1951

The Charleys in Grief
Engraving of an 1829 cartoon entitled The Charleys in Grief, or the Funeral of the City Watch Boxes. Londons traditional watchmen (or Charleys)

Thief steals gentlemans watch
A fashionable young man in Cincinnati is prevented by the cowardice of female friends from collaring the thief who stole his watch

Frankfurt - Bockenheimer Warte - 15th century Watch Tower and gate. Date: circa 1908

Blue Tower, Bad Wimpfen, Baden Wurttemberg, Germany
View of the medieval Blauer Turm (Blue Tower) in the town of Bad Wimpfen, in the state of Baden Wurttemberg, Germany. 2010

Nautical Students 1930S
Young men, students at the London School of Engineering and navigation, learning how to take a bearing by sextant to find the position of a ship when out at sea. Date: 1930s

Camels Fighting C1845
Two camels fight while two men watch in excitement: they have probably taken a bet on the outcome. Date: circa 1845

Childern Watching Trains
French children in the countryside waiting beside a railway track to watch the passing trains go by. Date: June 1901

Test your Strength
A man tests his punch at a fairground sideshow, while some impressed onlookers gather round to watch. Date: 1950s

Letter to Mother

Theatre from a Box 1916
A group of four theatre goers, three women and one man, in a box watching showgirls Date: 1916

Eastbourne Hovercraft
Spectators watch eagerly as a hovercraft arrives at Eastbourne pier, England. Date: 1960s

Benson Watch Advert 1895
An advertisement for J.W. Bensons repeaters and chronographs. Date: 1895

Social / Cricket / Kent
Two men sit on a bench in the shade to watch a cricket match in Kent Date: 1950s

Crowd of Children 1950S
A crowd of children watch a Punch & Judy performance at the Whit Monday Church fete in a park in Thaxted, Essex. Date: 1950s

Children and Cows 1890
Two country girls watch as the cattle come in for milking. Date: 1890

Socins Books Burned
Fausto Socin, Italian heretic living in Krakow, Poland, is dragged out of bed to watch his writings being burned in the street Date: circa 1600

Alfreno Acrobats. Female acrobat walking a tight rope while a man and several children watch

Origin Species, CH Bennett, Courting man - frog
He would a-wooing go. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a rotund man, from a frog. Middle aged

Gipsy womans hands
Close-up of a middle-aged gipsy womans hands, blemished with hard work. She is wearing several rings on both hands, and a man-sized watch

Edwardian mother and four children
An Edwardian mother and her four children pose for their photo in the photographers studio. The three girls are dressed in identical smock dresses

Young man standing by a gate
A young Edwardian man in a smart suit and flat cap, standing by a gate. He has a watch chain across his waistcoat and a flower in his buttonhole

Old gipsy woman eating cabbage
An old gipsy woman standing in a field, eating cabbage. In her hair can be seen grips and curlers

Dr Thomas John Barnardo
Portrait of Dr Thomas John Barnardo (1845-1905). In 1867, Barnardo set up a Ragged School for poor children in Londons East End, followed in 1870 by a home for boys at 18-26 Stepney Causeway

Met Police stopwatch -- outer casing
A Metropolitan Police issue stopwatch for the purpose of catching speeding motorists. This method worked on the principle of timing motorists over specific distances to estimate their speed

42nd Highlanders (The Black Watch)
Colour Sergeant of 42nd Highlanders (The Black Watch) (The Royal Highland Regiment) - wearing full battle order. He is wearing the double-breasted (short-lived) doublet

Hopi Watch Tower - Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA

French sentry WWI
French sentry in Germany standing watch over a load of coal during World War I

Oxford V Cambridge 1895
Spectators on board a boat watch as the university boat race teams head towards the finish at Mortlake. Oxford won this race, for the sixth year in succession

Scene in a photographers studio. Several men, who appear to be photographers themselves, watch a photographer photographing a little boy, who seems to be enjoying the experience

Converted first aid station WWII
Converted and barricaded sauna baths become a first aid post where a soldier keeps watch for enemy aircraft in Helsinki, Finland during World War II

War Preparations in Berlin. Foreign attaches watch a mock air raid on 20th September 1937

Factory control board
Technicians, wearing ear pieces, keep close watch on a factory control board, ensuring systems run correctly, power supply levels remain constant and automated processes operate correctly

Portrait of a Turkish man
A fine photographic portrait of a Turkish gentleman

Golf Match on Blackheath
A golf match between the London Scottish and Royal Blackheath golf clubs takes place at Blackheath

An Artist at an Easel
A female artist paints at an easel on the seafront. A crowd of mainly children watch excitedly at this work in progress

The Concert
Two women and a gentleman, all dressed in their best evening attire, watch a performance intently with admiring glances from all three

Arras 1917
Soldiers of the Black Watch Wancourt-Hensel Sector amongst the ruins of a smashed German strongpoint near Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I in October 1917

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