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Emperor Nero watches Rome burn, whilst playing his LyreRoman Emperor Nero watches Rome burn from the Tower of Maecenas on the Esquiline Hill, whilst singing and playing the lyre. Painting by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916). Polish Artist Date: 64 AD
Gentlemens pocket watches with lever movement 1929Selection of gold gentlemens pocket watches, products for Harrods catalogue jewellery department. Date: 1929
Dombey & Son - Carles Dickens - Mr Toots and the ChickenCharles Dickens - Dombey & Son. Mr Toots - a student at Dr Blimbers school (who loves Florence but marries Susan) - pictured with his prizefighter companion, the Chicken. Date: circa 1902
LCC-LFB Major fire at Prudential Insurance BuildingMassive crowds gather to watch the London Fire Brigade fight the fire in the Prudential Assurance Company building located in High Holborn WC1, 16 June 1932
Two Cats and a butterflyTwo siamese cats watch a tortoiseshell butterfly. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
Spectators at Crystal Palace football ground for the 1901 FPhotograph showing a section of the crowd assembled to watch the 1901 F.A. Cup Final, at Crystal Palace, between Tottenham Hotspur and Sheffield United
Cossack Trousers 1820Furry top hat, cut-away coat with long narrow tails, fawn colour cossack trousers, red under-waiscoat, shawl waistcoat, fob ribbon, watch seals & chain & tie-pin
Odysseus & PenelopeHaving killed the Suitors, the hero Odysseus (Ulysses) embraces his faithful wife, Penelope, while two adoring maids watch them
Learning to Lunge 1930SA group of children have a fencing lesson and watch the teacher carefully as she demontrates how to lunge!
Flogging Coolie 1886An asian man is being flogged by two men aboard a ship while the other crew members peacefully watch the scene
Watch Mother! A Mother Cat and her two kittens await a mouses departure from its lair with extreme interest (and patience!). Date: 1940s
The Esplanade, Holywood - a large group of people watch rowing boats and yachts in the Lough from the edge of the esplanade. The view is up to the Kinnegar Hotel and there are people on the road
Advert for Asprey mens leather wrist watches 1938Aspreys stock of mens watches is representative of finest work of the recognised leaders in the craft of watchmaking. Date: 1938
Advert for Tyme, Ermeto Movado ladies pocket watch 1933Tyme, the best pocket watch made. Small and compact, yet absolutely protected against all causes of trouble. Can be carried in any pocket or hand-bag with other articles. Date: 1933
Advert for Mappin & Webb Ermeto Movado pocket watch 1933Ermeto Movado watches are the last word in efficiency. The movements are doubly protected against dust, damp, and breakage by an inner and outer case
Boys Watching ShipA group of boys lean against the dock railings and watch a steamship being built
Air Raid patrol in London, WWIIPortrait study of a man on guard to warn the city of air attacks, with rattle in his hand to announce the use of gas - his handbell to sound the All Clear
Expanding gold bracelet wristwatches 1929Ladies gold expanding bracelet wristwatches, lever movement, with square and rectangle faces, products for Harrods catalogue jewellery department. Date: 1929
Advert for Bensons luminous wrist watch 1915Bensons active service wristlet watch, fully luminous figures and hands and self closing cover. Date: 1915
The Queen wearing the imperial crown, members of the royal family, and maids of honour, on the balcony at the palace for the fly-past of the RAF following her Coronation on 2nd June 1953. 1953
Spectators at Braemar Highland Games, ScotlandKilted spectators watch from the hillside at the Braemar Highland Games in Scotland, traditionally attended by the British Royal Family. September 1911
The Pipe Major - Black Watch Date: 1905
Two Horses in the stable with puppiesTwo Horses (one black, one white) peer over the edge of their stable dividing wall at two small puppies (Terriers?) sitting on a blanket on the lower bench. Date: 1910s
Unemployed miners, Cilfynydd, PontypriddUnemployed miners at Cilfynydd near Pontypridd in South Wales. They watch the buckets tipping slag in case any lumps of coal can be found. Date: circa 1936
Met Police stopwatch -- inside faceA 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
The Famous Dolma Maker, ConstantinopleA Famous Dolma maker. Dolma is a family of stuffed vegetable dishes in the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire and surrounding regions. The stuffing may or may not include meat
Asprey Christmas presents, 1926Colour advertisement for Asprey of Bond Street displaying a wide variety of Christmas present ideas, including an attache case, a shagreen cigarette box, leather handbag, crocodile handbag pochette
King George VPhotographic portrait of King George V of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1865-1936), pictured in his uniform as Colonel of the Black Watch, date unknown
Morris Dance / MustoMORRIS DANCING: Thaxted, Essex. Villagers gather outside the church on a sunny day to watch a morris dancing team perform to the strains of an accordian
Two Boys by Mill PondTwo little boys watch the ducks in the old mill-pond in the charming village of Swanage, Dorset
Rudyard Kipling / SpyEnglish writer, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Watch AdvertisementThanks to his Omega watch, this gentleman can tell that unless his companion gets a move on, they are going to be late for the theatre
London Oyster SellerA street vendor sells Fine native oysters while a crowd watch a Punch and Judy show in the background
The Ould Irish JigA couple dance an Irish jig on the village green, while a piper pipes and others watch approvingly, for the jig is far superior to your new- fangled waltzes and polkas
Black Watch Trench WwiMembers of the Black Watch Regiment in the trenches
Zola / Nadar PhotoEMILE ZOLA French novelist
Golfing TrioTwo players watch critically as their companion drives from the tee. Date: 1913
Music cover, Oh Man! You d Hang Around, words and music by Nat D Ayer, from the Empire Revue, Watch Your Step. 1910
Town Hall, Amherst, Massachusetts, USAThe Town Hall, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, framed by the front page of The Amherst Record for 19 September 1906. Date: 1906
Railway Sleeper - Marylebone StationThe Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing post young gentleman propped up against a bollard at Marylebone Station after a wild Christmas party! Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
An ammunition column passing through Ypres, 1917. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holidays Early Life Was Spent In St
The Travelling CobblerChildren sit on a grass verge and watch The Travelling Cobbler repairing shoes from the back of his van. Date: early 1930s
2 Girls / Glasgow / Neg 2817Two girls in an East Glasgow street Date: 1973
Look-out in 1917A soldier in a look-out post in a trench using a camouflaged periscope to keep watch on the British Front in France during World War I in 1917
Spire at ChichesterThe good folk of Chichester, West Sussex, gather to watch the spire of their cathedral getting capped
An operation screened live in a medical lectureAn invention by Mr Herbert A. Silver enabling medical students to watch surgery from the lecture theatre. A circle of electric lamps is suspended over the operating table while the image is projected
Wizard of Oz / KalidahsThe tree fell with a crash into the gulf. Dorothy and her companions watch as the two Kalidahs fall into the pit
Hastings Lifeboat HorsesLifeboat horses at Hastings used to haul the lifeboat from the beach to the water; two boys watch the scene