West Collection (page 15)

RAF 22 Squadron Search and Rescue sign
Sign for the No. 22 Squadron, Royal Air Force Search and Rescue, based at Thorney Island near Chichester, West Sussex. Set up in 1955

Niger, West Africa - Baby receiving an enema from his Mother. Date: circa 1930s

Colonel Robert Clive at the Battle of Plassey (Palashi, West Bengal, India), 23 June 1757, when Great Britain and the East India Company defeated the forces of the Mughal Empire

The Jumble Shop Restaurant in Greenwich Village, NYC
The Jumble Shop Restaurant, 28 West 8th Street, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA Date: 1950

Brighton West Pier - Prior to fire and final collapse Date: circa 2002

Palm-wine tapper climbing a palm tree, Senegambia
Naked palm-wine tapper climbing a date palm using a rope to collect a gourd full of sap, Senegambia, 18th century. A man gives instruction to the tapper. A negro ascending a palm tree for its wine

Women workers at Cadbury factory, Bournville, Birmingham
Women workers at lunchtime at the Cadburys Cocoa and Chocolate Factory, Bournville, Birmingham. 1898

Riots in Jamaica, 1938
Riots in Jamaica in 1938 over a pay dispute. Photograph shows a suspected blackleg, accused of intended strike-breaking in the docks, being man-handled by other workers. Date: 1938

Men of the Island Carib or Kalinago people. The wear loincloths, armlets, garters, tattoos and nose piercings. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Nasi from Giulio Ferrrarios Costumes Antique

King Archibong III of Calabar, Gambia, West Africa (then part of the British Empire). He was crowned in 1878 with a regalia sent by Queen Victoria. Date: circa 1878

Ashanti domestic architecture, Gold Coast, West Africa
Ashanti (Asante) domestic architecture made of clay, Gold Coast, West Africa, now part of Ghana. Date: 1922

Royal Aircraft Establishment - Supermarine Scimitar F. 1
Royal Aircraft Establishment - Supermarine Scimitar F.1 XD229 at RAE West Freugh in Scotland. The RAE carried out research for ballistics and weapon-aiming at West Freugh, (now part of Qinetic)

Birminghams Bull Ring Centre - 1960s
circa 1910s

Smelting Furnace - Sierra Leone, West Africa
Smelting in a bloomery-type furnace in Sierra Leone, West Africa. circa 1910s

Moyamba, Sierra Leone, Madam Yoko, Chiefs, Colonial Officers
At Moyamba, the capital and largest city of Moyamba District, in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone ( Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate - British colonial administration) - D.C

(Goat) Meat Stall - New Market, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal state, India. The two gentleman on the right are clearly Muslim and therefore practising Halal Butchery. Date: circa 1910s

Map of North West Ireland

The Village of Schull, West Cork, Republic of Ireland

Fishing Village of Glandore, West Cork, Republic of Ireland

Traditional Cloaks worn by women of West Cork. Ireland

Old Six Chimneys, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, a country residence built around 1520 with six gables and chimneys. The Crown and Anchor Hotel is on the left. Date: circa early 1900s

River Avon in winter, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Date: circa 1900s

Rouen, France - The Cathedral
West Facade of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Rouen. The church was the tallest building in the world from 1876-1880 with a height of 151m. Date: circa 1904

The Warley Water Tower, Smethwick, West Midlands, England. Now unused apart from serving as a mast for mobile phone transmitters. The Times Date: 1987

Old ladies, Piece Hall Halifax - 1
Dressed in identical raincoats and woolly hats, twin old ladies stand in the Piece Hall square, Halifax, West Yorkshire, and eat their ice creams. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Ecuador - Guayaquil - Paseo de Las Colonias. Date: circa 1950s

Saddlescombe, Devils Dyke, West Sussex - nr. Brighton
Saddlescombe Farm, Devils Dyke, a Hamlet in the South Downs, West Sussex - nr. Brighton Date: circa 1910

Village Scene - Ivory Coast - 1940s - French West Africa was a federation of eight French colonial territories in Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan, French Guinea, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta

Trinidad and Tobago - Pitch Lake at La Brea - Loading Pitch - British West Indies.. This particular truck has an M.G.W (Maximum Gross Weight) of 3 tonnes. Date: circa 1910s

Craigweil House, Bognor Regis - where George V Convalesced
Craigweil House, Bognor Regis, West Sussex - where George V convalesced between February 9th 1929 and May 15th 1929. The house had to be pulled down in 1938 following a fire Date: 1935

The Tombs of Sufi Saint Nizamuddin and Jahanara Begum
Nizamuddin Dargah complex, in Nizamuddin West, Delhi, India. The Tomb of Muhammad Nizamuddin Auliya (or Awliya) (12381325) and Jahanara Begum (16141681), daughter of the Emperor Shah Jahan

Goring-by-Sea, Worthing, West Sussex, England
Brand new houses in Art Deco style at Goring-by-Sea, a neighbourhood of the Borough of Worthing in West Sussex, England. Date: circa 1930s

Buffalo Belles Wild West Show. One man, seven women. Leader in cowboy costume with bicycle and whip. Two in cowgirl costumes holding lassos, five in indian costume holding knives and a spear

Map, Gold Coast Colony, Ghana, West Africa, with the main cocoa producing areas shaded, a railway line and steamship routes. Also a gold mining area. Date: circa 1920

Burkina Faso - Bobo Dioulasso Region - Man and Woman
A quite stunning card showing a tribal Bobo (Zara) warrior and his wife at Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso (French West Africa at this point). Date: circa 1910s

A roast pig on a spit, West Country. Date: circa 1960s

Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, leading the Royalist cavalry at the Battle of Edgehill, Warwickshire, 23 October 1642, during the English Civil War (1642-1646). Date: 1642

Vessels of the Spanish Armada wrecked on the rocky Irish west coast after being driven there by storms, September 1588. Date: 1588

The Battle of Towton, West Riding of Yorkshire, fought in a snowstorm on 29 March 1461, during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487). It was a Yorkist victory. Date: 1461

Burning of Kumasi, February 1874, Third Anglo-Ashanti War or First Ashanti Expedition (1873-1874, to rescue European missionary captives held in Kumasi), West Africa (Ghana). Date: 1874

March of Ashanti warriors, Third Anglo-Ashanti War or First Ashanti Expedition (1873-1874, to rescue European missionary captives held in Kumasi), West Africa (Ghana). Date: 1873

The Cave of the Patriarchs or Tomb of the Patriarchs, West Bank
Vintage 19th century photograph: The Cave of the Patriarchs or Tomb of the Patriarchs, known to Jews as the Cave of Machpelah and to Muslims as the Sanctuary of Abraham

Chowringhee (also spelt Chourangi) Kolkata India
Vintage 19th century photograph: Chowringhee (also spelt Chourangi) is a neighbourhood of Central Kolkata, in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal

Sketch plan map of Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Hampshire. Date: circa 1910s

Golf Hotel, Ben Rhydding, Ilkley, West Yorkshire
A birds eye view illustration of what was originally a spa hydro at Ben Rhydding, near Ilkley, West Yorkshire. By the 1930s, it had rebranded itself as a golf hotel

Theatre programme front cover for the London Palladium in 1952, with glamorous theatre goers arriving for its autumn variety show, Wonderful Time, starring, among others

Oil Refinery at Curacao, a Dutch Caribbean island
circa 1910s

Horn Lane, Acton, West London, W3
circa 1910s

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