Worst Collection

Native American Canoe
A Native American war party, accompanying a European, get the worst of an encounter with the enemy. Date: 17th century

Greek Street, Soho, the Worst Street in London, 1906
The Worst Street in London. A view of Greek Street, Soho, which was stigmatised by Inspector McKay before the Police Commission as the worst street in London

Hippocrates Saves Athens
By his sensible precautions, the Greek physician Hippocrates saves the people of Athens from the worst effects of the plague which threatens them

Communal violence at its worst, Partition 1947
Communal violence at its worst: massacres in a divided Punjab. Page from the Illustrated London News, 6th September 1947 reporting on the Partition of India. Date: 1947

Jacobs Island
View of Folly ditch, Jacobs Island. Jacobs Island was a notorious slum in Bermondsey, London, in the 19th century, located on the south bank of the River Thames

2nd Worcesters Memorial, Geluveld Mill
This commemorates the famous battle of 31 October 1914 when the Worcesters, together with the 1st South Wales Borderers, stopped a German attack that was close to breaking through to Ypres

Capitol Building, Washington, USA, in the snow
Aerial view of the Capitol Building in Washington, USA, following the worst blizzard in decades, 1 February 1935. 1935

The Rookery, St Giles
Victorian montage. The rookery stood between New Oxford Street and Seven Dials, near where Centre Point stands today. It was of one of the worst slums in Britain, a site of overcrowding and squalor

Lyons Inn was one of the Inns of Chancery attached to Londons Inner Temple. Founded some time during or before the reign of Henry V, the Inn educated lawyers including Edward Coke and John Selden

Washington DC, USA - Arlington Memorial Bridge, Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument - the worse piece of photographic re-touching I think I have ever seen - worthy of inclusion for this fact

The Worst Woman in London by Walter Melville. First produced at the Standard Theatre, 23rd October 1899. One of the many melodramas written by one or other of the Melville brothers. Date: circa 1899

When Women Vote Washing day. Mans worst nightmare - the housework is his domain, pictured washing his own shirts whilst holding the screaming baby. His duties are spelled out on a chart on the wall

Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, Glamorgan, South Wales
Scene at the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales. There were 439 miners killed in total, making this the worst mining accident in the UK

Cheery Families - Mrs Sole the Shoemakers Wife. 1890s

Jacob & Josephs Coat
Jacob sees his son Josephs coat of many colours, and fears the worst for his son, believing the lying story told by Josephs brothers

Blitz in London -- fire and smoke on worst night, WW2
Blitz in the City of London -- fire and smoke on the worst night of bombing. Date: 1940s

Greek Street, Soho, the worst street in London
Scenes in Greek Street, Soho, the foreign quarter of London, called the worst street in London by an Inspector McKay, giving evidence before the Police Commission. 1. Soho types; 2

A congested street scene in Shoreditch, London
Swarming with people - and children whose only playground is the pavement - this was a typical street scene in Shoreditch where homelessness and the housing problem was at its worst in the capital

The worst is to beg. Plate 55 of The Disasters of War
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). The worst is to beg. Plate 55 of The Disasters of War. Etching

Dorset Street, Spitalfields, East End of London
A view of Dorset Street, Spitalfields, East End of London - sometimes referred to as The Worst Street in London. Women and children sit or stand on the pavements and the road is strewn with rubbish

Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia (1883-1942), second son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, with his wife, Princess Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg

In Roaring Forties
THE ROARING FORTIES A three-master confronts the stormy seas south of the Cape of Good Hope - here a vessel always meets the worst conditions of weather

Fable / Lion, Wolf & Fox
THE LION, THE WOLF AND THE FOX: An old lion, wishing to find a cure, summons his animals. The wolf slanders the fox, but finds he comes off worst in the end

Avoid Cutting In
Avoid cutting in, for it is one of the worst forms of dangerous driving

Hunting in the Snow 1 / 2
ONE OF THE RIGHT SORT Who hunts because he likes it " Counfound this snow I shall never get a light; but the worst of it is it will put a stop to hunting for few days"

Germans Invade France
The German invasion of France - passing through a village some 50 kilometres from Paris, watched by villagers who have no reason to expect anything but the worst

Congo Administrator
M. Franck, Belgian Minister for the Colonies, crosses a rudimentary bridge in the Belgian Congo, arguably the worst-administered of any colonies anywhere, ever

Fable / the Doctors
THE DOCTORS Two doctors conferring: one hopes for the best, the other fears the worst

With Italian Priests
During his victorious Italian campaign, 1796-1797, he is sympathetic to Italian priests who had feared the worst from a foreign invasion

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