Year Collection (#46)

Dalay Dives Off Bridge
Twenty-year-old workman Auguste Dalay dives from the Rouen transporter bridge - brave or foolhardy? Date: 1901

Paris / Notre Dame 1789
View of the interior in the year the French Revolution began Date: 1789

Fourteen year old swimming champion with trophies
A 14-year-old swimming champion with the six trophies he has won. (2 of 2) Date: 1924

New Years letter with portrait of a little girl
A Belgian childs traditional New Years letter to her parents, with an oval portrait and an ornately decorated border. Date: 1921

Child & Horseshoe
Girl with a horseshoe to wish a Good Year - a few months later World War One began... Date: 1914

Triplet Sisters 1960S
18-year-old teenage sisters, in matching machine-crocheted tops and slacks. Date: 1960s

Santa & Punchbowl
" GOOD HEALTH AND HAPPY NEW YEAR !" A jolly, red-faced Father Christmas, smoking his long pipe and bearing a huge punchbowl full of hot punch. 1890s

Boy with Clover
A boy carries a basket of four-leaf clover which will surely bring you good luck during the year to come... Date: 1909

Champagne and Dance 20C
Has the gentleman absorbed too much of the champagne to be capable of joining the lady in a dance ? Date: early 20th century

Dog and Clover
New Year terrier with four leaf clovers Date: 1900

Macchi Breaks Record
Italian aviator Francesco Agello breaks the world speed record, flying over Lake Garda at 682 km/h. Next year he will do even better, reaching 711 km/h. Date: 10 April 1933

Victoria Proposes

Edward VIIs wedding day

Edward Vii / Alexandra Cdv
EDWARD VII Wales, with his bride, Princess Alexandra, at Sandringham in 1863, the year of their wedding Date: 1841 - 1910

Coronation chairs in Westminster Abbey, London
The two Coronation chairs inside Westminster Abbey, London, in the year of King Edward VIIs Coronation. Date: 1902

Old Father Time at the end of another year
Old Father Time trudges through the snow at the end of another year. He is carrying a scythe over one shoulder, and an hourglass in his other hand. On the horizon a red sun is setting

New Years gift / Ally Sloper
Ally Sloper celebrates new year nursing his new born son whilst his exhausted wife sit up in bed recovering with a bottle of Ale and a sandwich

Abundance and Prosperity - a New Years wish for 1906

New Year card - two children on a sled in the snow (albeit in a photographic studio!). One would imagine that the shout of warning for the impending swift arrival

Letterbox at Cranmere Pool, Dartmoor
Two women stand in front of the letterbox at Cranmere Pool on Dartmoor, Devon. Cranmere Pool is famous for being the first place on Dartmoor to have a letterbox -- it was established there in 1854

Maginot line WWII
First photograph of the British and French together on the Maginot line, preparing to drink a toast to the New Year during World War II

A Shoeshine boy - New Years Card
Shoeshine boy from Algeria, holding a bunch of flowers, wishing the cards recipient a Happy 1906 !

Greek New Years Card
An interesting Greek New Years card, featuring two young Dutch girls, with Greek script

Tatler cover - Queen on parade, 1953
The Queen attending the Trooping of the Colour ceremony in her Coronation year, seen here riding to Horse Guards Parade on her official birthday to take the salute of the Brigade of Guards

Queen Mary visiting Coombe Hospital, Ireland
Queen Mary visiting Coombe Womens Hospital in Dublin, during the royal familys visit to Ireland in coronation year. A nurse is about to present Her Majesty with a large bouquet of flowers

Fantasy card - Istanbul - Telegram form
Fantasy postcard in the form of a telegram form, featuring a street scene in Constantinople (Kara Koy). The Imperial Ottoman Post and Telegraph Service

Education, classroom
A class of smiling 5 year olds enjoy a lesson of poetry with mime

Lord Chief Justice approaching Westminster Abbey
The Lord Chief Justice approaches Westminster Abbey as part of the judges procession from the Royal Courts of Justice, for the annual religious service to mark the beginning of the legal year

Judges procession to Westminster Abbey
Part of the judges procession from the Royal Courts of Justice to Westminster Abbey, for the annual religious service to mark the beginning of the legal year. The custom dates back to the Middle Ages

Kennington Turnpike
A coach passes through Kennington Turnpike, in south London : but it is removed this year

Greenwich Baths Etc
Baths and laundries are erected in Greenwich to keep both the residents and their clothing nice and clean in Exhibition Year

Peter Dimmock, sports television producer and broadcaster. Well known as presenter of Sportsview and first presenter of BBC Sports Personality of the Year

Mr. Alfred Lucas
The photograph shows Mr. Alfred Lucas, Director of the Chemical Department of the Egyptian Government, moistening a 3000 year-old object from the Tomb of Tutankhamun with a brush for preservation

Burns / Farmers Address
THE AULD FARMERs NEW YEAR MORNING SALUTATION TO HIS AULD MARE, MAGGIE A guid new year I wish thee Maggie!

The Christmas Party Up to Date: Fairy Tales by Broadcast b
Christmas parties this year will possess a new and fascinating attraction, both for young and old, in the shape of the latest wonder of wireless telephony

Prince George and war ambulance
Prince George, later Duke of Kent (1902-1942), fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary, in the courtyard of Buckingham Palace with Mr Hansell

Wallis Simpson in 1927
Mrs Ernest Simpson (Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson), pictured in 1927 when wife of Commander Earl Wingfield Spencer of the US Navy, shortly before her divorce

Yugoslavian Royal Family attending funeral King Alexander s
The funeral of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in Belgrade: the new King, eleven-year-old Peter, stands in the front beside his mother Queen Marie (Marie of Romanias second daughter)

Prince Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick, eldest child of Kaiser Wilhelm IIs only daughter Viktoria Luise. He was born in March 1914 and by the following year was posing for phootographs

The Fall of the Year
Cartoon, The Fall of the Year. The sort of unfortunate happening that must spoil the efforts of film-makers. A leaf drops between a kissing couple

Polo At Biarritz by Edmund Blampied
Our Artists impression of the new polo ground at Beyris, half-way between Biarritz and Bayonne, which was opened last year by the King of Spain

Princess Elizabeth of York in 1926, the year of her birth
Photograph of Princess Elizabeth of York (the future Queen Elizabeth II) in 1926 when a few months old

New Years Eve at St. Giles Workhouse
Sketches from New Years Eve at St. Giles Workhouse where it was customary to provide entertainment to the inmates and a few visitors on the first night of the New Year

Accra and its coastline in 1873
Accra sketched in 1873, the year, when after decades of an uneasy relationship between the British and the Acing people of central Ghana

Crumbs from the rich mans table, Guildhall, London by S. B

Madame Tussauds Museum, London, 1884
Engraving showing a number of views of Madame Tussauds waxwork museum, London, 1884. These images show the museum shortly after it moved to its Marylebone Road premises that year

A. D. 19(?)
Two veteran Tommies with Methuselah-like beards are still manning the trenches of the Western front in an unspecified year sometime in the future; a light-hearted comment on the endless

Rolling the Obelisk Ship Cleopatra down the Alexandra Beac
Engraving showing the obelisk ship Cleopatra, containing Cleopatras Needle, down the Caesarium Beach at Alexandria, Egypt, 1878

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