Year Collection (page 52)

1916 / Verdun / Meuse Battle
French troops make a bayonet charge during a struggle on the banks of the River Meuse, part of the almost year-long battle of Verdun

Play / Coward / Of Grace
Sonnie Hale and Jessie Matthews sit on a window sill in Noel Cowards play

X-Ray Apparatus / 1895
X-Ray apparatus, in the year X-Rays were discovered

Racing Accident 1903
The PARIS - MADRID race this year is notorious for its accidents : this encounter between vehicle and vegetation is just one of many

Prussians Take Stralsund
Friedrich Wilhelm, the Great Elector of Brandenburg, takes Stralsund from the Swedes (but he will have to give it back next year)

Edinburgh Miners Gala
The Annual Miners Gala in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, Scotland. At the beginning of May each year, 100, 000 coal miners take a well-earned holiday

Forfarshire Shipwreck 4
When this paddle steamer wrecks on the Farne Islands, off Northumberland, lighthouse keeper Darling and 18-year old daughter Grace row to the wreck and save nine

Forfarshire Shipwreck 3
When this paddle steamer wrecks on the Farne Islands, off Northumberland, lighthouse keeper Darling and 18-year old daughter Grace row to the wreck and save nine

Forfarshire Shipwreck 2
When this paddle steamer wrecks on the Farne Islands, off Northumberland, lighthouse keeper Darling and 18-year old daughter Grace row to the wreck and save nine

French Work at Panama
French operations - giving some idea of the enormous task challenging the engineers : later this year the French will abandon the project

The Canal at Mindi
Part of the canal is successfully constructed such as this stretch at Mindi, but this is the year when the French are forced to abandon their operations

Futuristic dinner party
A futuristic chemical dinner party -- a few tablets are served for each guest. Just think -- no washing up!

French Dressing Room
Two men and a woman in a French dressing room, in the year the Revolution began

St Wilfred Custom Ripon
St. Wilfred rides again! The ancient custom of Sir Wilfred, riding through the streets of Ripon, Yorkshire, is performed each year on August Bank Holiday Saturday

Futuristic powered roller skating
A vision of futuristic powered roller skating in the year 2000. Each skate has a motor attached. Unfortunately, it doesn t stop people falling over -- time to invent the airbag

Charlotte Von Stein
CHARLOTTE VON STEIN (1742 - 1827) Married friend and confidante of Goethes to whom he sent daily, for ten years poems and letters

New Year, Ancient Persia
ANCIENT PERSIA The Nourouz ceremony is a presentation to the ruler, symbolising the fruits which nature will hopefully bestow on the nation

New Year, Ancient Peru
ANCIENT PERU To the Incas, the new year - which commences in June - is a solar festival, the solar disc is honoured as the giver of life and prosperity

New Year, Modern Egypt
EGYPT The Islamic New Year is celebrated with the bestowal of charity - the Alms of Aschoura - by the wealthy to the poor

New Year, Ancient Greece
ANCIENT GREECE The new year is celebrated with a three-day festival of Dionysos, revelry intended to stimulate the rebirth of nature and fertility

Russian New Year
RUSSIAN LAPPS New years day is a solar festival here : the sun is encouraged to spend longer in the sky by games and ceremonies

Ancient Egypt New Year
ANCIENT EGYPT The new year is sacred to the god THOTH (equivalent of Hermes) who among other useful acts is credited with inventing the calendar

New Year Presents, C16
16th CENTURY FRANCE Charles IX and his mother Catherine de Medicis receive new year presents from supporters during the divisive religious wars

Celtic New Year
CELTIC NEW YEAR In Celtic cultures in Britain and western Europe, the new year is the occasion for gathering mistletoe, by the Druid priests

Turkish New Year
TURKEY The Islamic New Year festival of Bairam is the occasion for swings and roundabouts in which young and old participate

New Year Medieval France
MEDIEVAL PARIS In the time of the Merovingian kings, the new year is celebrated by military games on the Champ de Mars - the field dedicated to the war-god

Scandinavian New Year
ANCIENT SCANDINAVIA For the Scandinavians, any special occasion is an excuse for drinking, and the New Year - the Feast of Jul (Yule) is no exception

Hebrew New Year
ANCIENT HEBREWS New Years day is the Feast of the Trumpets, which herald the start of another year with the customary sacrifices of slaughtered animals

Revolutionary New Year
REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE During the Revolution, the start of the Revolutionary Calendar is celebrated with flowers offered by Parisiennes to government officers

New Year in Ancient Gaul
ANCIENT GAUL In Lutece - the future Paris - the new year is celebrated in La Fete des Nautes by dancing girls and sailors from the riverboats

Carthaginian New Year
ANCIENT CARTHAGE The new year is celebrated with the Feast of Melkarth, when sacrifices are carried out to an accompaniment of music

Hindu New Year
INDIA The women of a Hindu household offer food to the gods of the heavens in the traditional Pongol new year ceremony

Japanese New Year
JAPAN A feature of the Japanese New Year is the Festival of the Children - dressing-up and flying kites are traditional activities

Leap Year / Phiz / 1864
A solemn warning to single men Ladies take advantage of the custom of proposing to men on February 29th

Pew Rent Receipt
Well-to-do members of the Church of England congregation rent a private pew by the year, ensuring that their regular place is always available for their use

CLOVIS III Merovingian king of Neustria and Austrasia, though only for one year

Childeric II
CHILDERIC II king of Neustria and of Austrasia - but only for a year

Marshal Che-Kan-Tang
Marshal CHE-KAN-TANG the spirit of a stone, which protects against evil spirits, depicted with his bow, has been honoured at least since the year 770

Sealing Doors, China
CHINESE NEW YEAR Chinese seal their front doors on New Years Eve, so that their good luck doesn t go with the Old Year

Chinese New Year Boats
CHINESE NEW YEAR A Dragon-headed boat is the centre-piece of the New Years water festival Date: 1848

Futuristic telescope for astronomy
An astronomer at work, using a futuristic machine that will display the stars and planets on a table top

Costa Del Sol 1969
The Costa Del Sol, in the days before its 2 million visitors a year

Pope in Procession
HOLY YEAR 1934 Pope Pius XI decrees a special Holy Year to commemorate the 19th centenary of the Redemption; he is carried on the sedia gestatoria

Futuristic dictation machine
A futuristic dictation machine, which allows a businessman to dictate his correspondence without the need for a secretary

Trafalgar Day
TRAFALGAR DAY Nelsons victory over the French, on 21 October 1805, is commemorated every year on the deck of his flagship, the Victory, at Portsmouth

Haynes 25 Years
Haynes are in their twenty- fifth year as Americas First Car - soon they will vanish without a trace

Hillmans for 1930
Hillman announces its models for next year - dipping headlights, and Silentbloc oil-less shackles at no extra cost !

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