Years Collection (page 4)

Embossed Victorian mourning card, James Woodhead
Embossed Victorian mourning card, with a woman and a girl grieving at a tomb in a cemetery. In Memory of James Woodhead, who departed this life January 14th, 1855, aged 80 years

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 original road bridge over the River Rhine, Arnhem
This is the view of the Arnhem bridge taken from the top of the Eusebius church three years after the former was opened. Between 1939 and 1950 it was blown and re-built several times

Joan of Arc at the Siege of Orleans
Joan of Arc (Jeanne d Arc) (1412-1431) - on a divine quest to aid France against the English. She bore a white banner bearing the image of God and two Angels

Aveling & Porter Steam Roller BY2185 (msn 2185), built 1886, of Croydon Corporation, at the 1959 Crystal Palace Steam Rally

BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR Surviving veterans meet after 74 years ! Date: 1805 - 1879

Death of Michael Godfrey, first Deputy Governor of the recently founded Bank of England, on 17 July 1695, during the Siege of Namur (2 July to 4 September 1695, part of the Nine Years War)

Charge of French cavalry at the Battle of Neerwinden or Landen, in the Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium), 29 July 1693, part of the Nine Years War (1688-1697). Date: 1693

HMS Encounter, 2nd class protected cruiser, Challenger class
Royal Navy - HMS Encounter, a 2nd-class protected cruiser of the Challenger class, operated by the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN), as HMAS Encounter

c. 1920s - Tom and Alice obese sideshow performers
Early 20th century vintage press photograph - Tom and Alice obese sideshow performers arriving in Los Angeles. Probably Alice Dunbar

c. 1920s - Madame Alice fat lady performer
Picture captioned Madame Alice - possibly Alice Dunbar, nicknamed Alice from Dallas who worked for Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey for nearly 20 years

World War II - a young captured German soldier in distress - reputed to be only 15 years old

A goddess and her handmaidens - in unique figurines of 4500 years ago, part of the royal treasure of Dorak from the Yortan culture

Saint Joan the Maid by Kay Nielsen. How Joan the Maid of Lorraine saw visions and was called upon to deliver France... Date: 1920

Lion Brewery
The Lion Brewery Co is a British heritage brewery that was founded in 1836 in Lambeth, London. For over a hundred years, the brewery shipped its heavily-hopped ales to trading posts

Headsone of German Jewish soldier Max Seller, Belgium
The burial is in the CWGC Cemetery, Hyde Park Corner. In this same cemetery is the grave of Private Albert Edward French, a 16 years old who was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 documentary in 1983

Ypres Battlefield Markers and signs
Over the 40 years that we have been writing about these battlefields, there has been many attempts to signpost the places of interest

Victims of the First Gas Attack Memorial, Steenstraat
This 15 metres high Cross of Reconciliation, commemorates the victims of the first gas attack of the war made by the Germans on 22 April 1915

Julie Andrews with mother and step-father, Starlight Roof
Julie Andrews, aged 12, photographed at home with her mother Barbara at the piano and her step-father, at the time she was appearing in Starlight Roof at the London Hippodrome

Fashion looks ahead, Dream of Fair Women ball
Fashion looks years ahead - and at present and past: frocks of the future for the " Dream of Fair Women" ball tonight (i.e)

Victorian Greeting Card - Robin Christmas Postman
A robin postman delivers christmas gifts to a house. Date: circa 1890

Carved stone pillar of Mayan Calendar, Quirigua, Guatemala
Carved stone pillar or stela (known as Stela E) that recorded the Mayan Calendar, Quirigua, Izabal, Guatemala (Mesoamerica). They were erected to mark the passing of a katun (roughly 20 years)

Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina N610FF
Canadian Vickers PBV-1A Canso (PBY-5A) N610FF (msn CV-399) of Barringer Research Limited, based in Toronto, Canada. The aircraft is seen at London Heathrow Airport for the 60 Years of Heathrow

Douglas A2D-1 Skyshark 125482. The third production aircraft of ten completed, 125482 was bailed to the Allison Engine Company for flight testing of turboprop engines at Edwards Air Force Base in

SMENKHKARE, PHARAOH probably a younger brother of his predecessor Akhenaten, he died young after only two years as sole ruler (18th dynasty) Date: reigned 1336 - 1334 BC

Babcock and Wilcox 6 ton Steam Roller YB7976 Toby (msn 95/4009). Seen with a 1955 Standard 10 motor car 200CPJ at a 1959 Walford Cross auction. Built in 1925 to the design of Messrs

Diamond Jubilee Parade, Casino, NSW, Australia
Diamond Jubilee Parade in the town of Casino, New South Wales, Australia (celebrating the 60th anniversary of police reform). Date: 1922

Old man, Burford, Cotswolds
An old man with a very sad face, sits in a stone shelter and smokes a cigarette. Burford, Oxfordshire, Cotswolds, England. He looks very lonely. Outside it is a lovely sunny day

Cartoon, At the camp of Maurice de Saxe (1745). Elegant ladies of the theatre step out of a carriage and are kissed on the hand by the French general and Marshal of France

Composite showing Locomotion and The Flying Scotsman
Composite photo created in 1925 showing Locomotion and The Flying Scotsman at Darlington to celebrate one hundred years of progress

SAAB-British Aerospace Gripen mock-up at an airshow in the UK. SAAB teamed with British Aerospace in the early years of the programme. Date: circa 1990

HMS Argus 149
Royal Navy - HMS Argus 149, an aircraft carrier, seen in March 1939. Argus served from 1918 to 1944. After commissioning, the ship was involved for several years in the development of the optimum

RMS Titanic, collection of memorabilia, 2012 centenary
RMS TITANIC: Royal Mint Titanic Centenary 2012 Titanic Commemorating a Maritime Legend Cover and Silver Coin. A5 size Royal Mint postal cover and commemorative coin produced in 2012

Cover design, Hoover News, 30th Anniversary Edition, August 1948, showing the latest vacuum cleaner Date: 1948

Three Young Ladies are Home for the Holidays
Christmas and New Years Greetings postcard - Three Young Ladies arrive Home for the Holidays by train. Date: 1906

Transland Ag-2 N8330H and N8831H
Transland Ag-2 N8830H and N8831H, 1st and 2nd prototypes. For some years after World War II the Transland Aircraft Company of Torrance, California, a division of Hi Shear Rivet Tool Co

Transland Ag-2 N8330H, the first prototype in flight. For some years after World War II the Transland Aircraft Company of Torrance, California, a division of Hi Shear Rivet Tool Co

P&O poster, A Hundred Years of Sea Transport
Rare P&O oversize poster ?P&O 1837?1937 A Hundred Years of Sea Transport?, shows every vessel during that period. Framed and glazed. 40ins. 62ins. Date: 1937

Red Hall, Bourne, where Gunpowder Plot was hatched
Red Hall, Bourne, Lincolnshire, where the Gunpowder Plot was hatched Date: 1905

Guy Fawkes's Lantern

Guy Fawkes Night, Tricentenary, 1905 Date: 1905

Woodford Hall, Essex
This photograph provides a view of Woodford Hall in Essex, where William Morris lived as a child between the years 1840 and 1847

Reginald Blomfield & Solomon
A photograph showing British architect and garden designer, Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield, riding Solomon the half bred Irish hunting horse in 1902

Cartoon, The Census - April 1891
Cartoon, The Census - Census Taker prompts woman to put her age, ten years older than last time. Date: 1891

Cartoon, Out of Her Census, Another decayed - decade! Ah, me! A woman contemplates the passing of time. Date: 1891

One Hundred Years of Eternal Feminine, late 1800s
A group of portrait illustrations of young French ladies from the late 1800s, wearing fashions from the 1850s onwards. Date: circa 1901

One Hundred Years of Eternal Feminine, early 1800s
A group of portrait illustrations of young French ladies from the early 1800s, wearing fashions from decades including 1810s and 1830s. Date: circa 1901

Comical Sketch
A comical sketch depicting a scene of two men in conversation, with a view of a city behind them, one of which is saying how his daughter was born with a crushed strawberry upon her buttock

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