Images Dated 12th October 2007 (page 8)

Hanging Stockings
Lest we forget ! - but will Santa remember ?

Ladies & Fortune Teller
An old lady and three young ones look into the future - Your husband, whom you will adore, though steady will be always poor

Soul & Body Reunited
SOUL and BODY are reunited in the next world

Gold / Australia
Chinese miners washing sands for gold

3rd Earl Spencer
JOHN CHARLES SPENCER, third earl SPENCER; previously viscount ALTHORP. Statesman who despite his preference for country pursuits pursued a valuable political career

Don Sea Serpent
This impressive creature was seen by several aboard the Royal Mail steamer Don in the Atlantic, and sketched by a witness

Daedalus Sea Serpent
Marine creature sighted from HMS Daedalus in the south Atlantic between the Cape and St Helena : the head as seen by Captain M Quhae (picture 3 of 3)

Queen Victoria
QUEEN VICTORIA With Wellington, Albert and Edward at Windsor Castle

Heart Motif
Stereotyped heart motif with crown

Malaysia / Penang 1805
Burmah Temple on Penang, formerly Prince of Wales Island

Valentine Card
My little favourite sweet girl in a lacy surround

Valentine Card
A swallow bears a rose and says Je l ai cueillie pour te l offrir (I picked it just for you !)

Valentine Card
Two white rabbits - Constancy and Truth

Valentine Card Ever Thin
Two hearts and a ring - Ever Thine

Nothing in Cracker
Nothing in it ! the shattering of a young girls illusions

Size of Wings Needed
To support the weight of a man, 45 square metres of wing surface would be required

De Groof Accident
DE GROOF launches himself from a balloon over Cremorne Gardens, London, but his device lets him down... fatally

Anglesey Massacre
The Druids of Anglesey, in North Wales, are massacred by the Romans by order of the governor Suetonius Paulinus

Praying to Guardian Ang
A mother instructs her little child how to pray to its GUARDIAN ANGEL, who appears beside the cot together with a putto

Santa in Carriage
Santa arrives by coach, with presents and a tree

CAXTONs PRESS 1474
Caxtons Press

St Bernard and Victim
A Saint Bernard finds a man trapped in the snow

CULPEPER
Nicholas Culpeper Herbalist

Victorian Living Room
A Victorian sitting room

Gordon / Dava / Sudan / 1876
GENERAL CHARLES GORDON British military Governor General of the Sudan approaching the city of Dava on a camel in 1876

Pudding Coming
Pudding coming

Girl Cooking, 1867
A Victorian girl making a gooseberry pie with help from mother

Tycho Brahe at Work
Tycho Brahe at work in his observatory at Uranienborg, Sweden 1576

Glosso Polish Advert
GLOSSO POLISH A maid stands behind a pile of things she has just polished with Glosso

Selling Newspapers 1867
Victorian newspaper seller offering the paper to passengers on a horse-drawn bus

Four Proud Owners
Four children stand proudly holding their new possessions

Helping Themselves
The children help themselves to presents from the tree

Hanging Stockings
While one sister hangs up her stocking, her sister encourages their baby brother to do the same

Posting a Letter
An American boy goes out with his dog in the snow to the pillar-box to post his final instructions to Santa Claus

Sitting up for Santa Date: circa 1870

Stirring the Pudding
Mother helps her daughter stir the pudding

Alphabet / W for Waiter
W - was a waiter, with dinners in store

Comets & Cattle
Cattle alarmed by the appearance of a comet

Hogarth / Industry / Idle 6
6. The industrious prentice out of his time and married to his masters daughter

Silurian Scene
Life-forms of the Silurian era

Pantomime / Clown Appears
Cross-section to show how the clown appears on the stage

Univ of Paris Doctor 17C
The reception of a doctor at the University of Paris

Buddhist Anaesthesia
BUDDHIST NOVICE PRIESTS at Setchuan, China, have burning incense placed on their shaven heads; it leaves deep scars but their training enables them to disregard the pain

Crusades / Jerusalem
FIRST CRUSADE The victorious Crusaders process round Jerusalem, after massacring the defenders till the streets were filled with corpses

Henry VI in Armour
HENRY VI In armour on horseback

Henry VI Prays / Chsdetail
HENRY VI King of England and his court at prayer, circa 1450

Dragon (Chinese)
The Imperial Dragon of China

Curry&rice / Meal Prepared
Natives preparing a meal : gutting chickens and rolling dough

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