Images Dated 15th October 2007 (page 3)

Medical Help for Bird
A bird comes for medical treatment to straighten his back

Journalistic Jays
Journalistic jays

Beverley Fire-Engine
A fire engine in action at Beverley, Yorkshire

Girl Admires Nest 1891
A little girl in a white dress looks up at a nest of birds

Decorative Bird
Decorative bird on the bough of a fruit tree

Branched Worm 1891
Heskaterobranchus Shrubsolii

Moths / Lizars 1880
Brimstone Moth Swallowtail Moth Large Emerald

Solomons Mines / Haggard
Allan Quartermain saves the servant Umbopa, thought by the witch to be evil

A GRAYLING / 1864
A grayling

Bengal Tea Plantation
A tea plantation in Bengal, India

Drying Coffee Beans
Drying beans in Sumatra

Drawing Room / 1892
The first drawing room of the season at the foot of the grand staircase at Buckingham Palace

Girl Makes a Big Splash
Girl is splashed in the sea by her jovial companions. She wears a black, sleeveless, V -neck, one-piece bathing costume with white stripes & a white belt with buckle

Nurserymans Trade Card
The trade card of C Hale Jessop, Nurseryman, Seedsman and Florist, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, showing a garden layout

Austen / Sense & Sensibilt
Edward Ferrars & Elinor; " One of the happiest of men."

Alcott / Women - 18
Jos sacrifice : she has her hair cut short

Alcott / Women - 15
The cover of the 1912 edition

Swimwear by Vionnet
Black bathing costume by Vionnet with an unusual double halter-neck, loose unfitted bodice & skirt

Champagne Vintage Time
Vintage in the champagne country

Sockette Fashion 1929
The sockette fashion and some of its exponents demonstrate that there are those who can get away with it and others, who sadly, cannot

Raleigh & Cloak / Queen
SIR WALTER RALEIGH sacrifices his new cloak so that his queens feet will not get muddied

Royal Exchange Fireman
A fireman of the Royal Exchange Association, before the formation of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade in 1865

Fire Spraying Helmet
Automatic spraying helmet in use

The Six Swans Clarke
The princess carried by the swans - they are really her brothers, turned into swans by the wicked Queens magic

Sweetheart Roland
The witch goes an hours walk with every stride

Dickens / Pickwick Papers
Serjeant Buzfuz. Dickens describes him as " a driving, chaffing, masculine bar orator, who twists " Chops and Tomato Sauce" into a declaration of love"

Chaucer, the Summoner
The Summoner about to deliver a summons

Chaucer, the Pardoner
The Pardoner was a medieval cleric licensed to preach, and collect money in exchange for letters of indulgence; such letters were denounced by Chaucer among others

Chaucer, Nuns Priest
The Nuns Priest about to speak

Chaucer, the Reeve
The Reeve was the local officer and representative of the lord of the manor

Puss in Boots (Goble)
Puss and his master

Milton / Fairies Dancing
A ring of fairies dancing, illustrating John Miltons A Vacation Exercise : " The fairy ladies danced upon the heath"

Two Men Drinking 1935
Two rural types sup real ale from pint jugs beside a open fire, surrounded by the epherema and decor typical of a classic country pub, at the Old Plough in Speen, Bucks

Dark Brown Suit 1909
Sir Charles Friswell Frizzy wears a dark brown double- breasted three-piece suit, brown lace-up boots, shirt with a high all-round collar & a brown tie

Delphine Girardin
DELPHINE GIRARDIN French literary and social figure

Lady Tying on Hat 1904
An impression of the lady of fashion: the S-bend silhouette is emphasized by bulky frills on the decollete bodice & the hip clinging skirt. She ties her hat on with a ribbon

Beauty and the Beast
This well-dressed beast is no more horrifying than outsize teddy bear in Beauty and the Beast

TOM PIPERs SON 1881
A group of decorative girls dance on the lawn of a country home while a boy named Tom, from a pipe-playing family, supplies a musical accompaniment

Good King Wenceslas
Page and monarch, forth they went together through the cold winds wild lament and the bitter weather

A Glacier Table
Glacier tables, where a boulder has protected the ice and snow beneath it from solar melting; as the surrounding snow melts the rock is left atop a pillar of ice

Rub a Dub Dub / Bell
Rub-a-dub dub three men in a tub

Fata Morgana Mirage
An example of a Fata Morgana mirage in the Straits of Messina; this complex mirage gives the appearance of objects floating or of being part underwater, part in air

Little Nut Tree (Crane)
I had a little nut tree, nothing would it bear but a silver nutmeg & a golden pear The king of Spains daughter came to visit me, all for the sake of my little nut tree

Manx New Year Custom
MANX NEW YEAR CUSTOM Children go from house to house on New Years morning singing New Years Cakes for which they are rewarded with - you guessed it - cakes

Tunic Dress by Doucet
Column like tunic dress by Doucet: the over-skirt caught up at the back with roses & ornamented wih pendants

1ST BURMA WAR / 1824
The artillery is moved forward during the British colonial troops advance into Burmese territory during the 1st Burma War

Theatre Coat / Paquin 1912
Exotic pink & black kimono style theatre coat by Paquin embellished with chinese embroidery & trimmed with fur. Her headdress is ornamented with embroidery & beads

Social / Danish Women 1913
A striped tailored costume with a slightly flaring skirt contained at the knee by a buttoned strap & a waisted jacket with turned-back cuffs, button detail & broad lapels

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