Images Dated 17th October 2007 (page 5)

Falklands / Berkeley Sound
Berkeley Sound: view of the bay

Falklands / Berkeley Sound
Berkeley Sound with penguins, sea lions and the Mercury at anchor

Falklands / Port Stanley
Port Stanley: view of the bay

Clowns / Victorian Scrap
A selection of clowns faces with various expressions

Portrait of a Clown
A portrait of a laughing clown, in his full costume, at Bertram Mills Circus

Thayer / Casey at the Bat
Phineas Thayers Casey at the Bat

Baseball / Force of Blow
By the force of Caseys blow

C18 Guitar Player
A lady plays the guitar on a terrace

Colombia / Cartagena C1700
Cartagena: general view, with ships

Lady Plays the Banjo
A lady plays the banjo on the deck of a houseboat on the Thames : a friend listens

Argentina / Tierra Fuego
Tierra del Fuego: Easter Straits

Panama / Cristobal C1915
Cristobal, Canal Zone, showing concrete and steamboat agency offices

Panama / Ancon C1915
Ancon, Canal Zone: Palm Avenue, Hospital Grounds

Merry Wives of Windsor
Act V, Scene iv Falstaff, the cuckoldy knave, learns of the trick played on him by the wives

Quebec / General 1846
Quebec: general view

Surrey Gardens Musichall
A concert at the new music hall at the Surrey Gardens, London

Wizard of Lincoln
The Wizard of Lincoln, disguised as a blackbird, identifies two servants as robbers for a Lincolnshire farmer

Woman Aquaplaning 1928
The unusual sport of aquaplaning - a variation on water skiing

Jockey / Jack Fawcus 20C
Jack Fawcus, jockey, in the colours of Mr JV Rank

Jockey / Pat Beasley 20C
Pat Beasley, jockey, in the colours of Mr P Dunne

Istanbul / Golden Horn
Istanbul: the Golden Horn

Legend of Cardigan Bay
Cardigan bay was once a lowland with 16 cities until Saethennyn, the drukard son of the king of South Wales opened the sluices of the dykes & flooded it in a mad fit

Switzerland / Urnersee / Tel
the Urnersee, with William Tells Chapel Date: early 20th century

Music in Stately Home
Five instrumental performers and a singer entertain an aristocratic audience in a stately home

DIORAMA
At its simplest, the diorama consists of one or more pictures wound on a spool which is turned to give the spectators the illusion of passing through a landscape

Optical Illusion / Ghost
An optical illusion on stage give the effect of a ghost on stage during a play

Healing / France / 1905
Breton healer ( rebouteux ), seen curing a dislocated arm, though the patient appears to be in a lot of pain

Drinking Fountain / France
Aix-les-Bains: the drinking fountain

BRANs HEAD
The head of Bran the Blessed is beleived to be buried under the Tower of London where it protects Britain. King Arthur, however, turns it round & prefers to rely on his knights

APEs SKULL / 1849
Skull of an ape

Swan in Laboratory
sir JOSEPH WILSON SWAN chemist and electrician who developed a primitive electric light (1860), invented the dry photographic plate, and other important developments

Spain / Barcelona C1910
Barcelona: Gaudis Sagrada Familia in progress

Gounod / Faust
Mephistopheles, magically summoned by the scholar Faust, proposes a deal... youth restored, in exchange for his soul

1850 Laboratory
Scientists at work in a laboratory

Coleridge Stowey Cottage
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE English poet and critics cottage at Nether Stowey, Somerset

Libya / Tripoli Port 1877
Port scene of Tripoli, Libya, East Africa, which was formerly a Phoenician colony

Chinese Thunder Spirit
LEI-KONG the spirit of Thunder. He makes thunder with a hammer & drums, chases away evil spirits & punishes undetected criminals

Learning to Swim 1898
Learning to swim

Alfred Edward Housman
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN English scholar and poet, when he was aged eighteen

Thomas Carlyle / Cheyne Rw
THOMAS CARLYLE Scottish writers home in Cheyne Row, Chelsea

PHILIPS 1892 PROJECT
PHILLIPSs PROJECT The steam-powered flying machine of Horatio Phillips (England)

Card with Lovers
An elaborate Victorian card showing two lovers - the male figure can be made to stand or kneel by pulling a tab

War Dance / Delhi / 1875
Walpurgis Night Delhi - a war dance. Men dance around a fire to the beat of drum

Marseille Docks / Photo
A view of the docks at Marseille - full of sacks and barrels

Zeppelin Lz 130 / Postcard
LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin (II)

Sleeping (2 of 2)
LE REVEIL waking (2 of 2)

Gentleman Bows to Lady
A gentleman bows as he shakes a ladys hand as he takes his leave of her

Fouquet Battle 15C Ms
A mythical Old Testament story in 15th century style

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