Images Dated 2nd October 2007 (#28)

Mobile Butchers Shop
Mobile cooked meat shop of W J Poxon & Sons, Kidderminster, specialising in pork pies

Afghanistan / Kabul Bazaar
The gate of the bazaar at Kabul

SYPHILIS / 1883
Diagram to show the rash which appears in the second stage of syphilis

Kings Liverpool Regt
the Kings (Liverpool Regiment) 10th (Scottish) Battalion

Cambridge / Backs / St Johns
Cambridge: the Backs, with the tower of St Johns College in the distance

Newcastle / Swing Bridge
The opening of the new swing bridge at Newcastle-on-Tyne on June 15th 1876. The bridge was designed by William Armstrong

Bournville / Village 1905
Bournville Village, Birmingham: homes for Cadburys workers

Benfleet / Essex / 1909
Benfleet, Essex

Wwi / Serbian Army / 1914
The Serbian army, to much acclaim, leave to defend their country against Austrian forces. Austria had declared war on Serbia on 28 July

Romulus and Remus suckled by a wolf
Romulus and Remus are suckled by a kindly wolf. Romulus goes on to found the city of Rome

Gotha Bomber
The German Gotha bomber : there were several variants of this plane, but this is probably the earliest, the G1. Later models carried out air raids on England

Switchboard Girls / 1930S
Girls working on a telephone switchboard, watched over by a stern-looking supervisor

Childbirth in 1513
A midwife discreetly helps to deliver a child, while a friend supports the mother who is seated upright

Fifth of November
Please to remember the fifth of November, The Gunpowder treason plot; I see no reason why Gunpowder treason, should ever be forgot. A stick and a stake for Victorias sake

DANCE CARD
A Victorian ladys dance card, whose owner has yet to be invited to reserve a dance... soon, let us hope, every line will be filled with the names of her admirers

Abigail Adams
ABIGAIL ADAMS nee Smith. American writer and wife of John Adams, 2nd President of the United States

Advert / Frys Chocolate
Nine children watch through a sweetshop window as a lucky little girl buys herself a bar of Frys chocolate

Advert / Frys Chocolate
Four public schoolboys enjoy their bars of Frys chocolate - Far too good to share with their unfortunate friend

100 Years War / Agincourt
Henry V leads the English to victory at Agincourt, defeating an army four times as large : the French lost 8000, the English 400

Cadburys / From Above
Cadbury s; a birds eye view of the Bournville Works and the workers homes

Jews Study Talmud
Jews studying the Talmud, a compilation of ancient Jewish law and tradition : probably in the Netherlands

Big Ben under Scaffold
Big Ben covered with scaffolding as the masonry is repaired and cleaned

Riding, 1936 Olympics
Czech postcard, probably sold to raise funds for the Czech equestrian team in the Olympics

Chaucer, Wife of Bath
The Wife of Bath on her pilgrimage

Stockings Advert. 1931
Advertisement for Bembergs stockings, depicting a black cat curling itself around the legs of a woman

Bleak House, Broadstairs, Kent, England. This building has great literary associations, for it was here that Charles Dickens lived and wrote " David Copperfield" etc

Digging Golf Bunker
Men busy preparing the 8th bunker at Princes golf course, Sandwich, Kent, in readiness for the Open Championship in June

John McEnroe / Wembley
John McEnroe at the Benson and Hedges Championships at Wembley in 1979

Whos Absent; Wwi Poster
Recruitment poster for the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, designed to shame the viewer into joining up. John Bull demands: Whos absent? Is it you?

Ride of Valkyries
The ride of the Valkyries

Future New York will be pre- eminently the city of skyscrapers - and of noise, what with the elevated railway passing your window and the aircraft flying low overhead

St Andrews / Cig 1920S
A view of St Andrews showing the Royal & Ancient clubhouse and the first tee of the Old Course, with the West Sands in the background

Anatomy / Various Parts
Diagrams of various organs, the skull and human body

Edinburgh / Old Town 1880S
Edinburgh: Old Town from Princes Street

Waring & Gillow, London
The exterior of Waring & Gillow, Oxford Street, London

LIBERTY S, LONDON 1920S
Libertys of London

Singer in Bulgaria
This Bulgarian lady, like her husband and her daughter, is wearing her flamboyant regional costume as she treadles away at her Singer

Wertheims Sewingmachine
The sewing machines manufactured by Joseph Wertheim of Frankfurt are used by gnomes as well as by the housewives of Ballarat and Warrnambool

Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire: viewed from the Deanery Gardens

Star and Stargazer 1926
THE STAR AND THE STAR-GAZER An actress in her dressing room receives a friendly visit from a lover of the theatre

Blodgetts Hearing Aid
Diagrams to show Blodgetts micro-audiphone hearing aid and how it is inserted into the ear

Teignmouth / Shaldon 1914
Teignmouth and Shaldon, Devon

Naval Captain 1800
A captain of the Royal Navy stands on the taffrail, on the poop deck of his vessel

Girls Rowing in 1876
Four ladies and a young man go for a ladylike row

TEXAS IN GATUN LOCKS
The U.S.S. Texas in the Middle East Chamber, Gatun Locks

The Queen Mary in Southampton
Seagulls eye view of the Cunard passenger liner as she prepares to slip her moorings and leave her dock at Southampton, assisted by two tugs

Col. Blood / Jewel Thief
Colonel Thomas Blood, an audacious rogue known as the Man who stole the Crown Jewels from the basement of the Tower of London

Racial / Japan / 2 Geisha
Two Japanese Geisha girls, one holding a parasol

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