Images Dated 21st December 2010 (#14)

Redcar High Street and Clock Tower, shops such as Dixons and Freeman, Hardy Willis and an advert for the Redcar Literary Institute and its various activities

RHYL 1950S
The seafront at Rhyl, north Wales, showing the sun glistening on the water of the boating lake on a fine day

Royal Yacht Britannia
The Royal Yacht Britannia at anchor in the River Dart, Dartsmouth

Geo Roes Irish Whisky
This advert extols the medicinal benefits of whisky quoting the British Medical Journal for authority

Nurses Watch Surgery
Nurses watch a surgical demonstration from a balcony

Battle of Agincourt
A cavalry charge during the English victory at Agincourt

Dublin / Rotunda Hospital
Originally known as The Dublin Lying-In Hospital founded in 1745 by Bartholomew Mosse (designed by James Gandon)

Girl on Library Ladder
The girl on the library ladder

Horse-Drawn Canal Barge
On the road: two canal barges are pulled along by horses on the river bank; the lead horse is tempted onwards with a bowl of food

Wizard of Oz / Tin Man
The Tin Woodman and the Munchkin girl he fell in love with

Wizard of Oz / Tin Man
The Tin Woodman looking all shiny and bright

Consett Ironworks
Consett Iron Works, county Durham - a spectacular sight at night. Note the railway for transporting the coal in the foreground

The Beatles c. 1964
The Beatles photographed around 1964. From left: George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Ringo Starr

COAL MINE / PENITENT
A penitent, so named because his clothing resembled that of religious orders, rids the air of explosive gas by setting fire to it. A dangerous task, that often ended unhappily

Gravesend / Milton C1840?
Gravesend, Kent: proposed development at Milton-on-Thames at the Royal Terrace Pier and Gardens

Ollerton, Notts
Ollerton, Nottinghamshire

Jane Eyre & Rochester
Jane meets Mr. Rochester by the stile

Chough (Morris)
(Pyrrhocorax graculus) A resident of western England and Wales

Isle of Man / Peel Harbour
Isle of Man: Peel Harbour, with the Castle in the background

Plants / Algae
FRESH-WATER ALGAE various species

Toilet / Hair / Hairdressers
Women sitting under hair dryers at the hairdressers

Plants / Primula Auricula
BEARs EAR (from the shape of its leaves) variants Gem and King of the crimsons

Clan Gordon
clan GORDON engaged in fishing

Hector & Andromache
Hector and Andromache with their baby son, Astyanax (Scamandrios), held by a nursemaid. Hector asks the gods to make his son braver and stronger than himself

Painting by Lesage
Painting by French coal miner Augustin Lesage who was told by the spirits that they would see to it that he became a famous artist

Jh Newman / Richmond 1844
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Catholic convert, at age 43

Vlad Tzepesch
VLAD TZEPESCH prince of Walachia who ruled 1455-1462, and again 1476-7. goodness knows what he did during the interval

The Mole Catcher
The mole catcher sets off, laden with his home-made traps, Burtersett, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, England

19th Century Ploughs
Kentish turn-wrest plough Old Norfolk plough Rotheram plough Paring plough Lord Somervilles double plough

Splitting Slates
A workman uses a hammer and chisel to split slates in the biggest slate quarry in the world at Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, Wales

Oracle of Zeus, Dodona
ZEUS / JUPITER DODONEUS whose oracle at Dodona was the oldest in Greece : the prophecies came from the sacred oak, which is depicted here as having human form

Royal Field Artillery
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY Howitzer battery

Shipyard Sunset
Sunset over the shipyards of the River Wear at Sunderland, Co Durham, England

Young Trainspotters
Boy trainspotters at Newton Abbot, Devon, England. In the platform is the Royal Duchy, with British Rail diesel engine Dragon at the head

Treaty of Waitangi
The Treaty of Waitangi: Maori chiefs recognise British sovereignty and New Zealand becomes part of the British Empire. This was designed to guarantee land rights to the Maoris

Agatha Christie 1891-1976
Agatha Christie (1891-1976) English novelist and crime fiction writer, photographed C.1925

Welsh Colliery / 1960
Parc Colliery, at Cwm Parc in the Rhondda Valley

Advert / Schweppes Cider
CIDER An elegant lady holding out a glass of bubbling cider

Advert / Lawrence / Squire
Personality endorsement of Whitbreads India Pale Ale: Gertrude Lawrence and Ronald Squire

Advert / Dunlop Tyres 1933
Advertisement for Dunlop tyres: women wearing cloche hat with single breasted 3/4 length winter coat, walking her borzoi dogs

Dante & Virgil on Ice
Virgil is Dantes guide on a tour of Inferno; they come across some evildoers punished by being placed up to their necks in ice

Marianne Foyster
MARIANNE FOYSTER, wife of the rev L A Foyster, living at Borley 1930 to 1935

Advert / Martini Vermouth
Martini Vermouth - what is Christmas without it?

Westbury White Horse
On the Downs at Westbury, Wilts is this Great White Horse commemorating the defeat of the Danes by Alfred at the Battle of Ethandune in 878

Hogarth Rake Plate 2
The Rakes Progress 2. Hogarths Rake surrounded by flattering artists and professors

Christmas Bell Ringers
Christmas bell ringers Date: 1869

Ww1 / C 1915 / Kitchener Pos
KITCHENER POSTER " Your Country Needs You" The striking recruitment poster featuring Lord Kitchener

Street Scene 1950S
Scene outside Gants Hill underground station near Ilford, Essex

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