Images Dated 21st December 2010 (#51)

Landslip at Axmouth
A massive landslip causes extensive damage to the fishing port of Axmouth, at the mouth of the Axe river. (first of two views)

Henry Irving - Richelieu
Henry Irving in the role of Cardinal Richelieu in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Date: 1873

Lambro the Pirate
Mr Dry in the role of Lambro the Pirate

Chicago Stockyards 1
Butchers in the Chicago stockyards at work on beef carcases, exposed by Upton Sinclair in his 1905 novel The Jungle

SANDGATE - 1902
High Street, Sandgate, Kent

Female Literary Types
PASSIONATE FEMALE LITERARY TYPES Satiric comment on the New School, the older, educated woman here portrayed as a masculine spinster

PETWORTH - 1920
High Street, Petworth, West Sussex

RHYL - 1914
East Parade, Rhyl, Denbighshire

ST IVES - 1929
Porthminster Sands beach, St Ives, Cornwall

Italy Genova
The harbour, seen from the piazza del Aqua Verde, on the occasion of the embarcation of the king of Sardinia

RACEHORSE GLADIATEUR
French thoroughbred racehorse Gladiateur (1862 - 1876) who dominated the major races in 1865 and 1866. Date: 1865

Smithfield Market 1843
A scene in Smithfield Market with traders examining and discussing huge cattle

Godstone Bus - 1919
Bus Godstone Surrey

Farnborough - 1924
Lynchford Road Farnborough Hampshire

Chinese Mandarin
A Chinese Mandarin in ceremonial court costume

FLEETWOOD - 1919
Lord Street Fleetwood Lancashire

HARROGATE - 1910
Station Square Harrogate Yorkshire

The Nimrod Antarctic Expedition at the furthest point South
Photograph showing Lt. Adams, Frank Wild and Lt. Ernest Shackleton (left to right) standing beside a British flag at the furthest point South that they reached, 9th January 1909

Roald Amundsen and his men aboard the Fram, Hobart, 1912
First men to reach the South Pole; from left to right: Sverre Hassel, Oscar Wisting, Roald Amundsen, Olaf Bjaalund and Helmer Hansen

The Great Ice Barrier, Antarctica, 1911
Photograph showing a member of the Amundsen Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12 standing on top of the Great Ice Barrier, c.1911. Three men, under the command of Lt

Tarasque of Tarascon
At Tarascon, Provence, a dragon processes through the town recalling a monster caught by Ste Marthe, who took the opportunity to convert the townsfolk to Christianity

Brentwood High Street Essex

J H King - Cricketer
John H King - left-handed cricketer for Leicestershire and England, making his debut for his country in 1909

Fable / Old Man & Death
THE OLD MAN & DEATH An old man, exhausted gathering sticks, calls for Death to take him; immediately Death appears, and the man regrets what he wished for

Bee Hives Near Welwyn
A cyclist stops to admire the many rows of bee hives situated here along the Great North Road near Welwyn in Hertfordshire, England

Travelling Hairdresser
Roadside Beauty Service. A travelling hairdresser gives a girl a fashionable haircut

LENIN IN 1919
Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov Lenin in 1919

Penny Farthing Photo
A self-assured young cyclist, in dashing kit of white breeches with contrasting trim and white shirt, poses with his penny-farthing

Lord Leverhulme
WILLIAM HESKETH LEVER, baron LEVERHULME Popular Irish Influential industrialist

Hamadan, Iran
Distant view of Hamadan (formerly Ecbatana) and the ruins of the palace of Darius

England / Sandwich 1940S
The Toll Bridge and Barbican, Sandwich, Kent, England. The Barbican is one of a chain of block-houses, set up in the reign of Henry VIII in about 1539 to guard the River Stour

Perpetual Motion Machine
The supposed perpetual motion machine of Solomon Reisel

Tatler fashions for July 1930
A fashion design by Gordon Conway, taken from a series of monthly supplements drawn by the artist. A summer dress in printed cotton voile, trimmed in cream coloured organdie

Esfahan, 19th Century
The royal palace and meidan at Esfahan (formerly known as Ispahan)

Victor Stiebel / Twenties
Design by Victor Stiebel (1907-1976) for an elegant evening or cocktail dress in royal blue with embellished assymetric hem and drop-waist. Shoes & jewellery match dress

The Alcantara leaving Lisbon
The Alcantara cruise ship leaving the port of Lisbon, Portugal

Cambridge University
A glimpse of the beautiful Backs, and punters enjoying the River Cam, with St. Johns College, Cambridge University, peeping through the trees

Bell and Mackerel Pub
The Bell and Mackerel public house, Mile End Road, east London, at one time a famous museum and noted for its coaching proprietor. Sadly, demolished in about 1910

WELSH TRAM
The large double-decker tram of the Swansea and Mumbles Railway, Glamorgan, Wales. They were the largest trams in UK service

Cornish Fishing Village
Cadgwith, a pretty fishing village on the coast of Cornwall, England

Edmund Pendleton Gaines
EDMUND PENDLETON GAINES American military commander who served in the 1812 war, the Seminole war, the Mexican war, the Black Hawk war etc

Llandudno Tram
One of the single-decker side deck trams which used to run at Llandudno, Wales

Portable Drinks Cabinet
A handy case containing whisky, Martini and gin, mixers, a bottle opener and glasses

New Eastbourne Tram
One of the beautiful new double-decker trams, built to a gauge of only 15 inches, which run from Eastbourne along the Crumbles, Sussex, England

Sir John Fastolf
SIR JOHN FASTOLF (or Fastolfe) English soldier generally involved in overseas wars. (He is NOT the original of Shakespeares Falstaff)

Entente Cordiale celebrations
The Entente Cordiale between Britain and France aimed to resolve colonial disputes over territories such as Egypt and Morocco

First Lesson in the Goose Step
A small scrawny goose leading Germen troops, in a goose-stepping lesson. Heath Robinson produced a large number of drawings for the Sketch during World War I

David Wright
LANCE-BOMBARDIER DAVID WRIGHT Illustrator and artist, photographed for the Sketch during his time with the Royal Artillery in 1942

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