Images Dated 18th July 2011 (page 2)

Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair. Said Simple Simon to the pieman, Let me taste your ware. Said the pieman to Simple Simon, Show me first your penny

Dollies Drive -- girl takes doll for a ride
Dollies Drive -- a little girl takes her doll for a ride in a wheelbarrow. 19th century

Popular music - ragtime in the home in 1906
Incongruous glimpse of a stately home music room, with the upper class occupants enjoying the popular music of the day: ragtime

Blenkinsop Locomotive, 1812
BLENKINSOPs LOCOMOTIVE. Also known as the Salamanca, as it was built in the same year as Wellingtons victory at the Battle of Salamanca. Date: 1812

Time, gentlement, please! - anti-jazz music, 1913
The personification of Time drops her lyre in horror and covers her ears against the latest American import: Jazz. Date: 1913

Jazz music while you dine, 1929
A couple listen to jazz over a rather fraught dinner. The dog, cat and pet bird screech while the music blares out of the gramophone. Date: 1929

GREAT EASTERN AT NY
The arrival of the Great Eastern steamship at New York, 1860. Date: 1860

Portrait of the Queen, Colonel-in-Chief, the Grenadier Guard
A portrait by Raymond Kanelba at the Grenadier Guards Tricentenary Exhibition at St Jamess Palace. The Queen is dressed in the uniform of Colonel-in-Chief

Members of the royal family at Badminton Horse Trials
The Queen, Queen Mother, Princess Royal and Princess Margaret in a grandstand made from a farm wagon at the Badminton Three-day Horse Trials

Queen Elizabeth II - royal tour of India - Taj Mahal
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh gaze in the ornamental lake which reflects the formal beauty of the Taj Mahal behind them during the royal tour of India and Pakistan in 1961

The Queen on the Horse Guards Parade
The Queen turns to exchange a smile with the Duke of Edinburgh during the ceremony of the Horse Guards Parade. Date: 1956

Blenkinsop Locomotive, 1812
BLENKINSOPs LOCOMOTIVE. Also known as the Salamanca, as it was built in the same year as Wellingtons victory at the Battle of Salamanca. Date: 1812

Queen Elizabeth II - royal tour of India Tatler front cover
Front cover of The Tatler celebrating the royal tour of India in 1961. Queen Elizabeth II, resplendent in magnificent emeralds meets a guest at the Presidential Palace in Pakistan where a banquet was

Tatler front cover, Spring Fashions 1961
Front cover of The Tatler featuring models wearing floral chiffon dresses by Marc Bohan in the first collection he designed for Dior. Date: 1961

Blenkinsop Locomotive
BLENKINSOPs LOCOMOTIVE. Also known as the Salamanca, as it was built in the same year as Wellingtons victory at the Battle of Salamanca

Queen Elizabeth II - royal tour of India
Queen Elizabeth II at a reception by the ladies of Karachi during the royal tour of India and Pakistan in 1961. The Queen wears a brass coloured shantung dress rivalled by the brilliance of the saris

Queen Elizabeth II - royal tour of India
A vast crowd listening to Queen Elizabeth II give a speech in the Ramlila Grounds outside Old Delhi during the royal tour of India in 1961. The audience was estimated at 250, 000. Date: 1961

Henry Hall and the BBC Dance orchestra, 1935. Date: 1935

The Queen waves on a state visit to Sweden
The Queen acknowleges the cheering crowd from a balcony of the Royal Palace of Stockholm. She is with King Gustav of Sweden. Date: 1956

We ve been roaming -- children with holly
We ve been roaming -- two children with holly and a toy dog in the snow. 20th century

Dicky bird, dicky bird, come to me, you shall be happy, joyous and free, you shall be all the world to me, dicky bird, dicky bird, come to me

Keep it rolling -- children with a large snowball
Keep it rolling -- two children with a large snowball, probably intending to build a snowman. 20th century

Ta ra ra boom de ay - the popular favourite
Mr. Punch shields his ears against the din of the popular music hall hit Ta ra ra boom de ay, sung, played and whilsted in the street by all and sundry. Date: 1892

Stanton Jefferies and his orchestra, 1920s
Stanton Jefferies and his orchestra, with Uncle Jeff pictured on the right hand side. Date: 1920s

Joe Loss and his jazz band, 1936
Joe Loss and his band at the Astoria, 1936. Date: 1936

Latest dance records, 1923
An advertisement for the latest 10 inch, double sided records from the Gramophone Company. Date: 1923

Bert Ralton and his New York Havana Band, c. 1922
Bert Ralton and his New York Havana Band recording c. 1922, using the acoustic method. Date: c.1922

Shes sitting on a dragonfly all shining green and gold (Vision). 1920s

Its nothing but the fairies having such a joke (Fairies and Chimneys). 1922

Ready to begin -- children with snowman and snowballs
Ready to begin -- two children with a snowman and snowballs. 20th century

And very softly hasten down and out beyond the sleeping town to find my fairy lake (The Island). 1922

Girl in white and gold, with roses. 20th century

Off we go -- children with a sled
Off we go -- two children with a sled in the snow. 20th century

Helping Mother hang up the washing
Two children Helping Mother hang up the washing. 19th century

When I went to Fairyland, visiting the Queen, I rode upon a peacock, blue and gold and green (The Visit). 1922

Fairy flannel is the skin of peaches (Useful Hints). 1922

Children with a huge snowball at Christmas
Three children with a huge snowball at Christmas, probably planning to make a snowman. early 20th century

Heigho! -- children swinging on a gate
Heigho, Heigho! Here we go, swinging to and fro! -- three children swinging on a gate. 19th century

And there they sat and sang all night, I heard them singing in my sleep (Visitors). 1922

We anchored by the moon (A Voyage). 1922

You can t hit me -- children snowballing
You can t hit me -- two children snowballing. 20th century

The fairies will have gathered in the forest very soon (Fairy Song). 1920s

Quite Safe -- little girl on a swing
Quite Safe -- a little girl on a box-style swing, eating a sandwich. 19th century

Chantreys Famous Shot, with which he killed two woodcocks -- apparently the previous day he killed a hare and a rabbit, also with one shot. It is also claimed that he was blind in one eye

Over the field the fairies went, singing and dancing and well content (The Hayfield). 1920s

Fairy on a branch
A fairy on a branch. 1920s

Little girl on washing day
A little girl on washing day. 19th century

Children dancing round a maypole. 19th century

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