Images Dated 25th October 2011

British soldiers rescuing horse from ditch, Flanders, WW1
British soldiers trying to rescue a horse which has fallen into a ditch, blown by the force from a bursting shell, on the road to Reutel, Flanders, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British troops bathing in the sea, Etaples, France, WW1
British troops having fun bathing in the sea at Etaples, northern France, during the First World War. Date: June 1917

Woman Butcher 1920S
A young British female butcher proudly displays her freshly slaughtered pigs, hanging from their hooks. Date: 1920s

Fishing Flies (American)
Fishing flies Date: 1913

Mothers Gardener by Muriel Dawson
Charming illustration of a small girl in a white dress and pink sun hat carefully watering a lovely border of flowers in a garden. c.1925

Dancing after supper at the Savoy Winter Garden
Dancing after dinner: normality resumed as the the tango craze, described here as a continental novelty peters out, to be replaced by more traditional dances

Scottish soldier writing home on a spiral staircase, WW1
A resourceful Scottish soldier sits on a section of spiral staircase on the Western Front during the First World War to write his letter home. Date: 1914-1918

Come with a romp with Neptune! He is king of the sea, where the lobster and crabs, the sole and the dabs, dance in the waves with glee

Sweep, oh sweep oh! Clean your chimneys keep, oh! For smoky flues we can t excues, since I will sweep them cheap, oh! Date: Circa 1880

Soldier Training 18th C
Military training step by step : An 18th century French soldier puts his sword back to his side, puts his musket on his left shoulder and kneels down. Date: Circa 1760

Flares in the night sky over a battlefield, WW1
Flares in the night sky over a battlefield during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Troops and animals getting ready to move out, WW1
Troops and animals getting ready to move out of their base, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 1918

Mule teams in field near Arras, France, WW1
Mule teams crossing a muddy field near Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 19 January 1918

Tango tea, London, 1913
A Parisian fashion come to London: the tango tea at Princes restaurant, 1913. Date: 1913

Damaged wayside crucifix near Bellenglise, France, WW1
A damaged wayside crucifix near Bellenglise, northern France, towards the end of the First World War. Date: October 1918

British troops boarding train at Rouen, France, WW1
British troops boarding a train at Rouen, northern France, for the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914

Field hospital in a church, Braisne, France, WW1
Wounded Allied soldiers lying in bed in a field hospital inside a church in Braisne, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

LCC-LFB Fire scene in a London street
The hose lines indicate a serious fire has occurred, requiring at least two jets to bring it under control, but little evidence of what actually happened

LCC-LFB Fire scene in an East London street
The aftermath of a fire with clear evidence of the severity of the fire, judging by the damage to the roof covering

A Romp on the Rocks
Little boy gets too close to the crabs claws Date: Circa 1880

British soldier riding on light railway, WW1
A British soldier riding on a light railway during the First World War. The contraption he is riding is made from parts of an old motor car, and bears the name Scotch Express on the front. Date: 1917

Dugouts and trenches on a battlefield, WW1
Dugouts and trenches on a battlefield during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Troops and horses on a battlefield, WW1
Troops and horses on a battlefield during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Typical scene behind the lines, Western Front, WW1
A typical scene behind the lines near the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Loading pontoon boats with ammunition, Western Front, WW1
British troops loading pontoon boats with ammunition on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British troops boarding a train, Western Front, WW1
British troops of a Midland Regiment boarding a train on the Western Front during the First World War, after a spell in the trenches of Flanders. Date: 1914-1918

French people give directions to lost British soldier, WW1
Scene in a French street during the First World War. A crowd of people, including a policeman, give directions to a British soldier who has lost his way. Date: 1914-1918

Allied soldiers climbing a ladder, WW1
Allied soldiers climbing a ladder into what looks like a huge oil drum during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Lorry delivery at RASC MT Depot, Rouen, France, WW1
A lorry being delivered at the RASC MT (Royal Army Service Corps Motor Transport) Depot in Rouen, northern France, during the First World War. Date: May 1918

British troops waving from a train, Western Front, WW1
British troops waving from a train on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Canadian nurses on the Western Front, France, WW1
Canadian nurses on the Western Front during the First World War, looking among the ruins of their quarters after a bomb strike by German airships at No

Bus coach been over loaded with luggage and children
The bus is waiting at the station, to bear us to our destination Date: Circa 1880

Town Crier
The babes on the marrow can nowhere be found; their parents, in sorrow, the crier send round. Date: Circa 1880

Children in their pirates cave
Pretending to be pirates Date: Circa 1880

Windsor Station 1908
Windsor railway station, Berkshire, UK, seen from the street. Date: 1908

Children play on their sledges

Naughty children making a mess

Scene in a ruined village, Western Front, WW1
Scene in a ruined village on the Western Front during the First World War. A soldier holds two horses. The remains of a church are piled up in the background. Date: 1914-1918

Manipur butchers near Arras, France, WW1
Allied Manipur butchers (from Burma) at work preparing meat near Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 20 October 1917

Brtish corporal checking shell delivery, WW1
A British corporal checking a delivery of shells which have arrived by rail, on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Brtish troops crossing a river, Western Front, WW1
British troops crossing a river on the Western Front during the First World War. They are taking wheelbarrows across a wooden bridge. Date: 1914-1918

Train transporting British troops to the Western Front, WW1
A train transporting British troops to the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Loading up a boat at a supply depot in UK, WW1
Loading up a boat destined for France at a supply depot somewhere in the UK during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Watering point in ruined village, Western Front, WW1
British troops and horses at a watering point in a ruined village on the Western Front in France during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Field kitchen and staff, France, WW1
A field kitchen and three staff in France during the First World War. This particular field kitchen catered for 200 men. Date: 1914-1918

Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, France, WW1
Part of Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, northern France, during the First World War

A Sea Battle - New Guinea

British troops laying light railway, WW1
British troops laying a light railway in preparation for the advance during the First World War. Date: 1916

French customs sign, Western Front, WW1
A French customs sign (possibly a joke) at the side of the road on the Western Front during the First World War. With an empty open-topped car at the side. Date: 1914-1918

British troops extricating water cart from shell hole, WW1
British troops extricating a water cart from a muddy shell hole during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Belgian refugees watch British soldiers, WW1
Belgian refugees standing at the side of a road on the Western Front during the First World War, watching British soldiers marching by. Date: 1914-1918

Brtish troops returning from fighting, France, WW1
British troops returning to a French town by bus for a rest after heavy fighting on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Brtish troops constructing canal wharf, WW1
British troops constructing a new wharf on a canal on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Carrying water to the front line, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers carrying water in cans to the men on the front line, on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1916

Army Signal Service wireless station, Western Front, WW1
An Army Signal Service wireless station on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British troops working on light railway, WW1
British troops working on a light railway during the First World War. Date: 1916

Dugouts cut into a hillside, WW1
Dugouts cut into a hillside during the First World War. Date: 1918

Dugouts, bridge and burial area, WW1
Dugouts cut into a hillside during the First World War, with a makeshift wooden bridge in the foreground, and crosses in a burial area on the right. Date: 1918

British artillery driving through Vieux Berquin, France, WW1
British artillery driving through Vieux Berquin, northern France, during the First World War. Date: October 1914

British Signal Corps laying subterranean cable, WW1
Men of the British Signal Corps laying a subterranean cable during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Sappers and miners working on a tunnel, WW1
Sappers and miners working on a tunnel during the First World War. Date: 1916

Scene behind the lines on the Western Front, WW1
Scene behind the lines on the Western Front during the First World War, showing a lorry and a horse-drawn cart silhouetted against the sky towards evening. Date: 1914-1918

Tractor stuck in mud while pulling heavy gun, France, WW1
A tractor made by John Fowler & Co of Leeds, stuck in the mud while pulling a heavy gun on the Western Front in France during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Lorries passing mine crater on way to Western Front, WW1
Lorries passing round a mine crater on their way to the Western Front during the First World War. The makeshift road is lined with tree trunks. Date: 1914-1918

Brtish troops constructing a railway track, WW1
British troops constructing a railway track across a swamp on the Western Front in France during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Mounted Anzac troops in the desert near Gaza, WW1
Mounted Anzac troops force the Wadi Ghuzzi and outflank Gaza by a rapid detour across the desert during the First World War. 1917

Battle of Flers-Courcelette, Western Front, WW1
Scene at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on the Western Front in northern France during the First World War. A shell hole is used as the gun position of an advanced Field Battery at Sunken Road

John Pyke Hullah in 1842
John Pyke Hullah (1812 -1884), English composer and teacher of music, pictured here in 1842. Date: 1842

Soldier Training 18th C
Military training step by step : An 18th century French soldier puts the bayonet at the end of his rifle and waves his sword. Date: Circa 1760

Soldiers Training 18th C
Military training of 18th century French soldiers. Date: Circa 1760

Infantry Regiment 18th C
Military manoeuvres : three infantry regiments are led by a man on horseback. Three regiments of grenadiers follow at the back. Date: Circa 1760

18th C. Fortifications
Various plans of 18th century fortifications. Date: Circa 1760

Greek Costume / Louvre
ANCIENT GREECE: Nymphs of the cortege of Aphrodite (Venus) wearing sheer & ornamented chitons through which their bodies are clearly visible. Date: B.C

Soldiers Training 18th C
Military training of 18th century French soldiers. Date: Circa 1760

Telegraph Office 1859
The offices of the Electric and International Telegraph Company, in Bell Alley, Moorgate Street, London Date: 1859

Lady at the Seaside
The dress this lady is wearing is described as toilette de plage, casino etc. obviously just the thing for looking ones best among the holidaymakers and gamblers. Date: 1890

Lucky Horseshoe on Door
A horseshoe is nailed to a farm door to keep away the devil or any other evil threat Date: 1922

Tango (Bianchi)
Two elegant dancers present a neat silhouette as they dance with grace. Date: circa 1914

Oxford V Cambridge 1890
The Race. Date: 1890

How and what to Dance
W Lambs How and what to dance is an indispensable guide to your conduct on the dance floor, whether it be in a sumptuous ballroom or the intimacy of your own home. Date: 1906

Trees / Orchard Trees
A decorative page of orchard and other fruit trees, their blossoms, their training, their fruits Date: early 20th century

Children / Seaside Card
Girl and cat on a sandy beach - this is almost certainly the only picture of a cat on a beach in the collection

Tango Couple (Bianchi)
Look, no hands ! He steers his partner with body movements alone... Date: circa 1914

Suffrage Delegation / 1914
Delegation of the International Federation of Womens Suffrage Associations at the House of Lords. Ramsay Macdonald is among the group. Date: 1914

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