Images Dated 4th August 2015 (page 48)

Royal Air Force badges of rank, WW1
The cap badges and sleeve stripes of the new uniform of the RAF in 1918. Date: 1918

Coxs by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
When one feels rather in favour of floating a War Loan of ones own. A British officer visits his bank to find out hes rather overdrawn. Date: 1917

Symons Cyder Mills, Totnes, Devon
View of Symons Cyder Mills on the River Dart at Totnes, Devon. Date: circa 1960s

Her Excellencys Knitting Book, WW1
Front cover of Her Excellencys Knitting Book, a book of patterns for knitting comforts for troops during the First World War

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806 15 September 1859) - English mechanical and civil engineer. Designer and builder of dockyards, the Great Western Railway

Boy scouts dressed as natives at camp, British Honduras
Boy scouts dressed as natives at Loyola Camp, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America. Date: 1951

Butchering an animal at Bacalar, British Honduras
Boy scouts watching the butchering of an animal at Bacalar, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America, 24 May 1951. Date: 1951

Cecil Beatons tea party in a tram
Cecil Beaton hosted a tea party in a tram which stood in his garden at Ashcombe, his Wiltshire home. Round the table are Princesse Jean de Faucigny-Lucinge, Mr Cecil Beaton, Mr Charles James

Boy scouts washing cutlery at camp, British Honduras
Boy scouts washing cutlery at Loyola Camp, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America. One pan contains hot soapy water, the other contains clear hot water. Date: 1951

Eiffel Tower in comparison to other buildings, 1889
A diagram showing how much higher the Eiffel Tower was in comparison to other world-famous tall buildings when it was constructed in 1889. Even the spires of Cologne and Old St

Mrs Charles Sweeny, later Duchess of Argyll
Mrs Charles Sweeny (formerly Margaret Whigham, later the Duchess of Argyll) photographed for a Bystander spread on London Faces

Italian artillery retreat
Retreating in the face of an Austrian advance, Italian artillerymen pitch their gun over a mountain precipice into the valley below

Harlene hair tonic advertisement, WW1
First World War advertisement for Harlene hair products, discussing in great detail the alarming epidemic of hair troubles resulting from war conditions

Goose US Mailbox
US mailboxes with flag arm to show if mail has been put in them. Good example of decoration that people add all over the country. This was at the entrance to a ranch in the Marin hills

Crown and Royal Monogram
The crown and monogram of Queen Elizabeth II on a 20th century post box

Beefeater at The Tower of London
Beefeater at the Tower of London. Beefeater is the popular name for a Yeomen Warder of the Guard at the Tower of London Date: 2004

Fire Hydrant Street Play NYC 1969
Fire hydrants partially opened in closed off streets to create cooling playgrounds during the intensely hot summer of 1969 Date: 1969

World Trade Center at Sunset
View over lower Manhattan, the Hudson, Statue of Liberty and the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre from the top of the Empire State Building 1 year before 9/11. Date: 2000

World Trade Center Entrance
Entrance to the World Trade Center. The Windows on The World restarant was on the 107th floor of the North Tower. Date: 2000

Plutonium Atomic Bomb
Fat Man Atomic bomb of the types dropped on Nagasaki. Little Boy was the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Fat Man the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Date: 1945

Satyr Play Mosaic Pompeii
Mosaic depicting the rehearsal for a satyr play in Pompeii

Boeing 314 Clipper G-AGBZ BOAC
One of only 12 Boeing 314 Clippers originally built for Pan Am. One of 3 sold to BOAC in 1941, Bristol flew through the war on a route from Ireland to North America via Bermuda. Date: circa 1946

Avro Vulcan XL392 Le Bourget
83 Squadron was the first to receive Mk2 Vulcans. From 1962 to 1964 XL392 was based at RAF Scampton and carried the Yellow Sun nuclear weapon until replaced by Blue Steel. Date: 1963

Beagle-Wallis WA-116 XR944 British Army Biggin Hill
Built by Beagle Aircraft to the design of ex-RAF bomber pilot Wing Commander Ken Wallis, the Beagle-Wallis WA-116 was an autogyro created mainly for military reconnaissance and surveillance

Breguet 941S McDonnell Douglas 188 STOL demonstrator La Guar
Breguets design for a 4 engined STOL transport was unsuccessful. This version was built under licence by McDonnell Douglas in the United States and was tested by NASA

Best of Friends by Raphael Kirchner
A pretty young woman in pink blouse hugs a long-haired grey cat. Illustration by Raphael Kircher reproduced in The Illustrated London News Christmas Number

Winter 1915, flooded British trench by Matania, WW1
A British trench on the Western Front during the winter of 1915 drawn by The Sphere special artist, Fortunino Matania and demonstrating the sort of flooded

Illuminated letter A in a medieval style

View of Loyola Camp with clouds, British Honduras
View of Loyola Camp with grey clouds, on a rainy day, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America. Date: 1950s

Snow White too grim? Release of Disney film in UK
Is Grimm too Grim? The release of the first feature-length film from Walt Disney, Snow White, reported in The Sketch with a comment on the fact it was given an A rather than U certificate as London

Russian soldiers attending open air service, WW1
A church service in the snow behind the firing line in the foothills of the Carpathians. Priests accompanied the Russian army and held services for the men whenever possible

War Ribbons of the British Army, WW1
Principal war ribbons of the British Army from 1850. Centre is the dark red ribbon of the Victoria Cross. Date: 1916

Illuminated letter E in a medieval style

Illuminated letter B in a medieval style

The making of Disneys Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs
Double page spread from The Illustrated London News with photographs showing the various aspects of production for the Disney feature-length animation, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Hollywood Sign
The letters of the Hollywood Sign are 45 ft / 14 meteres tall and stretch over 350 ft of the Hollywood Hills, put up in 1923. The blackened appearance of the vegetation is the result of forest fires

Group containing King Faisal I and Fahad Beg

Gertrude Bell with Haji Naji in his garden
Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) with Haji Naji (Iraqi farmer and friend of Bell s) in his garden

Hussein bin Ali - Sharif and Emir of Mecca and King of Hejaz
Hussein bin Ali ) - Sharif and Emir of Mecca from 1908 until 1917, when he proclaimed himself King of the Kingdom of Hejaz

Red London Bus
A Routemaster bus stopping at a bus stop on Piccadilly by Green Park

Hippy Pickup Camper
Redwood shingle camper conversion to pickup truck from Washington state. Hippy mobile homes were quite common in 1969. Date: 1969

A Typical Albanian soldier
This is a picture of a typical Albanian soldier from 1914. Date: 1914

German soldiers firing flares, WW1
British soldiers on the Western Front firing flares from a Very gun

Ships of the British Royal Navy, WW2
" The vast, inventive, adaptive, and in the end, all-controlling power of the Royal Navy" - the Prime Ministers tribute in his recent broadcast

Pied Piper and children, Hamelin (Hameln), Germany
Pied Piper and children make their way along a street in the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Germany. Date: circa 1940s

Illuminated letter C with Queen Elizabeth I sitting in state attended probably by three members of her privy council. The letter, a 19th century reproduction

Gallipoli - bringing in horses by Matania, WW1
Telegraph work in Gallipoli - an unrecorded incident of individual bravery. Two men of the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers bringing two uninjured horses back to British lines during a severe Turkish

A street in Baghdad, Iraq

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