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Comic postcard, Fishing at the seaside - Five hours and not a bite Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Boating at the seaside - This is better than fishing Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Little girl on the beach, getting ready for a paddle Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Little boy with drum and trumpet Date: 20th century
Advertisement for Van Heusen, the worlds most economical collar - a soft collar with the smartness of a stiff one. Date: 1924
Advertisement for Iron Jelloids, for children, men and women - the great tonic. Looks like it from the visible vitality of this 1920s family. Date: 1924
Advertisement for St. Ivel with a maid bringing bowls of soup (or cups of tea) to neatly laid lunch table already with ham, cold pie, bread and of course, a tub of St
Advertisement for All-In suet puddings of various kinds - the new way. Made by Dunragit Food Products of Wigtownshire, Scotland. Date: c.1924
Advertisement for Creamola toilet soaps, manufactured by Ventura Ltd of Mare Street, Hackney. " If Fairies Used Soap they d use Creamola". Date: c.1924
Advertisement for Mazda electric lamps (made in Rugby) showing people in a rather opulent domestic interior seated on a sofa lit by a lamp which would fetch thousands on ebay today! Date: c.1924
Advertisement for Welsbach, providers of gas mantles & burners and gas radiators, showing a cosy domestic scene with two little girls
Advertisement for Parozone showing a mother, in a pristine white dress, saying goodnight to her little boy, who is in a bed with pristine white sheets
Ridges Food for infants, invalids and the aged. This baby looks particularly pleased to be getting Ridges in his bottle. Date: c.1924
Advertisement for Walls Sausages depicting a young, married couple about to be served some delicious bangers for dinner by their maid. Date: c.1924
Advertisement for Everitt trouser presses complete with new comfort screws, greatly improved appearance, and an all steel black finish. Splendid for ensuring razor sharp creases in your trousers
Advertisement for Skippers Sailor Savouries sandwich filling with a poem illustrated by Gladys Peto. Date: c.1924
Advertisement for Gre-Solvent cleaning fluid by the inimitable William Heath Robinson, showing a family finding all kinds of ways to make the most of its magical cleaning properties. Date: c.1924
"Never mind Bobbie. Mummy will buy you a beautiful box of Reeves British-made water" Never mind Bobbie. Mummy will buy you a beautiful box of Reeves British-made water colours, like ours." Poor old Bobbie longs for the day he is old enough to qualify for some quality
Advertisement for Western Electric wireless receiving apparatus showing a family listening to a loud speaker which was the same as used at the opening ceremony of the British Empire Exhibition in
Happy as the day is long - are the little ones who are strengthened and nourished by this body-building food (basically cod liver oil in more palatable form). Date: c.1924
A photograph of a young woman called Lily, dressed up as Aladdin, either for a fancy dress or event, or perhaps a pantomime. Date: 1927
Pearly King - or Pearly Prince? Little boy in fancy dressA little boy posing for his photograph in a Pearly King costume. Date: 1920s
A jolly group of holidaymakers pose for a photograph with prop beer bottle, various modes of transport and hats at a Blackpool studio. Date: 1933
Jewish traders in Petticoat Lane (Middlesex Street) in the East End of London. " Here ye are! Here ye are! Any price you like, I don t care!" Date: 1884
The labours of the XII months set out in new pictures and old proverbs. Illustration from the English Illustrated Magazine featuring a mummer arriving at a home on a cold December night while a
View of The Chop Room fireplace inside the atmospheric Old Cheshire Cheese pub just off Londons Fleet Street. Date: 1884
A cosy corner in the Old Cheshire Cheese, the famous old pub off Fleet Street in London. Date: 1884
The staircase inside the famous Old Cheshire Cheese pub just off Londons Fleet Street. Date: 1884
The Chop Room inside the Old Cheshire Cheese pub off Londons Fleet Street. Date: 1884
Entrance of the Old Cheshire Cheese, the famous old pub just off Londons Fleet Street. Date: 1884
Poem illustrated by Walter Crane. Date: 1884
Entrance to the historic pub, the Old Cheshire Cheese in Wine Office Court, just off Fleet Street. Date: 1884
Front cover of The Bright Side of Xmas by Walter Emanuel designed by John Hassall. A Pickwickian style gentleman weighed down with a generous pile of Christmas gifts. Date: c.1930
Three children in fancy dress, one as Little Bo-Peep, another as a Native American.. Date: c.1925
O Susie, is you going for a bathe or to a fancy dress ball? A topical postcard commenting on the fashion for flamboyant beach pyjamas in the 1920s and 30s. Date: c.1930
Bonzo has a go at cocktail making. Date: c. 1930Bonzo has a go at cocktail making. Date: c.1930
Members of the Guild of the Poor Brave Things established to help crippled and otherwise handicapped youngsters learn crafts and trades, seen in their workshop at the training school of the guild
Helen Gladstone (1849 - 1925), youngest daughter of British Prime Minister, William Gladstone; British educationist and vice-principal at Newnham College in Cambridge. Date: 1906
Three ladies posing for a studio photograph in a fake car. Date: c. 1900Three ladies posing for a studio photograph in a fake car. Date: c.1900
Back view of two ladies walking along an unidentified sea front arm in arm. Date: c.1948-1952
A family, three adults and a little girl, sitting in a rustic, trellis garden room outside. They re drinking wine so are likely to be French! Date: 1890s
A group of children lined up for a photograph in a terraced street. Date: 1930s
Guests outside the Sandown House guest house, offering boarding and apartments. Location not certain. Date: c.1912
Five table tennis players, three posing with their trophies. Date: c. 1935Five table tennis players, three posing with their trophies. Date: c.1935
Three children in a very impressive toy car. We can only hope the baby at the front isn t in charge of steering. Date: c.1910
A group of happy holidaymakers at the Rathcoole guest house, pose for a photograph outside the entrance. Date: c.1925
Reproduction of a poster for The Country Girl at Dalys Theatre in December 1902. Date: 1902
Four shop workers line up for a photograph in a well-stocked grocery store. The rationing sign behind them and the royal tin suggests the photograph dates to around 1952 or 1953