Images Dated 16th September 2013

Fox jumping over a gate

A fox taking a flying leap over a garden gate - much to the surprise of two women who are working there. In fact, the old lady is so startled that she has dropped and broken a flowerpot! The fox is being chased by huntsmen and hounds (not shown.) From a??The Fox Jumps Over the Parsona??s Gatea?? by Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886). Published by George Routledge & Sons, London, in 1883

In Islington there lived a man

Vintage engraving from the nursery rhyme An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith. In Islington there lived a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran

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187041087, 18th Century Style, European Culture, Metrosexual, Sunday Best, Uppe

Donkey in the Well House, Carisbrooke Castle OP06136

CARISBROOKE CASTLE, Isle of Wight. Jacob the donkey in the well house's sixteenth century tread wheel at Carisbrooke Castle, with the well shaft in the foreground. The donkeys at Carisbrooke Castle are always given names beginning with J'. When Charles I wrote letters or was planning his escape route whilst a prisoner at Carisbrooke, he always signed his letters with a J'. So, for 150 years, all the donkeys at the castle have had a name beginning with J'. Photographed by F. N. Broderick. Date range:1850-1900

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