Flags Gallery

Lower Lemon Street, Truro, Cornwall. Probably 1911

A view of Lower Lemon Street looking from Lemon Bridge towards Farrow's Bank and the Red Lion Hotel in Boscawen Street. The street is decorated with flags and garlands, possibly for the Coronation of George V in 1911, or maybe for the Bath and West Show which was held in Truro in 1913. There are lots of people in the street, looking very well dressed, together with a policeman, and two maids looking out of an upstairs window in the Royal Hotel at 82 Lemon Street. There is also a motor car driving through. The Cathedral can be seen in the background. Photographer: Arthur Philp

© From the collection of the RIC

Recruitment Poster - British Military 1900

THE BUFFS EAST KENT REGIMENT, 1900 (c). Poster, artist unknown, published for the Ministry of Defence, 1900 (c). Recruitment poster with uniform studies of soldiers from 1572 to 1896. From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum. Date: 1900

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library

1572, 1896, 1900, Army, British, Buffs, Centuries, Defence, Flag, Flags, God, Historical, History, Kent, Military, Ministry, Museum, Poster, Posters, Queen, Recruiting, Recruitment, Regiment, Regimental, Save, Soldier, Soldiers, Uniform, Victorian

Peace, Perfect Peace by Heath Robinson

Peace, Perfect Peace by Heath Robinson. Being the Morning after the Night Before. The aftermath of energetic peace celebrations to mark the end of the First World War, Heath Robinson imagines a street strewn with fallen flags and banners, somebody comatose in a letter box and a couple fast asleep on an upturned car, with umbrellas up to shelter from the drizzle, warm under a Union Jack flag. Ever a police officer has stopped for a doze on a convenient windowsill. Date: 1919

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans