Nov19 Collection

Small boats used in the Dunkirk evacuation, WW2
A convoy of small boats which had been used in the Dunkirk evacuation, seen here on 9 June passing Lambeth Bridge, on the River Thames in London. Date: 1940

Trials on the Yorkshire Moors: the Irish Water Spaniels 1931
Trials on the Yorkshire Moors: the Irish Water Spaniels. The field trial meeting of the Irish Water Spaniel Association, 1931, was held at Anley and Rainscar at the invitation of Col. J

Vanity by William Barribal
A young woman beams widely as she adjusts her large Merry Widow style hat, gripping an evil-looking hat pin in her mouth. Date: 1910

Maronite Cathedral of Saint George, Beirut, Lebanon. Date: 1910s

Liberal posters for the General Election, & their artists
A selection of Liberal party posters for the 1910 General Election, together with a photograph of Francis Carruthers Gould, caricaturist and political cartoonist, who The Sketch says

Christmas morning swim in the Serpentine
Page from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News featuring various sketches of the Christmas morning swimming handicap in the Serpentine in Hyde Park

Viscountess Castlereagh in her famous necklace & tiara
Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscountess Castlereagh, later Marchioness of Londonderry DBE (3 December 1878 23 April 1959), noted society hostess,

Bray Dunes, near Dunkirk, during the evacuation, WW2
Members of the British Expeditionary Force at Bray Dunes, to the east of Dunkirk, northern France, during the evacuation, with men making their way into the water ready to embark onto vessels

Map of Dunkirk area during the evacuation, WW2
Map of the Dunkirk area in northern France during the evacuation, showing two flooded areas of low-lying meadow land which assisted in the Allied retreat. Date: 1940

Basra, Iraq - The Rafidain Bank on Strand Road. Date: circa early 1950s

The Victory Clock Tower of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India - built to commemorate victory in WW1. Date: circa 1920

National Coal Strike of 1912 - searching through slag heap
The National Coal Strike of 1912 - searching through slag heap for pieces of coal to burn.. The national coal strike of 1912 was the first national strike by coal miners in the United Kingdom

WW1 - Victory - The flags of the victorious nations flanking a carved statue of the personification of Victory stood atop the world and holding a victory wreath aloft. Date: circa 1919

I m Some Pumpkin - a very strange postcard featuring a man with a manically-grinning carved pumpkin instead of his head, which is frankly pretty disturbing. Date: 1912

RAF Fayid, Egypt - The Shopping Centre
The Shopping Centre at RAF Fayid (LG-211), a former military airfield in Egypt, approximately 14 miles south of Ismailia (Al Isma`iliyah) and 72 miles northeast of Cairo. Date: circa 1920s

Joe Carstairs in racing boat Newg II
Marion Barbara Carstairs (1900 1993), known as Joe, but called Betty here by the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, in her racing motor boat Newg II

The Dolly Sisters and Laddie Cliff in Jig-saw at Hippodrome
Page from The Tatler featuring photographs of the delectable Dolly Sisters performing their first London revue, Jig-saw at the London Hippodrome

Aerial view of Dunkirk during the evacuation, WW2
Aerial view of Dunkirk and harbour during the evacuation, with surrounding countryside. Date: 1940

Map of France and Belgium, evacuation from Dunkirk, WW2
Map of the northern French and Belgian coast, showing the evacuation from Dunkirk and other points, and the evacuation triangle through which the Allied army retreated

Sunset off Dunkirk during the evacuation, WW2
Sunset off Dunkirk, on the northern French coast, during the evacuation, with Junkers dive-bombers attacking shipping, and a paddle steamer hit and beached

Scene during the evacuation of Dunkirk, WW2
Scene during the evacuation of Dunkirk, on the northern French coast, with German dive-bombers attacking shipping and setting a paddle steamer on fire

The Wiesenthal Sisters, appearing at London Hippodrome
The embodiment of joy, the three Wiesenthal sisters, Grete, Elsa and Berta, demonstrating their carefree and ecstatic form of dance

Antonio Corsi, model for Eros statue
Antonio Corsi, well-known male model, famous for posing for the statue of Eros at Piccadilly Circus. Date: 1909

Plunging elephants at the London Hippodrome
Elephants plunging into the tank at the London Hippodrome, the climactic scene at the London Hippodrome during their Christmas production for 1903-4 The Golden Princess and the Elephant Hunters

Chung Ling Soo at the London Hippodrome
Chung Ling Soo, Chinese conjuror (real name Billy Robinson) in publicity photographs for his act at the London Hippodrome in 1904. Date: 1904

Rival Chinese magicians Chung Ling Soo & Ching Ling Foo
Rival Chinese magicians, Chung Ling Soo (real name, Billy Robinson) seen top putting his wife Suee Seen (aka Olive or Dot ) into a cannon as part of his act at the London Hippodrome

Mrs Arthur Cadogan with her pet boa-constrictor
The Latest Cult - strange pets. Mrs. Arthur Cadogan looking very relaxed and elegant, wearing her pet boa-constrictor as a fashion accessory it seems. Date: 1905

Houdini & Daily MIrror Challenge
Houdinis great lock-picking feat at the London Hippodrome. Harry Houdini shown on stage at the London Hippodrome, having specially made cuffs locked to his wrists in the presence of representatives

L. N. E. R. Camping Coach - accomodates six persons
L.N.E.R. Camping Coach - accomodates six persons and equipped with every requisite for a camping holiday. A rent of 3 a week in high season... Date: 1930s

Baghdad, Iraq - Saadoun Avenue (now Saadoun Street). Date: circa 1960s

Colombo, Sri Lanka - Lipton Ltd. Tea Company - Maddema Mills - note the ox-pulled tea wagons, each individually numbered (see also: 10296761). Date: circa 1905

Japanese Fleet bombards Vladivostok - 5 March 1904
Russo-Japanese War - the Japanese Naval Fleet bombards Vladivostok - 5 March 1904 Date: 1904

Stromness, Orkney, Scotland - Fishing boats in the Harbour
Stromness, Orkney, Scotland - Quayside and the Town. Date: circa 1907

Theodore, Saskatchewan, Canada - CPR Yards, Grain Elevators
Theodore, Saskatchewan, Canada - Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) Yards, Grain Elevators. Date: circa 1907

The Culford School, Bury St Edmunds - Football Team
Thingoe Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk - The South Boys Football Team from The East Anglian School for Boys (founded in 1873), which became The Culford School (since 1935). Date: 1912

The Spit Bridge, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Spit Bridge - a steel and concrete girder bridge with a bascule lift span across the Middle Harbour, northeast of the central business district in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex - The Anchor Hotel and Waterfront. The town lies on the north bank of the River Crouch. It is one of Britains leading places for yachting. Date: circa 1930s

Rev. Patrick Bell
The Reverend Patrick Bell (1799 - 1869), Church of Scotland minister and inventor of the reaping machine. Date: 1868

British travellers in a Cairo bazaar
British travellers, on holiday in Egypt with Thomas Cook, perusing goods in a Cairo bazaar. See picture number 12916374 for a picture of people booking their holiday at Thomas Cook

Buying travel tickets for Cooks tour to Egypt, 1908
Customers at Thomas Cook purchasing tickets and working out itinerary for a holiday to Egypt, in which they will no doubt partake of a Nile tour. Date: 1908

Ada Blanche in The Telephone Girl at the Grand Theatre, Islington in 1896. Date: 1896

Jack Waller and Herbert Clayton
Herbert Clayton and Jack Waller, theatrical impresarios, responsible for bringing musical comedies such as The Boyfriend and Mercenary Mary to Londons West End during the 1920s. Date: 1927

Jack Buchanan signing records
Jack Buchanan, at the time he was starring in Sunny the hit musical comedy at the London Hippodrome, signing records at a London store assisted by his co-stars in the production

Lord Berners
Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (1883 - 1950), also known as Gerald Tyrwhitt, British composer, novelist, painter and aesthete. Usually referred to as Lord Berners Date: 1926

George Bernard Shaw kaleidoscoped
Front cover of The Sketch featuring an unusual portrait of playwright George Bernard Show shown in kaleidoscope effect. Date: 1926

Sketch cover, Binnie Hale in her dressing room, Hippodrome
Binnie Hale, star of the hit musical comedy Sunny at the London Hippodrome, pictured in her dressing room wearing the fetching shorts for her gymnasium scene and arranging various toys

Society in the snow at Davos, 1926
A picnic party ready for an expedition assembling at Davos, one of the Alpine winter sports destinations popular with high society. Date: 1926

The Surfing Girl
Riding the Bubbling Breakers - The Surfing Girl in South Africa. Date: 1926

Jack Buchanan in kaleidoscope
Jack Buchanan (1890 - 1957), Scottish theatre and film actor, singer, dancer, producer and director, pictured in a kaleidoscope photographic effect at the time he was appearing in the musical comedy

Sketch cover, Binnie Hale in Sunny at the Hippodrome
Binnie Hale pictured on the cover of The Sketch in the gym costume she wore in the title role of the hit comedy musical, Sunny, at the London Hippodrome in 1926. Date: 1926

Bystander cover - Elsie Mackay (Poppy Wyndham)
Front cover of The Bystander magazine featuring a portrait of Elsie Mackay (1893-1928), aristocratic daughter of Lord and Lady Inchcape, actress, interior decorator and aviator

Hoffman Girls at the London Hippodrome
The Gertrude Hoffman Girls in the British Empire Exhibition scene in Leap Year, the 1924 revue at the London Hippodrome. Date: 1924

An ostrich farm in South Africa, Hoffman Girls at Hippodrome
The famous Hoffman Girls performing as ostriches (!) in the London Hippodromes 1924 revue, Leap Year. 1924 was the year of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley

Lace scene in Leap Year at the London Hippodrome
The lace scene in Leap Year at the London Hippodrome. Date: 1924

Winifred Arthur and Vera Clarke, female conductors
Winifred Arthur and Vera Clarke, who were appearing at the Trocadero in 1924 conducting an orchestra of thirty men. Vera had been a ballroom dancing teacher while Winifred was a violin soloist

The actress June by Madame Yevonde
The actress known simply as June at the time she was appearing in the new musical comedy, Toni in Birmingham before moving to the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. Date: 1924

The Hoffman Girls performing webbing act, London Hippodrome
The eighteen Gertrude Hoffman Girls performing their extraordinary acrobatic webbing act at the London Hippodrome, Leap Year, in 1924. Date: 1924

Jack Buchanan smoking
Jack Buchanan (1890 - 1957), Scottish theatre and film actor, singer, dancer, producer and director. Pictured smoking in a page from The Sketch that reported on the fact that in order to avoid hefty

Mother Goose at the London Hippodrome
Scene from Mother Goose, the 1924-5 pantomime at the London Hippodrome. Shaun Glenville as Mother Goose, Isobel Elsom as her daughter and the unfortunate Fred Conquest as the goose. Date: 1925

Shirley Kellogg at the London Hippodrome
A caricature of the revue star, Shirley Kellogg walking among the audience on the gang-plank (or joy-plank ) during WW1-era revues. Famously she would throw flowers to the gentlemen in the stalls

Push and Go by Heath Robinson
The collapsible car, specially designed to be taken away conveniently in the holidays. Another brilliant idea from William Heath Robinson. Date: 1925

Julian Wylie auditioning chorus girls, London Hippodrome
Julian Wyle, theatre producer known as the King of Pantomime pictured on the stage of the London Hippodrome auditioning a huge number of girls for roles in the chorus

Troops wading out to embark at Dunkirk, WW2
Men of the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk, northern France, wading out to sea to a rescuing vessel during the evacuation. Date: 1940

Hewetsons Furniture advertisement 1900
Advertisement for a sale at Hewetsons Furniture on Tottenham Court Road, London, the first and only for over 70 years. Date: 1900

Scenes during the evacuation of Dunkirk, WW2
Scenes during the evacuation of Dunkirk, in northern France, showing the beach with debris, the embarkation of British troops onto various rescue ships and boats

Final phases during the evacuation of Dunkirk, WW2
Scene from the final phases of the evacuation of Dunkirk, northern France, showing a British anti-tank post at the Menin Gate

British Expeditionary Force evacuating from Dunkirk, WW2
Men of the British Expeditionary Force embarking onto a destroyer in mid-Channel after the evacuation from Dunkirk, for their safe return to England. Date: 1940

Troops near Dunkirk during the evacuation, WW2
Troops near Dunkirk, northern France, wading out to sea to a rescuing vessel (a Clyde river steamer) during the evacuation. Date: 1940

Street scene during the evacuation of Dunkirk, WW2
Street scene during the evacuation of Dunkirk, northern France, showing a burning lorry with billowing black smoke, and debris littering the ground after an intensive German air attack. Date: 1940

Moonlit view during Battle for Dunkirk, northern France, WW2
A moonlit view from Kent across the Straits of Dover during the Battle for Dunkirk, showing the distant glow in the sky from fires burning on the coast of northern France

British artillery covering the evacuation of Dunkirk, WW2
British artillery (25-pounders) firing over open sights, while French and British infantry use their machine guns, to cover the evacuation of Dunkirk, northern France

Aerial view of Dunkirk docks before the evacuation, WW2
Aerial view of Dunkirk docks, on the northern French coast, before the evacuation, showing the narrow passages of water that could be so easily blocked by a damaged vessel. 1940

Bray, near Dunkirk, during the evacuation, WW2
The British Expeditionary Force lining up on a beach near Bray, to the east of Dunkirk, northern France, during the evacuation, with men making their way into the water ready to embark onto vessels

Return of British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, WW2
The return of British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, northern France, showing harbour and destroyers crammed with troops following the evacuation. Date: 1940

Return of British and French troops from Dunkirk, WW2
A double-page spread, with scenes from the evacuation of Dunkirk, northern France, showing British and French troops safe in England after their ordeal, and civilians welcoming and helping them

Dunkirk under bombardment, 1940
View of Dunkirk under bombardment, taken from the deck of a destroyer, showing huge smoke columns from fires, during the Dunkirk evacuations in June 1940. 1940

Unionist posters for the General Election, & their artists
A selection of Unionist posters designed for the 1910 general election campaign. Pictured are their artists, from left, Edward Huskinson, John Hassall and G. R. Halkett. Date: 1910

Hullo Ragtime! at the London HIppodrome
The Beauty Chorus of the London Hippodrome, led by the star of their popular revue, Hullo Ragtime! walking along the gangplank from the stage, over the orchestra and through the stalls

Simone de Beryl performing at the London Hippodrome
Dancer Simone de Beryl as The Fairy of the Fountains at the London Hippodrome. Her dance act consisted of her dancing amid a fountain illuminated by many ever-changing lights

Miss Adela Maddison, composer of new opera
Page from The Sketch featuring a portrait of Adela Maddison, Irish composer of a new opera, The Talisman, which was performed at Leipzig on 19 November 1910. Date: 1910

Three Maidens from Sais at London Hippodrome
Three Maidens from Sais, a new dance act in which the dancers formed silhouette tableaux, performing at the London Hippodrome in 1910. Date: 1910

Swan Lake at the London Hippodrome, 1910
Dancers of the Imperial Opera House of St. Petersburg and Moscow, appearing at the London Hippodrome in May 1910 where they performed Le Lac des Cygnes or Swan Lake for the first time in the UK

Sisters of the King of Siam, daughters of the late King Chulalongkorn, pictured in their unusual attire according to The Tatler. Date: 1911

1930s woman in black with yellow background, Albert Bailey
Glamorous woman dress in black against a yellow background. Illustration by Albert Bailey. Date: c.1935

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"Remembering Nov19: From Dunkirk's Small Boats to Christmas Morning Swims and Political Artistry" In the midst of World War II, Nov19 witnessed the heroic efforts of small boats used in the Dunkirk evacuation. These vessels became symbols of resilience and unity as they braved treacherous waters to save countless lives. As political fervor filled the air, liberal posters adorned every corner during the General Election. Behind these powerful messages were talented artists who skillfully captured the hopes and dreams of a nation yearning for change. While most spent Christmas morning unwrapping gifts, some dared to defy tradition with a refreshing swim in London's Serpentine. The icy waters embraced their spirits as they celebrated life amidst winter's chill. Viscountess Castlereagh shimmered under dazzling lights wearing her famous necklace and tiara. Her elegance captivated all who beheld her, leaving an indelible mark on history. William Barribal's masterpiece "Vanity" spoke volumes about society's obsession with appearance. Through his artistry, he challenged us to reflect on our own values and priorities. Far away in Beirut, Lebanon stood the magnificent Maronite Cathedral of Saint George—a testament to faith and architectural brilliance that has endured through time. On Yorkshire Moors in 1931, trials unfolded as Irish Water Spaniels showcased their agility and intelligence. Their dedication exemplified the bond between humans and animals, reminding us of our shared connection with nature. Greek General Trikoupis faced a somber fate as he was taken to prison at Ala Chehir—an image that serves as a reminder of power dynamics within societies throughout history. Basra, Iraq boasted its grandeur through landmarks like Rafidain Bank on Strand Road—a symbol of financial stability anchoring bustling trade routes for generations past. The Victory Clock Tower proudly stood tall in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh—its chimes echoing the triumphs and struggles of a resilient nation.