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Hughie Green & his Rolls Royce
Hughie Green with his Rolls Royce. Born 2/2/1920 in Kent, Green was one of the first great British TV stars, well-known as the host of popular show, Opportunity Knocks

Rolls Royce car accident
A photograph of an upturned Rolls Royce, belonging to Mr. Benjamin Guinness on the road between Pisa and Rome. All the passengers were saved due to the body pillars in the car which withstood

Bond St Shopping 1960S
A smartly dressed lady strides along Bond Street whilst on a shopping trip

London Trade Card - Masefields Paper Hanging and Papier Mache Manufactory in the Strand. 18th century

London Trade Card - Matthias Darly, Paper Hangings
London Trade Card - Matthias Darly, Manufactory for Paper Hangings, painter, engraver and paper stainer, wholesale and retail, at the Acorn, facing Hungerford, Strand

Intefs seated statue. Egypt
Intefs seated statue. Limestone. Wearing with a wig, long skirt and with abdominal folds with which scuptor shows Intefs high social status, associated to abundant food and sedentary lifestyle

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Rolls the Bakers Wife. late 19th century

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mr Rolls the Baker. late 19th century

Happy Families Playing Cards - Miss Rolls the Bakers Daughter. late 19th century

Happy Families Playing Cards - Master Rolls the Bakers Son. late 19th century

Caricature of Frank Toole, theatrical manager
Caricature of Frank (Francis) Toole, theatrical manager to his actor brother John Lawrence Toole. Seen here pasting up a poster -- What a good brother he has been! 1881

Woman being fitted with policewomans uniform
Woman being fitted with her policewomans uniform. The policewomens uniform was updated in 1931, when a white shirt and tie were introduced, the hat badge became smaller and shoes replaced boots

Sir Dudley Digges
SIR DUDLEY DIGGES Statesman, Master of the Rolls Date: 1583 - 1639

Ritz Fast Asleep
Ritz, whilst enjoying a snooze, rolls over onto his back. Date: 1991

Paper Printing Machine
A machine for printing the lines on paper for accountants ledgers. Date: mid 19th century

Cartoon, Parisian woman out shopping, WW1
Cartoon showing an elegant Parisian woman in a very tall hat, out shopping for fabrics. She asks for a large amount of material for a new hat, in spite of wartime austerity. Date: 1917

Thomas Warrington
Thomas Rolls Warrington, 1st Baron Warrington of Clyffe, British lawyer and judge Date: 1851 - 1937

Sychronised Swimming Team - off-duty party - the food table
Bournemouth, Dorset - Pat & Lizs Party for the whole Sychronised Swimming Team - off-duty party - the food table! Date: 1962

Window display, Nehesco Fabrics. circa 1930s

You cant do that there ere - Music Sheet Cover, the Marvellous comdey fox-trot song hit, written an composed by Jack Rolls and Raymond Wallace and featured with great success by Jack Payne

Finish of the Thousand Miles Trial in 1900
The finish of the Thousand Miles Trial which ended on 12 May 1900 in Whitehall, London. The first car in the row is a 12 h.p. Panhard driven by Charles Rolls who is seated at the wheel

Food and staff, Plume of Feathers, Cornwall
Staff with a fine display of food at the Plume of Feathers bar, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Cartoon, In trouble, WW1
Cartoon, In trouble, showing a draper with a pile of cloth. He claims to be as patriotic as the next person, but is wondering whether he should dye his stock in grey-green (the German uniform colour)

Insert of cover design, Popular Flying
Insert reproduction of cover design, Popular Flying, the National Aviation Paper, July 1936. Running the Gauntlet(s), showing a Hawker Demon (with a Rolls Royce Kestrel engine) of 23F Squadron

WW1 - German gas attack
WW1 - Illustrating a gas attack in the eastern war zone from an aerial viewpoint. The poisonous cloud rolls before a westerly wind towards the Russian lines

Bristol F2B using a 275hp Rolls Royce Falcon could achieve 125mph in level flight

1923 Deinhard Champagne & Vintage Car (awaiting identification), Germany. Showing Rolls Royce Vintage Car Date: 1910s

Hawker Hart British light bomber biplane
Hawker Hart K3025 British two-seat light bomber biplane with 480hp Rolls Royce Kestrel engine. Date: early 1930s

Hawker Nimrod British fighter biplane
Hawker Nimrod British carrier-based single seat fighter biplane with 480hp Rolls Royce Kestrel engine. Date: 1930s

Suffragette Womens Rights Cross Husband. Husband, backed into a corner, says, I ll be cross Arabella, I ll be cross!! Tho you have your womens rights I m the Boss

Growing food in Chancery Lane, WW1
Mr Hubert Hall, resident officer of the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane, pictured hard at work in the gardens of the old Rolls House, where

Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth (1861 1936), British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge. He served as Master of the Rolls from 1923 to 1935. 1923

Assembling the Whitley night bomber by G. H. Davis
How a Whitley night bomber is assembled in section, speeding up aeroplane production by simplification during the Second World War. Date: 1941

German soldiers digging a trench, WW1
Artists impression of German soldiers digging and fortifying a trench at night, somewhere on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier in the foreground is lighting a cigarette

Danish Cheese Savoury Pastries
Danish Pastry Specialties, Danish Cheese Savoury Pastries Date: 1936

Special Pastry Spread. Charlotte Cream Boat, Chocolate Roll Wafers, Chocolate Boats, Mikado Bombs, Chantilly Tarts, Chocolate Charlotte, Chocolate Russe, Mocha Wafers, Chocolate Treepots

A Spread of French Pastries, Frangipane Desserts. (20) Vermicelli Buttercream Topping, (21) Buttercream Top with Chocolate Cream Roll, (22) Pineapple Top Covered with Croquante. Date: 1936

Business card design, young woman with textiles
Business card design, depicting a young woman in a red dress, sitting on rolls of textiles. Date: 20th century

Advert for Flamingo raincoats 1935
The latest aquatite production- the Flamingo light weight raincoat. Rubber-less odourless, hygienic and self-ventilating. The Flamingo tripple-proofed fashion coat folds or rolls into a very small

Factory with coiled wire - WW1
A factory with newly manufactured wire standing in coils on the floor. Possibly the basis for barbed wire detined for the Western Front - WW1 Date: circa 1915

Toffs versus Roughs
A fight breaks out on the streets of a city between top-hatted gentlemen who throw determined punches at the lower-classes

Romanian Woman - making fabric
A lovely postcard photograph of a Romanian woman, working at a loom (to produce the highly patterned fabric used in traditional clothing) Date: circa 1910s

New Cross Rolls Hse
The stately home of John Rolls is one of the few ornaments of this otherwise not particularly distinguished suburb in southeast London (at this time it is in Kent) Date: 1805

Robert Southwell
ROBERT SOUTHWELL Statesman, Master of the Rolls (do not confuse with his near- contemporary, the poet) Date: ? - 1559

Sir Thomas Plumer
SIR THOMAS PLUMER judge, Master of the Rolls Date: 1753 - 1824

Henry Baron Langdale
HENRY BARON LANGDALE Statesman, Master of the Rolls Date: 1783 - 1851

Sir Joseph Jekyll
SIR JOSEPH JEKYLL Lawyer, Master of the Rolls Date: 1663 - 1738

Sir Harbottle Grimston
SIR HARBOTTLE GRIMSTON Judge, Master of the Rolls and speaker of the House of Commons. Date: 1603 - 1685

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