England Collection

Delivery by Father Christmas to a snow-covered house

Blackberrying

Playing sandcastles

Ballad of Old England. Comin through the rye. Date: 1903

British Royal Naval Recruitment Poster, WW1
Remember! England Expects -- The need is great today.... the Navy requires you for its glorious service. Join today. Skilled artificers and artisans, seamen, stokers, marines and boys

Territorial Army poster - Inter-war period
For England and Freedom! Join the Territorial Army. Recruitment poster Number 8. Chromolithograph after Lance Cattermole, published by His Majestys Stationery Office, 1938. 1938

WW1 Recruitment Poster -- England Expects
Printed recruitment poster No 1: England Expects Every Man To Do His Duty and Join The Army Today. Issued by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. 1914

Rambles in South Devon - 1930s
Front cover of a guide to rambling in South Devon showing a couple enjoying a rest amid open skies and a patchwork quilt of fields, with the sea and coastline just visible beyond. Date: c.1935

Cover design, Doncaster Aviation Contest Programme
Cover design, programme for the Doncaster Aviation Contest, 15-23 October 1909. Claimed to be the first flying meeting in England. October 1909

Flying Globe and Air Balloon
Two fanciful technical drawings. Above is a Globe Volant (Flying Globe) in which Giroud de Villette and M Rozier passed over Paris on 19 October 1783

Street buskers, 1986
Street buskers in Bath, England, 1986. Date: 1986

Eastern National Omnibus Company Limited Poster, advertising regular coach service to Lowerstoft and Yarmouth and to Clacton-on-Sea and Jerwick Sands. circa 1950

Garnerin balloon with parachute
Garnerins balloon with a parachute below, and a French flag waved from the cage. He ascended from North Audley Street, landing 10 minutes later in the parachute near St Pancras Church -- claimed to

Poster, Scotts flight from England to Australia
Poster, Royal Matinee, Queens Hall, London, CWA Scott AFC will tell his graphic story of the flight from England to Australia in under 3 days

1953 Coronation street party
Photograph of a childrens street party in an unidentified but bunting adorned location, with children enjoying some teatime treats and parents

Garnerins balloons
Five illustrations of An exact representation of M. Garnerins Balloons with an accurate view of the ascent and descent of the parachute

Balloon over Calais
Imaginary scene showing a balloon over Calais, built by M Romain and piloted by M Pilatre de Rozier, intended for a flight from France to England. late 18th century

England to South Africa Air Race Poster
Poster, The World Famous England to South Africa Air Race, from Portsmouth City Airport. 20th century

Linolds Bridge over the Devils Water near Hexham, Northumberland. late 19th century

Head and shoulders portrait of a sailor, taken during a visit from the Missions to Seamen. The Missions to Seamen (renamed The Mission to Seafarers in 2000)

Circus clown card by Glevum Games
A circus clown card used in a game called Tips Up by Glevum Games. 20th century

Poster, England Expects Every Man to do his Duty and Join the Army Today. Recruitment for the First World War. circa 1914-1915

Officers of the Worcestershire Yeomanry, 1914 featuring Les
Officers of the Worcestershire Yeomanry in 1914 including front row, far right, Captain Leslie St. Clair Cheape (1882-1916), British soldier and polo player dubbed, Englands greatest polo player

Box lid design, Tips Up by Glevum Games
Box lid design for a game called Tips Up by Glevum Games. Depicting a circus clown holding a string of sausages. 20th century

Captain Leslie Cheape playing polo against America, 1914
Captain Leslie St. Clair Cheape (1882-1916), British soldier and polo player dubbed, Englands greatest polo player pictured playing his part in the England victory over America in the International

Bank of England and Royal Exchange, London
Bank of England and Royal Exchange, City of London, on a busy day. circa 1900

Children on a road near Hexham, Northumberland. late 19th century

Bank of England, London
Bank of England, City of London, on a busy day. circa 1890s

Hexham, Northumberland, in the snow. late 19th century

Brunels Iron Railway Bridge, Chepstow, UK
Brunels Iron Railway Bridge over the River Wye at Chepstow, UK. late 19th century

Polo Victory 1914, Menu card from Buckingham Palace
The menu card at the dinner given by King George V at Buckingham Palace to the England polo team after they had won the International Polo Trophy - or Westchester Cup - from America in 1914

Scene in Ludgate Hill, London, with flags and garlands for the Silver Jubilee celebrations. 1935

Countrymen with horses in the City of London
Countrymen with horses in Love Lane, City of London. 20th century

View of Fleet Street, London, with flags and garlands for the Silver Jubilee celebrations. 1935

Procession in Central London
Aerial view of the Silver Jubilee procession in Central London, with flags and garlands. 1935

Advertisement for holidays in England
French advertisement for holidays in England, showing a London guardsman in a bearskin, beating a drum, with the Houses of Parliament in the background. circa 1930s

French railway poster - Paris to London
Wonderful poster for the French National Railways promoting their service to London via Rouen, Dieppe or Newhaven. The poster features a typical Home Counties scene

Peter Kao, Missions to Seamen

England - Sowing
Illustration, possibly for a poster, of typically English countryside in spring, with a lone farmer or farm worker sowing seeds in a ploughed field. Date: c.1930

Missions to Seamen, flying angel on ships flag
The flag of the Missions to Seamen, flying from a ships mast. The Missions to Seamen (renamed The Mission to Seafarers in 2000)

Street corner in Middlesbrough, Teesside
Scene at the corner of Disraeli Street, with pedestrians and a boarded up shop, in Middlesbrough, Teesside. Date: 1972

French rail poster - Dover
French rail poster for the Chemin de Fer du Nord route to Dover with six fast services per day. Date: c.1910

Cooks Motor Tours, Great Britain and Ireland
Cover illustration for Cooks Motor Tours of Great Britain and Ireland, showing an open topped motor coach driving along a road by the side of a lake on a sunny day in an English Lake District scene

World War I recruitment poster
Poster produced by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee during World War I, depicting a typical British Tommy in uniform with bayonet fixed

Two clergymen, Missions to Seamen
Two clergymen working for The Missions to Seamen chat with two crew members aboard a vessel in the Victoria Docks, Port of London

Canon Clift, Missions to Seamen
Canon Clift of The Missions to Seamen hands a leaflet to a sailor on board the Homeric at Southampton. The Missions to Seamen (renamed The Mission to Seafarers in 2000)

Parkhill Estate, Sheffield -- toddlers playing
Four toddlers playing with two tricycles on a walkway on the Parkhill Estate, Sheffield, Yorkshire. Date: 1961

Clergyman, Missions to Seamen
A clergyman working for The Missions to Seamen chats with a crew member aboard a vessel, probably in the Victoria Docks, Port of London

Ordnance Survey map cover - Dorking and Leith Hill
Front cover of an Ordnance Survey map covering the Dorking and Leith Hill area of Surrey. The cover features a hiker or rambler leaning against a wall and smoking a pipe as he consults his map

A Typical English Village
A view of typical English village A local gentleman is fishing in the stream, close to a bridge taking a road up toward the market square and parish church

British army padre in makeshift church, Western Front, WW1
A British army padre in a makeshift church not far from the Western Front in France during World War One. He is working on a flower arrangement. circa 1916

Boscastle, Cornwall, UK
Boscastle, a village and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, UK. late 19th century

Unnamed English fishing port
An unnamed English fishing port, possibly in the north east. late 19th century

St. Georges Hall, Liverpool, England
St. Georges Hall, Lime Street, Liverpool, England. late 19th century

Horse-drawn carriage on frozen river
Horse-drawn carriage and a crowd of people on a frozen river, possible the River Thames, London. late 19th century

Woman dancing in pub
A woman in a floral dress dances in a pub in Birmingham. A drum kit is visible on a stage in the background. Date: 1964

Bricked up terraces
A row of terraced houses in Middlesborough with their doors and windows bricked and boarded up. Date: 1972

Men in The Naval Volunteer pub
Two men sit at a table by a window with pints of beer in The Naval Volunteer, a pub in Bristol. Date: 1961

Sheffield factories
A view of factories in Sheffield on an overcast day. Five large chimneys emit a little smoke. Date: 1961

Parkhill Estate, Sheffield
A view of the newly built Parkhill housing estate in Sheffield from a high window. Below, people walk along the pavement next to the new building. Date: 1961

Dancing in a Birmingham pub
A couple dance together in a pub in Birmingham, with groups of people seated in the background and other men standing in the foreground. Date: 1967

Muswell Hill old peoples home
Two old ladies stop to talk in a corridor at an old peoples home in Muswell Hill, London. One woman holds a pile of leaflets/posters and the other smiles and holds up a flower. Date: 1966

Men in Daventry old peoples home
A group of elderly men sit in armchairs in a room watching television in an old peoples home in Daventry, Northhamptonshire. Date: 1964

Bed-ridden woman at old peoples home
A woman who has been bed-ridden for twenty years at an old peoples home in Daventry stares at a television from under her sheets. Date: 1964

Start of Lewes motorcycle speed trial
Crowds gather around a racetrack in Lewes, Sussex as man on a motorcycle prepares to be pushed off to begin the race, under a start banner indicating the sponsor, Dunlop

Medication time at old peoples home
At an old peoples home in Daventry, a nurse with a tray of medicines arrives at a table where old women are having tea, to supply them with the correct pills. Date: 1964

Dancing at the Beaulieu Jazz Festival
A couple dance together on the grass at the 1961 Beaulieu Jazz Festival, while a crowd seated on folding chairs watch in the background. Date: 1961

Idyllic harbour scene, Spirit of England
An idyllic harbour scene representing the Spirit of England, showing a sailing boat and a cluster of cottages

Idyllic country scene, Spirit of England
An idyllic country scene representing the Spirit of England, showing a colourful row of cottages surrounded by trees

Children on a slide at Bexhill
Two children, a girl and a boy, with two women at the top of a wooden playground slide in Bexhill, Sussex. Horses on a roundabout can be seen in the background. Date: 1928

View of Combe Martin, Devon
A view of Combe Martin and surrounding fields, on the outskirts of Exmoor National Park, Devon. Date: 1969

Men in a gymnasium, Derby
Three men in a gymnasium in Derby. One man is lying down, about to do some weightlifting, while another man watches. Date: 1960

Wood carving in St Peters Church, Lew Trenchard, Devon
A wood carving on a pew end in St Peters Church, Lew Trenchard (Lewtrenchard), near Okehampton, Devon. The carving depicts St George slaying the Dragon: he is holding his sword in the air

Rockers and their bikes in Brixton
Two rockers on their motorbikes stop to chat with friends on the street in Brixton, South London. Date: 1963

Back street in Leeds
View of a back street in Leeds, Yorkshire, with terraced housing and a corner shop with blinds to keep the non-existent sun off. Date: 1959

Street scene in Bristol
A street scene in Bristol, with pedestrians, traffic, and four church buildings on the near horizon. Date: 1961

Lambeth Palace garden party
A group of people sit drinking tea and chatting politely at a Lambeth Palace garden party, in aid of the Missions to Seamen charity. Date: 1956

People on a beach in Sussex
People on a pebbly beach in Sussex, on the south coast of England. Date: 1963

A London bus queue
A bus queue somewhere in London -- judging by the number of people, the bus is long overdue. Date: 1964

Notting Hill Gate, West London
View of the main street at Notting Hill Gate in West London, showing traffic and roadworks. Date: 1966

Biker in Rumsey Road, Brixton
A biker -- more of a mod than a rocker -- in Rumsey Road, Brixton, South London. Several bikes and mopeds are parked across the road. Date: 1963

Westbourne Grove bus stop
An assortment of people waiting at a bus stop in Westbourne Grove, West London. Date: 1961

Hyde Park Estate, Sheffield
Mothers and children seen in silhouette at the Hyde Park Estate in Sheffield. Date: 1964

Poster advertising Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line cruises from England to Australia, via the Suez Canal and Colombo

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