West Collection

WW2 Poster -- What are you doing about Education?
What are YOU doing about EDUCATION Army Education Poster, by Sgt H F (Fred) Darking (1911-1999), Royal Engineers. 1945

Cover design, Pan American Airways timetable
Cover design, Pan American Airways System Atlantic Service timetable, serving Bermuda, America and Europe. July 1939

Cover design, Aero and Motor Boat Exhibition
Cover design, catalogue of Aero and Motor Boat Exhibition, 11 to 19 March 1910, at Olympia, west London. Showing a variety of aircraft and boats. 1910

Cover design, Western Airways timetable
Cover design, Western Airways summer timetable, showing a map with destinations: Manchester, Birmingham, Swansea, Cardiff, Bristol, Weston, Barnstaple, Newquay and Penzance. 1939

Cover design, Aero & Marine Exhibition
Cover design, catalogue of Aero & Marine Exhibition, 16-25 March 1914, at Olympia, west London, under the patronage of His Majesty the King

Book cover design, The Air Patrol: a Story of the North-West Frontier, by Herbert Strang, London: Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. Showing an airman with a map. 1913

Sugar Mill, . West Indies

Barmouth, Gwynedd, north west Wales. late 19th century

Woman with pigs, West Indies

Westminster Abbey, West Front
The West Front of Westminster Abbey, London, around 1828. Date: 1828

Sightseers at the Roman Baths, Bath
Sightseers looking round the Roman Baths at Bath, Avon. Date: 1961

View of Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol
View of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol, on a misty day. Date: 1961

Piccadilly from Coventry Street
Piccadilly, fashionable thoroughfare of Londons West End, the view showing it heading west from Coventry Street. Date: 1828

Girls in typewriting class, Holland Park School, London
Girls in a typewriting class at Holland Park Comprehensive School, West London. Date: 1965

Boys playing Kingy in the playground at a Kilburn school
A group of boys playing a ball game called Kingy in the playground of St Johns School, Kilburn, north west London. (2 of 2) Date: 1961

Advertisement for Grand Hotel, Ngamplang, Java
Advertisement for the Grand Hotel and golf course at Ngamplang, West Java, Indonesia. circa 1930s

Boys tying rope round a lamppost, Southam Street
Two boys tying a length of rope round a lamppost in Southam Street, North Kensington, West London, so that they can swing round it (see 10061196). Date: 1956

Label design for rum, probably White Star Rhum, depicting a Caribbean woman in a headscarf. circa 1930s

Label design for Rhum Maureske
Label design for Very Old Rhum Maureske (a mature rum), imported direct from St Martin, an island in the French West Indies. circa 19th century

Label design for VANA Rum from Martinique, showing a French colonial being served a glass by a native, with a map in the background. circa 20th century

Label design for Rhum Martinique
Label design for Rhum (Rum) Martinique, marketed by Aparici Sanz y Ortiz of Ayelo (Aielo) de Malferit, Valencia, Spain. Showing a sailing ship with two funnels at sea. circa early 20th century

Label design for Honeysuckle Jamaica Rum
Label design for The Honeysuckle Choice Old Jamaica Rum. circa 20th century

Label design for Rhum Doudou of Martinique, guaranteed pure. Showing a naked Caribbean woman. 20th century

Label design for Old Seamens Rum from St Pauls Plantation, Kingstown, Jamaica. Showing a head and shoulders portrait of an old bearded sailor. 20th century

Programme cover for Diamond Lil, the Royale Theatre, New Yor
Programme cover for Mae Wests Diamond Lil, the Royale Theatre, New York, 1928 Date: 1928

Man with Elephantiasis, West Indies

Nervi, north west Italy, once a fishing village, now a seaside resort. late 19th century

High Street, Hounslow, Middlesex
View along the High Street, Hounslow, Middlesex

Street scene, St Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. late 19th century

Hong Kong - Floyd Photograph
William Pryor Floyd (1832-circa 1900) Hong Kong circa 1868: from above Scandal Point, looking west Date: circa 1868

Street scene, Wolverhampton
Street scene in Wolverhampton, West Midlands. 1902

Holidaymakers at Biarritz, France
Holidaymakers at Biarritz, in south-west France. Date: 1927

Silhouette, girl photographing dog
Silhouette of a girl photographing her dog with a box camera. (insert)

Monastery of Mar Saba, Holy Land

Aka Khel, Pashtun Afghan tribe, NW Frontier
Men of Aka Khel, a Pashtun Afghan tribe on the North West Frontier. circa 1890s

Advert, Arthur Pelling of Chiswick, photography
Advertisement and receipt for Arthur Pelling Ltd of Turnham Green Terrace, Chiswick, West London, photography supplier and chemist

Scenery in Kashmir, north west India
Scenery with bridge in Kashmir, north west India. circa 1890s

Women on the corner of Shaftesbury Street, Nottingham
Two black women on the corner of Shaftesbury Street, a slum area of Nottingham. One of them is wearing a light-coloured trouser suit, and is smiling across at the photographer. Date: 1969

Royal Blue Inclusive Holidays
Cover illustration for Royal Blue Inclusive Holidays with Cooks and Dean & Dawson, in conjunction with Royal Blue Services

Takoradi Harbour
British Empire Marketing Board poster depicting a view of Takoradi Harbour in Ghana, West Africa, showing the industrial harbour and a number of workers carrying goods towards waiting merchant ships

Man tending garden in Princes Place, London
An elderly man tending a front garden in Princes Place, North Kensington, West London. Date: 1963

Girls playing Hokey Pokey at a Kilburn school
A group of girls playing a singing game called Hokey Pokey in the playground of St Johns School, Kilburn, north west London. It looks similar to the Hokey Cokey. (2 of 2) Date: 1961

Three boys playing football, Addison Place
Three boys playing football in front of some garage doors in Addison Place, North Kensington, West London. Date: circa 1956

Label design t for Mahiko Rum
Label design for Mahiko Rum (Rhum), from Martinique, marketed by Ravel Freres of St Galmier, France. 20th century

Four boys in Hampden Crescent, Paddington
Four boys playing in Hampden Crescent, off Harrow Road, Paddington, West London. One is climbing a drainpipe up to a first floor window

Label design for Jamaican Rum (Rhum), showing a French sailor riding on a barrel with a native woman. circa 19th century

School dinner at Hallfield School, Paddington
A dinner lady begins to clear up at Hallfield School, Paddington, West London. A little boy seems to be asking for a top-up. Date: 1956

Advertisements for property in Norbury and Surrey
Advertisements by two estate agents, Wates and Berg, for property in Norbury (south west London) and Surrey (Ashtead Woods, Surbiton and Hinchley Wood)

Gigantic wheel at Earls Court, London

Advertisement for Van der Stuyft best rum

Lur Tribesmen in felt coats. Lurs (also Lors, Lori) are an Iranian people living mostly in the south-west of the country. Date: circa 1925

Label design for Rhum Superieur Grand Arome, marketed by Joninon-Saillard of Paris. Showing two Caribbean natives and a French sailor. circa 20th century

Two boys playing Knock em Down in a London street

Two little girls dancing in Kensal Road, London
Two little girls dancing together on the pavement in Kensal Road, North Kensington, West London. Date: 1957

Label design for Extra Fine Martinique Rum (Rhum-Sam), imported by Van Himbeeck Brothers of Berchem-Anvers (Antwerp), Belgium

Boy in an art class at a Kilburn school
A boy in an art class at St Johns School, Kilburn, north west London. He has several pots of paint on the floor beside him, and is painting a face on a large sheet of paper

Charity event at Kew Gardens, west London, with people fishing for beer bottles. In the lower picture, a woman tries to get onto a wooden horse. circa 1920s

Outside an old peoples home in Daventry
Scene outside an old peoples home in Daventry, West Midlands. An elderly man walks through the yard as the snow falls. Date: 1964

Label design for Rhum Vieux from St Lucia
Label design for Rhum Vieux Superieur (good quality mature rum), showing a head and shoulders portrait of a Caribbean man. 20th century

Label design for Jamaica Rum

Children at Hallfield School, Paddington
Children in the playground at Hallfield School, Paddington, West London -- they appear to be going back inside at the end of playtime. Date: 1956

Boys playing Crusoe in the playground at a Kilburn school
A group of boys playing a game called Crusoe in the playground of St Johns School, Kilburn, north west London. Date: 1961

Boys playing in the playground at a Kilburn school
Three boys playing football in the playground of of St Johns School, Kilburn, north west London. On the concrete wall behind them is a painted mural of footballers

Two boys playing in the gutter, West London
Two boys playing some kind of game in the gutter in the Harrow Road area of Paddington, West London. Date: 1961

Poster advertising West African Airways
Poster advertising the West African Airways Corporation (WaC), showing native people looking up at an aeroplane. 20th century

The Houses of Parliament - Evening
A view toward the Houses of Parliament from the southern bank of the River Thames in London. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Board School carpentry class, Kilburn, London
A Board School carpentry class at the Kilburn Lane Higher Grade School, West Kilburn, north west London. Showing boys working at benches, supervised by three male teachers. 1895

Abidjan exposition poster
Poster advertising the 4th Abidjan exposition from 4 to 11 February 1951 in the Cote d Ivoire capital city in the French colonial region of Africa known at this time as the Afrique Occidentale

Poster design for The London Palladium

Poster, Dick Whittington

Chinese man with a pipe
Chinese man amused by a risquÚáårench magazine and the sins of the West. Date: circa 1902

Soldiers of a West Indian Regiment, Western Front, WW1
A group of soldiers from the British West Indies Regiment, ready for action on the Western Front in France during the Somme offensive, World War One. 1916

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

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

Dancing at the Richmond Jazz Festival
Three girls dance on the grass in front of a tent at the 1962 Richmond Jazz Festival, while two young men relax on the grass behind them. Date: 1962

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

Girls dancing at Richmond Jazz Festival
Two girls dance together in front of a tent at the 1962 Richmond Jazz Festival. Date: 1962

Girl dancing at Richmond Jazz Festival
A girl dances barefoot in front of a tent at the Richmond Jazz Festival 1962. Date: 1962

Feathers Hotel, Ludlow, Shropshire
Street scene with the Jacobean-style Feathers Hotel in Ludlow, Shropshire, dating back to the 17th century

London Transport trolley bus
A London Transport trolley bus, serving Hampton Court

People with vehicle and tents
A group of people in the countryside with a vehicle and tents

Douglas Bader and his wife
Douglas Bader (1910-1982) RAF fighter ace, pictured with his wife and a light aircraft at Lungi Airport, Sierra Leone, West Africa. late 1950s

Coal delivery men in Portobello Road
Two coal delivery men chat to a woman in Portobello Road, West London. Date: 1956

Bomb site, Harrow Road area
A bomb site in the Harrow Road area, Paddington, West London -- still not redeveloped 15 years after the Second World War has ended. Date: 1960

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