Class Collection (page 4)

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). Peasant girl hanging clothes to
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). French painter. Impressionism. Peasant girl hanging clothes to dry (1881). Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhgen. Denmark

View of Tirpentwys Colliery, Pontypool, South Wales
View of Tirpentwys Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales

John Devey, footballer and cricketer
John Henry George Jack Devey (1866-1940), footballer for West Bromwich Albion, Mitchells St George s, Aston Villa and England, and a first-class cricketer for Warwickshire. 1890s

Fishery Protection Vessel HMS Mersey
River Class Patrol Vessel HMS Mersey of the Fishery Protection Squadron is pictured at sea near Portsmouth. HMS Mersey is the youngest of the original batch of River- class patrol vessels built for

Lord and Lady Derwent by Madame Yevonde
Portrait of Lord and Lady Derwent by Madame Yevonde. Lady Derwent was the Comtesse Sabine Czaykowska, daughter of General Iliesco, former Chief of Staff of the Romanian Army

Colonial classroom in New England, 1600s
Early schoolroom in colonial New England. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Welsh miner in coal mine pushing truck
A Welsh miner, stripped to the waist, pushing a truck in a coal mine

LNER Class P2 No. 2001 Cock o the North with a London to Aberdeen express by C.T. Howard

Tatler cover, Countess of Rosse
The Countess of Rosse, formerly Anne Messel, sister of designer Oliver Messel. She was married to Ronald Armstrong-Jones in 1925, with whom she had a daughter and a son

The Tyne Bridge under construction, 23rd February 1928 (b / w photo)
907791 The Tyne Bridge under construction, 23rd February 1928 (b/w photo) by Geddie, James (1879-1944); Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums; eTyne & Wear Archives & Museums; British, out of copyright

Massena - a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy
Massena was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy, built in the 1890s. A member of a group of five broadly similar battleships, ordered in response to the British Royal Sovereign class

Rooftops Stoke
Looking over rooftops and chimneys of hillside terraced houses towards The Sacred Heart Church, Tunstall, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England. Holy Trinity Church, Hartshill in the distance

HMS Jewel, British minesweeper M390
HMS Jewel, British Algerine-class minesweeper M390. Date: circa 1960s

HMS Opossum - Oberon Class Submarine powered by diesel generators. Oberon was laid down by Chatham Dockyard on 28th November 1957, and launched on 18th July 1959

HMS Nelson, battleship, Nelson class. 1940s

HMS Ajax, light cruiser, Leander class. circa 1940s

Cocktail bar on the Flying Scotsman
The cocktail bar for third class passengers on the Flying Scotsman. Date: 1933

HMS Majestic - Battleship of the Royal Navy
HMS Majestic was a Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. On 27th May 1915, she was torpedoed by a U-boat at Cape Helles during the Dardanelles Campaign

Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875). The Gleaners (1856). Orsay
Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875). French painter, one of the founders of the Barbizon School. The Gleaners (1856). Orsay Museum. Paris. France

HMS Tartar - Tribal Class Destroyer of the Royal Navy
HMS Tartar (F43) - Tribal Class Destroyer of the Royal Navy, completed 1939. Date: circa 1944

Gneisenau, German battleship
Gneisenau, German Scharnhorst-class battleship. Date: 1936

Victorian family group - Rodbourne House, Wiltshire
A Victorian family group and servants pose in the garden of Rodbourne House, St Paul Malmesbury Without, Wiltshire. This fine house was the home of the Hungerford Pollens who had an active interest

Poster, Humber, the Aristocrat of all Bicycles. A product of Raleigh Industries, Nottingham. Showing a couple watching sailing boats. Date: circa 1950

Lady Dufferin, Wife of 8th Viceroy of India
Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava (Lady Dufferin, 1843-1936), wife of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, 8th Viceroy of India

Postcard of the RMS Antonia depicting the third class public room, social hall, dining room and berthroom. Cunard Line Ocean Liner, 15000 tonnes. Date: C. 1922

USS Guam (LPH-9), an Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship

Wat Rong Khun, The White Temple, Chiang Rai, Thailand
Wat Rong Khun, the White Temple, contemporary Buddhist Temple in Chiang Rai, Thailand

Boat Maintenance
Workers doing painting and maintenance work on boats at the R. Redknap & Sons boathouse, Richmond, Surrey, England, in preparation for the summer boating season. Date: early 1930s

Cunard Line Transatlantic Steamer Timetable poster
Timetable poster advertising the journey times of the Transatlantic steamers of the Cunard Line with 2nd class and Cabin Fares lisited from Liverpool for New York, October 1910. 1910

Devonshire Place, Lisson Grove, London
Devonshire Place (or perhaps Devonshire Place Mews), Lisson Grove, near Paddington, London. A crowd - mostly children with a few adults - has gathered. Someone holds a placard aloft

Cafe De Paris
A fun and glamorous New Years Eve party at the elegant Cafe de Paris in London with the gaiety at its height

Wedding of the Duke of Westminster & Loelia Ponsonby
Page from The Tatler reporting on the society wedding of Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster and Loelia Ponsonby (his third wife) at Princes Row registry office on 20 February 1930

Mrs. Cunningham Reid (Mary Ashley)
Hon. Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley, daughter of multi-millionaire, Lt-Col Wilfred Ashley (1st Baron Mount Temple) and sister of Edwina, Countess Mountbatten

Great Expectations: The Dickens Christmas Spirit by Matania
A Dickensian Christmas as imagined by the Italian-born artist, Fortunino Matania, who in his later career concentrated on historical genre subjects

The Parents Who Came By Charabanc by H. M. Bateman
A young Etonian school boy is aghast to find that his parents decide to travel to the Fourth of June celebrations in a charabanc along with a motley selection of ordinary folk. Date: 1933

Young girls in a Morris Dance troupe in Eccles Date: circa 1977

Tashkent, Uzbekistan - Native School. Date: circa 1910s

Trade union. Manifest published by the World Congress in London
Trade union. Emerged from the development of the Industrial Revolution in the late nineteenth century in Great Britain. Manifest published by the World Congress in London. 1896

One Kind of Picnic - Another by H. M. Bateman 2 of 2
A group attempt a countryside picnic but are beset with problems ranging from angry wasps to an irate landowner. The picture is in direct contrast to a companion picture to this

HMS Jervis, British destroyer
HMS Jervis (F00), British J-class destroyer and flotilla leader. Date: 1939

EAST END BEACH 1930S
A group of working class kids on a small beach beside the River Thames, the Margate of the East End, London. Date: early 1930s

Newspaper Seller 1933
A newspaper seller in a flat cap and overcoat stands next to his stall on Wednesday, March 1st, 1933. Headlines include The Times: The Arms Embargo - Geneva Comment and Dictatorship in Germany

Race To Scotland; Imperial Airways Bi-plane, the City of Glasgow, flying over
16th June 1928: Imperial Airways bi-plane, the City of Glasgow, flying over the River Tweed at Berwick during a race to Scotland against the LNER Pacific class steam locomotive The Flying Scotsman

Advertisement for Charles Baker & Co.s Stores Ltd. - Gentlemen & Boys high-class clothing & outfitting - " Opened to keep pace with the Civil Service Stores" circa 1890s

HMS Thunderer at Dagenham, Essex
HMS Thunderer (launched 1911) was the third Orion-class battleship built for the Royal Navy and the last vessel to be constructed by Thames Ironworks

HMS Vindictive aircraft carrier, WW1
HMS Vindictive, a Hawkins-class heavy cruiser (then called HMS Cavendish) converted to an experimental aircraft carrier and renamed

British monitor HMS Terror, WW1
HMS Terror, a British Erebus-class monitor (small warship), seen here during the First World War. Launched 1916, served during the First and Second World Wars, damaged and sunk off Damah, Libya

Kindergarten children playing a game, 1870s
Kindergarten class playing an active game, " the windmill, " 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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