Down Gallery

Heath Robinson Kitchen 3 of 4

Heath Robinson Does Away with Servants - Patent Applied for by "The Sketch" in the Kitchen. A busy Kitchen, which is a typically Heath Robinson design, with a system of pulleys, levers and machinery allowing just one man to peel and mash potatoes, whisk eggs, roast a chicken, wash the plates, roll pasrty, and toast bread, all at once, sitting down. and still be able to smoke a cigar, and no need for servants. Even the pendulum of the clock serves as a handy turnip peeler. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evan"

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10297576

Donaghadee Harbour

Donaghadee Harbour - a view of the boats pier and lighthouse, in the distance is the Copeland islands. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Donaghadee). Date: circa early 1900s

© National Museums NI / Mary Evans

Boats, Copeland, County, Distance, Donaghadee, Down, Harbour, Ireland, Islands, Lighthouse, Location, Northern, Pier, View

Gun Running by Ulster Volunteer Force

Rifles and ammunition are landed at Donaghadee, County Down, by the Ulster Volunteer Force and loaded onto a charabanc usually used in the summer for tourists to the area. The report in The Illustrated London News suggested that on the night of Friday 24 April and early hours of the next day 35, 000 rifles and 1, 000, 000 rounds of ammunition were landed from a steamer disguised as the Mountjoy, said to have been the Fanny'. The weapons were taken ashore at Larne, Bangor and Donaghadee and then distributed throughout Ulster. Date: April 1914

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10825920