Real Collection

Real Tennis & Racquets
The racquets used to play the game are depicted below a match in progress. Date: 1771

Prestatyn Holiday Camp, for a real seaside holiday
Cover illustration for Prestatyn Holiday Camp, for a real seaside holiday, showing a couple in swimwear, holding hands and gazing at one another

First to fight - Democracys vanguard US Marine Corps - Join now and test your courage - Real fighting with real fighters. Poster showing marines storming a beach. Date 1917

Real Tennis in Paris
The last jeu de paume in Paris, Passage Cendrier

Windsor Real Tennis 1500
Real tennis is played at Windsor Castle, during the reign of Henry VII

Real Tennis at Lord s
A match is played at Lords Court, London. Date: circa 1860

The Bernabeu Stadia Art - Real Madrid
Oil painting of the Bernabeu Stadium, home of Real Madrid, 1947 - current day. Capacity 85, 454. Original painting size 22" x 18" created in 2012 by D.J.Rogers

Irish gentleman in a whisky bar in Dublin prison, 1821
Irish gentleman in Croftons whisky and beer bar in Dublin prison, 1821. Bankrupt Brian Boru with his friends in the taproom drinking with criminals and debtors. The Tap in Sheriffs Prison

The Ghost Train, travel on the thrills and laughter line
The Ghost Train, Do you feel like Nothing on Earth? Then there is an Express reason why you should see The Ghost Train with a real Bogey

The Caledonian Market, London, 1912
Shoppers viewing stalls of goods at the Caledonian Road Market, London, on a Friday in 1912. This image shows a real mix of London society looking through china, houseware and clothes. 1912

British passport

The Marriage of General Mite and Millie Edwards, Mancheste
Engraving showing a series of scenes from the marriage of General Mite, real name Francis Joseph Flynn, and Miss Millie Edwards held at St. James Hall, Manchester, 1884

Real Tennis in Italy
Giocco della racchetta - four Italians in a game of real tennis in an indoor court, watched by spectators

Malleus Maleficarum
The Hammer of witches, authored by Dominicans Jakob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer, is the most influential book promoting the real existence of the witchcraft heresy

CHRISTs COLLEGE 1690
A bird s-eye view of the college showing the chapel, dining hall, library, the Deans lodgings & garden, the kitchen & an area for playing le jeu de paume (real tennis ?)

Dorset / Moreton / Talbothay
A typical village lane at Moreton, Dorset, model for the village near Talbothays in Thomas Hardys novel Tess of the d Urbervilles

Orffyreus Wheel & Man
The perpetual motion wheel of Orffyreus, real name Johann Ernst Elias Bessler, is set in motion by a man

Norton I / American Royal
JOSHUA " EMPEROR" NORTON I Claimant to the imperial throne of North America (1859); he made a fortune in real-estate speculation

Fashionable 1960S Hat
A girl with heavy black eye make-up wearing a black, shaggy fur hat - real or fake?

Cockney Blacksmith / 1932
Mr Charles Mitchell, the village smithy of Pyecombe, Sussex, claims to be a real cockney. Pyecombe forge have been making their famous crooks for centuries

Princess and the Pea
I have scarcely closed my eyes all night, complains the princess, proving that she is a REAL princess, so sensitive that single a pea beneath her mattress keeps her awake

British passport

Lyttleton V Saunders 89
A Lyttleton and C Saunders play real tennis at New Princes Club in Knightsbridge, London, which was recently opened by the Prince of Wales

Toilet Services, Real Wedgwood Ware, Plate 50, showing patterned washing bowls, jugs, soap dishes, and a slop pail far too nice to put slops in. Date: circa 1880s

GEORGE ORWELL 1903-1950
GEORGE ORWELL (real name Eric Arthur Blair) English writer, fought in Spanish Civil War on the Republican side and gained fame with novels Animal Farm (1944) and 1984 (1949)

Emmanuel College 1690
A bird s-eye view of the college showing the chapel, dining hall, library, the Deans lodgings, gardens, brewery, kitchen & an area for real- tennis or le jeu de paume

ALLAN KARDEC
Allan Kardec - real name Hyppolyte Leon Denizard Rivail French medium and occult theorist, father of modern spiritism

Peary and Cook dispute over the North Pole
Robert Peary and Frederick Cook dispute over who reached the North Pole first -- but the real question is whether either of them got there at all

Fife Arms Hotel, Braemar, Scotland. Date: 1940s

HMS Revenge, British battleship Date: 1935

White Star Line, RMS Titanic - bookpost postcard
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - rare pre-sinking bookpost postcard, Signal Series, real photo postcard postally used 10 February 1912: Dear Father, I'm over in Belfast on the Titanic

A Royal Game of Tennis in the Jeu de Paume, Versailles, published by Charles Hulpeau
XJF132945 A Royal Game of Tennis in the Jeu de Paume, Versailles, published by Charles Hulpeau (engraving) (b/w photo) by French School, (16th century); Private Collection; French, out of copyright

The General Strike - Government leaders
Government leaders during the General Strike: Ministers and Commissioners. 1. Chief Civil Commissioner: Sir W. Mitchell-Thomson, 2. Principal Chief Assistant Commissioner, Mr. A. B. Lowry, 3

A soaker or real cat and dog day (coloured engraving)
560228 A soaker or real cat and dog day (coloured engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A soaker or real cat and dog day)

Royal Playthings
An advertisement by F.Ad. Richter of Fenchurch Street, London for real stone building blocks, as played with by the Royal children

Karo Syrup Advert
Why do thousands of women say that wherever there is Karo, there is good cooking - and a real pride in the family table?

The Real Enemy
The real social enemy is the capitalist who tramples the people and grabs the gold

Advert / Chicken Feed
Vigam Rusks for Poultry - a real and complete food

Books / Anstey
VICE VERSA by F Anstey (real name Thomas Anstey Guthrie); the book tells of a father and son who change places thanks to a magical stone

Beatty Book Cover
When Beatty kept the seas - Captain Frank H Shaws stirring patriotic adventure yarn is based on real-life naval exploits of the war

Mendel / Inheritance / Mice
Diagram using real mice to show Mendels inheritance in mice theory

Renaissance-Plateresque
3499704 Renaissance-Plateresque; (add.info.: Renaissance-Plateresque. 16th century. Royal Pantheon of the Monastery of Santa Maria la Real. Najera (La Rioja, Spain).); PHAS/UIG.

Infant amusement rhyme This little pig ..., 1860 (engraving)
536034 Infant amusement rhyme This little pig ..., 1860 (engraving); (add.info.: Infant amusement rhyme This little pig ..., here set in poor Irish home with the real pigs on which family depended)

A plan of The Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain
3253070 A plan of The Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain; (add.info.: A plan of The Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain, commonly known as El Escorial)

BONAPARTE, Joseph (1768-1844) (coin)
CUL4940164 BONAPARTE, Joseph (1768-1844) (coin); (add.info.: BONAPARTE, Joseph (1768-1844). King of Naples (1806-1808) and Spain (1808-1813). 20 reales coin

Alonso Tostado known in Latin as Tostatus Abulensis ("Tostado from Avila")
3473238 Alonso Tostado known in Latin as Tostatus Abulensis ("Tostado from Avila"), Dominus Abulensis ("the Master from Avila"), or simply Abulensis

Sarcophagus of the Queen Dona Mencia Lopez de Haro (1223-1272)
3499664 Sarcophagus of the Queen Dona Mencia Lopez de Haro (1223-1272); (add.info.: Sarcophagus of the Queen Dona Mencia Lopez de Haro (1223-1272)

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