Boards Collection (page 9)

Sandwich board men on a Christmas and New Year card
Sandwich board men in the snow on a Christmas and New Year card -- Birds of a feather flock together. Date: circa 1890s

Durban, South Africa - a Paradise for Bathers
Durban (Port Natal), South Africa, packed with holiday-makers, enjoying both the beach itself and an open-air swimming pool. 1928

Soho, London - Hanway Street W1, with the smaller Hanway Place to the left, off Oxford Street, near Tottenham Court Road tube station. 1974

Tennyson Street School for Disabled, London - Basket Weaving
The London School Boards Tennyson Street School for Physically Defective Children - children engaged in basket weaving, one sits in a wheelchair. Date: early 1900s

Clyde Street School, London - Sketching in Deptford Park
Children from the London School Boards Clyde Street School with their sketch books in Deptford Park. Date: early 1900s

Fleet Road School, Hampstead, London - Learning the Alphabet
Children at the London School Boards Fleet Road School, Hampstead learn the alphabet. Date: early 1900s

Fleet Road School, Hampstead, London - Kindergarten
The London School Boards Fleet Road School, Hampstead - the kindergarten. Date: early 1900s

Surfers on the beach at Biarritz, France
Two surfers on the beach at Biarritz, France, looking at the rough waves. Date: 1962

Singapore poster, 1936
Singapore, the gateway to Malaya and the distributing centre for the Orient. Address inquiries - The Chairman, Harbour Boards, Singapore. Poster design. Date: 1936

Bookbinding / Diderot
The interior of a French book binding establishment : preparing the leather, sewing the gatherings, making the boards, pressing the volumes. Date: circa 1760

Education Act 1870 / Punch
OBSTRUCTIVES Comment on the Education Act of 1870, which set up locally elected school boards to provide for adequate basic schooling in all areas Date: 1870

Surfing scenes, Hawaii, USA
Surfing scenes in Hawaii, USA. Date: circa 1920s

Oxford University robes: Doctor of Civil Law or Medicine
A Doctor of Civil Law or Medicine at Oxford University sporting a mortarboard and long, red gown. Date: 1920s

Oxford University robes: Doctor of Music (undress with hood)
A Doctor of Music at Oxford University sporting a mortarboard and long, black gown with white and magenta hood. Date: 1920s

Three schoolboys apply themselves and become Oxford scholars
Three schoolboys apply themselves, becoming first class Oxford scholars. They then lend their acquired wisdom to become a Bishop, a Physician and a great warrior! Date: 1898

Buttering a slice of bread from a wholegrain, rye and walnut loaf on old wooden board. credit: Marie-Louise Avery / thePictureKitchen / TopFoto

Hispano-Suiza H6C T56 Cabriolet

Alfa Romeo 8C 2300

Whitechapel Workhouse Infirmary, womens ward
An old womens ward in the Whitechapel Workhouse Infirmary on Charles Street (later Bakers Row, now Vallance Road), East London

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