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Cheery cover of London Opinion magazine, May 1932, featuring a group of gaily dressed and very pretty young women sitting on a sea wall. Date: 1932
A young woman called Beatie, in a fancy dress costume as the Newcastle Daily Journal newspaper. Date: 1908
An estimated crowd of 60, 000 waiting in Parliament Square on VE Day for Prime Minister Winston Churchill to emerge on the balcony of the Ministry of Health to address people. Date: 1945
People celebrating VE Day congregating in front of Buckingham Palace where eventually the royal family and Prime Minister will emerge to wave from the balcony. Date: 1945
Three children in fancy dress, as cupid, a clown or pierrot, and a flower fairy of some description. Date: c.1920
Man in a rather unusual fancy dress costume, probably as United Dairies as U Dees seems to be slang for the company but the bottles on his sleeves give the game away. Date: c.1910
A little girl called Ursula, dressed in a very smart outfit as the nursery rhyme character, Little Bo Peep for the Mansion House Ball held by the Lord Mayor in January 1912. Date: 1912
Charles Martin, a working miner from Dinnington Colliery who was also a successful artist, having painted in oils 270 pictures, many of which he had sold
Woman dressed as winter, swaddled in rag and carrying fire wood. Date: c. 1915Woman dressed as winter, swaddled in rag and carrying fire wood. Date: c.1915
A little boy and little girl dressed up as nursery rhyme characters, Jack and Jill. Date: c.1920
Beer is Best. Back cover of a booklet, part of the Brewers Society marketing campaign during the 1930s, featuring an illustration of a cool, refreshing glass tankard of beer. Date: c.1935
Miss Eileen Idare, in private life Mrs. George Mitchell, the woman behind the fashion label Idare et Cie, couturier and court dressmaker
Motto frontispiece in a bound volume of The British Workman, an improving magazine aimed at the industrial classes, advocating temperance and education. Laborare est Orare - To Work is to Worship
Scene at the Tower of London with female visitors in the company of a Yeoman of the Guard or Beefeater, while soldiers in Guards uniform adjust their bearskin helmets. Date: c.1910
Save your old waste paper for conversion into munitions: a vital contribution to the war effort. Double page spread from The Illustrated London News. Date: 1941
Personalities at the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve banquet caricatured by Fred May. Pictured are C. I. H. Concannon, Charles Hipwood, Lord Chelmsford, Air Vice Marshal Sir Philip Garrie
Music sheet for Auf Wiedersehn Sweetheart, music by Eberhard Storch, worlds by John Sexton and John Turner, sung by Vera Lynn. Date: 1949
A postcard bearing a very useful message for busy people in order to stop their friends hating them: " I m very, very busy, With many things to do, But my favorite occupation is
Music sheet cover for At the Cafe Continental by Will Grosz and Jimmy Kennedy. Illustration features a continental cafe with various patrons seated at outdoor tables
Music sheet for The Gipsy with words and music by Billy Reid. A glamorous gipsy fortune teller gazes into a crystal ball where a couple are locked in a romantic embrace. Date: 1940s
Front cover of a bound volume of The British Workman, an improving magazine for the working classes founded by Thomas Bywater Smithies in 1855, committed to encouraging temperance, protestantism
Page in The Bystander magazine 1936 featuring photographs of four aristocratic children - David Greville, Lord Brooke, the future 8th Earl of Warwick (who sold Warwick Castle to Madame Tussaud s)
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a photograph of Lady Weymouth (formerly Daphne Vivian) with her son, Alexander George Thynne who would become the 7th Marquess of Bath
Two views of the opening ceremony in the Great Hall of the Congregational Memorial Hall and Library. Date: 1875
A woman in an interesting militaristic exotic costume, holding a standard. Date: c.1915
Group of holidaymakers pose for a cheery photograph outside the Gladsmuir guest house, on Palace Road, Douglas, Isle of Man. Date: c.1954
The Fishery club in Maidenhead, one of a number of fashionable riverside venues in the town that attracted society during the first half of the twentieth century. See picture no
Unveiling the Lowell Memorial Window in the chapter house of Westminster Abbey Date: 1893
Drawing by R. Borlase Smart of the ancient barn at Jordans Hostel, believed to have been constructed using timbers from the Mayflower. Date: 1920
Various scenes showing how people were marking the 300th anniversary of the Pilgrim Fathers departing Plymouth for the new world in 1620. Date: 1920
Containing a memorial to the Pilgrim Fathers, the east end of the new St. Brides Church in Fleet Street. Date: 1957
Honouring a Mayflower descendant - Sir James Waterlow (right) and Mr. Hugh Winslow. Hugh Winslow was a descendant of Edward Winslow
Built of the Mayflowers timbers? A barn at Jordan sDr Rendel Harris lecturing at Old Jordans Hostel in Buckinghamshire, in a barn which he believed was built from timbers of the Mayflower. Date: 1920
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh with the Bishop of London (right) at the rededication service for St. Brides church, Fleet Street, London. Date: 1957
The Pilgrim Fathers embarking at Plymouth by A. R. Thomson, one of a number of murals exhibited in the Octagon Hall at Burlington House during the Royal Academy exhibition of 1938. Date: 1938
Commemorating the departure of the pilgrim fathers for Holland in1609 - a monument containing American granite unveiled near Immingham. Date: 1925
