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Canberra: the swimming-pool
Colour illustration depicting the swimming pool of P&Os super-liner Canberra. Designed by architects Casson and Rendle, the pool was of white mosaic and set within tiers of sunbathing terraces

Splitting Slates
A workman uses a hammer and chisel to split slates in the biggest slate quarry in the world at Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, Wales

Siege of Gibraltar - 1
The Spanish and French besiege Gibraltar 1779 to 1783 : the biggest attack involves 48 vessels and 100, 000 men, but is repulsed by the garrison under general Eliott. Date: 13 September 1782

LA Samaritaine, Paris
The Samaritaine, in the rue de Rivoli, is still Pariss biggest and best department store. (on the reverse of this card are portraits of the founders of the store.)

A Texans eye view of the USA, with a certain state having slightly more georgraphical significance than the physical reality....!! Date: circa 1930s

Canberra: The First Class Lounge
Colour illustration depicting the First Class Lounge of Canberra, P&Os super-liner. The ship set off on her maiden voyage to Sydney, Australia in June 1961

A torpedo fired from HMS Afridi - British Destroyer
A torpedo fired from HMS Afridi - Britains Biggest Destroyer (at this time). Date: circa 1939

London Film Production Studios, Denham, Bucks
The London Film Production Studios at Denham, Buckinghamshire, the biggest at the time in the British Empire Date: 1936

New RMS Mauretania, ocean liner 1938
Diagram of the second liner to be named Mauretania an ocean liner by Cunard White Star. Date: 1938

Comic postcard, Child on the beach with a giant stick of rock Date: 20th century

Catching rays at Belize
Foxy-Golf on tour catching rays at Caye Chapel on the second biggest Barrier Reef in the World. Date: 1990

The Biggest Banquet Scotland Ever Saw
Diagrammatic drawing giving an impression of the huge quantities of food and drink transported from London by the firm J. Lyons to Aberdeen to cater for a great banquet given by Lord Strathcona to 2

North Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, USA, with a large sign stretching across the road, The Biggest Little City in the World, and the Stag Inn on the left. Date: late 1930s

Nurburgring motor racing course, Nurburg, Germany
The Nurburgring, Nurburg, Germany, at the time the worlds biggest artificial motor racing course. 20th century

A workman splitting slates in one of the biggest slate quarries in the world, at Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales. Date: 1950s

United Services Museum
In its day the Royal United Services Museum was regarded as the biggest and most important in the country, apart from the British Museum

Saunders-Roe SR. N4 Princess Anne Hovercraft
The Saunders-Roe SR.N4 (Saunders-Roe Nautical 4) Princess Anne, otherwise known as the Mountbatten-class, the biggest hovercraft to have been completed upon its introduction

Longest lunch counter, F W Woolworth, Los Angeles, USA
The longest lunch counter in the world, at F W Woolworth, 431 South Broadway, Los Angeles, California, USA. One hundred yards long, and air conditioned. Date: circa 1930s

Titanus giganteus, South American longhorn or titan beetle
The South American longhorn or Titan beetle is largest known beetle and inhabits the Amazon forests

Titanus giganteus L. South American longhorn beetle
This is the largest beetle in the world, measuring between 12 and 20 cms in length. They live in the rainforests of French Guiana and Brazil

Reno, Nevada - The Biggest Little City in the World - USA. Date: 1930s

Male St Helena giant earwig
Named in 1798 by the Danish zoologist Fabricus, Labidura herculeanais theworlds longest earwig speciesreaching up to 78mm in length including its forceps. Date: 1798

GLC-LFB Fifty pump fire, Tooley Street, Southwark
The biggest blaze of the decade was fought at Wilsons Wharf, near Tooley Street, Southwark, in the summer of 1971. It was the same location that cost the life of Londons Fire Chief

Lord Mayor of London opening Whiteleys store
The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Thomas Boor Crosby (1830-1916), opening Whiteleys new premises in Bayswater, West London. At the time this was the biggest shop in the world

Heading to Epsom Downs for the Derby, 1860
Engraving showing large numbers of pedestrians and several horse-drawn carriages heading up the London to Epsom road, on Derby Day in 1860

Exterior of Grand Depot 1906
The GRAND DEPOT in the rue Drouot, Paris, the worlds biggest shop for tableware, glassware and suchlike Date: 1906

5th Earl Spencer / Vf 1870
JOHN POYNTZ SPENCER 5TH EARL SPENCER Politician, with the biggest red beard you ever did see! Date: 1835 - 1910

Advertisement, The General Dual 8 Tire
Advertisement, The General Dual 8 Blowout-Proof Tire (Tyre), the biggest advance in skid prevention in 25 years - let the smile of safety replace the frown of fear when it rains. 1935

Tabitha the cat with her biggest party teapot, about to host a tea party. Date: 1914

Nieuport 17s reassembled by US Army Signal Corps
Nieuport 17s being reassembled by US Army Signal Corps mechanics at Issoudun, France, in May 1917. Issoudun became the biggest and best known American advanced flying training school in France

South Africa - The Kimberley Mine, Kimberley
The Kimberley Mine, Kimberley, near Bloemfontein, Frances Baard, Northern Cape, South Africa. Captioned The Biggest Hole in the World Date: 1900s

Maiden voyage of the Vaterland
The maiden voyage of what was at the time the biggest ship in the world: the German Hamburg-Amerika cruise liner, Vaterland

Power of the big gun and the turbine by G. H. Davis
The power of the big gun and the turbine. Three annotated illustrations, showing the modern battleship cruisers advantage over an opponent carrying lighter guns of shorter range

Virginia Street at night, Reno, Nevada, USA -- the Biggest Little City in the World. Date: 1949

Bright Lights of Reno, Nevada, USA -- the Biggest Little City in the World. Date: 1941

North Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, USA -- the Biggest Little City in the World. Date: circa 1940

Royal Lilliputians the littlest people yet in the biggest thing ever. Date c1900

Gay New York a real comedy with music : the biggest success of the year. Date c1907

Richards, the worlds greatest magician and his big company the biggest stage show of the entire season. Date 1911?

Weber Rush present Charles Ross Mabel Fenton in Weber
Weber & Rush present Charles Ross & Mabel Fenton in Weber & Fields biggest and best musical production, Twirly whirly. Date c1904

Al. G. Field Greater Minstrels oldest, biggest, best. Date c1900

Return engagement of Hardeen, king of handcuffs the biggest vaudeville attraction in America. Date 19 -

Swildons Hole, at Priddy, Somerset, England, is the biggest and wettest cave in the Mendip Hills. Date: 1930s

Rome / Diocletian Baths
DIOCLETIAN BATHS on mount Viminale. The thermal baths were built between 298 and 306 AD. They were the biggest of Rome and could greet 3000 people at the same time. Date: 4th century AD

Electric Shock Machine, on Derby Day, 1860
Engraving, originally entitled Two Shocks a Penny, showing an electric shock machine which was part of the entertainments at Epsom Racecourse, on Derby Day 1860

Roadside Refreshments on the way to the Derby, 1860
Engraving showing a man selling alcoholic refreshment beside the London to Epsom road on Derby Day in 1860. The Derby is one of Britains biggest horse-racing events

French Army retreating from Carignan; Franco-Prussian War, 1
Engraving showing the French Army being driven out of Carignan by the Prussians on 30th August 1870. This action preceded the Battle of Sedan

The Civil War in America: destruction of the Confederate flo
Union ships under the command of Flag Officer David Farragut moving up the Missippi river to take New Orleans, the biggest Confederate port

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