Busy Collection (page 26)

Elite Gardens, Japan British Exhibition, London
View of the Elite Gardens at the Japan British Exhibition, held at White City, West London. Date: 1910

Traffic on Oxford Street, London c. 1930s

Ship in George V Dock
A large ship moored in Londons busy Docklands, King George V dock, North Woolwich, before the World War Two Blitz and the Docklands development. Date: February 1939

London Bridge / Late 19C
London Bridge with heavy traffic Date: late 19th century

Hyde Pk Corner / 1825 / Col
A very busy scene at Hyde Park Corner - horse carriages, pedestrians and horse riders 1825

St Peters Street, Derby, with traffic and pedestrians
View of St Peters Street, a busy shopping street in the centre of Derby, with traffic and pedestrians. St Peters Church is the building on the left. Date: circa 1920

Busy Class / Coughton Cope
A class of children working hard at their desks at Coughton Cope Junior School. Date: 1973

St Marks Cathedral and Piazza, Venice, Italy
St Marks Cathedral and Piazza in Venice, Italy, on a busy day, with pedestrians and pigeons. Date: 1968

India / Bombay Street 1840
Bombay: busy street scene Date: circa 1840

Mr & Mrs Vinegar - 1
A busy scene at Piccalilli Cottage

North Sands and Cafe, Scarborough, North Yorkshire
View of the North Sands and Cafe at Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Date: 1920s

View of the Cornmarket, Derby, on a busy day
View of the Cornmarket, in the centre of Derby, busy with shoppers, trams and cars. The tower of the Cathedral can be seen in the middle distance. Date: circa 1920

Egyptian Chair
On this handsome seat a Pharaoh may have rested after a busy morning supervising the work on his new Pyramid. Well, its possible... Date: BCE

Fairground 1930S
A busy scene at a fairground, showing families milling around the rides, most of them wearing various types of hats - cloche, pith helmets, straw boaters, trilbys, etc. Date: early 1930s

Commerce / Shares
A stockbrokers office during the Railway Mania when people were falling over themselves to buy shares in the new railways in Britain Date: circa 1850

Teachers in staff room, Hemel Hempstead
Teachers drinking coffee in the staff room at Cavendish School, Hemel Hempstead. Date: 1975

Street market, Brynmawr, Wales
Aerial view of a busy street market in Brynmawr, Wales. Date: 1974

Penny train arriving, Victoria Station, Central London
The workmens penny train arrives at Victoria Station, Central London, just before 6am each workday. Date: 1865

Busy scene outside Covent Garden Market, London
A busy scene outside Covent Garden Market, London. Horse-drawn carts are being loaded up with baskets of fruit and flowers

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Industry
Industry. A hard working man sits busily stitching fabrics and casts a shadow of a bee hive. Illustration from a series of shadow portraits of fictional characters by Charles H Bennett entitled

Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London
Street scene outside the Bank of England in Threadneedle Street, City of London, on a busy day

View of Piccadilly Circus, London
A view of Piccadilly Circus, London, on a busy day

Policewoman on traffic duty
A policewoman on traffic duty on a busy day in London

Street carnival, Haverfordwest, South Wales
Scene at a busy street carnival in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. Decorated, horse-drawn floats make their way up the cobblestone high street, accompanied by crowds of people

Scene in Salutation Square, Haverfordwest, South Wales
A street scene in Salutation Square, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, on a busy day. Taken near Bowens studio, it shows the bakers shop, the inn, a drinking fountain

The War Workers
Whats all this cackle about votes and a new register? " Don t know-or care. We re all too busy just now."

Cookery by Millicent Sowerby
A group of girl guides busy in a kitchen making pastry and cakes

Met Police officers at Piccadilly Circus, London
Two Metropolitan Police officers, one male, one female, on duty at Piccadilly Circus in Central London, speaking to a young couple

Met Police PC and WPC, urban scene
Two Metropolitan Police officers, a PC and a WPC, walking along a busy urban street in Central London. They both carry a set of handcuffs at their waists

Road crossing / W H Robinson
Post War Town planning. Safe road crossing for pedestrians, by means of a cradle and winch. Please note: Credit must appear as (c)

Aerial view of a market, Kashgar, western China
Aerial view of a busy market in Kashgar, western China

Piraeus Harbour, Athens, Greece
Themistocles Place - Piraeus Harbour, Athens, Greece

Street scene in Kolkata, India
Aerial view of people in the street near the market in Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India

Sony Centre, Berlin, Germany
View of the Sony Centre at the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany, with people sitting at tables

Fishing boats at Vishinjam, Kerala, India
Fishing boats in the bay, with a mosque in the background, at Vishinjam, Trivandrum, Kerala State, India

Loading containers at Colombo, Sri Lanka
Loading containers at the busy port of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Central London traffic at night
A view of a Central London street by night, with buses and cars

New York - Herald Square

Birds-eye view of Oxford Street, London
A birds-eye view looking down a busy Oxford Street, London, the heart of the retail centre of the capital. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

French National Loan poster for the Credit Foncier d Algerie et de Tunisie, showing a busy scene in a North African port

Poster advertising Fatehpur Sikri, India
Poster advertising India, with a scene in Fatehpur Sikri, a city in Uttar Pradesh

Piccadilly Circus, London, on Derby Day
Traffic on the morning of Derby Day in Regent Street, Piccadilly Circus, London

Poster depicting Penang, Malaysia
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, showing a busy scene in Penang, British Malaya -- now Malaysia

Taxi Cab and Motor Fire Escape
A bright and shiny fire engine populated by a team of firemen and ladder are given right of way through a busy street. In the background waits a taxi cab piled high with luggage on its roof

London Policeman and children
A London Bobby on the beat holds the hands of some school children, possibly prior to guiding them safely across the busy road

The Cafe de la Paix, Boulevard Capucines, Paris
Undated photograph of outside of the Cafe de la Paix, Boulevard Capucines, Paris. HPG/1/14/5 (vii)

Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Franque Street
Franque Street, Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

Gas Council advertisement 1954
Advertisement by the Gas Council stressing that the gas industry makes the best use of the nations coal, allowing busy housewives the luxury of instant hot water with Mr Therms Sink Water-heaters

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