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Advert for a French fashion ensemble called Le Chic on sale at Harrods, London, 1926 featuring a fashion threesome called Le Chic comprising jumper

The Chicago orchestra called Smoking Dogs, 1929 Date: 1929

Three dancing scenes - one from a Universal Movie
Three dancing scenes from 1929 - top from the Universal Pictures film Broadway with Glen Tryon (Universals first talking picture with technicolour sequences)

The novelty ballroom dance called Novelette performed by dancing team of Madeleine Northway and George Chiles at the Hotel Biltmore, New York, 1927 Date: 1927

An eccentric dance routine called Fidgety Feet performed by Edward Allen, performer in Hit the Deck, 1928 Date: 1928

Dancers from around the world, 1929. Germaine and Armand Fellows, (top left), Belgian dancers who have danced all over Europe, recently in the Folies Bergere

Art Deco drawing by John Vassos called Orpheus and Eurydice, 1930 Date: 1930

Art Deco drawing by John Vassos called Traffic Dance, 1930 Date: 1930

1860s India by Samuel Bourne - Trichinopoly - view of the Seringham Pagodas. Tiruchirappalli (also called Tiruchi or Trichy)

Margaret Finchs cottage
View of Margaret Finchs cottage on Gipsy Hill in 1808. She was called Queen of the Gypsies. She died in 1740 and was buried at Beckenham Parish Church where she had for many years sat at the Lych

Greenwich Palace
The Palace of Placentia, also known as Greenwich Palace, was an English royal residence that was initially built by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in 1443

Somers Town
A dreary and unsavoury locality of 18th and 19th century London called La Belle Isle, abandoned to mountains of refuse from the metropolitan dustbins

Castle Tavern
View of the Castle Tavern, Kentish Town road, London. This pub was present by 1651 and was rebuilt in 1848. In 1861 and earlier, it is listed at 23 Providence Place, Kentish Town

The Worlds End
The old tavern was a noted house of entertainment in the reign of Charles II. The grounds and tea gardens were extensive and it was elegantly fitted out

The Farthing Pie House or Pye House in what is now the Euston Road was so called because mutton pies could be bought there for a farthing

Cake House, Hyde Park
In the time of Queen Anne, it was known as the Cheesecake House, Cake House or Minced-pie House and later was called Prices Lodge (later it was Prices Lodge, run by a widow named Frances Price)

Link extinguishers
In Victorian times well-to-do householders would hire a link boy - a boy or young man who carried a flaming torch called a link to light the way for the traveller

Old White Bear Inn
The yard of the old White Bear Inn, Piccadilly. c1820. An inn called the White Bear is said to have existed in Piccadilly in 1685. It was demolished in 1870. Date: 1875

A curious gate called St. John Gate, the oldest house
A curious gate in variegated brickwork called St. John Gate, the oldest house in Stepney. Copperplate engraving by John Thomas Smith after original drawings by members of the Society of Antiquaries

Mosque called Solomons Temple, 1800s. Moschea detta il Tempio di Salomone. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Carocci after Giulio Ferrario in his Costumes Ancient

Belgian Headstones Houthulst Belgian Military Cemetery
This War Cemetery is maintained by the War Graves Department of the Belgian MOD. It is on the edge of the Houthulst forest which Napoleon called he key to the Low Countries

Preserved Yorkshire Trench - Boesinge
This was first explored in February 1992 by a local group called The Diggers. Gradually an important trench and dug-out system was uncovered

Deteriorating army of Darius the Great in desert - According to Polyaenus, Sirakes, a pastor of Saka, mislead Darius the Greats army to desert for death

Cafe t Hertje - first place Liberated in Holland
Following the capture of Joes Bridge on 10 September 1944, the following day D Squadron of 2nd Household Cavalry Regiment arrived here - then called Cafe Rustoord

Regt de la Chaudiere Memorial, Beny-sur-Mer, Normandy
Canadian forces had been given clear objectives by Major General R.F.L Keller their Divisional Commander. Lines of advance were called Yew, Elm and Oak and important villages were also named

Kannushi
A kannushi, also called shinshoku, is the person responsible for the maintenance of a Shinto shrine as well as for leading worship. Date: 1933

Conroy Super Turbo Three N156WC. The second RR Dart powered conversion by Conroy was a surplus Douglas R4D-8-C-117D and was called the Super Turbo Three

A curious signpost for a village called Egypt, in the heart of Buckinghamshire, England! Date: 1950s

Goblin Tower, once called Pembertons Parlour, after a ropemaker whose works were once beneath the city walls at Chester, Cheshire, England. Date: 1939

Goodrich Castle, Herefordshire, originally called Castellum Godrici, after Godric Mapplestone, the builder of the first castle on the site. Date: 12th - 13th century

The pretty harbour at Mousehole, Cornwall, England. Once called Porth Enyn, it was nearly all destroyed by the Spanish in 1595. Date: 1950s

Milk churns outside a pictureque farmhouse called Dunkirk Farm, not in Dunkirk, France, but Dunkirk, The Wirral, Merseyside, England. Date: 1960s

A Norman chapel at Sherborne, Dorset, England, sometimes called The Old Church, but now a private dwelling. It has quatrefoil openings at each end - fine Norman architecture. Date: 11th - 12th century

Comic Postcard - Dog called Buttons
Comic postcard - Why do you call your dog, BUTTONS? Owner - Because its so often attached to TROUSERS circa 1920s

PISANO, Andrea da Pontedera, called Andrea (1270-1349). Saturn. 1337-1341. Moulding which decorated Giottos Campanile. Renaissance art. Trecento. Florentine school. Relief on rock. ITALY. Florence

Sailors swab the decks after refuelling their ship
Sailors, many in bare feet, clean the decks after coal has been put into the hold. Coal was known by the sailors as black diamonds

FIREMAN
London characters: Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward, and with a coal fire burning in every hearth, the FIREMAN is all too often called to cope with it. Date: circa 1870

THEATRE / EXOTIC / CHINA
A character representing the moon (on the right) is in conflict with the Sun figure (centre). This scene is a part of a performance called The Sun and the Moon

DEMO IN GENEVA 1936
Italian journalists being thrown out of the League Palace at Geneva, following a protest against Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, whom they called Slaver, etc. Date: 30 June 1936

BARRISTERS CALLED TO BAR
Barristers called to the Bar at the Inner Temple Date: 1875

Lillie Bridge Sports Ground Riot, London
Rioters wreck Lillie Bridge Sports Ground when prize race is called off - the stadium ablaze Date: 1887

Red Lion Tavern
Various aspects of the old Red Lion Tavern. Possibly dating from the mid-16th century, this rambling building stood in Chick Lane (also called West Street) near Saffron Hill in West Smithfield

Old gateway at Stepney
Traditionally called King Johns Gate, it is reputed to be the oldest House in Stepney and a good specimen of variegated brickwork

The Times Printing House Square
Printing House Square was a London court in the City of London, so called from the former office of the Kings Printer which occupied the site

Temple Bar was the principal ceremonial entrance to the City of London on its western side from the City of Westminster. In the middle ages

Air Marshal J. D. I. Hardman, OB, OBE, DFC, Chief of Air ?
Air Marshal J.D.I. Hardman, OB, OBE, DFC, Chief of Air Staff, Royal Australian Air Force, called on General Weyland, Commanding General Far East Air Force

Bab Sharqi (Gate of the Sun) in Damascus, Syria
Bab Sharqi (meaning Eastern Gate, also known as the Gate of the Sun) in Damascus, Syria. Being one of the seven ancient city gates it allows entrance into the Old City of Damascus

PARMIGIANINO, Francesco Mazzola, called Il (1503-1540). Legend of Artemis and Actaeon. 1523. ITALY. Fontanellato. La Rocca. Detail. Greyhound. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Fresco

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