Carpets Gallery

Lockwood, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

A Policeman and two smartly-dressed messanger boys stand in the street at Lockwood, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. The Huddersfield Industrial Society Building is on the left (still standing) and the Red Lion Inn (now replaced) stands on the right. The view is looking down Swan Lane, at the crossroads with Meltham Road (left), Lockwood Road (right) and Bridge Street (behind). Date: 1903

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Turkmenistan - Merv - The Carpet Market (Bazaar)

Turkmenistan - The Carpet Market (Bazaar) - near the site of Ancient Merv, formerly Achaemenid Satrapy of Margiana, and later Alexandria and Antiochia in Margiana - a major oasis-city in Central Asia, on the historical Silk Road, located near today's Mary in Turkmenistan. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Moloo Brothers & Co, Dar-es-Salaam, East Africa

The general store of Moloo Brothers & Co, stamp dealers and money changers, goldsmiths, jewellers, tailors and outfitters, Acacia Avenue, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika, British East Africa (now Tanzania). Date: circa 1930s

© Mary Evans/Pharcide

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