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Chocolate box design, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII)
Chocolate box design, featuring a smiling Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII). Date: early 20th century

Cover design, Telephone Numbers book
Cover design for a Telephone Numbers book, depicting a woman writing at a desk with a telephone next to her

MG sports car outside Day & Night Cafe
A man waits for his MG sports car to be checked by two mechanics outside the Day & Night Cafe

Street scene outside Pratts garage, with people and cars

People and dog with crashed biplane
A man and a woman, out walking with their dog, look at a biplane which seems to have crash landed

British naval patrol ship at night, WW1
British naval patrol ship approaching a suspicious neutral at night during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Womens Royal Air Force -- Roll Call
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing a group of women during Roll Call. Date: 1919-1920

Nursery Rhymes -- Little Polly Flinders sat among the cinders. Date: circa 1920s

Couple with terrier puppy, Newquay, Cornwall
Couple with a terrier puppy on the beach at Newquay, Cornwall. Date: 1934

How Lieutenant Colonel Forbes-Robertson Saved the Western Li
Forbes-Robertson won the Victoria Cross saved the defence line by making a rapid reconnaisance on horse-back in full view of the enemy under machine gun and close range shell fire

Two young lads check out de Havilland DH90A Dragonfly, G?
Two young lads check out de Havilland DH90A Dragonfly, G-AEWZ, of Silver City Airways at the 1956 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Wisley on 15 July

Young woman modelling a suit in a garden
Young woman (Model - Geraldine Hill) modelling a suit in a garden. 1959

Advertisement for Crunchie Bar -- male and female models posing. 1959

Advertisement for Cavendish boilers with female model (Pat Knight). 1959

A young girl wearing Jupe-Culotte Attire
A young French girl wearing Jupe-Culotte - culottes - voluminous trousers with the appearance of a long skirt, here further disguised by an overcoat with lace collar. Date: circa 1909

Keep Fit - Running for the Train
Keep Fit - Take a walk every morning! Three portly city gent having to scramble to make their morning train into the city. Date: 1943

Horse Trainer standing up for his principles
Owner - " I heard as how you ve been fighting with Bob Smith?" " Yus. He said my sister was cross-eyed." " But you haven t got a sister?" " I know that

Well, Au Reservoir, Monsieur. - Engishman abroad
A Jocular Briton (leaving French Hotel) - " Well, Au Reservoir, Monsieur." Hotel Proprietor - " Tanks!!" Date: 1896

A distinguished Country Gentleman in a very dashing coat and holding a riding crop. Date: 1895

A rather feeble suitor with a rather loud suit
He: " Oh! Smile upon my suit." She: " I do, I do. I can t help it." Date: 1895

Cockney Humour - temptation
Salvation Army Captain: " When the Serpent tempted Eve" Bill: " Oh Chuck it! There wanted no bloomin snake

Dutch Fashion Model
A very striking 1940s Dutch Fashion Model, wearing a plaid jacket and floppy hat and smoking a cigarete, whilst leaning nonchalantly on her elbow. Date: 1943

Two Babies getting their milk direct from the cow
A quite surreal German postcard, showing two rather plump babies strapped to the back of two cows, their mouths clamped to long tubes originating from the cows udders

Women in fancy dress collecting for charity
Three women in fancy dress collecting for The Romford Cottage Hospital, Essex. Date: circa 1933

Airlines Terminal Building - New York City, USA. Built in 1939 - later the site of the Philip Morris Building. Buses left here for La Guardia, after passengers had checked-in inside. Date: circa 1940

Homeless man in Vienna, Austria
A homeless man lies on a sheet of cardboard near a street corner in Vienna, Austria, while more affluent people walk past him. Date: 1953

Advert for Gor-ray Koneray pleated skirts 1942

Sportswear 1933
Fashionable golf clothing for men and women including plus- fours, knitted vest, a waistcoat with wide revers, diagonal check socks & co- respondent shoes. 1933

NFS fire force No. 34 District fire control unit, Northwood
District fire control unit, located at Pinner Road, Northwood, Middlesex. Showing the communications aerial erected and loudspeakers on the drivers cab

Woman, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, holding fan in right hand, wearing kimono with check design. Date between 1830 and 1850

Advert for Gor-ray Koneray pleated skirts 1941
The Worlds most beautiful skirts. In a variety of fabrics, worsted, authentic tartan, flannel, tweed and check. 1941

Valentines Postcard - Chef makes Sweet Hearts Lets be Sweet hearts together. Date: 1907

American Dress Pattern Cover for Simplicity. Two smart jacket and skirt suits in check and red fabric. Date: circa 1940

Soldier firing gun at American Indians
A Check. Keep Your Distance! Soldier firing gun at American Indians Date: 1853

Hunter with game and shotgun
A hunter stands with one foot on a tree trunk, two dead birds in one hand and his shotgun in the other. Date: circa 1970s

Man with champion shire horse at a County Show, Cornwall
A man with his champion shire horse at a County Show in Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Dior check suit, 1965
A smart suit in grey and black chequerboard wool by Marc Bohan for Christian Dior with a long, slim jacket, slightly basqued with a large bow at the collar, and a narrow matching skirt

Picking up a girl at the Bristol skating rink -- a woman has slipped on the ice, and a man takes the opportunity to pick her up

Hippos Dental Check
A little girl helps the zoo keeper to give a hippopotamus a dental check! Date: early 1930s

Australians Check Planes
Australian ground staff working on a new twin engined bomber aeroplane. Even when the machine has just arrived from the manufacturer it is always throughly checked. Date: early 1940s

Aircraft Safety Check
A routine aircraft saftely check being carried out at Prestwick Airport, Scotland. Date: 1960s

Brtish corporal checking shell delivery, WW1
A British corporal checking a delivery of shells which have arrived by rail, on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

1950s fashion in the Sanderson showroom
A woman contemplates various fabric and wallpaper designs in the Sanderson showroom on Berners Street, London wearing a rough tweed suit in yellow and grey check by Frederick Starke

Fashionable ladies in designer outfits
A group of fashionable ladies in outfits by various designers. From left to right: a green, red and white outfit by Madeleine et Madeleine, a white

Three autumn outfits by Beer, Redfern and Jean Patou
Three elegant young ladies in the latest autumn outfits. On the left, a blue and black coat with black fur trimming, by Beer

German artillerymen checking weapons, WW1
German artillerymen checking weapons towards the end of the First World War. Large shells can be seen in the foreground. Date: circa 1918

Summer hats by Agnes and Lucie Hamar
A selection of stylish summer hats from the 1920s. The three at the top are designed by Agnes, the three lower ones by Lucie Hamar. 1924

Three women in outfits by Doeuillet
Three women wearing outfits by Doeuillet. On the left, a grey sleeveless tubular dress with scattered gold design, and red trim around neckline, hem and hips

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