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The Womens League of Health & Beauty exercise classes, 1938Health and beauty-a morning exercise class at Harrington Road, London, as conducted by Helen Stack(cousin of Prunella Stack)for the Womens League of Health and Beauty
HMS Norfolk, British heavy cruiser, WW2HMS Norfolk, British County-class heavy cruiser, launched 1928, served throughout the Second World War, decommissioned 1950. Date: circa 1940s
How to recognise rank in the Royal Navy-a wartime advert for Dunlop fort tyres. Date: 1941
Coal miner filling truck, South Wales mineA coal miner (Billy Hurland) filling a dram (coal truck) at Baldwins Level (nicknamed Clog and Legging) in a coalmine near Pontypool in South Wales
The Mole CatcherThe mole catcher sets off, laden with his home-made traps, Burtersett, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, England
ASCOT 1910Black Ascot - due to the recent death of Edward VII, racegoers at Ascot dress in black, though for most ladies this is no more than the excuse to buy a new dress
Blue Star Line poster to South AmericaBlue Star Line to South America, calling at Boulogne, Lisbon, Madeira, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo and Buenos Aires. First class passengers only. circa 1925
Barton Road Swing bridge opens across Manchester Ship CanalThe Barton Road Swing bridge opens across the Manchester Ship Canal at Eccles Date: circa 1980
HMS Ajax, British battleship, at MaltaHMS Ajax, British King George V-class battleship, seen here at Malta. Date: circa 1919
HMS Aurora, British light cruiserHMS Aurora (12), British Arethusa class light cruiser. Date: circa 1940s
HMS Curacoa, British light cruiserHMS Curacoa (D41), British C class light cruiser. Date: circa 1920
Elspeth Phelps advertisement, 1920Advertisement for Elspeth Phelps fashion house, one of a series of highly stylised and witty adverts designed by Lady Eileen Orde (daughter of the 4th Duke of Wellington)
HMS Sedgefly, river gunboat, Mesopotamia, WW1HMS Sedgefly, a British river Fly-class gunboat, on the River Tigris in Mesopotamia during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1918
HMS Vengeance, British battleship, WW1HMS Vengeance, a predreadnought British Canopus-class battleship, launched 1899, served in various locations before and during the First World War, decommissioned 1920
Picking coal from waste tip during 1921 strike, South WalesThree men picking coal from a local colliery waste tip during the 1921 strike, South Wales
Man at work, Dinorwig Slate Quarry, North WalesA man at work, 150 feet up on the main face of Dinorwig (or Dinorwic) Slate Quarry, near Llanberis, North Wales
Christmas Day in the WorkhouseIllustration and opening verses of In the Workhouse: Christmas Day - better known as Christmas Day in the Workhouse, written by George R Sims in 1877
Marquess and Marchioness of AngleseySir Charles Henry Alexander Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey GCVO (1885-1947) and his bride, Lady Victoria Manners, a daughter of the 8th Duke of Rutland
W. G. Grace batting at Gravesend, 1913Photograph of Dr. William Gilbert Grace (1848-1915) batting in the Gravesend vs. Eltham cricket match, held at Gravesend cricket ground, 1913
Splitting SlatesA workman uses a hammer and chisel to split slates in the biggest slate quarry in the world at Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, Wales
Pennsylvania RailroadA train of the Pennsylvania Railroad is hauled by their Class T-1 passenger locomotive
NORMANDIE (DINING)French transatlantic liner - the First Class dining saloon
HMS Vengeance, British aircraft carrierHMS Vengeance (R71), British light aircraft carrier, Colossus-class. Seen here in Malta harbour. Date: circa 1950s
HMS Suffolk, British heavy cruiser, Hong Kong, ChinaHMS Suffolk (55), British County class heavy cruiser, at Hong Kong, China. Date: 1933
HMS Royal Oak, British battleshipHMS Royal Oak, British Revenge class battleship. Date: circa 1918
USS Essex aircraft carrier, CV9, built for the US Navy during the Second World War
H. M. S. CressyLead ship of the Royal Navy Cressy class of armoured cruisers, the Cressy was launched in December 1899. Soon after the outbreak of World War One, the Cressy and two of her sisterships
Imperial Airways Poster, seaplane ScipioImperial Airways Poster, showing a diagrammatic drawing of the seaplane Scipio, one of the new Kent class, for use on the trans-Mediterranean service. 1931
Washing & Steel MillA washing line and an old man and children in the back garden of a house backing onto the Steward & Lloyds steel mill, Corby, Northamptonshire, England. Date: late 1960s
HMS Albion, British battleship, WW1HMS Albion, a predreadnought British Canopus-class battleship, launched 1898, served in various locations before and during the First World War, decommissioned 1919. Date: 1914-1918
Victorian woman (Polhill-Turner family)An upper class Victorian woman, probably a member of the Polhill-Turner family of Howbury Hall, Renhold, Bedfordshire. Seen here in a studio photograph, leaning on the back of a chair
Street scene in Porthgain, Pembrokeshire, South WalesA street scene in the coastal village of Porthgain, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. A middle aged woman stands and smiles at the camera
Miners and owner, Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South WalesA group of men at Hook Colliery, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. They are the current shift of miners plus the owner, standing near a wooden headframe connected to a mineshaft
General view of Dinorwig Slate Quarry, North WalesA general view of Dinorwig (or Dinorwic) Slate Quarry, near Llanberis, North Wales, soon to be changed for ever with the construction of a new dam
Miners at the pit bottom, Tirpentwys Colliery, South WalesA group of miners at the pit bottom of Tirpentwys Colliery, near Pontypool in South Wales
A Cooks Ticket will take you anywhereA poster or handbill advertising the fact that a Cooks ticket will take you anywhere on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, or round the world
French Wagons-Lit posterPoster advertising the French National Railways Wagon-Lits (sleeper train) service to Switzerland, Italy and the Cote d Azur
Captain Collins of Brighton, with his familyCaptain Fred Collins of Brighton, who ran three pleasure boats called the Skylark and was a familiar figure on Brighton Beach for sixty years
Blacksmith at work in his forgeAn elderly blacksmith hammering a horseshoe on his anvil. The owner of the horse awaiting a new set of shoes looks in at the window, while the blacksmiths cat scratches an ear on the work bench
Fitzwilliam Bewicke-Copley weddingScene at the wedding of Lord Fitzwilliam (Major Hubert Francis Fitzwilliam Brabazon Foljambe) to the Hon Gladys Bewicke-Copley, with an archway of swords provided by the Royal Horse Guards
First Class staircase on TitanicOne of seven builders photographs of the Titanic interior, this one of the First Class staircase
H. M. S. PoseidonH.M.S. Poseidon, the submarine which sank after colliding with a Chinese merchant ship, the SS Yuta, on 9 June 1931, 21 miles north of Wei-hai-wei, China
Smithfield Market 1870The arrival of an early meat train at Smithfield Market in London: porters unload and move baskets and crates
View of the luxurious reading room onboard the TitanicA view of one of the many luxurious interior features of the Titanic; the reading and writing room. First class passengers travelled in style onboard the Titanic, having free use of the gym
Large classroom, Harrow SchoolA large classroom at Harrow School with several classes held at once
London Kebab HouseDining outside a Kebab House on Charlotte Street, central London. Date: late 1960s
HMS Glorious cruiser and aircraft carrier, WW1HMS Glorious, British Royal Navy Courageous-class cruiser during the First World War, rebuilt as an aircraft carrier in the late 1920s. Launched in 1916, sunk in 1940. Date: circa 1920s-1930s
Four boys in a street in the East End of LondonFour boys walking along a street in the East End of London, passing the premises of the East End News. Two of them have bare feet. Two are wearing hoods, though it doesn t appear to be raining