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John Martyn in concert, St Ives, Cornwall
John Martyn (1948-2009), singer, songwriter and guitarist, in concert at the St Ives September Festival, Cornwall. Date: 1980

WW2 Memorabilia - Damaged Cafe informing suppliers
WW2 Home Front Memorabilia - Damaged Cafe Colette of Swallow Street, London sending information on a printed card to inform suppliers that (likely due to Bomb damage)

Bedwas Navigation Colliery, Monmouthshire, South Wales
View of Lewis Merthyr Pit, Bedwas Navigation Colliery, Monmouthshire, South Wales. The colliery opened in 1913 and closed in the mid-1980s, after the Miners Strike

Connel Ferry Bridge
The Connel Ferry Bridge, the worlds 2nd largest steel cantilever bridge, Argyllshire, Scotland, opened in 1903. The Ballachulish railway line closed in 1966

Tower Bridge jams in summer heat
Tower Bridge, London, jams when the metal expands in the summer heat on 2 July 1968. The bridge is closed for two hours while firefighters cool it down with their hoses

Bestwood Colliery, near Bestwood Village, Nottinghamshire
View of Bestwood Colliery, near Bestwood Village, Nottinghamshire. The colliery closed in 1967, but the surviving headstock and winding house, and vertical steam engine of 1873

New Tredegar Colliery, Rhymney Valley, South Wales
An engine house damaged by subsidence at New Tredegar Colliery, Rhymney Valley, South Wales. This colliery suffered from many landslips and other geological problems, and eventually closed in 1930

Liverpool Slum 1912
Liverpool : a sunless court, finally closed in 1912 by the Health Committee of Liverpool City Council

Goodwick Railway Station, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A long line of passengers and staff waiting on the platform at Goodwick Railway Station on the Great Western Railway, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. They are all looking across at the camera

Penrhiwceibr Colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales
View of Penrhiwceibr (Penrhiwceiber) Colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales. The colliery closed in 1985

Louis Braille / Thiriat
LOUIS BRAILLE French inventor of system of raised-point writing for the blind

Calder Hall Power Stn
Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station, Cumbria, England, Britains first, it opened in 1956. The first in the world to produce electricity on a commercial scale. Closed 2003

Princess and the Pea
I have scarcely closed my eyes all night, complains the princess, proving that she is a REAL princess, so sensitive that single a pea beneath her mattress keeps her awake

TEIGN VALLEY STEAM TRAIN
One of the last trains to run on the Teign Valley Line, from Chepstow to Exeter, Devon, England. The line was closed completely in June 1958. Here a train goes over Ide bridge. Date: 1958

Douglas C-124 Globemaster O-265406 in the museum at Kelly Air Force Base. This aircraft was scrapped when the airbase closed

Queen Alexandra - Downey Photograph on a postcard
Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia - 18441925) - Queen consort of the United Kingdom and Empress of India as the wife of King-Emperor Edward VII

Chislet Colliery 1930S
Chislet Colliery was located next to the Canterbury-Margate road, Kent. Two shafts were first sunk in 1914. Despite surviving nationalisation in 1947, the mine closed in 1969. Date: 1930s

The Asylum, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
The Joint Counties Lunatic Asylum, Abergavenny, opened in 1851, becoming the Monmouthshire Lunatic Asylum in 1897. It was known as the Monmouthshire Mental Hospital from 1916 to 1923

Oman / Muscat
The white palaces of Muscat, Oman, are closed in on three sides by the black mountains. Their jagged cliffs hold in the warmth of the sun, making Muscat unbearably hot. Date: 1930s

Ocean Colliery, Nant Y Moel, Glamorgan, South Wales
View of the Ocean Colliery (also known as Western Colliery), Nant Y Moel (Nantymoel), Ogmore Vale, Glamorgan, South Wales, with a mixture of sleet and smoke on a day of bad weather

Derelict Tirpentwys Colliery, Pontypool, South Wales
View of the derelict Tirpentwys Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales. The foreground is littered with pieces of wood, including an empty coffin which has broken apart. The colliery closed in 1969

Llest Colliery explosion, Glamorgan, South Wales
A group of men and boys waiting for news of miners trapped underground following an explosion at Llest (Lluest) Colliery, Pontyrhyl, near Bridgend, Glamorgan, South Wales

Severn Tunnel Diver
The brave diver Alexander Lambert descending the shaft into the flooded tunnel. In Fleuss diving gear, he closed the headwall door and prevented further flooding

Middlesex Hospital
A view of the Middlesex Hospital in 1840. Middlesex Hospital was a teaching hospital located in the Fitzrovia area of London, England

Etruria Factories
General industrial view of Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, England. It was here that Josiah Wedgwood opened his famous pottery factory in 1769, which closed in 1950 Date: 1960s

Clarinet, 19th Century
CLARINET - showing open & closed holes and keys, with cross-section of the mouthpiece Date: late 19th century

A Fish Auction in Columbia Market
In 1869 Baroness Burdett-Coutts paid for the building of the great Columbia Market (for fish) between Hackney and Bethnal Green Roads on the site of Nova Scotia Gardens

Shadow Caravan (closed) - harnessed to a Clyno Car
Ready for the Road: A Shadow Trailer Caravan (closed and ready to move off), harnessed to a Clyno Car. 1927

Blisworth Hotel, Blisworth, Northamptonshire
Built in 1850 as a result of railway traffic, the Blisworth Hotel is seen here in 1906. While the station it served closed in 1960, the Hotel continues to thrive

Belsize Fire Station Date: 2009

La Porte Close
A lithograph of a girl kneeling on the floor against a closed door, possibly signifying that she has been rejected or defeated in some way. Date: circa 1921

RMS Titanic - letter, Mabel Francatelli, passenger
RMS Titanic - First Class passenger Mabel Francatelli. A fascinating letter from Mattison, Davey & Rader of New York to Miss Francatelli dated 17 April 1956

Spanish sallet. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883
Combat helmet. Spanish sallet (Celada de encaje). Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2020

In Majorca
Critics write books about nationality in art. But art itself knows no frontiers. here we have a Swedish artist painting in Majorca and his work speaks its full message to English eyes

Douglas RB-66B Destroyer 53-0431
Douglas RB-66B-DL Destroyer 53-0431 (MSN 44312) was on display at Florence Air and Missile Museum. Museum closed and aircraft was scrapped in 1998 or shortly thereafter. Date: circa 1980

A two horse carriage with hatted ladies on excursion
The coach and horses are outside the London South Western Railway offices in Lynton. A poster on the wall offers excursions by Sam Colwill

Beachy Head view down the cliffs to the sea and lighthouse
The picture looks down from the top of the cliffs over a beach to a lighthouse in the sea and beyond to a small steamer. Lloyds once had a signalling station at the Watch Tower on the cliff

Haden Hill Coal Pits, Staffordshire
A typical Black Country coal mine. Sunk in 1893 by the Draycott Colliery Co, the colliery was originally known as the Klondyke and finally closed in 1943 Date: circa 1910

Armstrong Whitworth AW. 650 Argosy T. 2 9Q-COA
(ex Royal Air Force) Armstrong Whitworth AW.650 Argosy T.2 9Q-COA Jason (msn 6791, ex XR136), of O.R.A.S. (Otrag Range Air Services) at East Midlands Airport, in November 1977

Circa 1900 Other Ranks Cap Badge White Metal
circa, 1900, Other, ranks, cap, badge, white, metal, gilding, Die, struck, front, description, stag, lodged, within, circular, closed, oak, wreath, half, scrolls, right, left, whole, upon, Maltese

Funerary mask in gold foil embossed. IV Grave Circle A in the Royal Tombs of Mycenae. Dated in the 16th century B.C. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece

Okuyi Mask (mask of ancestors). Punu Art (Bapunu) from Gabon. They embody the spirits of the deceased, in the mourning ceremonies

Disruption extending the entire length of Haymarket, Piccadilly, London, closed until September. Date: August 1928

Early 18th century carriage
Ladies in a closed carriage, travelling in the country near Down Hall in Essex, are accompanied by riders on horseback. Date: Early 18th century

CHOLERA/USA/1893
"A Prophetic Picture": the World's Fair will be closed by the Cholera Date: 1893

RELIGION PERSECUTED
When their church is closed, Christians hold a service in a barn, but someone locks the doors and sets fire to the building : the priest and six others burn to death Date: 1932

ORTHODOX PERSECUTED
When their church is closed, Christians hold a service in a barn, but someone locks the doors and sets fire to the building : the priest and six others burn to death Date: 1932

John Keats - Life Mask
JOHN KEATS Poet 1795 - 1821

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