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Street music: hurdy gurdy player in Paris
Michel le Clerc, 18th century hurdy gurdy player, performing on the streets of Paris

Brazil - Pernambuco - Duke of Caxias Street Date: 1904

Cartoon - Boys playing at soldiers

Street corner with horse-drawn carriages
The corner of Eaton Terrace and Chester Row, London. A two horse-drawn carriage and two men stand by a lamppost. The building on the corner is the Duke of Wellington pub (still there today)

France - Le Portel - Rue Carnot & Place d Eglise
A little fishing village near Boulogne - Le Portel - Rue Carnot et Place D Eglise. The road is named after Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot (1796 1832)

Department store in Vienna, Austria
A large department store, E Braun & Co, on the corner of a street in Vienna, Austria, with people out shopping. Date: 1953

Chicago Busiest Corner
The busiest corner in the world is said to be State and Madison, Chicago, location of the Boston Store. Date: 1916

Church Pinnacle
One of the corner pinnacles of the beautiful parish church of St. John Baptist, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England. Date: 15th century

Garricks Birthplace
The Raven Hotel, Hereford, England, where the famous actor David Garrick was born, 19 February 1717. He grew up to be a great Shakespearian actor. Date: 1717 - 1779

Dunure Fishing Ropes
Fishing ropes drying in a corner of the little harbour at Dunure, Ayrshire, Scotland, with its castle in the background. Date: 1950s

London / Knightsbridge
Knightsbridge, a well-to-do area of central London, with the famous Scotch House on the corner. Date: late 1960s

Monte Carlo Hotel, House of Hamburger, Leicester Street
The corner of Lisle Street and Leicester Street, central London (near Leicester Square) : the Monte Carlo Hotel and the House of Hamburger restaurant. Date: 1947

England / Chipping Campden
A Cotswold cottage and a corner of the church at Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England. Date: early 1960s

England / Upper Wardington
A picturesque corner of the village of Upper Wardington, Oxfordshire, England, on the border with Northamptonshire. Date: early 1960s

England / Churchill
A picturesque corner in the village of Churchill, Oxfordshire, England, with the tall and graceful tower of All Saints Church. Date: early 1960s

London / Temple Church
A corner of Temple Church, London, England. Date: Medieval

Wroxton Thatches
Fine thatched cottages in a picturesque corner of Wroxton, Oxfordshire, England. Date: 1960s

Sleigh Racing at St. Petersburgh, Russia, 1877
Engraving showing a horse-drawn sleigh race in progress in St. Petersburgh, Russia, in 1877. This image shows two men riding the sleigh, round a tight corner. Date: 26 May 1877

England / Kenilworth
A corner of the picturesque Castle Green, at Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England. Date: 1960s

England / Enstone
A pretty corner of the village of Enstone, Oxfordshire, England. Date: 1930s

England / Hook Norton
A pretty corner of Hook Norton, a charming village in Oxfordshire, England. Date: 1930s

Paper Mill, Corner Brook - Newfoundland
Paper and Pulp Mill, Corner Brook - Newfoundland and Labrador Date: circa 1910s

The Stanley Theatre, Jersey City, New Jersey Date: 1933

The Grafton Hotel, London
The Grafton Hotel, Tottenham Court Road, London - now the Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel Date: circa 1910

Ypres, Belgium - Street Artist
A street artist painting in a corner of the Nieuwerk annex of the Cloth Guild Hall, a huge flemish gothic structure era in Ypres, Belgium

Storage Shed - Corner Brook - Newfoundland and Labrador Date: circa 1920s

Delhi Street Barber
A barber cutting hair on a street corner, Delhi, India. Date: 1930s

Beverley Minster Gate
A splendid wrought iron gate in a corner of Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, England. The minster took centuries to build and is renowned for its magnificent architecture. Date: Medieval

Hyde Park Traffic Jam
Traffic at Hyde Park Corner, central London. Date: late 1960s

Ashford-In-The-Water
A corner of the village of Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire, England, seen at well-dressing time. Date: 1950s

MODERN KITCHEN
A modern (but now rather basic looking!) British kitchen, with a gas cooker in the corner. Date: early 1960s

Cornwall, Oxfordshire
Lovely cottages in a corner of the rather confusingly named village of Cornwall, which is actually in the county of Oxfordshire, England. Date: 1950s

Locks Green Farm located in Newtimber, Hassocks, an idyllic corner of Sussex, England. Date: 1930s

England / West Mill
Neighbours pass the time of day in a corner of the village of West Mill, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 1950s

St. Jamess Park London
A quiet and delightful corner of St. Jamess Park, central London, out of sight, but within sound of the roar of traffic. Date: 1939

Harlestone Smithy
A corner of the stone-built village of Harlestone, Northamptonshire, England, with a glimpse of its old smithy (blacksmiths). Date: late 1950s

Wanstead Park Woods
Where Nature rules - the wild park at Wanstead, Essex, England, showing a corner of one of the lily-covered ponds for which it is noted. Date: 1930s

Cottage Garden Border
A corner of a cottage garden at Emery Down in the New Forest, Hampshire, England, with its lovely borders, full of late summer flowers in bloom. Date: 1950s

Dawlish Waters
A Victorian house with bay windows, built beside the bridge at Dawlish Waters, a picturesque corner of Dawlish, Devon, England. Date: 1950s

Chelsea Physic Gardens
A corner of the water garden at Chelsea Physic Gardens, London, England. Date: 1960s

Yorkshire House
A charming old house or farmhouse, covered with ivy and with a pantiled roof, in a corner of the pretty village of Lastingham, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1930s

England / Sherborne
A corner of historic Sherborne, Dorset, England, showing the old almshouses and part of the Norman Abbey. Date: 1950s

Lavenham Market Cross
The ancient Market Cross and some of the famous Tudor houses in a corner of Lavenham, Suffolk, England. Date: 1930s

Yorkshire Village
A corner of the village of Beamsley, West Yorkshire, England. Date: 1930s

Cornish Fishermen
A corner of the harbour of the typical Cornish fishing village of Mevagissey, England, showing fishermen repairing their nets in preparation for the next tide. Date: 1940s

Scotland / Girvan
A corner of the harbour at Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland. Girvan is the centre of a thriving herring fishing industry. Date: 1950s

England / Waverley
A picturesque corner of the charming old village of Waverley, near Farnham, Surrey, England. Date: 1950s

Scotland / Edinburgh
Tall old buildings in a corner of Calton Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. Date: June 1963

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