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Christmas time chaos
A chaotic but merry scene depicting a family at Christmas. The children, all very energetic and excited, play musical instruments, help decorate the tree and play games

London Corners, 1881
Engraving showing a variety of scenes around London in 1881. The images show (clockwise from top left): St. Dunstan s, Thames Street; St

Isaac Waltons House, Chancery Lane, London
Engraving showing the exterior of the house of Isaac Walton (1595-1683), the English biographer, author and father of angling

The Chinese Collection, London, 1842
Engraving showing the interior of a Chinese Collection exhibition which was set up near Hyde Park Corner, London, in 1842

London Birdseye 9
Bird s-eye view of London at the end of the 19th century : from Hyde Park Corner through Knightsbridge to Kensington

London Birdseye 8
Bird s-eye view of London at the end of the 19th century : Piccadilly, from the Haymarket to Hyde Park Corner

Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey, 1860
Engraving showing the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey, where many of the greatest poets of England are buried or commemorated, 1860

The Bank of England and the Royal Exchange, London, 1844
Engraving showing the Bank of England (left) and the Royal Exchange (centre), on the corner of Threadneedle and Cornhill Streets, City of London, 1844

The Bank of England in Threadneedle Street, London, 1866
Engraving showing the National and Provincial Bank of England, on the corner of Threadneedle Street and Bishopgate Street, London, 1866

The Flow of Gold from the USA to France. Bullion in Kegs. Ta
Photograph of a metallurgist chipping a piece off the corner of a gold ingot for testing

Male Type Adam 1932
A well-dressed man lounges at a street corner somewhere in North Africa

Sheep Going to Market
Sheep on their way to market passing through the picturesque village of Stanton, Gloucestershire. You can see the photographers motorbike in the corner

Private Carriages
A meeting of elegant gentlemen and ladies in their carriages, at Hyde Park Corner, London

Art Noveau Dining Room
The corner of a dining room decorated in the Art Noveau style

Church in Shere, Surrey
A lovely corner in the village of Shere, leading to its fine old church

Eashing, Surrey
A quaint corner of Eashing, a small but delightful hamlet in Surrey

Godalming, Surrey
A corner of Godalming, a small and pleasant surrey town, which nestles in the valley of the river Wey, on the London- Portsmouth Road

The First-Class Dining Saloon on R. M. S. P. Almanzora, 1920
Photograph of a corner of the first-class dining saloon on board R.M.S.P. Almanzora, 1920. Launched in 1914, she served as an Armed Cruiser in World War I, then was reconverted into a liner

Spooky Pavement
A night scene on a lonely and rather spooky corner of the Pavement, York, England

Gipsy Caravan 1940S
A corner of a gipsy encampment in the English Home Counties

Social / Union Square NY
People at the corner of Union Square and 16th Street, New York, showing Brentanos book shop

Social / Ny Brentano s
Brentanos book store on the corner of Union Square and 16th Street, New York

Atmospheric Exeter House
An atmospheric scene of an old house on a steep street corner in Exeter; two girls stand beneath the overhanging eaves while a young woman leans against the wall further down

Cyclist Cuts Corner
Cyclists - take corners carefully

Humanitarian Deism
A speaker in Hyde Park, at Speakers Corner orates to a listening crowd in 1912. Since 1872, people have been allowed to speak at Speakers Corner on any subject they want

Ornaments for Stoves
Any ornaments for your fire- stoves ? - a music-hall song reflects the Victorian passion for decorating every corner of the home with knick-knacks and ornaments

Stone Cottages
Stone cottages with heavy stone tiled roofs, around the old mill pond in a tranquil corner of Swanage, Dorset, England

Friday Street, Surrey
A young couple set off for a romantic stroll in the woods at Friday Street, Surrey, a picturesque hamlet in a tucked away corner of England

England / Bosham
Bosham, near Chichester, Sussex, where King Canute tried (but failed!) to command the tide not to come in. A quaint corner of this old village, once a great sea port

Yorkshire Cottage
A woman on the doorstep of her cottage, in the corner of the old Yorkshire village of Kilburn. Her bicycle, with its shopping basket, is at the garden gate

Ye Olde Coffin House at Brixham, Devon. When a father declared that he would rather see his daughter in a coffin than marry her young man, the young man built this house

England / Philadelphia
The corner Post Office in Philadelphia, not the Philadelphia in the U.S.A. the small mining village in Tyne and Wear, Newcastle

England / Woodstock
A charming corner of Woodstock, Oxfordshire, an ancient town with Royal connections, on the edge of the Cotswolds

Tombland Alley, Norwich, Norfolk, a quaint corner, incorporating part of Augustine Stewarts House. He was Deputy Mayor during Ketts Rebellion (1549), later Mayor

WOMENs PRISON 1920S
A corner of the French " Borstal" for girls at Fresne, where girls under age who have been convicted for small offences are kept and taught an ordinary school curriculum

Kew Green Houses
Georgian and Victorian town houses in a corner of Kew Green, Middlesex

Poplar Street Scene
A corner of Poplar, a poor working class area in the East End of London

Washington, Mason
George Washington, President of the USA, presides at the altar of his Lodge while planning the laying of the corner stone of the Capitol Building, Washington

Apsley House 1829
Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner, home of the Duke of Wellington Date: 1829

Trees in Blossom 1906
Trees in spring blossom at Newlands Corner in Surrey

Marriage Contract C17
A bourgeois marriage: while the lovers hold hands in a corner, their elders discuss the financial details of the arrangement

Berlin Restaurant 1930
ARTISTS CORNER Artists enjoy wining and dining with music in the relaxed atmosphere of a Berlin restaurant

Bank of England / Chromo
A view of the Bank of England from the corner of Threadneedle Street and Cornhill. People and carriages mill about in the foreground

Demons of the Mines
The demons of the mines : medieval mining scene, with an image of a demon hidden in the corner

Cycling Town Crier
The Town Crier of Sidmouth, Devon, uses a tricycle to take him from one street corner to the next

Hyde Park in 1842
Fashionable strollers, riders and carriage folk in Hyde Park, looking toward Hyde Park Corner, close to where the Crystal Palace will arise in nine years time

Keats / Edmonton Home
JOHN KEATS Cottage in Church Street, Edmonton, where the poet served his apprenticeship to Hammond, the surgeon, from 1811 to 1815

Wellington Arch
The Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner, London, was built in honour of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, in 1828, as the northern gateway into Buckingham Palace

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