District Collection (page 12)

India - Puducherry District - Village Fountain Date: circa 1909

XI Deutsches Turnfest - Frankfurt, Germany
XI Deutsches Turnfest (11th German Gymnastics Festival) - Frankfurt, Germany - July 1908 - inset scenes of two brick throwers, The opera House

Corner Building on the Diagonal Norte y Maipu, Buenos Aires
Elaborate Corner Building on the Diagonal Norte y Maipu, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The building was built by Francisco Gianotti

Manila, Philippines - Tondo Canal. Date: circa 1920s

Traditional fishing boats off Mosken, Vaeroy, Norway
Traditional fishing boats off Mosken is a small uninhabited rocky island in the municipality of Vaeroy - an island and municipality in Nordland county, Norway

Edale Valley, Peak District, Derbyshire Date: circa 1930s

Nursing classroom
An empty classroom at the City & District Infirmary York probationer school founded in 1923. Table at centre with small microscope, and bed on left hand side with large doll. Date: circa 1923

Home delivery room demonstration
A room as it should be prepared for a maternity case by a Queens (district) nurse. Features a bed with a large pillow and sheets turned back, newspaper and bucket on floor and cot to one side

Langdale Pikes, Cumbria, Lake District
View of Langdale Pikes, Cumbria (formerly Westmoreland), Lake District. Date: circa 1832

The Venus de Gonon, 1938
Photograph of the Venus de Gonon statue, which was unearthed by a farmer in the Loire district of France in 1938. At first it was believed to be an ancient Greek sculpture

ENGLAND / SEATHWAITE
A lovely row of traditional cottages in a corner of Seathwaite, a small hamlet in Borrowdale, Lake District, Cumbria, England. Date: 1950s

Dr Syntax sketching the lake
Dr Syntax in Englands Lake District sketches the scene before him. At this time, tourists carried sketch books the way later travellers would carry cameras. Date: 1815

PARIS SHOWGIRLS / 1927
Paris, as a visitor to the Montmartre district might see it, full of glamorous showgirls. Date: 1927

LAKE DISTRICT / WINDERMERE
Lake District: Windermere frozen over, with people skating Date: February 1895

HORN DANCE
ABBOTS BROMLEY HORN DANCE: The troupe make their way to one of the large houses or farms in the district. The dance lasts all day and dates back over 1000 years. Date: 1940s (September)

LAKE DISTRICT / SKELWITH
Lake District: Skelwith Force, near Ambleside, Westmoreland Date: 1909

DISTRICT MESSENGERS / GPO
Young boys worked as GPO District Couriers and delivered packages all over London. They wore a distinct uniform with badges on their hats. Date: circa 1930

London - Embankment - 1867
A section of the Thames Embankment, showing; 1. subway, 2. low level sewer, 3. Metropolitan and District Railway and 4. Pneumatic Railway. Date: 1867

SHEPHERD MARKET / PHOTO
Shepherd Market, Mayfair, previously the site of the May Fair from which the district takes its name. It was laid out in c.1735 by architect Edward Shepherd. Date: 1931

A DISTRICT VISITOR
A district visitor making the rounds of her district. Date: circa 1860

Bale Fire of Beacon Warning of Attack
The Bale Fire is a series of fires, used to pass on an alarm throughout a district : here, settlers in the American colonies warn others of an attack of Native Americans Date: 17th century

Nusretiye Mosque - an ornate mosque located in Tophane district of Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey. Date: circa 1950s

St Marys Hospital, Omori, Japan
St Marys Hospital, Omori - a district located south of Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. Shown here (left) the Sisters Quarters (right) The Priests House and (front) The Church under construction

Buttermere, The Lake District, Cumbria Date: 1960s

Yew Tree Tarn, nr. Coniston, The Lake District, Cumbria Date: 1960s

Wastwater, The Lake District, Cumbria Date: 1960s

Lake Windermere, looking north, Lake District, Cumbria. Date: circa 1900s

Islands on Lake Windermere, Lake District, Cumbria. Date: circa 1900s

The Ferry, Lake Windermere, Lake District, Cumbria. Date: circa 1900s

Ambleside, Lake Windermere, Lake District, Cumbria. Date: circa 1900s

Landing stage, Bowness, Lake Windermere, Lake District
Boat landing stage, Bowness, Lake Windermere, Lake District, Cumbria. Date: circa 1900s

Bowness from Furness Fell, Lake Windermere, Lake District, Cumbria. Date: circa 1900s

Holidaymakers in Honister Pass, Lake District, Cumbria, England

Tree and reflection, Derwentwater, Lake District, Cumbria, England

Kashmir - young horseman rides up steep hill from his village in the Sind Valley in the Himalayan foothills Date: 1986

Kashmir, Sind Valley, small child running along village path
Kashmir, Sind Valley, looking down on a small child running along a village path between rough dry stone walls Date: 1986

Ramshackle wooden houses alongside the river in Sind Valley
Ramshackle wooden houses with patched shingle roofs alongside the river in the Sind Valley, Kashmir Date: 1986

Paragliding in the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire
A paraglider takes off from a hill in the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1988

Hiker holds on to a stone wall on steep hill, Peak District
A hiker holds on to a dry stone wall to descend a steep hill in the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire. First published The Daily Telegraph Date: 1988

Winter trees, Edale, Derbyshire, England
Naked winter trees on a hillside near Jacobs Ladder, Edale, Derbyshire, Peak District, England. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1987

Country walking with children
A father sits with his two children for a picnic in the shelter of a dry stone wall during a walk in the Derbyshire Peak District National Park. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1990

Peak District, Derbyshire, stone barn
Peak District, Derbyshire. Stone barn and dry stone walls in summer. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Peak District, Derbyshire, bleak winter
Peak District, Derbyshire - dark clouds, stone walls and sheep in winter. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1988

Wash day River Cavado, Portugal
A woman pegs out her washing in her tide flooded garden on the banks of the River Cavado, Portugal. first published The Sunday Times 1989 Date: 1989

Maj.s Kennedy and Sir Gerald Mildmay - Reading and District
Maj.s Kennedy and Sir Gerald Mildmay judging at the Reading and District Horse Show held in Mr Oliver Dixons grounds. Dixon was one of the best known hunter dealers in England at the time. Date: 1927

SS District of Columbia - Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co. Date: circa 1920

Vietnam - An Giang Province - District of Haiphong
Camp Tonkinese (Vietnamese) Rifles - Vietnam - An Giang Province - District of Haiphong - Kien-An Date: circa 1909

Belltower of Loreta on the Hradschin, Prague, Czech Republic
Loreta is a pilgrimage destination in Hradcany, a district of Prague, Czech Republic. It consists of a cloister, the church of the Lords Birth, the Santa Casa and a clock tower with a famous chime

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