Effect Gallery

1957 nuclear test: Fall-out

Fallout: The sinister and prolonged after-effect of nuclear explosions: a drawing illustrating some characteristics of this haunting phenomenon.An illustration by special Illustrated London News artist G.H Davis, with the cooperation of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, showing the dangers of nuclear fall-out. Britain's first nuclear tests in May 1957 prompted fears about the long term effects of the explosions on human life. Possible dangers listed here include radio-active dust and particles in rain, and the contamination of fish stocks

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

The new coffee tavern at Bradford

Interior and exterior views of the new coffee tavern in Bradford, inaugurated by W. E Forster, M.P in 1879. The Coffee Tavern movement was a Victorian effort to get people out of pubs. Proposed by the Bradford councillor, alderman and magistrate, Frederick Priestman, the tavern was opened at the junction of Westgate, Ivegate and Kirkgate and was an immediate commercial success serving food as well as coffee. Within a few years there were 28 branches in the Bradford district but with over 400 licensed beer sellers in the area, how much of a sobering effect they had on the local population is debatable

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

From Toledo - a repeating photograph

Belle Epoque Photomontage, French Theatre Actress Miss De Toledo - Lovely early photographic photomontage trickery - a woman replicated three times to fine stylistic effect by the Reutlinger Studio in Paris - a pretty trio image of the French actress, each figure holding a sprig of cherry blossom. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection