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Piccadilly roadworks 1927 Roadworks in Piccadilly, London 1927Labourers making a trail in the pavement, for some kind of maintenance, watched by a crowd of people. 1927
Memorial fountain at Marlow to Charles FrohmanThe memorial drinking fountain at Marlow-on-Thames by Mr L.D. Merrifield, erected in 1924 to the memory of American theatrical manager Charles Frohman
R101 as the air ministers office, 1929R101 as the air ministers office: the second flight of Britains giant airship. Meteorological offices at Cardington; air minister Lord Thomson about to ascend the mooring mast of the R101 by
Kettners advertisement, 1907Advertisement for Kettners restaurant emphasising its pleasant surroundings and moderate prices. Date: 1907
Supper dance in progress at Kettner sA supper dance in progress at Kettners in 1926. The Bystander writes, At this famous restaurant, which has now regained the popularity which made it so established a success in the Edwardian period
Rex Evans playing the piano at Kettner sRex Evans (1903-1969), British character actor and cabaret artist, caricatured by H. H. Harris in The Bystander at the time he was the cabaret performer at Kettners Restaurant. Date: 1930
Arthur Giordano, managing director of Kettner sArturo Giordano, known simply as Arthur, Managing Director of the famous Kettners restaurant in Soho. Date: 1930
Kettners advertisementAdvertisement for the famous Kettners restaurant, " the meeting place of the international elite". Rex Evans on the bill as supper entertainment in 1930. 1930
Fashion designs for 1925 by Gordon ConwayOriginal designs by fashion and theatre designer, Gordon Conway in Eve magazine, 1925 focusing on the flared skirt. On the left
Murrays Cabaret Club advertisementAdvertisement for Murrays Cabaret Club of Beak Street, London, renowned for its lavish floor shows with 45 of Englands loveliest showgirls in skimpy costumes. Date: 1940s
Music sheet - Until You Fall in LoveRomantically-themed music sheet cover with two doves flying over a heart. Date: 1930s
Little girl in fancy dress as a powder puffPhotograph of a little girl who won first prize dressed up as a powder puff at the municipal fancy dress ball at St. Andrews Hall, Norwich, in 1922. Date: 1922
Four children in fancy dress, c. 1925Four children in fancy dress. From left, Peter is a Native American with his feather headdress and grass skirt, Lorna is perhaps a bumble bee or a cat (difficult to tell)
The Severn Tunnel works, 1880The Severn Tunnel works - building the railway tunnel linking South Gloucestershire to Monmouthshire under the estuary of the River Severn. It was built between 1873 and 1886. 1
Waiter wearing beret and Oxford bags, 1926Will it ever come to this? The President of the National Federation of Merchant Taylors is responsible for this awful suggestion
Cartoon of Oxford bags, 1925Caricature of actors Peter Haddon and Rosaline Courtneidge in the play On Change, performed at the Savoy Theatre. Haddons character displays youthful vacuity and wears Oxford bags
Oxford bags worn at Regents Park, 1925The logical development of the Oxford bags demonstrated at Regents Park in 1925. The gentleman shown was one of the participants in the Old English Garden Fete in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Regents
Cambridge students wearing Oxford bagsThe youth of Cambridge displaying the latest university craze for excessively wide trousers, called Oxford bags, originating at Oxford University in the mid-1920s. Date: 1925
Shanghai panoramaPanorama of Shanghai, China, in 1854. Date: 1854
Compensation for the murder of Mr RichardsonSketches in Japan: conveying the compensation money to HMS Pearl for the murder of Mr. Richardson, an English merchant in 1862. Date: 1863
Four Ways to Put Your Daughter on the StagePage from The Tatler featuring a photo story of various stage and dance schools. Top left shows Miss Margareta Bonudin of Sweden at RADA enduring a realistic strangling
Sporting with Winter Sports by H. M. Bateman - CurlingScotlands ain game: Curling - " The Roarers". Date: 1912
Moonshine and Velvet, silver & blue studies Gladys GuyActress Gladys Guy set against a silver and inky blue Arctic landscape. Date: 1912
The Turkey Trot, 1912Dancers Oscar and Suzette demonstrating the new dance craze, the Turkey Trot, presented minus the objectionable features which caused the teaching of the measure to be prohibited by the Bureau of
Dresses designed by Paul Iribe for La Rue de la PaixDrawings by Paul Iribe for costumes worn at the play, Rue de la Paix, at the Vaudeville in Paris. Following womens natural figures, the dresses were named, Dame Nature Dresses. Date: 1912
Pauline Chase asleepActress Pauline Chase sleeping. Date: 1912
The Galling, Perturbing, Offending Telephone, H. M. BatemanThe new service - as some declare they have found it. Complaints about the new telephone service recently transferred to the operation of the Post Office, as visualised by the great cartoonist, H. M
The Coming of Age by H. M. BatemanOutside the Four-Mile Radius - Surbubia. A young man begrudges being the centre of a rather elderly group of party goers at his 21st birthday celebration. Date: 1912
Congestion of the Lung by H. M. BatemanAn open space as imagined by the cartoonist H. M. Bateman with hundreds of men playing football. Date: 1912
Dos for Public Speakers by H. M. BatemanDos for Public Speakersfrom the Public Speaking Club of America visualised by the cartoonist H. M. Bateman. Date: 1912
The Princess of PlessDaisy, Princess Henry of Pless (1873 - 1943), formerly Mary Theresa Olivia Cornwallis-West. A great Edwardian society beauty, she married one of Imperial Germanys wealthiest princes in 1891
Royal Vinolia vegetable hair wash advertisementAdvertisement for Royal Vinolia vegetable hair wash showing a maid washing the lustrous locks of her mistress. Date: 1912
Prances at Princes - Ice attitudes, . H. M. BatemanThe waltzers - and some wobblers. Our artist and skating. Cartoon by H. M. Bateman depicting skaters at fashionable Princes Skating Rink. Date: 1912
Water-induced restDesigned to cause sleep, a device providing a continual flow of water across the forehead of a person suffering from insomnia
Fashion sketched on the RivieraA trio of chic outfits seen on the Riviera. From left, a jumper suit in lavender hasha worn with a coat of darker tone trimmed with grey fox
Princess Jean-Louis de Faucigny-LucingePrincess Jean Faucigny-Lucinge, formerly Miss Liliane (Baba) d Erlanger, only daughter of Baron and Baroness d Erlanger. She married Prince Jean Louis Faucigny-Lucinge in 1923
Eve front cover - Lady LoughboroughMargaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm (1895 -1969), Lady Loughborough, Australian Born wife of Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough (died 1929)
Fashions for Monte Carlo, 1925Evening dresses for the fashionable resort of Monte Carlo on the Cote d Azur. On the left, crepe dress in peacock blue enriched with silver rose
Maud Allan as SalomeMaud Allan in her famous role as Salome, holding aloft the head of John the Baptist. Photograph reproduced in The Bystander which comments on the scandal her erotic portrayal of a religious subject
Sacred books of the East for Indian SoldiersExamples of the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita, distributed to convalescent Indian soldiers by Alfred Ezra, a businessman with connections in the east
Back view of a Mahomedan MosqueBack view of a mosque built for wounded Indians on the French sand dunes during the First World War. The semi circular recess represents the direction of Mecca. Date: 1916
Pedespeed 187019th century recreation early roller skates, fourteen or fifteen inches in diameter wheels attached below the knees with a foot piece. Date: 1870
Prince and Princess of Wales visit Knole, Kent, 1866 PrincePrince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) visit Knole, Kent, the seat of Earl Delawarr in 1866 - the promenade of the company upon the lawn with croquet before dinner
Mother and her three children, each holding a toy boatMother and her three children on the beach, each holding a toy boat. Date: circa 1905
Four Fine ChumsFour very elegant Gentleman pose for their Group Studio Portrait. The two on the right are sporting very precise waxed moustaches and all four are keeping the UK Starch industry in business
Young Girl on a pony - Margate, KentYoung Girl on a pony - British Seaside Candid Postcard Photo - Margate, Kent. The Photographers Office can be seen back right. Date: circa 1910s
Boys of the Ipswich Ragged School Date: circa 1860
Anne Hathaways Cottage, Shottery, Stratford-on-Avon Date: circa 1908
