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Douglas Bader - Flying Ace of WW2Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader (1910-1982) - Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War. A postcard produced for the (Royal)
The Marquess and Marchioness of Milford Haven sun-tanning at Antibes. Prince George of Battenberg (1892-1938), 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven married Countess Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby
Sea Bathing Pool (Lido) at Southport, Lancashire, England. Date: 1943
Bust of CiceroBust of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-46 BC) - a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. Bust in the Capitoline Museum, Rome, Italy
Sayajirao III Gaekwad, Maharaja of BarodaSayajirao III Gaekwad (Shrimant Gopalrao Gaekwad) (1863-1939) The Maharaja of Baroda from 1875 to 1939, and a notable reformer
The Tatler cover - Fashion for debutantes - partyFront cover of society magazine, The Tatler featuring a photograph of people doing what looks like the twist at the annual ball of the Heythrop Hunt held at R.A.F. Little Rissington
Deptford CreekA view of Deptford Creek, south east London
Walgreen Drug Store - Baronne and Canal Streets, New OrleansWalgreen Drug Store - 900 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Date: 1950s
Granite Quarry, New Hampshire, USA - Chanelling Date: circa 1909
Hunter Street, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Date: circa 1920s
The Beach at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia Date: circa 1920s
Oran, Algeria - Marshal Foch Square and Santa Cruz Hills. Date: circa 1920s
Jamaica - Ocho RiosOcho Rios - a port town on Jamaicas north coast. Date: circa 1908
Otora San - Lukushima Troupe - Japanese Entertainers on tour in Great Britain. Date: 1904
Sadlers Wells Theatre - Rosebery Avenue, London. Opening as the first musick house in 1683, the theatre has been used for many types of performance and rebuilt several times. Date: circa 1910s
Tallinn, Estonia - Defensive moat around the old town Date: 1902
An Epsom memory - the Aga KhanCaricature of the Aga Khan with Blenheim, the British Thoroughbred race horse who won the Epsom Derby in 1930 ridden by jockey Harry Wragg. 1930
Hotel Sir Walter Raleigh - North Carolina, USA Date: circa 1930s
Standing on Platform of Chancery Lane Underground StationCentral Line Series. A Solicitor, a grieving widow, a barrister and an officer clerk standing on the platform at Chancery Lane Underground Station, London. Date: 1904
Tatler cover - Flower fashion, 1963Front cover of society magazine, The Tatler featuring a model wearing a resort tunic made of poplin marguerites mounted on opaque organza over a pink poplin bikini
Baden-Baden - The Old CastleThe Old Castle at Baden-Baden - a spa town, located in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg in southwestern Germany. Date: circa 1910s
The Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh, Scotland (interior, the entrance to the shrine) - housed in a re-developed barrack block in Crown Square, at the heart of Edinburgh castle
Italy, Rome - Piazza del Popolo (Peoples Square) - looking west from the Pincio. An Egyptian obelisk of Ramesses II from Heliopolis stands in the centre of the Piazza. Date: circa 1910s
Zagreb, Croatia - Ulica Ivana Tkalcica (Tkalciceva Street) Date: circa 1900s
The Crescent - Steamer Point, Aden, Yemen. Date: circa 1910s
Signed photograph of Frank Randall - ComedianSigned photograph of Frank Randall - English Comedian (1901-1957), wearing binoculars and posing by a fine white open-top car outside a theatre where he was performing his most famous stage
Pathan Dancing Girls, Peshawar, Pakistan - NWFP (North West Frontier Province).. Date: circa 1909
Pyramid of the Sun - Teotihuacan, Mexico - on the Street of the Dead Date: circa 1930
Norfolk, Virginia, USA - National Bank of Commerce and Downtown business section - view down Main Street. Date: circa 1930s
State Capitol and Grounds, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Date: circa 1930s
The National Library, Athens, Greece. Date: circa 1909
Finishing Panama Hats at Maduros Souvenir Store, Panama. Date: circa 1910s
The Davis Blockhouse near Coupeville, Washington, USAThe Davis Blockhouse in Sunnyside Cemetery built in 1855, near Coupeville, Washington State, USA. Whidbey settlers constructed a number of defensive blockhouses in the 1850s in response to threats
Big Ben under repair - Scaffolding - Houses of Parliament, London. The scaffolding was erected in 1933 to enable renovation work to the clock tower. Date: 1933
The Smiths Arms, Godmanstone, Dorset - The Smallest fully licensed house in England. T. E. Arnold - proprietor. Dating to 1420, the building was a former smithy Date: circa 1950
British Cavalryman - Carte de Visite photograph. Date: circa 1870s
The Real Princess by Margaret TarrantA scene from The Real Princess depicting them discovering that she is in fact a real princess because she was able to feel the pea through all of the mattresses and quilts. Date: 1948
The ship Rangoon sinks, 1871The P&O mail steamship Rangoon sinking after the removal of the passengers and crew. The ship was accidently run onto the rocks when leaving Galle harbour in Sri Lanka, where it eventually sank. 1871
The Kidnap of American missionary Ellen Maria StoneMiss Ellen Maria Stone, a Congregationalist missionary and her pregnant fellow missionary friend Katerina StefanovaTsilka are kidnapped on 3rd September 1901 in the Ottoman Balkans by an Internal
Pounding Rice using large pestle and mortar - Chennai, IndiaPounding Rice using large pestle and mortar - Chennai (Madras), India Date: circa 1920
At a Bright Young PartyCartoon showing some young personalities of the time at a party: Rosemary Hope-Vere, Oliver Messel, Philip Kindersley, Lord Donegall, Sir Anthony Weldon, Lady Seafield, Hon
Rajaji Hall (Banqueting Hall), Chennai, IndiaRajaji Hall, previously known as the Banqueting Hall, Madras, is a public hall in the city of Chennai, India used for social functions
The Dnieper River at full tidal height - Kiev, Ukraine - for a view at low tide, see 10413481. Date: circa 1910s
Aden, Yemen - The Main Street. This card bears the message: " Looks alright on this card but.... its rotten". Date: 1921
East African Tribesman - Extensive Scarification, Nose ChainA postcard produced by Consolata Missionaries, an Italian Roman Catholic missionary congregation operating in Africa. Dramatic scarification on the shoulders of this East African tribesman
Maude Bridge, Baghdad, Iraq. It was built in 1918 and named after Sir Frederick Stanley Maude. This photograph dates from circa 1930. Date: circa 1930
Bunneys Ltd. Department Store - Church Street, LiverpoolBunneys Ltd. Department Store - on the corner of Church Street and Whitechapel, Liverpool Date: 1911
Tartu, Estonia Date: 1912
Berlin, German - Schloss und Dom - River SpreeBerlin, German - Schloss und Dom (City Palace and Cathedral) - on the banks of the River Spree Date: circa 1930
Isle of Man - Peel Castle ruins - Cathedral of St. GermanThe cathedral ruins located within the walls of Peel Castle, Isle of Man, are those of the former Cathedral of St. German. Date: circa 1910s
Margaret Thatcher on dry ski run at Festival Gardens, 1963Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister but at the time of this photograph, M.P. for Finchley and Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Ministry of Pensions
Front cover of The Tatler - Miss Amy JohnsonPortrait of Amy Johnson, CBE (1903 -1941), on the front cover of The Tatler, 6th August 1930. Amy Johnson was a pioneering English aviatrix
Yangtzepoo Road, Shanghai, ChinaYangtzepoo (Yang-shu-p u, Yangpu) Road, Shanghai, China - note the one-wheeled Chinese wheelbarrows and rickshaw. Date: circa 1910s
The Home of Chinese peasant and his family - Rural China Date: circa 1910s
Bund and Monument of Sir Robert Hart, Shanghai, ChinaBund, Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China - in the foreground can be seen a statue of Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet (18351911), a British consular official in China
Quinsan Gardens, Shanghai, ChinaChildrens Playing Garden - Quinsan Square, Shanghai, China. Date: circa 1910s
Hong Kong, China - Queens Building. Date: circa 1910s
Odessa, Ukraine - Mud Clinic at Kuyalnik, one of the oldest resorts of Ukraine, located just thirteen kilometers from Odessa, at the foot of Zhevakhov on the right side Kuyal nitskogo Bay
The Grave of Robert and Clara Schumann at Bonn, GermanyThe Grave of Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and his wife Clara at Bonn, Germany - Schumann was a German composer and influential music critic. Date: 1920s
The Farm La Belle Alliance - Waterloo, Belgium - made famous by the meeting here between Blucher and Wellington on the evening following the Battle of Waterloo, 1815. Date: circa 1910s
Umberto Cagnis Polar expedition ship, the Stella PolarePolar Exploration of Umberto Cagni (1863-1932) of the Royal Italian Navy. He is best known for his leadership in the expedition (by dogsled)
Suk el Turk - Tripoli, LibyaMyanmar - Women of the Akha Tribe in traditional headdresses. Speakers of Tai languages in Myanmar and Thailand refer to them as " gaw" or " ekaw" (ikaw/ikho)
Venezuela, Warao Mother and Child of the OrinocoA beautiful portrait of a Warao Mother and Child of the Orinoco Delta region. The Warao (" the boat people" ) are an indigenous people inhabiting northeastern Venezuela and western Guyana
Absence cannot hearts divide - a young American bride awaits for the return of her beloved. Date: circa 1910
The Holy Island of Lindisfarne - Castle and Highland CattleThe Castle on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, Northumberland, England - a tidal island off the northeast coast of England with a recorded history from the 6th century
The storks lay a precious egg in their nest - Strasbourg (now in Alsace, France, then in Germany). Date: circa 1905
Terry McHale - Liverpudlian Bantamweight BoxerTerry McHale (1934-2011) - from Gerard Street, the heart of Liverpools " Little Italy" - a Bantamweight Boxer, later a boxing promoter and pub landlord
Castlerigg Stone Circe, Keswick, Lake District, CumbriaThe Druids Circle - Keswick, Cumbria - The Castlerigg Stone Circle - one of the most visually impressive prehistoric stone monuments in the United Kingdom
WW1 - 96th Battalion (Canadian Highlanders) - Allied FlagsWW1 - Humorous patriotic postcard in support of the 96th Battalion (Canadian Highlanders), an infantry battalion of the Great War Canadian Expeditionary Force
Royal Victoria Hospital Farm Colony, Polton, ScotlandPatients plough the land and plant seed potatoes at the Farm Colony (founded in 1910) at The Royal Victoria Hospital, founded in 1894
Beijing (Peking), China - East Zhengyangmen Railway StationThe East Zhengyangmen Railway Station (Beijing Station), located just outside Zhengyangmen (also known as Qianmen), a gate in the city wall directly south of Tiananmen Square
Self-righting lifeboat by Sir George CayleyDrawing and design of a self-righting lifeboat by Sir George Cayley. Date: c.1836
School costumes for girls 1909Schoolgirls autumn clothing, (left) single breasted jacket with pleated skirt of serge, (middle) smart three quarter length single breasted striped coat with black trim and collar and pleated skirt
A Florentine Singer by Paul Dubois - Musee du Luxembourg. Date: circa 1910s
Zlatoust - a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Ay River, 160 kilometers west of Chelyabinsk. Date: circa 1903
The Holy Island of Lindisfarne - Market Place & Post OfficeThe Market Place & Post Office - The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, Northumberland, England - a tidal island off the northeast coast of England with a recorded history from the 6th century
The Holy Island of Lindisfarne - The Priory ruinsThe Priory ruins on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, Northumberland, England - a tidal island off the northeast coast of England with a recorded history from the 6th century
The Holy Island of Lindisfarne - The Village from Steel EndThe Village from Steel End - The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, Northumberland, England - a tidal island off the northeast coast of England with a recorded history from the 6th century
The Holy Island of Lindisfarne - Priory ruins - Rainbow archThe Priory ruins (including the Rainbow Arch) on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, Northumberland, England - a tidal island off the northeast coast of England with a recorded history from the 6th
The Holy Island of Lindisfarne - Crossing the Sands by cartCrossing the Sands by cart (nearly too late!) from the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, Northumberland, England - a tidal island off the northeast coast of England with a recorded history from the 6th
The Holy Island of Lindisfarne - The Castle and OozeThe Castle on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, Northumberland, England - a tidal island off the northeast coast of England with a recorded history from the 6th century
Isle of Man - Peel - Old Harbour and Castle ruins. Date: circa 1910s
Isle of Man - Peel Bay - Steam Drifters and Fishing boats. Date: circa 1910s
Independence Hall Judicial Chamber (interior), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Independence Hall is where both the United States Declaration of Independence
