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The English Embankment Bolshaya Neva River St Petersburg
Vintage 19th century photograph: The English Embankment or English Quay is a street along the left bank of the Bolshaya Neva River in Central Saint Petersburg

The Grand Canal on the Piazzetta San Marco, with Doges Palace on the left, Venice, Italy. Date: circa 1920s

Browsing books by the River Seine, Paris
Browsing books on stalls on the Left Bank of the River Seine, Paris. Date: circa 1930s

Abandoned butchers bike in Deptford bomb crater, London
An abandoned butchers bike lies in a crater in the road left by a bomb in Deptford, South-East London, WW2. Date: circa 1940s

Scottish Dancers, Glasgow School for the Deaf
Scottish dancers from the Langside School for the Deaf, Glasgow. The girls are identified (left to right) as Mary Jamieson, Mary Allison and Mary Pratt. Date: circa 1905

Comic postcard, Couple and plump lady. I haven t brought my wife with me - but its all right, I ve left her behind before. Date: 20th century

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Mary and her Little Lamb
The Caption is Mary and her little lamb. Even though the war is over rationing would continue. The little dog looking on was unlikely to get any of the meat

Portrait of the HM The Queen of Spain and her two daughters Beatrice (right) and Cristina (left), Madrid, 1925 Date: 1925

A feature about What Paris Says: the art of being well dressed is the art of choosing wisely and well, Paris, 1925. Top left a dinner frock from Alice Bernard

New Paris dresses from the stage, 1925. Top left Mme Bretty taken in the foyer of the Comedie Francaise. Top right and right Mlle Chournoff one of the dancers in Nice

Top left a jumper suit by Gordon Conway and bottom right Margaret Bannerman in a flower patterened chiffon gown by Lenief, London, 1925

Three Spring Parisian frocks for the Riviera, 1925. On left is a dress of blue and white foulard from Lucien Lelong, centre is a dress of blue and white crepe de Chine

Two stage gowns from Paris, 1925. On the left Marcelle Lender at the Vaudeville theatre wears an evening frock of mauve charmeuse and liver lace

Three smart representations of current Parisian fashions, 1925. On the left Jane Regnys simple country frock of Rodiers new striped Zibli Kasha in blues and grays

Two gowns worn by actresses at the Poiniere Theatre, Paris, 1925 - the left worn by Mlle Marken is an emerald green crepe edged with silver rose voile

Two frocks from Lanvin, Paris, 1925 - left for Suzy Prim in Tilly and a black and white jumper frock and the other for Regina Camier and made of beige light voile Date: 1925

Three frocks and furs for the French Riviera, 1925 - top right from Chantal, bottom left from Phillipe and Gaston and right from Fourrures Max Date: 1925

Three gowns from the Parisian couturiers Anna (top) Bernard et Cie (bottom left) and Brandt (bottom right), 1926 Date: 1926

Three new dress designs illustrating new fabrics, Paris, 1926. Top left from Drecoll and top right and bottom from Alice Bernard Date: 1926

Sketches of three dress offerings from Paris, 1926
Sketches of three dress offerings from Bernard et Cie, Paris, 1926. Top left a cape, centre a dress of Kasha and top right a dress of crepe de chine Date: 1926

A series of summer outfits from Paris, 1926. Top left from Chernit, top right from Georgette, botton left from Amy Linker, bottom centre from Lucien Lelong and bottom right from Georgette Date: 1926

Dancers around the world, 1929 2-2
Dancers around the world, 1929 2/2 - Ronny Johansson (top left) touring Norway and Germany, Zlata Kusova (top) a young Russian dancer touring Europe, Miriam Crosby (Middle) dancing in Paris

Dancers around the world, 1929 1-2
Dancers around the world, 1929 1/2 - Georgia Graves, an American dancer appearing at the Folies Bergere, Paris (top left), Angna Enters, who has appeared in Europe (top right)

The dancers of Variety, 1929 1-2
The dancers of Variety, 1929 1/2 - Gilda Gray (top left), Rafaela and Manuelito (centre), Eleanor McLean (top right), Myrtle Pierce (Bottom right)

The Dancers of Variety 1929 2-2
The Dancers of Variety 1929 2/2 - Miss Carroll of the adagio trio Bordine, Carroll and Pronath (top left) and Diane and de Mar (bottom right) Date: 1929

Four dance events - Maria Theresa - top left
Four dance events - Maria Theresa (top left - Carnegie Hall New York), Tamaris (top right - New York), Martha Graham (bottom left - New York) and Kreutzberg and Georgi (bottom right - New York), USA

Three dancing scenes - one from a Universal Movie
Three dancing scenes from 1929 - top from the Universal Pictures film Broadway with Glen Tryon (Universals first talking picture with technicolour sequences)

Two dancers: Virginia Marvin - left - and Barbara
Two dancers in 1927: Virginia Marvin (left) had been with Mikhail Mordkin as solo dancer and in the Eastern tour company of the Shubert Operetta My Maryland

Five dancers at the Dance Magazine convention of Dancing Masters of America on 23rd August 1927. Doris Humphrey (top left) of the Denishawn dancers in New York

Spotlight on five dancers and dance teams, 1928. Nancy Carroll (top left) signed to Paramount Pictures, Adele Smith (top right) appearing in George Whites Manhatten Mary, Ilya Raycelle (centre)

Two dancing teams who entertain on the polished floors of Hotels and Night Clubs, 1928. Ricardo and Lucita (top left) introducing a new dance Fantasie Parisienne and Jimmy Pendleton and Valeda Worth

Spotlight on five international dancers, 1928. Nila Nicolaska (top left) who has made a hit in the new Folies Bergere show in Paris

Four dance beauties from Hollywood, 1928. Nancy Carroll one of Paramounts players (top left), Clara Bow from Paramount (top right)

Anna Pavlova in Christmas with Alexandre Volinine (third from the left) date uncertain Date: 1930

Stars of the West - a group of young ladies who scintillate Hollywood, 1930 - Bernice Claire seen in First National talkies including Spring is Here (top left), the Sisters G

New York to Hollywood - a trio of dancers who transferred to Hollywood from Broadway, 1930 - Inez Courtney to appear in First Nationals version of Spring (top left)

Two film photographs: top right an ensemble of 150 in the film revue titled The March of Time (MGM), 1930 and bottom left an ensemble from Hold Everything, a Warner Brothers talkie, 1930. Date: 1930

Two film photographs: top left an ensemble shot
Two film photographs: top left ensemble shot from Gold Diggers of Broadway featuring Ann Pennigton and top right William Powell and Evelyn Brent in Interference, a Paramount talkie (1930). Date: 1930

Chicago Chic, fashion statements from 1929. Four girls from the Chicago Company of Follow Thru (top) with Dorothy Daw, Nayan Pearce, Lilian Bind and Olive Olsen

American Dance Moments from 1929. Joyce Coles (top left) appearing in Broadway Nights. Berinoff and Eulalie (top right) back from a tour of Europe

Dancers from around the world, 1929. Germaine and Armand Fellows, (top left), Belgian dancers who have danced all over Europe, recently in the Folies Bergere

The dancers of Variety in 1929. Hope Minor and Edward Root (Top left), Janet Martine an RKO headliner (top middle), Neva, an acrobatic dancer with Dave Apollon (top right)

A photograph of Anna Held aged 15 with her mother (top right) and a later photograph (bottom left) Date: 1929

Four snapshots from Hollywood, 1930 - top left Mildred Frizelle and Marnie Sawyer (Pearl Eaton girls) in he Cuckoos (RKO Pictures), top right Lila Lee (First National)

Two photographs from Ziegfelds Simple Simon with Doree Leslie (left) and Ed Wynn (right), 1930 Date: 1930

Old Newington Church
Sir William Patten, Lord of the Manor, built the present Old Church, bordering Clissold Park on the north side of Church Street, in 1563

Jamaica House, Bermondsey
Views of Jamaica House from original drawings of 1826. Jamaica House stood in Cherry Gardens, a pleasure garden. In 1664 Samuel Pepys visited it

Women on the fashionable rue de Richelieu, Paris, 1854
Woman in fur-lined cape and muff over a wide crinoline, with another woman in ridiing wear. A smart corner of the rue de Richelieu, the East Indian Companys warehouse, Paris, 1854

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