Places Collection (page 6)

Little girl demonstrating for nursery places, Hackney
Little girl with a placard, demonstrating for more nursery places, Hackney, London, 22 May 1978. Date: 1978

Children campaigning for more nursery places, 7 July 1979. With them is the Labour MP, Neil Kinnock. As indicated on their badges, some of the children were also campaigning in 1968

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Motoring Show at Olympia 1906
A general view of the show. Date: November 1906

Map of Spain showing the situation at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, July 1936. The heaviest fighting in July took place in the places underlined on the map: Madrid, Barcelona, Oviedo

Exterior the Don Saltero's Coffee House in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London. Date: 18th century

Old Floating Church for Seamen, London
Sailors Floating Church was moored near Tower Hill in London, the ship was a well attended place of worship, with religious teachings for the seafarers that docked there. Date: 1846

Four Swans Inn, London
Four Swans Inn, in Bishopsgate street, engraved shortly before demolition. Date: 1873

Therese's tomb
The tomb of Therese Martin (1873 - 1897) in the Carmelite convent at Lisieux, where she had been a nun until her early death

THERESE'S CONVENT
The Carmelite convent at Lisieux, where Therese was a nun until her early death. Date: 1873 - 1897

LEWIS CARROLL'S HOUSE
The Chestnuts, Castle Hill, Guildford, Surrey, England, which English author Lewis Carroll owned for over thirty years, before his death on 14 January 1898. Date: 1832 - 1898

Washington MT Vernon
Washington acquired Mount Vernon in 1752 and will still be living there when he dies; the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union will purchase it in 1858. acquired 1752

MARIA EDGEWORTH/HOME
MARIA EDGEWORTH Home of the novelist at Edgeworthstown, near Dublin, in the year of her death Date: 1767 - 1849

Thackeray - Palace Gardens
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863) English novelist's home in Kensington Palace Gardens, where he lived from 1862 until his death

ALEXANDER POPE/BINFIELD
ALEXANDER POPE Beech tree associated with the English poet at Binfield, near Windsor Forest, Berkshire Date: 1688 - 1744

PALMERSTON/BROADLANDS
HENRY JOHN TEMPLE THIRD VISCOUNT PALMERSTON English MP's study at Broadlands, Hampshire, at the time of his death Date: 1784 - 1865

Sir Walter Scott - Abbotsford - Chair
Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) Scottish novelist's empty chair at Abbotsford, after his death Date:

GIACOMO PUCCINI/STUDIO
GIACOMO PUCCINI Italian composer's studio at Torre del Lago, on the second anniversary of his death Date: 1858 - 1924

BYRON/MISSOLONGHI
MISSOLONGHI, GREECE Place of death of Byron, aristocrat and Romantic poet Date: early 19th century

DICKENS/GADSHILL
HIS HOME AT GADSHILL An exterior view of the house, Gadshill Place, in Kent, in the year of the novelist's death 1812 - 1870

Bifrost or The Rainbow Bridge leading to the Afterlife
Bifrost - a burning rainbow bridge that reaches between Midgard (the world) and Asgard (the realm of the gods) in Norse mythology. 1916

The Burlington Hotel, Dublin, Ireland. Date: 1960s

The Chop Room inside the Old Cheshire Cheese pub off Londons Fleet Street. Date: 1884

Entrance to the historic pub, the Old Cheshire Cheese in Wine Office Court, just off Fleet Street. Date: 1884

Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy. Date: 1888

King placing his tribute at the Cenotaph, London 1920
After the two minute silence King George V laying a wreath down on the newly opened Cenotaph, Whitehall, London. 11th November 1920

Phyllis Court, a so-called riverside country club at Henley, with views over the river Thames and a grandstand for watching the rowing. Date: c.1920

Jin Chuen, in the Salee River where the treated was signed with Admiral G. O. Willes. Date: 1882

Waghorns Overland Route from India Date: 1842

A cart race in an English town with an accident in the foreground with passengers thrown on the street. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Poet and Doctor Colonel John McCrae Memorial
McCrae, who served in the Boer War, is popularly remembered as the author of what is probably the best-known poem of the First World War -In Flanders Fields

Bus House CWGC Voormezeele, Belgium
Marking places on battefields is always a tricky business. hence the use of simple identifiers such as Lone Tree, Railway Corner etc. Our old friend Rose Coombs told how this cemetery got its name

Freetown, Sierra Leone
View of Freetown, capital city of Sierra Leone in 1874. 1874

Sketches in Siam from The Illustrated London News. Date: 1855

The Fishery club in Maidenhead, one of a number of fashionable riverside venues in the town that attracted society during the first half of the twentieth century. See picture no

Auchinleck churchyard, burial place of James Boswell
Achinleck churchyeard with the family vault of Lord Auchinleck in which James Boswell was buried. Date: 1895

German Crown Princess at Assouan, Egypt
The Crown Princess of Germany (Cecilie of Mecklenberg-Schwerin) pictured leaving the German Church at Assouan (Aswan), Egypt in 1911

Advert for Blue Star Line, Arandora Star 1929
Advertisement for Blue Star Lines Mediterranean cruises on board the S.S. Arandora Star. The Arandora Star was requisitioned as a troop ship during the Second World War

Bar Basque at Biarritz, 1934
Bar Basque, the rendezvous at which " everyone" who visits Biarritz turns up in the course of the day for an aperitif! Date: 1934

Ice carnival at St. Moritz
Dancing on ice in carnival costume on one of the rinks at fashionable St. Moritz. Date: 1927

The afternoon promenade at Biarritz on the SW coast of France, made into a fashionable resort by Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie who built the Villa Eugenie here. Date: 1866

By the seaside, Brighton 1857
Eight hours at the seaside, families came to the seaside for a refuge from the stresses of everyday life, to get some fresh-air, hear the waves and sea sea-gulls above

The Season in Cairo - at the Ghezereh Palace
The grounds of the Gezereh Palace Hotel, one of the most fashionable rendezvous in Cairo during the winter season when smart society flocked there

Hotels in Egypt
Health and Sunshine Beckon You to Egypt Advertisement for Egypts top hotels catering to wealthy European and American tourists who went to Cairo for the season during the winter months

A Devotee of The Doctrine
A Devotee of " The Doctrine." - A satirical cartoon from Punch Magazine. A Mexican man wearing a small sombrero and two bandoliers across his chest and waist

Humber stand at Motor Show, Olympia 1907
Motor Show at Olympia, with a selection of British Humber vehicles on display. Date: November 1907

Visit Egypt advertisement
Advertisement promoting travel to Egypt with an illustration of the famous pyramids at Giza. 29 days of luxurious travel for 72.10.0 only? Sign me up. Date: 1929

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