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Brighton / Lamprells BathsBrighton, Sussex: Lamprells swimming baths. Situated in East Street, domed roof design, costing some 9000 pounds to build. Long since demolished
Bullion Office. Bank of England. Bar of GoldEngraving of a bar of gold, a small slab weighing sixteen pounds, worth about 800 in 1845"
Harrisons Ice Making Machine, 1858Engraving showing the ice making machine, designed by Mr. Harrison of Geelong, Australia, 1858. Built by Mr. Siebe of Denmark Street, Soho, London
Lansdowne College, Bath, 1864Engraving of Lansdowne College, Bath, which had been purchased in 1864 for about 3000 pounds to provide a School for Daughters of Officers in the British Army"
Cartoon Depicting the Problems of Professionalism in FootbalCartoon showing the perceived problems of professionalism in football. In the main series of images, two football club directors haggle over the value of a player who performs a number of feats in
The Civil war in America: Midnight storm on the MissippiFederal flotilla at anchor, off Fort Pillow. The storm occurred on the night of May 20th 1862, when lightning just missed hitting the amunition boat with 25, 000 pounds of gun powder on board
Fist Full of PoundsA dashing man clutches a fistful of pound notes
Brit Museum Elgin RoomThe Elgin Room, housing the marbles and other treasures looted from Greece by Lord Elgin in 1812 and bought by the nation in 1816 for 35, 000 pounds
Tax Receipt 1802Receipt for taxes paid by William Deedham, including Window Tax, Male Servant, Carriages & Horses, but no dog. All this set him back upwards of 23 pounds
Treasury Carriage 2Terrorists use a bomb to halt and rob a landau carrying treasury funds : they seize the equivalent of 60, 000 English pounds. The carriage after tha attack
Tom Thumb Cash RegisterThe handsome " Tom Thumb" cash register is priced at twenty- one pounds and ten shillings
Electoral BriberyELECTORAL PURITY the British voter refuses to accept 5 pounds for his vote - his starting price is 15 pounds
Bank of England 5 PoundsThe 5 pound note office
Jack Dempsey / 1920SJACK DEMPSEY, world heavyweight champion between 1919 and 1926, was once described as " 187 pounds of unbridled violence" ; here he asks the cards to tell him his future
Dancing at the Kit-KatDancers and diners at the Kit- Kat Club in the Haymarket, London : membership costs you seven guineas - equivalent to several hundred pounds today
Alcock & Brown - 4Captain Alcock and Lieutenant Brown receive their prize of 10, 000 pounds from Winston Churchill, for their successful first crossing of the Atlantic by air
Vauxhall-Kington 25 1921The Vauxhall-Kington 25, selling for 1450 pounds, is designed for sporty touring
Boy in Electric Toy CarIn France, millionaires children, such as the son of Comte de la Taulp, drive tiny electric cars. They cost 35 pounds and can run 35 miles without need of re-charging
Male Type / C Pounds 1890Smart young man of the late Victorian period: the actor and singer Charles Courtice Pounds (1862-1927)
Pound and Dollar NotesLots of British and American bank notes, Pounds and Dollars
Using a Good CompanionThis lady is using an Imperial Good Companion Model portable, which cost her nineteen pounds and fifteen shillings, including the carrying case
Using a SunlampA lady enjoys the benefits of the ultra-violet rays emitted by the Homesun sunlamp - and it costs her only 18 pounds !
