Seventies Collection (#44)

Metropolitan Police vehicle database, London
View of the Metropolitan Police vehicle database at New Scotland Yard, London, with officers working at computer terminals, checking the details of stolen vehicles. (2 of 3) Date: 1974

Metropolitan Police Information Room, London
General view of the Metropolitan Police Information Room at New Scotland Yard, London, with officers busy taking calls. In the foreground are the Inspectors and Sergeants positions. Date: May 1974

Metropolitan Police communications room, London
View of a Metropolitan Police communications room, showing three officers sitting at desks on the right. There are several push button telephones

Metropolitan Police breathalyser equipment
Two Metropolitan Police officers with a piece of equipment called an Intoximeter 3000 at New Scotland Yard, London. One officer is blowing into a tube

Gothenburg, Sweden
Aerial view of housing development, Gothenburgh, Sweden 1970s. Date: 1970s

Stadshotellet, Vetlanda

Finland 1970s
Newly built block of flats, Helsinki, Finland, 1970s. Date: 1970s

Shipbuilding 1970
Towboats assist m/s Varenna to leave Landskrona shipyard built 1970 Date: 1970

Varberg Fortress
The fortress of Varberg, Halland, Sweden 1970s. Date: 1970s

Arendal shipyard, Gothenburg, 1970s Date: 1970s

Woman in a Swedish kitchen in Hellerup manor, Varmland, Sweden, with a lot of utensils of copper. Date: 1970s

Nykoping, Sweden
Typical Swedish municipal architecture in the 1970s and a cultural clash at the town of Nykoping, Sweden. Date: 1970s

Opera Petrus da Dacia

Vetla Museum

Queen Elizabeth II and Duke of Edinburgh
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh waving from a train in the year of the Silver Jubilee. Date: 1977

American Explorer program
Young men and women sit listening as one of them plays the guitar. In the newly revised Explorer program, a Learning for Life subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America

Irish Beaver Scout footpainting
An Irish scout showing a younger Beaver Scout how to do foot painting. 1970s

Irish Scouts in a motorboat in Dun Laoghaire harbour. 1970s

Sea Scout training ship
The Irish Lightvessel Albatross which was used as a Sea Scout training ship in Dun Laoghaire harbour. 1970s

Scouts playing dodgeball
Beaver/Cub Scouts playing a game of dodgeball in a gymnasium. 1970s

Story time for Beaver Scouts
A group of Irish Beaver Scouts sit on the floor looking up at their leader who shows them pictures from The Story of the Beaver book. 1970s

Scouts learn about science
One American Boy Scouts demonstrates some equipment in a Scout-built project to show another group of Scouts the principles of static electricity

American Scouts on a coach
American Scouts lean out of the windows of a coach waving, at the 1973 National Jamboree in Farragut State Park, Idaho or Moraine State Park, Pennsylvania. 1973

Children with their kites, Horley, Surrey
Children run down the street to launch their kites, in Horley, Surrey. Date: circa 1970s

Godfather holding baby at a christening
The versatile godfather at a christening manages to hold the baby and smoke his pipe at the same time! Date: circa 1970

Teachers in staff room, Hemel Hempstead
Teachers drinking coffee in the staff room at Cavendish School, Hemel Hempstead. Date: 1975

Street market, Brynmawr, Wales
Aerial view of a busy street market in Brynmawr, Wales. Date: 1974

Two gipsy girls with a chicken, sitting on the ground at the side of their caravan. The older girl wears a knitted jumper and has plaited hair

Gipsy boy with his horse
A gipsy boy with his horse, which he is holding by a chain round its neck

Gipsy boys with horse-drawn caravan
Gipsy boys with their horse-drawn caravan at an encampment in Surrey, getting the harness straight in preparation for moving off

Green gipsy caravan at the side of the road
A green gipsy caravan at the side of the road, painted green with red and yellow decorations, and a blue door

Gipsy boy with his pet guinea pig
A gipsy boy wearing a Sheriffs hat, cuddling his pet guinea pig

Building a fishing boat, St Ives, Cornwall
Andrew Besley, boat builder, building a 20 foot traditional wooden fishing boat at St Ives, Cornwall. It is designed to work off a steep pebble beach of the kind found in East Devon

Hopkinstown Colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales
View of Hopkinstown Colliery, Rhondda Valleys, Glamorgan, South Wales, as seen from the cemetery

Miners with colliery official, South Wales
Two miners with a colliery official at a mine in South Wales

Red-haired gipsy boy looking out of his caravan
A young red-haired gipsy boy looks out of the back of his caravan at an encampment in Surrey

Gipsy woman with long hair
A gipsy woman at an encampment, with long hair, an orange scarf round her neck and a knitted cable-style cardigan. Her caravan can be seen in the background

Gipsy family looking out of the back of their caravan
Members of a gipsy family -- two women and three boys -- looking out of the back of their caravan at an encampment in Surrey

Gipsies with horse-drawn caravan
Gipsies guiding their horse-drawn caravan through a wooded area in Surrey

Gipsy woman cooking breakfast in the open air
A gipsy woman cooking a fried breakfast in the open air. A little girl crouches nearby, sipping a mug of tea

Two boys with a football in the street
Two small boys in the street, one in a stripy sweater and the other carrying his football

Gipsy man and his pet dog
A gipsy man and his pet dog, at an encampment in Surrey. The man sits precariously on a crumpled red tin

Three gipsy boys and their horse, Surrey
Three gipsy boys and the horse which draws their caravan, at an encampment in Surrey

Little boy enjoying a Silver Jubilee tea in the street
A little boy enjoying a Silver Jubilee tea out in the street. He is wearing an enormous home-made hat with 25 YEARS written on it, and is tucking into his glass of jelly

Two girls riding their hobby horses
Two girls (non-identical twins) riding their hobby horses

Airport scene with Caravelle jet
Scene at an airport with a Caravelle jet on the runway, with nine small aeroplanes flying in formation overhead. The jet bears the name of the Italian airline, Societa Aerea Mediterranea

Three young women hitch-hiking from the side of a road in Ipsos, Corfu, Greece

Two boys playing conkers on a suburban street

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