Streets Gallery

Old Towngate - Holmfirth, West Yorkshire

Old Towngate, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. Holmfirth has become well known as the location of the situation comedy Last of the Summer Wine. A wagon of corn merchants and millers Gledhill & Brook can be seen on the left, waiting for a large truck to pass through a (rather narrow) street. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Women Communards of Montmartre; Paris Commune, 1871

Women of Montmartre pledging to fight the government troops to the death, with the slogan The Commune or Death, as Paris burns in the background, 1871. At the end of the Franco-Prussian war, Parisian socialists refused to surrender Paris to the rightwing French government, which led to bitter fighting on the streets of the city and large-scale executions of Communards

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

LCC-MFB funeral of Fireman Martin Sprague

View of the funeral procession of Fireman Martin Sprague, who was killed in a fire. Showing the start of the procession from MFB headquarters in Southwark Bridge Road to Highgate Cemetery in North London. The Brigade, established in 1866, was maintained at an annual cost of £130, 000 per annum; and the area it protected extended over 118 square miles, with nearly 50 fire stations and four river stations

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library