Summer Collection (page 15)

Women on a beach, illustrating the season's fashions. Date: 1954

A woman posing in a summer dress. Date: 1954

An illustrated checklist of home maintenance tasks for the summer months. Date: 1954

Cotton summer fashions for women. Date: 1954

Summer fashions for women: a canoe-necked poplin dress from Bijou, and a halter-necked Paisley dress in marcella pique from Rembrandt. Date: 1954

Some fashion suggestions for women when travelling, perhaps - as here - on the deck of a cruise ship. Date: 1932

Designs for women's summer dresses. The patterns were available to order for home dressmakers. Date: 1932

The Motor Picture Book, The Holiday Camp Date: 1930

William Freshman and Marguerite Allan in Widecombe Fair
William Freshman and Marguerite Allan in British International Pictures film, Widecombe Fair Date: 1929

Advert, Schweppes Lime Juice Cordial Date: 1911

Donkey rides on the beach, St Leonards on Sea, Sussex Date: circa 1950

Advert, Watson's Matchless Cleanser for every household and laundry use. Date: 1927

Advert, Vinolia Premier Soap for health and beauty, the most refreshing soap in the world. Date: 1926

Boys in Tug of War Date: 1907

A Donkey Ride on the Beach Date: 1907

Poster, railway route to the Cote d'Azur, France Date: 1931

Poster, Edinburgh International Festival, August 1959 - make your reservations here. Royal Opera Stockholm, Czech Philharmonic, The Thrie Estaites, Seefried Fischer-Dieskau, The Old Vic, Courbet

Poster, Summer in the French Alps

My Word! We caught THIS wandering here. Two young women mock a rather daft-looking young man, possibly trying to use his facial dexterity to gain their attention/affection?! Date: 1910

Foliage, plants and flowers which appear in June (Juni). Date: 1903

Ten Jolly English male students go camping (2/2)
Ten Jolly English male students have fun during their summer holidays by heading off on a jaunt camping in the countryside. Lots of fun is being had, possibly fuelled by a few beverages

Ten Jolly English male students go camping (1/2)
Ten Jolly English male students have fun during their summer holidays by heading off on a jaunt camping in the countryside. Lots of fun is being had, possibly fuelled by a few beverages

Women's summer season high-shoe-style in brown and blue. Date: 1939

Vintage 19th century photograph: bend in the Vaal River, South Africa

WW2 poster, August - Gliding, featuring ATC (Air Training Corps) gliders. One of a series of prints commissioned and published by CEMA (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts)

Poster, Northern Ireland, Ulster Transport tourist map, with six vignettes of places to visit - easy to reach, a holidayland you will enjoy. Date: circa 1950

Poster, Hunstanton, Norfolk Date: circa 1925

Poster advertising Harrogate, Yorkshire by LNER Date: circa 1930s

Herring fishing boats coming into harbour, Wick Scotland
Vintage 19th century photograph: Herring fishing boats coming into harbour at Wick Scotland

Silhouette - Ice Cream Seller, Street Vendor. Date: 20th century

Trainee teachers campaigning against education cuts
Trainee teachers from the College of All Saints campaigning against education cuts, June 1976. Date: 1976

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Inauguration of the Caldetes summer camp, ceremony presided by the Mexican ambassador Alberto Tejada (30th May 1938). SPAIN. Madrid

SPAIN. Sitges. Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Children summer camp in Sitges (1st May 1938). SPAIN. Madrid. Fundacion de Estudios Libertarios Anselmo Lorenzo (FAL)

Defence during the summer months from the beach, home guards hiding with their gun ready. Date: 1941

Bill Owen, English actor and songwriter
Bill Owen (William John Owen Rowbotham, 1914-1999), English actor and songwriter. Best known for the role of Compo in the TV series, Last of the Summer Wine

Neville Chamberlain with RH Stoughton and Samuel Hoare
Neville Chamberlain (Arthur Neville Chamberlain, 1869-1940), British Conservative politician, and Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940

Dead shark and window-shopping holidaymakers
Holidaymakers window shopping for souvenirs, Devon right next to the dramatic form of a dead (and very real!) hanging shark. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd Date: 1957

Homeless people catching up on sleep in St. James's Park in London at mid-day. This was in the summer months where the homeless enjoyed the sunshine in an enclosure popularly known as the Bull

A Civil Guard Parade on a tiered building at their barracks, Spain, 1936. This was deemed a necessary alternative to drilling on the middle of the parade ground

Two members of Gibraltar's police force questioning a Spanish boy on the gang-way of a refugee boat, August 1936. The Spanish Civil War, which started in the summer of 1936

Passagers On Board Dundee Steamer 1873
Departing from Wapping, London on Wednesdays and Saturdays, Londoners taking a holiday trip. Passagers sitting on the deck going on hoilday to Leith or Granton Pier for Edinburgh or change for

Victorian taking a walk in St James's Park, London, in the summer months. Date: August 1844

Bathing at Broadstairs 1857
Women taking a dip in the sea at Broadstairs, this was a cheaper destination to get to by train from London. Date: 1857

Broadstairs Jetty 1857
Victorains walking alone the jetty, on a summers day. Date: 1857

A busy summer scene in the market town of Newcastle, Staffordshire, England. Date: early 1970s

A large number of vagrants asleep in St. James's Park Date: 1887

Advert for BVD underwear for men 1914
For generations of Americans, BVDs were the underwear of choice - loose-fitting and, as you see, immensely becoming as well as supremely practical for summer wear... Date: 1914

SPANISH WAR/CAMP POSTER
Propaganda poster from Communist group Socorro Rojo de Espana advertising children's summer camps at the seaside Date: 1936 - 1939

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