Sunshine Collection

Summer on the French Riviera, eternal sunshine. Tourism poster from French company PLM, with a beach, sunshades and beautiful blue Mediterranean sea. Date: December 1930

Map of Ceylon showing tea industry plantations
Map of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) showing tea industry plantations. Date: circa 1920

sleeping on Blackpool prom
An elderly couple lie back on the wrought iron seats on Blackpool Pier for a snooze. The beach and Blackpool Tower are in the background. Date: circa 1970

Advertisement for Hotel du Cap D Antibes
Advertisement for the Hotel du Cap D Antibes at Eden Roc, Antibes on the French Riviera, showing sunbathers and swimmers enjoying the flat rocks that act as such a sun trap for sun worshippers

Stylish Horse Race by Victor Hicks
A stylised illustration showing an elegant lady leading a racehorse in the paddock

The Man Who Broke 60 in The Open - H. M. Bateman
Golfers and spectators alike suffer heat exhaustion at the golf Open. Date: 1950

Couple with red car at Coverack, Cornwall. 1982

Bowling green at a holiday camp, Paignton, Devon
People relaxing on a bowling green at a holiday camp in Paignton, Devon, with chalets in the background. Date: 1950s

Brighton / Sea Front 1953
Holidaymakers enjoy the sunshine on the Promenade, Brighton, West Sussex. Date: 1953

Poster advertising trains to the Cote d Azur
Poster for French railways, advertising services to the Cote d Azur, with its warm winters and dry summers

Union-Castle Holiday Tours
Advertising travel poster for Union-Castle Holiday Tours depicting a colourful Mediterranean scene with white balcony and blue sea, offering reduced return fares to Madeira, the Canary Islands

Axel Munthe / Anacapri
AXEL MUNTHE Home of the Swedish physician and writer on Anacapri, Italy Date: 1857 - 1949

Moods of Mount Fuji - 4
A stylised painting by Malcolm Greensmith in the style of the Master Japanese woodcut artists of the late 18th and 19th centuries

Ray of Sunshine by David Wright, showing a woman stood by a window in a negligee. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Poster advertising Union Castle cruises around South Africa -- tourist class is budget travel

Signpost at Lands End, Cornwall, giving the distance to John o Groats, New York and other distant places. circa 1980s

Bystander Riviera number cover 1935
Smart society enjoying the sunshine and amusements of the French Riviera in 1935

The casino at Monte Carlo by C. Morse
The mecca of the Cote d Azur, artists impression of the famous Casino Terraces at Monte Carlo on the French Riviera

Market Jew Street with Davy statue, Penzance, Cornwall
Market Jew Street with Humphry Davy statue, Penzance, Cornwall. The name of the street comes from the Cornish Marghas Yow, meaning Thursday Market. The scientist Humphry Davy was born in Penzance

Oldway Mansion, Paignton, Devon, in the style of the Palace of Versailles. Showing part of the formal gardens. Date: circa 1950s

Accessories for Sunshine, 1954
A woman sits enjoying the holiday sunshine surrounded by raffia accessories including a huge coolie hat, natural sandals, red sandals, a cone bag, an Ascher cotton square in diced blue and white

Female / White Dress 1930S
A woman sits on a bench out in the sunshine, wearing a white cloque dress with a low-cut back and a green velvet sash; she has a matching jacket and hat

Poster, Sils, Engadin, Switzerland. circa 1930

View of the main street in Fiume, Free State of Fiume
View of the main street in the city of Fiume, a seaport in the Free State of Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia). Date: 1922

Poster, All the year round the French Riviera calls you
Poster, French National Railways, All the year round the French Riviera calls you. 1949

Herring gulls at St Ives, Cornwall
Close-up of herring gulls at St Ives, Cornwall. Date: 1960s

Kungsgatan, Landskrona, Sweden
Kungsgatan (Kings Street), Landskrona, Sweden. Date: circa 1910s

Liverpool dock basin, England
Two men relaxing by the dock basin, Liverpool, England. circa 2013

Middlesex Hospital Garden, Mortimer Street, London. Date: circa 1910s

People outside beach huts, Cayeux, France
People outside their beach huts at Cayeux-sur-Mer, northern France, on a sunny day. Date: 1929

Serpentine Lido, 1938
Bathers and swans enjoying the sunshine at the Serpentine Lido in Londons Hyde Park in 1938. The Lido was set up by George Lansbury, the first Commissioner of Works in 1930. Date: 1938

A Land Of Sunshine
The Victoria Falls on the Zambesi River, South Africa, have been described by many travellers as The Eighth Wonder of the World

Vintage yachts in sunshine, English south coast, 1930 s
Vintage yachts in the sunshine, English south coast, 1930 s

Springtime tableau - Young childrenin fresh bright dresses out in the Spring sunshine, picking Spring flowers, watching young creatures, birds nesting in fresh young birch trees, prancing lambs

Swimming pool, National Hotel, Vedado, Havana, Cuba
Aerial view of the swimming pool, part of the Cabana Sun Club of the National Hotel, Vedado, Havana, Cuba. Date: circa 1950

Mirror dinghies at Newquay, Cornwall. circa 1980s

Cat and horse enjoying the sunshine
A cat and a horse appear as if they are having a conversation as they enjoy the sunshine. Date: 20th century

Poster advertising Lamport & Holt sunshine cruises
Poster for the Lamport & Holt Line, advertising sunshine cruises

Les Papillons - a Monte Carlo impression by Lewis Baumer
A colourful Mediterranean scene of Monte Carlo during the 1920s showing fashionably and gaily dressed women carrying paper parasols promenading along by the sea

Poster advertising Belgian railways
Poster advertising trips between Dover and Ostend

The Bystander Summer Number 1928
A bold, colourful cover for The Bystander Summer Number featuring two attractive young women in beachwear. One, wearing a hat and holding a parasol, is more sensible of the sun

Home of Charles Dickens at Gadshill, Kent
The country home of Charles Dickens, English novelist, at Gadshill, near Rochester, Kent

View of Nice France c. 1890
View of Nice France c.1890

Sailing off Isle Del Aire, Menorca, Spain
A yacht with reefed sails heels over as it beats to windward in turquoise sea towards the lighthouse on Isle Del Aire, Menorca, Spain. Taken from Punta Prima Date: 2012

Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
A man sits in a deck chair with his feet up on the railing of Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. The beach is in the background Date: 1992

Poster advertising Royal Mail Line Atlantis Cruises
Poster advertising Royal Mail Line Sunshine Cruises on the Atlantis. Date: 1935

Hamstead Heath Snow
A winter scene on Hampstead Heath, London, with morning sunshine after a fall of snow. Date: 1960s

Open gateway into an Italian garden
An open gateway into an Italian garden. The statue of a boy is framed inside the archway

Rough Sea, Sunshine Slopes, Morecambe, Lancashire, England. Date: 1937

Sunshine Slopes Lagoon, Morecambe, Lancashire, England. Date: 1938

Snow, Skis and Sunshine in Switzerland
Miss Joan Simon, Miss Peggy Peyton, Mr George Renwick, R.N. Mrs Renwick and The Hon. Olivia Harcourt skiing at St. Moritz, Switzerland

Poster advertising French Line to the West Indies
Poster advertising French Line cruises from Southampton to the West Indies. A service of distinction

Open Gateway
An open gateway with a fine gas lamp hanging at the point of the arch and two large wooden doors both opened fully

Piccadilly Hippies
Young people enjoying the sunshine at Piccadilly Circus under Eros

Russian Sailor on Steps
A sailor walks down the famous Odessa Steps, Russia

Oranges dried in the sunshine - California, USA. Date: circa 1908

Kate Greenaway
Christmas and New Year Greeting card depicting a young girl picking daffodils, a child with a toy lamb, sunshine, a tree in blossom - all signs of hope for the future Date: circa 1880

Nellie's Youthful Days' depicts Nellie sitting on a swing in the sunshine reading a book, by Dudley Heath (1867-1945), a popular artist around the turn of the 20th century Date: 1891

Sunshine Home for Blind Babies, Southerndown, Glamorgan
Two children and a woman in the garden of the Sunshine Home for Blind Babies, Southerndown, Glamorgan. Date: circa 1950

Quechua woman sitting in the sun, Bolivia, South America, wearing homespun cloth made from the fleece of local animals such as llama and vicuna. 1922

BATHING IN THE SUN
Young women bathing in the sunshine and fresh air Date: 1905

Rio Nido Hotel, Sonoma County, California, USA
Rio Nido Hotel, Russian River, Sonoma County, California, USA, a famous music venue. Date: 1942

Deck chairs Tenby, Wales
Two elderly men sat in deckchairs either side of an elderly lady. They watch her and smile as she snoozes in the afternoon sunshine on the beach at Tenby, Wales

Extended family group enjoy some summer sunshine and a cup of tea on the beach (possible in Dorset? South Coast of England?)

Waterfall, Sunshine Slopes, Morecambe, Lancashire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

The Needlewoman cover July 1928
Young mother and her children in the garden in the sunshine displaying fashionable frocks of the day Date: 1928

Poster, Austria Date: 1950

PLM poster, French Alps
PLM poster, GAP, French Alps, with sunshine all year round Date: 1932

Wild Sunshine, Ullswater and Place Fell, Lake District

Ellerman Lines Advertisement
Advertisement for Ellerman City Hall and Bucknall Lines. Promoting a Winter sunshine voyage round Africa to Bombay, returning via the Suez Canal

The South African Holiday Advertisement
An illustration for an advertisement for The South African Holiday

Blue and Gold Tours Advertisement
Advertisement for Blue and Gold Tours to South Africa, promoting Sunshine Tours by rail or sea. Image shows a native South African woman, looking very bold and strong. Date: circa 1930

Photographs of skiers and snow scapes, Norway. Captioned, Mid-Winter Sunshine: Norway-the Birthplace of the Ski, Looking Up a Sun-flooded Valley, Ski Hikers, and The Rocky Peak of Romsdalshorn'

Jean Rai, cabaret performer, theatrical portrait in satin gown, with doll. Captioned, A Rai of Sunshine'. With description, Miss Jean Rai

Holt's Golden Sunshine Family Ale

Poster, Ile de France, via SNCF, depicting two hunters and a dog. Date: 1946

Poster advertisement for Cannes, South of France, for winter holidays, with flowers, a children's carnival, concerts, golf, cricket, and pigeon shooting. Date: 1892

Cecil Aldin's dogs at his home in Majorca, Spain
Cecil Aldin's four dogs at his home in Majorca, Spain. He retired there for health reasons towards the end of his life. Date: early 1930s

Arthur Scargill, miners leader and trade unionist
Arthur Scargill (b 1938), miners leader and trade unionist. Seen here sitting in a deckchair at a seaside resort, probably during a conference. Date: circa 1980s

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

Homeless people catching up on sleep in St. James's Park in London at mid-day

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

c. 1890 New Zealand - tourist group with boat at George Sound
c.1890 New Zealand - tourist group with boat at George Sound

c. 1890 Australia - Brighton Beach Melbourne

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