Today Collection (page 19)

WATERFRONT RESIDENCE
An interesting Waterfront Residence at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, which probably would not comply with todays stringent building regulations! Date: 1930s

Ross-On-Wye Market Hall
The fine old Market House at Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, erected during the reign of King Charles II and still in use today. Date: late 17th century

British recruitment poster, WW1
A British recruitment poster during the First World War. A mother tells her son to Go! Its your duty lad. Join today. Date: 1914-1918

Lubaantun archaeology - reconstruction of the citadel
A reconstruction drawing of the Maya citadel of Lubaantun, British Honduras(today Belize). 1925

Poster, A Call to Arms, Your Country Needs You Today. circa 1915

Will you buy any milk today?
Old Street Cries -- Will you buy any milk today? 20th century

Yes! We Have No Bananas. A music sheet cover showing a fruit and vegetable seller who is sorry, but he has no bananas today! He holds out his hands and shrugs in front of his shop. Date: 1920s

Jean De Bolland
JEAN DE BOLLAND (Johannes Bollandius) - Flemish Jesuit scholar, known for his Lives of the Saints, work which is still carried on by the Bollandists today. Date: 1596 - 1665

Temple, 8th Century
The headquarters of the Knights Templar in London in the 8th century - the origin of the Temple of today

Blackheath Pony Racing
Pony racing on the Heath. Equestrian sports are discouraged today, but you can occasionally see mounted police, or ride sedately on a donkey

Whitfields Mount
A protuberance on the Heath where methodist preacher George Whitefield (correct spelling) addressed the crowds. It survives, but is less protuberant today

Two Dogs and a Cat
Its a cat, returned Jerry bitterly, And I want to know, shall we eat him today or tomorrow ? Today, I should say, answered Sinbad

Peace of Stettin
The war between Sweden and Denmark is terminated by the peace of Stettin (now Szczecin, today in Poland but then under Swedish rule)

Speedometer testing
Gongsters on parade; police cars of the police traffic patrol waiting to have their speedometers tested against a stopwatch, to ensure they drive within the 30 miles and hour speed limit

Greece Lesbos
The harbour of Mytilene, seen from inland : the island is today a popular tourist destination with cheap flights to the airport from all over

TAKU FORTS
The Taku Forts, at the mouth of the Peiho river (today the Hai He, the name given to the lower stretches of the Bei river) : they were the scene of action in the Opium Wars

Paper Chase Scrap
Paper chase, a sport rarely performed today because of the risk of polluting the evironment and the destruction of trees involved

Pharpar River
View of the river Barrada, originally the Pharpar : the ancient river is today generally identified as the Awaj, to the south of Damascus

Caesarea, Israel
Distant view of Caesarea (today Horbat Qesari) with various European and native shipping. Date: 1823

View of Shiraz, Iran
General view of Shiraz in southwest central Iran, birthplace of poets Sadi and Hafez, today a busy industrial and commercial city

France Enghien
Today a suburb of Paris, Enghien in the Val d Oise is both a popular residential district and a favourite place of recreation for Parisians

Montmartre Defences
The Communards establish their position on the slopes of the Butte de Montmartre where Sacre-Coeur stands today

Truffle hunting
A man and boy accompanied by four small dogs, hunt for truffles in a forest. Truffles, a fungus that grows in symbiosis with certain trees, and a culinary delicacy

Home, Sengambia
A home in Senegambia (today, Senegal and Gambia)

People of Sengambia
Men and women of Senegambia (today, Senegal and Gambia)

Suggestions for the homes of tomorrow: High frequency cooker
Photograph of a woman demonstrating the cooker of the future, in which the high frequency waves cook right through the food. The invention was a forerunner of the microwave oven, commonly in use today

Morocco / Asilah
A Phoenician trading post circa 1500 BCE, a pirate stronghold in the 19th century, today a tourist resort - theres progress for you !

Lincoln / Roman Arch / 1940S
Roman arch still in use today. It is extimated to have been built 50 BC to AD 50

Kew Gardens
An engraving of the interior of the Palm House at Kew Gardens in 1852. Built by the Irish engineer, Richard Turner and architect, Decimus Burton between 1844-1848

Selwin Francis Edge driving
Selwin Francis Edge, an Australian, (usually known as S.F. ) with riding mechanic, breaking speed records at Brooklands in a Napier racing car. The pipes around the side of the car act as a radiator

Beaune Hotel Dieu
A stretcher case is carried into the Hotel-Dieu at Beaune (which still stands today)

St James Square 1748
Today the square is rich with trees : in Dr Johnsons day it looks rather bleak. The spire of St James, Piccadilly, rises in the distance : a posh carriage and sedan-chair pass

Triple Moons & Haloes
Triple moons and haloes astonished 17th century Scandinavians as much as they astonish us today

Different Kinds of Snow
Every Scandinavian knows there are many different kinds of snow - as true in the 16th century as it is today

Nimes Amphitheatre Ruins
The remains of this elliptical Roman amphitheatre as seen in the late 18th century. The best-preserved arena in France, which is still in use today

France / Pont Du Gard
Roman aqueduct : though now a major tourist attraction, it is more dilapidated today than when this engraving was made

Myanmar Tenasserim
Thien (1852) is unfindable today, but my guess is that it is Tenasserim, on the southern coast of Myanmar

Mexico City
The main square, today labelled Plaza de la Constitucion

Frankish Women, Priest
Four Frankish ladies of what are today France and Germany, listen to a priest as he expounds the scriptures

Entrance to Moscow
The entrance to the city from Volodomer (today Volodymyr, Ukraine)

Kings Bring Guns
What the Three Kings bring today - guns, warships, shells

Brit. Recruitment Poster
The Army of Today and Yesterday - Join the Army and See the World - Good pay - Fine Prospects - A Good Life

Caricature of Paul Verlaine, French poet
Paul Verlaine, French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. Seen here in a caricature, with the word Anarchy written across his forehead, playing a lyre, with an arrow stuck through a heart

Politics / Diplomacy
Officials of the Imperial British East Africa Company make a treaty with the Kikuyu people of what is today Kenya

London Stone
Cannon Street : an ancient stone possibly originating as a milestone during Roman times, today incorporated into the wall of the Bank of China

Bruce Castle, 1656
An Elizabethan manor house in Lordship Lane, Tottenham, associated with the Bruce family : much changed during its history, but luckily still exists today as a museum

Possons D avril
This handsome couple have been fishing, but not for ordinary fish, for today is April 1st, and what they have caught are POISSONS D AVRIL - the traditional April 1 joke

Max Immelmann, Air Ace
MAX IMMELMANN Known today for his " Immelmann turn" manoeuvre, the German was a master of dogfight tactics

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