Images Dated 2004 April

Captain Woolf Barnato with his Bentley

Captain Woolf Barnato with his Speed Six Bentley fitted with a racing body. Woolf Barnato had just beaten the Blue Train from Monte Carlo to Calais in this (or similar) car. This body is only one if its kind, built by Gurney Nutting. The car still exists

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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Sea trip by rail, Brighton electric railway

A sea trip by rail, the electric railway between Brighton and Rottingdean. The line was constructed along the seashore eastwards of Brighton from the Paston Jetty, for a distance of four miles. The experimental trip on the railway was successfully performed in thirty five minutes

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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German bomb damage in Colchester

A photograph of Quartermaster-Sergeant Radjohn and his wife and baby son among the wreckage in their back-yard caused by a German bomb in February 1915. The East coast of Britain suffered a number of attacks by German planes during World War I, the first conflict to involve civilian casualities

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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