Images Dated 18th October 2007 (page 5)

Ballroom Dance / Forgotten
Though he has reserved this waltz on her dance card, he has not come to claim her - has he forgotten her ? is he drunk ? is he playing poker ? or has he found another ?

Paris / Place Republique
Place de la Republique

J Franklin Birthplace
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN His birthplace at Spilsby, Lincolnshire

Dancing at the Kit-Kat
Dancers and diners at the Kit- Kat Club in the Haymarket, London : membership costs you seven guineas - equivalent to several hundred pounds today

Sponge Sellers / Turkey
Sponge sellers from Istanbul carry their goods in baskets and tied onto sticks

Paris / Notre Dame C1870
Notre Dame de Paris, in all its gothic splendour

Governor Joseph Dudley of Massachussetts
Joseph Dudley (1647-1720) - English colonial administrator, a native of Roxbury, Massachusetts - played a leading role in the administration of the Dominion of New England

Berlin Dance School 1929
At a Berlin dance academy, pupils learn with the help of film and gramophone, though watching the screen while minding your partner and your neighbours can t be easy

Ladys Maids Make Bed
Two maidservants make their mistresss bed with bolster and pillows

NANTES / L ERDRE C1900
Nantes: l Erdre

Marseille / Notre Dame
Marseille: Notre Dame de la Garde

Royal Home / Osborne C1900
Osborne House, Isle of Wight: the Drawing Room

Using Mech. Semaphore
A rating of the Royal Navy using the mechanical semaphore

Girl Selling Potatoes
Girl selling potatoes, full weight

GREAT EASTERN DECK
The view (looking aft) from the port paddle box of the Great Eastern showing the trough for cable

Shore End of Cable
Laying the shore end of the cable at Port Magee, Ireland

Compositor at Wors
A compositor at work, setting the type for a book individual letter by individual letter, to say nothing of spaces and punctuation

Melk Austria 1930
Melk Date: 1930

Doll Breakers
Doll breaker

The Dollmaker (Female)
The doll-maker offers her wares in the street

Trim / River Boyne C1910
Trim: river Boyne

Letter Flown to Liner
A Philadelphia businessman with an urgent letter for a passenger on the outgoing transatlantic liner Olympic has it flown and dropped onto the ships deck

French Mail Train 1909
The wagon-poste of a French mail train : the bureau ambulant (mobile sorting office)

Tintern Abbey / 1909
Tintern Abbey, Monmouth, with the river Wye

Street / Homeless Boy 1891
Passers-by gather round a small homeless boy : a policeman takes charge of him

THE CHASE 1904
THE CHASE ! A symbolic depicting of the immense enthusiasm for motor racing at this period when cars were still a novelty

Ayli : Seven Ages of Man
THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN

Buck Palace / Music Room
Buckingham Palace, London: the Music Room

Covent Garden 1847
Old Covent Garden Theatre - during a performance of the opera Semiramide by Rossini

Chelsea Bridge 1858
with boats

Panto Audience 1890
A party of children enjoy the panto at Drury Lane Theatre, London

Elephants Bathing C1840
Regents Park, London : an elephant in his bath

Thames / Hampton Bridge
The Thames at Hampton Bridge

Piccadilly Circus 1927
Piccadilly Circus by night, with lots of people out enjoying themselves

St James Park / Whitehall
Whitehall viewed from St Jamess Park

Chestnut Woman / Crane
The chestnut woman sells hot roasted chestnuts at ten a penny to two small children

Parsifal - Liebig 4
Act two : Klingsor, Parsifal and Kundry

Businessman, Secretary
A businesman dictates to his secretary

Shipbuilding, Ww1 Period
A ship on the stocks in a British shipyard during World War One, when ships were being built as rapidly as possible to replace those sunk by the German U-boats

Roasting Chestnuts
Children roast chestnuts in a big open fireplace

Chelsea / Old River Wall
Chelsea: the old river wall

Clemence Isaure
CLEMENCE ISAURE well-born lady of Toulouse who encouraged poetry - le gai savoir - and jeux floraux (floral games) : however she almost certainly never existed

Library Office 1947
A model of tidiness and application, this public library office is neatly and sparsely laid out; its female staff appear to be absorbed in their work

Barnards Inn / Holborn
Barnards Inn, Holborn: the buildings on the right were pulled down in 1893

Paris Patisserie / 1890
Women and children tucking into eclairs and other tasty cakes in a Parisian patisserie

Warming-Pan, C18
A maidsevant puts a warming- pan between the sheets of the bed in which her mistress will later sleep

Christmas / Firewood 19Th
A Norwegian peasant woman walks home through the winter snow with a bundle of firewood on her back

London / Project / Victoria
Proposed Victoria Memorial at Buckingham Palace, aerial view

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