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Street music: hopeful organ grinderAn organ grinder looks up hopefully whilst plying his trade at the kerbside. Perhaps he is serenading someone in a upper window
Royal Family visit Drury Lane Theatre to see the show Oklahoma. This day being the Queens (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon) 47th birthday
Girl Eating a HamburgerA greedy teenage girl wolfs down a hamburger! Date: 1980
Battersea Power StationDesigned by Giles Gilbert Scott, building began in 1933. It was the first of a series of very large electric generators set up in order to nationalize the grid. Date: 1960s
Eton QuadrangleA bronze statue of Henry VI, erected the early 18th century by the then provost, Dr. Godolphin, in the Quadrangle of Eton College, Berkshire, England. Date: 1972
Basket of EggsA basket of hens eggs. Date: 1980
Children PlayingA little girl arrives at the bottom of a spiral slide or helter skelter. Another child is holding a stick of candyfloss! Date: 1970
Fitted KitchenA modern British fitted kitchen. Date: 1981
Cigarette cholera cureAn advertisement for Ogdens Otto de Rose cigarettes, marketed here as a cure for cholera, following an important discovery by one Doctor Tassinari
Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Mountbatten dance together during a Ball in Edinburgh. Princess Elizabeth in a pink dress and her fiancee, Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten
Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh (then Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten) photographed in Edinburgh Date: 17th July, 1947 Date: 1947
Street music: organ grinders quarter, 1875An Italian colony in London: the organ grinders quarter near Hatton Gardens. Date: 1875
The Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince PhilipPhotograph taken at Romsey Abbey, Hampshire, when Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten was acting as usher at the wedding of the Hon
The Titanics first contact with the icebergAn illustration depicting the moment that the Titanic first came into contact with the iceberg. Date: 27th April 1912
The Allied Barracks at Scutari, Crimean War, 1854Illustration showing the Barracks for Allied troops at Scutari, Turkey, 1854. Although the barracks look substantial and well built from the outside, the interior was infested with rats and fleas
Ploughing a FieldPloughing a field on a British farm, using a tractor-drawn plough. Date: 1976
Corinth CanalPassing from West to East on the Corinth Canal, which connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea, Greece. Date: built 1881 - 1893
Connaught Hotel LondonThe exterior of the Connaught Hotel, an exclusive Victorian hotel in Mayfair, a plush area of London. Date: 1972
CAR ENGINEThe engine of an MGB sports car. Date: 1975
Cleopatras Needle, Victoria Embankment, London, one of a pair of obelisks made during the reign of Thothmes III of Egypt : Here behind a fine Victorian lamp-post. Date: photo taken 1978
Midland BankAn old couple standing outside a modern branch of the Midland Bank, England. Date: 1970
Street CleanerA road sweeper cleaning a London street. Date: early 1980s
Tanzania / ZanzibarHigh Street, Zanzibar, Tanzania, east Africa, where women are wearing yellow and other colourful dresses. Date: 1966
Queen Mothers 80ThElizabeth, the Queen Mother, photographed waving to the crowds from the Royal Carriage, on her 80th birthday (4 August 1980). Date: 1900 - 2002
Staple Inn, HolbornThe half-timbered structure of Staple Inn in Holborn, one of the few surviving Tudor buildings in central London. Dating from 1581, it was formerly an Inn of Chancery. Date: 16th century
Cheddar Cheese WedgeA wedge of English Cheddar cheese. Date: 1980
Embankment SphinxHyroglyphs on one of the bronze sphynxes at the base of Cleopatras Needle, Embankment, London. Date: 1978
Wine & Cheese EveningA carafe of red wine, fresh bread and Danish Blue and Dutch Edam cheese on the cutting board, ready for a trendy wine and cheese evening! Date: 1968
CREAM CAKEA home-made cream cake, with a cake slice beside it. Date: 1980
BIG BENBig Ben and the statue of Sir Winston Churchill, Westminster, cental London. Date: 1970s
1980S PhotocopierA rather primitive looking photocopier! Date: 1980
Embankment SphinxA bronze Sphinx, one of a pair made in the 19th century to compliment Cleopatras Needle, which was brought to the Thames Embankment, London, from Alexandria, Egypt. Date: 1978
Coffee GrinderA stylish coffee grinder. Date: 1980
French PateFrench pork and liver pate. Date: 1980
DART BOARDDarts sticking in a dart board - one of them has hit the bullseye! Date: 1980
Camera FilmCamera film with a magnetic strip. Date: 1980
Wisley FountainThe fountain and water lilies on the lake at Wisley gardens, Surrey, England. Date: 1981
The City of LondonA fine overview of the City of London, England. Date: 1981
Reading MarketA Seikh man among the shoppers at Reading Market, Berkshire, England. Date: 1980
Westminster Bridge, Westminster, central London. Date: 1980
Tube Ticket MachinesLondon underground tube ticket machines, in the days when you could travel for only 30p = bargain! Date: 1978
T. u. C. HeadquartersThe Trade Union Conference Headquarters building, central London. Date: 1980
Acre City WallsThe Medieval city walls at Acre (Akko), Israel. Acre was one of the most contested cities during the Crusades. Date: 1971
Motocross ScramblingAn uphill struggle for a Motocross scrambler! Date: 1980
SOLAR ROOFSolar panels on the roof of a suburban bungalow. Date: 1978
St. Pauls Cathedral, Ludgate Hill, City of London, built by Sir Christopher Wren between 1675 and 1708, of Portland stone, in a late Renaissance to Baroque style. Date: 1969
MICROSCOPEA modern microscope, in common use in school Science classrooms. Date: 1970s