Images Dated 5th March 2012

Bedford, Street Scene
A road in the outskirts of Bedford showing modern blocks of flats. Date: 1964

The Queen wearing the imperial crown, members of the royal family, and maids of honour, on the balcony at the palace for the fly-past of the RAF following her Coronation on 2nd June 1953. 1953

Street music: a family of singers
A pathetic scene: an impoverished family of street singers, shoeless and ragged, singing in the rain. Date: 1870

Daily Sketch Coronation Number 1953 Queen Elizabeth II
Front cover of The Daily Sketch Coronation Number featuring a portrait of the new monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. Date: 1953

Music Lesson / Bramfield
Pupils learning the recorder at Bramfield Primary School, Suffolk, England. Date: July 1957

Princess Elizabeth in Pram
Princess Elizabeth in a pram. The future Queen Elizabeth II in a pram pushed by her nanny Clara Knight and accompanied by her grandfather, King George V

Mrs. John Bowes Lyon
Fenella Bowes Lyon(1917-1980), second daughter of Lord and Lady Clinton, pictured shortly after her marriage to John Bowes Lyon

The Royal Family at a garden party at Balmoral Castle
The Silver Jubilee of King George V. The Royal Family at a garden party at Balmoral Castle on September 10th 1927

Princess Elizabeth & Princess Margaret with Queen Mother
Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret seated together with their mother, Queen Elizabeth and a corgi. Date: c.1945

Meakers advertisement
Advertisement for menswear stores, Meakers of London, depicting a dapper chap seated in front a picture of a very crowded Henley Regatta. 1927

Social / Liverpool 1960S
A couple of boys build a wigwam on an area of grass near where they live in Liverpool. Date: 1960s

Advert for Kensitas Cigarettes, 1929
Its better to be fit than fat Kensitas Cigarettes marketed as a appetite suppressant in 1929, recommending substituting snacks between meals with a cigarette instead

Princess Elizabeth with newborn Prince Charles
Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) gazes down at her firstborn child, Prince Charles (Prince of Wales) lying in his cradle. Date: 1948

Children / Playground 1957
Children on the climbing frame in the playground of Branfield Primary School, Suffolk. Date: July 1957

Crowd of Children 1950S
A crowd of children watch a Punch & Judy performance at the Whit Monday Church fete in a park in Thaxted, Essex. Date: 1950s

Street music: a ballad singer, 1865
A ragged ballad singer sings on a street corner. Ladies in crinolines hurry past him, but three ragged children show interest. Date: 1865

Street music: A street singer, 1857
A passing child shows charity to an old street singer, placing money in his hat in appreciation for his music. Date: 1857

Street musicians
Three street musicians ply their trade on London Street-an old soldier grinds the organ, whilst a woman and a boy bawl out the words

Street music: a ballad singer
The ballad singer. " He is your only performer that requires not many entreaties for a song; for he will chant, without asking, to a street cur or a parish post."

Princess Margaret with Queen Mother
Photograph of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900 - 2002). with her younger daughter, Princess Margaret (1930 - 2002) dressed for the Highlands. Probably taken at or near Balmoral. Date: c.1947

The Dance magazine front cover 1931
Front cover of The Dance magazine featuring a stylised illustration of numerous personalities of the New York stage in the early 1930s. Date: 1931

Street music: A November day, 1872
Three weary street musicians ply their trade on a rainy day in November. Date: 1872

Princess Elizabeth with corgi
Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) pictured giving her corgi a comforting hug at 145, Piccadilly, her childhood home, in 1936. Date: 1936

Street music: orphan ballad singers
Orphan ballad singers perform in a street. An audience of children listen, whilst a woman seated on a bench looks thoughtful

Outdoor study for Princess Elizabeth and Margaret
The Princesses as schoolgirls. Outdoor study in 1941 supervised by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Mother). Date: 1941

Street music: Paris balladeer
Two fashionably dressed young women laugh at a ballad singer as he sings in a Paris street. Perhaps he is singing a comic song. Date: 1912

Advert for Ewarts Califront hot water 1927
Advertisement for Ewarts baths and geysers, with a picture of a maid bringing a tray of morning tea to her mistress, who is still reclinging in bed, and clearly too busy to even switch on her bath

Global Goldfish
A well-travelled goldfish in its global bowl. Date: 1980

Fashions for the 1927 debutante
A page of beautiful illustrations by Anne Rochester outlining the essential items required by the seasons debutante, inlcuding a georgette wrapper (dressing gown) patterened with cherries

Inauguration of St. Georges Hall, Liverpool, 1854
The inauguration of St. Georges Hall, Liverpool. Interior from the south, during the performance of the first oratorio

Scottish Penny Wedding
A Penny Wedding where the guests are expected to make a financial contribution to the cost of the wedding and setting up the newly-weds in the necessities of life. Date: early 19th century

Dog in Liverpool Street
Liverpool: street scene with dog Date: 1960

Coventry Shopping Centre
A rainy shopping day in Coventry, Warwickshire Date: 1961

Little girl eating an ice cream, Cornwall
Close-up of a little girl sitting on a mooring post in a Cornwall harbour, eating an ice cream. Date: circa 1955

Boys Smoking Ciggies
One boy lights the cigarette of another in a Liverpool street Date: 1960s

Social / Cricket / Kent
Two men sit on a bench in the shade to watch a cricket match in Kent Date: 1950s

Little girl eating an ice cream, Cornwall
A little girl sits on a mooring post in a Cornwall harbour, eating an ice cream. Date: circa 1955

Women in Biscuit Factory
Women working in a biscuit factory on the outskirts of London. Date: 1971

Air Conditioning Factory
Women working in an air conditioning system factory. Date: 1971

Street Football 1966
Children play football outside their council flats in Sheffield Date: 1966

Pupils with tuck boxes, Marlborough School
Pupils raid their tuck boxes at Marlborough School. Date: 1962

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