Images Dated 1st August 2015 (page 3)

Chocolate box design, lady in carnival mask
Chocolate box design, featuring the head and shoulders of a smiling lady in a carnival mask. Date: 20th century

Advert for John Pound & Co cases 1913
Advertisement John Pound & Co dressing cases. John Pound became Lord Mayor of London in 1904. With less time to run his business, he gave contol of the company to his two sons

Battle of the Beaux and Belles, Aubrey Beardsley
The Battle of the Beaux and Belles by Aubrey Beardsley, one of his series of illustrations to Alexander Popes The Rape of the Lock. Date: 1896

In No Mans Land
" In No Mans Land: The Dread Territory Which Belongs to Neither German nor Briton" Royal engineers, working in the dark of No Mans Land to construct barbed wire barriers in front of British

Two forms of transport on a London bridge -- a double decker bus on the left, a horse and cart on the right. The bus is on Route 33A, serving Sheen, Hammersmith, Kensington, Piccadilly Circus

Le Touquet-Paris-Plage - France
Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France - The Swiss Village and the entrance to the Forest Date: circa 1910s

Chocolate box design, 18th century scenes
Chocolate box design, featuring various 18th century scenes, with people boating, on a swing, playing blind mans buff, and playing the guitar. Date: 20th century

Steam train approaching a bridge
A steam train approaching a bridge

Breaking ice for water, Tientsin, China
Men breaking ice on a frozen river for water and hauling it on sledges in Tientsin (now Tianjin), China, around 1911. Date: C.1911

Peaches Still in Season by Rick Elmes
Three pretty girls in light summer dresses and hat punt along a river in a boat during an Indian Summer. Date: 1927

Italy - Bellagio - Great British Hotel on Lake Como Date: circa 1900s

Cornishman steam engine
The Cornishman steam engine on a railway track

Gipsy woman with three children
A gipsy woman with three children, standing outside their caravan

Chemistry Institute - Lille, France
Chemistry Institute - Rue Barthelemy Delespaul, Lille, France Date: 1907

Fishermens Cottages, Portincaple - Loch Long
Fishermens Cottages (still there!) and the view west from Portincaple to Loch Goil, with Loch Long in foreground. Date: 1908

Queen of the Carnival
The Queen of the Carnival, dressed up to look like Cleopatra, riding along the road on the back of a truck, with four attendants

Harry Rountree, artist and illustrator
Harry Rountree (sometimes spelt Rowntree, 1878-1950), artist and illustrator. Seen here at work on a painting

Harry Rountree, artist and illustrator
Harry Rountree (sometimes spelt Rowntree, 1878-1950), artist and illustrator

Mountbatten wedding 1922 - Lady Edwina Ashley
Miss Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley, later Lady Louis Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma and Vicereine of India (1901-1960)

Courcelette Cemetery - Somme Battlefield Date: 22-Sep-10

Smoke from shelled fuel tanks in Madras
Thick smoke pouring from the shelled fuel tanks in Madras (now Chennai) in India, hit by shells from the German light cruiser SMS Emden which had caused havoc for the British in the Indian Ocean in

Firefighters playing billiards in a fire station
Firemen playing billiards in a fire station. Date: early 20th century

Al-Masjid al-Nabawi - Medina, Saudi Arabia Date: 1933

The Kaaba, Mecca, Saudi Arabia - The holiest site in the Islamic World and a place of pilgrimage attracting many millions of Muslims each year from all over the world

Julius Caesars invasion of Britain
This picture shows the British forces trying to prevent Roman soldiers from landing on the shores of Kent. The Romans, following the standard bearer, wade from their ship toward the shore. Date: 54 BC

Cartoon - sex before marriage?
"You won't marry a man who snores in bed? But darling, how are you going to find out?" An interesting comment on the question of sex before marriage. Date: circa 1940

A Bard singing to Ancient Britons
A Bard singing his poetry for the Britons around the campfire. These soldiers would be fighting their rivals in battle the next day... Date: circa 43 AD

Prehistoric men hunting a mammoth in Britain
Early Prehistoric Britons prepare to hunt a Woolly Mammoth. Date: Prehistoric

Dutch wartime poster -- Be Brave, Be Stormers. Showing a young cadet in uniform, carrying a flag. Date: 1940s

Harlequin, Columbine and Pierrot
Harlequin illustration, showing Harlequin and Columbine, with Pierrot looking through an open door. Date: 1923

Gas drill in Australia, two people in gas masks, WW1
Two people wearing gas masks hug each other after a successful gas drill at a Military Training Camp in Australia during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Elysee Palace - map
A plan of the Elysee Palace, Paris. Date: 1913

Victor Hugo - On deathbed
Victor-Marie Hugo ) - French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman and exponent of the French Romantic movement. Date: 1885

Peoples March for Jobs 1983
The Peoples March for Jobs, organised by the Trades Union Congress, reaches London in early June 1983. It had set off from Glasgow on 23 April Date: 3 June 1983

People's March for Jobs 1981 Petition
At 10 Downing Street, thousands of petition forms are handed in to Ian Gow, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's parliamentary private secretary, by Eric Varley, Labour MP for Chesterfield

Midlands Peoples Campaign 1982
A demonstration by the Midlands Peoples Campaign, one of several organised in September 1982 to draw attention to the plight of the unemployed. Date: September 1982

Margaret Gardner, London Underground Guard
Margaret Gardner, the first female guard on the London Underground Date: January 1977

People's March for Jobs 1981
The People's March for Jobs, which set off from Liverpool on 1st May 1981 to highlight the plight of the unemployed. The core group of 500 was joined each day by many more

American Folk Singer Concert Brockwell Park March
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George Melly
Jazz and blues singer George Melly (1926 - 2007) performs at the free concert held in Brockwell Park, south east London, in support of the 500 marchers who had walked from Liverpool to London

Vietnamese Embassy, London
The Charge d'affaires of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Lai Van Ngoc (on the right), along with his wife and staff move into their embassy in Victoria Road, London. Date: August 1976

Women protest at El Vino serving policy
Some of the group of fifty women who demanded a drink at El Vino's wine bar in Fleet Street, London, thus protesting against the bar's policy of only serving men at the bar

Jill Viner, First female London Bus driver
Jill Viner, who qualified as the first woman London Bus driver in 1974 Date: 1974

Ann Dadds
Mrs Ann Dadds, from Plaistow, East London, becomes the first woman train driver on the London Underground Date: October 1978

International Women's Day March
A march in central London to celebrate International Womens Day 1987 Date: 8 March 1987

Trico March 1976
A march in support of the striking workers at the Trico-Folberth windscreen wipers factory, Brentford. The women workers at the factory were on strike demanding equal pay with their male colleagues

Trico strikers 1976
Strikers barrack a car as it crosses the picket line at the Trico-Folberth windscreen wipers factory, Brentford, Middlesex, England

Shepherds at North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, with horses and carts, two live sheep, and what appears to be a pile of four dead sheep

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