Images Dated 31st July 2015 (page 26)

Romania - Princess Maria
Princess Maria of Romania - the Queen consort of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (1900-1961). She was the Great Granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom! Date: circa 1905

Romania - Alexander School at Galati Date: circa 1910s

Verona - The Roman Amphitheatre (3 / 3)
Verona - The Roman Amphitheatre - exterior view of the outer and inner surrounding walls Date: circa 1910s

Romania - Galati - the waterfront Date: 1904

Verona - Piazza Erbe, Italy Date: circa 1910s

The Sketch front cover 1956
Sketch front cover illustration featuring a group of people enjoying a picnic. They also appear to be watching something - a concert perhaps, or the opera? Date: 1956

Smoked Sugar Beet plantation at Precy-sur-Oise, France
Organic Smoked Sugar Beet plantation at Precy-sur-Oise, France owned by Monsieur Fauquert. Date: 1929

Sweeps procession on May Day
A chimney sweeps procession in celebration of May Day with a Jack in the Green covered in foliage. Date: 1855

A motor sledge for the South Pole
A motor sledge device for transport in heavy snow, used by Lieutenant Barnes on M.Charcots French expedition to the South Pole which set off in 1908 in the Pourquoi Pas. Date: 1909

King Henry VIII at Shooters Hill
Henry VIII on May Day at Shooters Hill in south-east London. A bowman appears to be inviting him to a spot of archery. Date: 16th Century

Jack in the Green
Villagers enjoy a May Day celebration as a Jack in the Green, a Lord of the May, and other foliage-clad figures cavort and dance. Date: 1843

Chimney Sweepers on May Day
May Day celebrations of the chimney sweeps. The text with the picture gives some interesting information about Jack in the Green and the Lord and Lady

Jack in the Green on May Day
A rather tired and sullen-looking May Day procession featuring a Jack in the Green, and the Lord and Lady of the May. Date: 1836

Teaching
Cover of Mrs Leicesters School by Charles and Mary Lamb, showing three young girls in matching outfits singing from songbooks surrounded by an apple blossom border. Date: early 19th century

Winter in the British Lines on the Somme 1917
In February 1917, when the ground was sodden with slush and snow everywhere, work had to be still done, making or capturing trenches

Children on a slide at Bexhill
Two children, a girl and a boy, with two women at the top of a wooden playground slide in Bexhill, Sussex. Horses on a roundabout can be seen in the background. Date: 1928

Advert for J. C Vickery lucky jewellery 1916
J.C Vickery jewellers advertising two lucky jewellery items for soldiers to wear: lucky white heather for parting souvenirs 15ct gold & whole pearl pendent and glod chain or brooch

Paris air raid precautions WWII
A Paris Air Raid Precautions (ARP) decontamination squad at work during rehearsal. The signs used for warning Parisians of a gas attack are certainly grim reminders Date: May 1940

Sir Richard Tangye
Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye, civil engineer and industrialist, manufacturer of engines and other heavy equipment. Seen here in the late 1850s with the Great Eastern steamship before its launch to

HMS New Zealand, battlecruiser in Durban Date: 1913

HMS New Zealand, battlecruiser in Honolulu harbour

British soldiers WWII
British 2nd Army moving on the Western Front in Belgium during World War II Date: January 1940

HMS Renown
Guns on the HMS Renown in action, battlecruiser

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