Images Dated 5th July 2018

Is the futre war-ship to be aeroplane or balloon?

Arist's prediction from 1907 of what a future war might look like, in this case aerial battle-ships - not, as it turns out, far from the reality just a decade after this picture was published in The Illustrated London News. The Illustrated London News artist suggests that engine-powered aircraft might be used rather than the dirigible balloons being developed at that time by the Germans and French. Date: 1907

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

THEATRE/SWAN/1614

A view of this London theatre peeping out from among the trees of Southwark. Built in 1594-96 by Francis Langley it was built of a concrete of flint stones & wooden columns. Date: 1614

© Bubblepunk