Days Gone By

Jul 6 2012
6:31 pm

Cheapside, with the Church of Saint Mary le Bow in the background and open top motor buses on the road, London, 1909.

Posted 10 months ago
#1900s #london #england #UK #vintage #history

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Jul 6 2012
6:12 pm

Short Sunderland V of 201 Squadron RAF moored at Tower Bridge, London, 16 September 1956.

Posted 10 months ago
#1950s #UK #bridge #england #history #london #tower bridge #vintage #water plane #thames river #river #architecture

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Jul 6 2012
5:42 pm

Chalmers Butterfield, Piccadilly Circus looking up Shaftesbury Avenue, London, ca. 1949.

Posted 10 months ago
#1940s #chalmers butterfield #piccadilly circus #shafetesbury #london #england #UK #vintage #history

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Jul 5 2012
10:20 pm

A suffragist (possibly Emmeline Pankhurst) on a hunger strike, being forcibly fed with a nasal tube at HM Prison Holloway, Islington, London, ca. 1911.

Posted 10 months ago
#1910s #UK #emmeline pankhurst #england #force feeding #history #islington #jail #london #prison #suffragist #torture #vintage #hunger strike

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Jul 4 2012
10:25 pm

Prince John of the United Kingdom, 1913.

Source: Bibliotheque nationale de France

Posted 10 months ago
#1910s #prince john of the united kingdom #england #UK #children #vintage #portrait #history #royalty

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Jul 4 2012
1:25 am

East front of Addiscombe Place, the main building of Addiscombe Seminary, Surrey, London, ca. 1859. Cadets pose in the foreground.

Posted 10 months ago
#1850s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #portrait #history #addiscombe seminary #surrey #england #UK #london

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Jul 3 2012
10:02 am

Robert Kirkup Dent, The Free Grammar School (now known as King Edward’s School) on New Street in Birmingham, England, 1894.

Posted 10 months ago
#1890s #19th century #victorian #vintage #history #architecture #robert kirkup dent #king edward's school #birmingham #england #UK

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Jul 3 2012
8:31 am

Alvin Langdon Coburn, Wyndham Lewis, London, 25 February 1916.

Source: New York Public Library

Posted 10 months ago
#1910s #vintage #portrait #history #alvin langdon coburn #wyndham lewis #london #england #UK

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Jul 2 2012
8:49 pm

Charles Kean and his wife as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, England, 1858.

Posted 10 months ago
#1850s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #portrait #history #england #UK #shakespeare #theater #macbeth

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Jul 2 2012
8:03 pm

Ernest Brooks, Battle of Broodseinde Ridge - troops moving up at eventide. Men of a Yorkshire regiment on the march, 1917.

Source: National Library of Scotland

Posted 10 months ago
#1910s #ernest brooks #silhouette #history #battle of broodseinde #belgium #wwI #world war I #england #UK #yorkshire #war photography

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