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Signs And Symbols Collection (#5)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Shipping Disaster

Shipping Disaster
29th May 1914: Crowds gather to read the latest newsheet, following the sinking of the Empress of Ireland, with great loss of life. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Postponed Match

Postponed Match
11th December 1914: A variety artist dressed in costume with a sign around his neck notifying people of the postponement due to bad weather of the football match between Jockeys

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: East End Market

East End Market
October 1928: Market traders at Spitalfields Market, London. (Photo by J. Gaiger/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Motor-Boat Club

Motor-Boat Club
May 1906: Members of the British Motor-Boat Club at Kingston. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Lauterbrunnen

Lauterbrunnen
August 1910: Visitors arriving at a restaurant and cafe at Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Dangerous Cuppa

Dangerous Cuppa
5th August 1927: An umbrella and fancy goods shop in kentish Town, London where a woman and her two teenage daughters died in a gas filled room after a kettle boiled over and put the gas out

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Boillot In Peugot

Boillot In Peugot
12th July 1913: Boillot takes a bend in his Peugot, near Bores, during the 1913 French Grand Prix. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Church Gate

Church Gate
December 1908: The gateway to the church of St Bartholomnew the Great at Smithfield, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Crowds In The Street

Crowds In The Street
July 1915: People gathered in the streets of Shoreditch after a zeppelin raid on the area. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Cinema Lights

Cinema Lights
July 1929: The lit-up exterior of the Empire Theatre cinema in Leicester Square, London. (Photo by J. Gaiger/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Market Hall Traders and Porters

Market Hall Traders and Porters
9th May 1928: Traders and porters busy at work in the central hall of Covent Garden Market, London. (Photo by J. Gaiger/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: List Of Tolls

List Of Tolls
21st February 1907: A sign displaying the tolls charged for crossing Hayling Bridge, Sussex. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Avro Scout

Avro Scout
16th March 1914: An Avro Scout biplane fitted with a 80hp Gnome engine, on display at the Aero Show, Olympia, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Olympia Aero Show

Olympia Aero Show
14th March 1914: Display stands at the Aero Show, Olympia, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Mud Exhibit

Mud Exhibit
14th February 1924: The Nigerian mud village exhibit at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, London, nears completion. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Meat Vans

Meat Vans
28th May 1912: Crowds demonstrating as meat vans leave Connaught Docks for Smithfield meat market, London, during the 1912 transport workers strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Holborn Empire

Holborn Empire
1909: The Holborn Empire music hall, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Olympia Theatre

Olympia Theatre
1909: Exterior of the Olympia Theatre in Shoreditch, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Italian Delicatessen

Italian Delicatessen
An Italian delicatessen in the Italian immigrant area of Londons East End. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Animal Hero

Animal Hero
February 1916: A cab horse in Paris which was wounded during service on the front lines during World War I. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Berlin Road

Berlin Road
circa 1918: A sign for the Berlin Road, which has been renamed Tipperary. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Sign Of Danger

Sign Of Danger
circa 1916: A sign at the Belgian-Dutch frontier during World War I reads Achtung or Attention and alerts people to the danger of the high voltage electric fence

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Selfridges Lights

Selfridges Lights
26th March 1928: A night scene in Londons Oxford Street, outside the famous Selfridges department store. (Photo by Console/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Trams

Trams
June 1922: LCC trams of classes B, A and E/1, K type buses and subsidy lorries causing a small traffic jam at the Elephant and Castle

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Sports Day

Sports Day
21st August 1919: Spectators at the Grasmere and Lake District Athletic Festival. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Lancia Lambda

Lancia Lambda
31st October 1927: An example of Lancia cars at the 1927 Motor Show. (Photo by Brooke/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Travelling On Top

Travelling On Top
6th March 1914: Two gentlemen travelling on the open top deck of a London bus. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Bus Stop

Bus Stop
12th August 1912: A Railways bus stops to allow passengers to alight at a stop in Trefriw. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Traffic At Bank

Traffic At Bank
25th June 1912: Passers-by and traffic at the Bank of England looking towards the Royal Exchange in the City of London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Blackfriars Bridge

Blackfriars Bridge
June 1912: Traffic leaving Blackfriars Bridge, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Kingsway Construction

Kingsway Construction
1905: The construction site at Kingsway, central London, before building operations were commenced. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Horse Bus Garage

Horse Bus Garage
1911: Horse Buses parked in a London garage. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Holiday Crowds

Holiday Crowds
June 1919: Bank holiday crowds queue for trams and buses in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Transport Workers

Transport Workers
March 1916: National Motor Volunteers board a London and North Western Railway bus at Potters Bar. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Riot Damage

Riot Damage
1922: The damaged streets of Fordsburg after the Johannesburg Riots. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Queue Of Shoppers

Queue Of Shoppers
28th June 1928: A queue of shoppers, stretching round a corner, outside Messrs Mentones department store on Oxford Street, London, waiting for the summer sale to open

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Singer Building

Singer Building
July 1912: The Singer Building in New York, with the City Investment Building in front, on Lower Broadway. Completed in 1908, to the design of architect Ernest Flagg, it was demolished in 1968

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Railway Porter

Railway Porter
26th October 1907: A railway porter stands with a trolley on a platform luggage weighing scale at Marleybone station, London

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Savation Army HQ

Savation Army HQ
21st August 1912: The headquarters of the Salvation Army in Queen Victoria Street, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Canadian Recruits

Canadian Recruits
1st September 1915: A crowd of eager Canadians outside Toronto Town Hall, during a military recruitment campaign. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Cinema Crowd

Cinema Crowd
5th October 1918: Crowds wait to enter the New Gallery cinema. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Sandwich Men

Sandwich Men
1908: Sandwich-board men advertising the Clement stand at an Olympia exhibition in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Crowd For Trams

Crowd For Trams
1919: People crowd to get on buses and trams in London on a Bank Holiday. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Bathing Huts

Bathing Huts
1907: A lone bather heads for the bathing huts. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Astra Stand

Astra Stand
circa 1910: The Astra stand showing the carriage of the latest Astra airship. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Rowers Carry Boat

Rowers Carry Boat
circa 1907: The Furnivall Rowing Eight bringing in their boat. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: A Great Exhibition

A Great Exhibition
1924: The Palace of Beauty, sponsored by soap manufacturer Pears, at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSigns And Symbols Collection: Unemployed Demo

Unemployed Demo
circa 1922: A section of the crowd on the May Day labour demonstration in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)



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