1940 1949 Collection (#30)

Opera Bar
27th July 1948: Crush bar at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden with chandelier and double staircase. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Royal Pavilion
15th July 1948: The Banqueting Room of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, Sussex, added by architect John Nash in 1818, ready for the opening of a Regency exhibition

Brighton Pavilion
15th July 1948: The Music Room at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton bespeaks opulence with many articles in the exhibition having been lent by the King and Queen, Princess Elizabeth

Famous Shop
26th August 1948: A view of The Old Curiosity Shop, as immortalised by Charles Dickens, in Portsmouth Street, London, with pictures displayed behind the windows

Octopus
circa 1949: Study of an octopus. (Photo by Reinhold Thiele/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Avro Lancastrian
12th July 1946: A Lancastrian aircraft at the trade show at Handley Page airfield in Radlett, Hertfordshire. The aircraft is fitted with two Rolls-Royce Nene turbojet engines

Out Walking
29th March 1948: Two young hikers out for a walk near Wray Windmill, Surrey. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bristol Brabazon
circa 1949: The first air to air picture of the giant Bristol Brabazon in flight. Once the largest air liner in the world, the Brabazon had a fuel capacity of 13, 000 gallons

Frank Whittle
10th January 1944: English engineer and inventor of the jet plane Sir Frank Whittle (1907 - 1996). (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hastings
22nd June 1948: An elevated view of the waterfront, promenade and beach at Hastings, east Sussex, England. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Mayor La Guardia
23rd August 1940: Fiorello La Guardia (1882 - 1947), Mayor of New York, USA. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

London Skyline
2nd September 1946: South central Londons skyline from Admiralty Arch. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Foggy Christmas
1st December 1948: Two policemen regard Londons 64ft Christmas tree, a gift from Norway, illuminated in Trafalgar Square, in front of the National Gallery

Houses Of Parliament
18th September 1946: The Houses of Parliament, the seat of the British legislature on the north bank of the River Thames in London. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Housing Estate
18th September 1947: Ashburton Housing Estate built by Croydon Corporation on the site of the old Beckenham Golf course. Allotments can be seen in the foreground. (Photo by J. A)

Cricket Match
12th July 1946: England v The Rest. Spectators watching the England team batting at Canterbury, Kent. (Photo by Frank Harrison/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Sweet Tooth
24th April 1949: Three children gazing longingly through the window of a sweetshop on the day that sweet rationing ended in Britain. (Photo by Monty Fresco/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Prizewinning Ram
24th September 1948: A prizewinning ram at the Kent or Romney Marsh Sheep Breeders Association 51st Annual Show of Registered Sheep at the cattle market at Ashford, Kent. (Photo by Edward G)

Bomb Site
circa 1940: A heap of rubble and the shell of a house in the Temple area of London, after a World War II German bombing raid. (Photo by Frank J. Galloon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Avro Lancastrian
13th September 1946: A Lancastrian aircraft in flight at the trade show at Handley Page airfield in Radlett, Hertfordshire

Ready For Passengers
10th July 1947: The Queen Mary at Southampton after her refitting at the end of WW II during which she was used as a troopship

Epsom Locals
28th May 1949: A line up of children watch the preparations for Epsom Derby. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Wells Lecture
1944: English author H G Wells (Herbert George Wells, 1866 - 1946) lecturing at the Czechoslovakian Institute in London. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)

Bridge Building
1942: Waterloo Bridge, London, under construction. (Photo by Express/Express/Getty Images)

Doberman pinscher
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1940s: Doberman pinscher dog. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Teddy Topiary
15th September 1945: Shrubs shaped into teddy bears at Kew Gardens. Original Publication: Picture Post - 2090 - Crazy Garden - pub.1945 (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Refugee Camp
25th June 1949: A Palestinian refugee camp near the shores of the Dead Sea in Jordan, in the year following the Arab Israeli War which marked the creation of the State of Israel

Straw Dog
12th October 1946: Quare Times, the record-breaking greyhound. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4226 - ?10, 000s Worth Of Dog - pub.1946 (Photo by Charles Hewitt/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Top Of The Train
21st September 1946: Jean Durlachers pet cat sitting on top of a luggage rack during a train journey. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4207 - A Cats Life - pub

Bradford On Avon
3rd August 1946: The ancient bridge of Bradford-on-Avon in the south west of England. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4151- A Walk In The Heart Of England - pub

Burns Countryside
27th July 1946: The picturesque landscape of Ayrshire where Robert Burns used to wander. Robert Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, the son of a farmer

Tinsel Town
circa 1945: A view of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine at night, with artificial Christmas trees and decorations lining the road, Los Angeles, California

Aden Invaded
8th July 1940: Steamer Point at Aden. Aden has been brought nearer to military operations after three towns in British Somaliland were occupied by Italian invaders

VE Day in London
8th May 1945: Crowds in Piccadilly Circus climb lampposts and the Eros statues protective container, on VE Day. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

No More Blackout
26th May 1945: After nearly six years of war the blackout was lifted and London lit up for all to see. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

So Near
1st August 1943: These two women and their children travelled all day from west Kensington, London, to the East Coast, only to find when they got there that they had to look at the sea through barbed

Air Raid Damage
1st October 1940: A warden inspecting the damage after German aircraft dropped bombs on the city. (Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Post War U-Boat Pen
19th October 1945: A U-boat in pen at Finkenwerde, near Hamburg, wrecked by Royal Air Force bombs during the war. The Royal Engineers continue with the demolition process using former German

Guadalcanal Casualty
4th November 1943: A Japanese transport ship with its wrecked stern resting on the bottom of the beach at Guadalcanal. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Protective Fire
August 1942: Anti aircraft fire, sent up by US warships as protection for their forces who are landing on the beaches at Guadalcanal, can be seen as black dots in the sky

Artificial Sun
17th April 1942: Civil Defence Workers in Finsbury are beating the winter pallor with free sun lamp treatments. They call it Mixray at the Finsbury Health Centre

Hitler Undone
February 1945: An American GI removing a sign which reads Adolf Hitler Street from the side of a building in Duren, Germany. The street is to be renamed following the Second World War

Italian Tank
circa 1940: An Italian tank in Northern Egypt. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

VJ Day
11th August 1945: Revellers dancing in a floodlit Trafalgar Square to celebrate the end of the war in the Far East. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Zeppelinfield
1945: The huge Zeppelin Stadium at Nuremberg, built to display Nazi might, is in Allied hands. Here the Nazi Party held its rallies and Hitler made his speeches. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Ledo Road
January 1945: Some of the first Chinese trucks pass through on the Ledo Burma Road, after its re-opening at the end of the Second World War. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Flight Deck
circa 1943: An American plane flying above an American aircraft carrier, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. In the background is the destroyer escort. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Flying Tank
circa 1941: One of the American M-3 Medium Tanks in action in the Western Desert War. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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