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Picture Sale27th April 1872: Buyers bidding for a painting at a picture sale in London. Original Publication: Illustrated London News (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
London Housecirca 1895: No 185 Queens Gate in London. The architect is R Norman Shaw RA. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Punting At AscotJune 1913: Boulters Lock on Ascot Sunday, packed with punts and racegoers. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Ascot Punters1st June 1913: Racegoing crowds watch the punts negotiate Boulters Lock on Ascot Sunday. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Street Urchincirca 1900: A poor boy in the streets of an English city. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
William Morriss Homecirca 1871: The interior of the designer, writer and socialist William Morriss home at Kelmscott in Oxfordshire. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Hunter Streetcirca 1900: Traffic and pedestrians on Hunter Street in central London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Curious Dogcirca 1900: A view of The Old Curiosity Shop, as immortalised by Charles Dickens, in Portsmouth Street, London, with books displayed behind the windows and a dog in the doorway
Rough Seascirca 1880: People running away from waves breaking over the promenade at Hastings, Sussex. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Oxford Studentcirca 1890: An Oxford university student wearing a mortar board. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Police Escort8th August 1911: Goods being moved under police escort during a strike by railwaymen in London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Statues In Palace1851: Statues beside flowers in the Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Quiet Readcirca 1860: A man has found a quiet spot to read his book beneath a tree at Sandringham, Norfolk. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Lady And Parrot1898: A woman admiring a caged parrot. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Stooked OatsAugust 1948: A harvestime landscape in Chieveley in the Lambourn Valley, where oats have been stacked in piles known as stooks. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Hotel Cecilcirca 1900: The Hotel Cecil in London, with the Union Jack flag flying on its roof. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Malverncirca 1930: The town of Malvern in Worcestershire. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Exercising Prisonerscirca 1890: Prisoners walking around the exercise yard of Holloway Prison, London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Workers Housingcirca 1900: A block of flats occupied by blue collar workers in East London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
New Steamer1866: A new open deck steamship moored off the shipyard which produced it in East Anglia. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Indian Paradecirca 1910: An Indian dignitary parading past a pavilion on an elephant flanked by guardsmen. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Horseback Shepherdesscirca 1906: A woman on horseback herding sheep on a farm in Westmorland. (Photo by Walmsley Brothers/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Unemployment Rally16th February 1907: A demonstration by the unemployed at Tower Hill, London, in an attempt to draw Parliaments attention to their plight. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
The Orphanagecirca 1900: A group of girls stand outside their orphanage. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Italian Schoolcirca 1907: Italian children leaving school in London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Police Torch1909: A policeman holding his torch, used as a method for the timing of motor cars. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Seddon Trial14th March 1912: A crowd gathered outside the Old Bailey at the trial of Frederick Henry Seddon who poisoned his lodger, Miss Eliza Barrow, in September 1911
Car Ferry 19091909: Motor cars and luggage packed on board a steamer at the 1909 Cowes Regatta. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Scarborough Sandscirca 1919: Holidaymakers on the beach at the North Bay in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Sleeping Picnickers1903: Picnickers asleep in the sunshine. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Oxford Streetcirca 1890: Shopkeepers and customers standing outside a row of shops in Oxford, Oxon. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Blackpool Tramlinescirca 1903: A main street, with tramlines, in the seaside resort of Blackpool, Lancashire. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A Gloster IV1929: A Gloster IV racing seaplane during a training session for the Schneider Trophy at Calshot, Southampton. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Vaulted Ceiling1937: The vaulted ceiling in the Henry VIII Chapel at Westminster Abbey in London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Stone Quarrycirca 1900: Traction engines in use at the convict quarries on the Isle Of Portland, Dorset. (Photo by J. W. Read/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Holiday Crowdscirca 1913: Holiday crowds listen to the band playing in the bandstand at the Spa, Scarborough, North Yorkshire. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Car Crash1910: A car blocks the road after being involved in an accident in Swansea. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Cathedral Pulpit1900: The pulpit in Exeter Cathedral. Londond Stereoscopic & Photographic Company - pub.1900 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Grouse ShootSeptember 1910: A hunting party grouse shooting on Wemmergill Moors. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Going To Churchcirca 1906: An Edwardian family arriving at church. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Punch And JudyJune 1908: Crowds gather to watch a Punch and Judy puppet show on the beach at Scarborough. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Postal Machinescirca 1907: Automatic stamp and postcard machines outside the General Post Office. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Brennan Monorail1910: The Brennan Monorail at White City, London. Willows airship is visible in the background. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Railway Signalscirca 1910: Overhead gantry signals, at Rugby, on the London & Northwest Railway. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
HMS Dreadnought17th February 1906: The most powerful battleship in the world, the HMS Dreadnought at its launch by the King at Portsmouth. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
In HarbourJuly 1909: A group of Class A submarines in Dover harbour. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
London Undergroundcirca 1911: A passenger tunnel in the new Underground Railway extensions. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
London Underground30th July 1912: The Central London Railway extension at Liverpool Street Station, showing the west crossover, 100 yards from the station. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)