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England Black Collection (page 5)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: R-101 Mooring

R-101 Mooring
17th October 1929: An R101 airship on the mooring mast at Cardington, Bedford. (Photo by Puttnam /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Airship R-101

Airship R-101
October 1929: Airship R101 passing over St Pauls Cathedral, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Ludgate Circus

Ludgate Circus
3rd January 1914: A policeman stops the traffic and helps pedestrians to cross the road at Ludgate Circus in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Queen Mary

Queen Mary
27th March 1936: The Cunard liner Queen Mary, arriving at Southampton for the first time. (Photo by Rapho Guillumette/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: SS Berengaria

SS Berengaria
4th May 1933: The giant Cunard liner Berengaria entering Southampton harbour assisted by tugs. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace
25th April 1914: A general view of Crystal Palace football ground during the FA Cup final between Burnley and Liverpool. Burnley won 1-0. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Crystal Palace Cup

Crystal Palace Cup
1st April 1914: Crowds on their way to watch the F A Cup Final of 1914 held at Crystal Palace, London, between Liverpool and Burnley. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Armistice Day

Armistice Day
1926: Armistice Day commemorations at Whitehall, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Shapely Nightie

Shapely Nightie
30th April 1949: A woman in a nylon nightie by Charmese. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4758 - Nylon For Lingerie - pub. 1949 (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Tights and Shorts 70s Style

Tights and Shorts 70s Style
7th June 1976: Models, Lynn and Christine, wearing a new style of tights and shorts from the Aristoc range. (Photo by Jones/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Lambeth Walkers

Lambeth Walkers
circa 1924: Crowds in Lambeth to see Lupino Lane doing the Lambeth Walk. He failed to perform because of the size of the crowd. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Abandoned Lorry

Abandoned Lorry
26th February 1976: A lorry which has been abandoned at Surrey Docks, south-east London. (Photo by E. Milsom/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Modern Oast House

Modern Oast House
21st September 1932: An all electric drying and fumigating oast house at the Hop Pickers camp in Faversham, Kent. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Blitz Skyline

Blitz Skyline
circa 1940: London skyline in the blitz silhouetted by the light of fires. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Slum Houses

Slum Houses
1st May 1954: Neglected houses near the High Level Bridge in Newcastle. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7143 - Newcastle: Revival Of A City - pub

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Fighting The Pounds

Fighting The Pounds
26th November 1955: Principal Boy actress Lynette Ray working out under the supervision of Mickey Wood at his Tough Guy Agency in Marylebone, London

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Horses Eye View

Horses Eye View
December 1951: A pair of legs in seamed tights, a view of the principal boy as seen by the pantomime horse. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5642 - Brothers Under The Skin - pub

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Tie Shop

Tie Shop
15th October 1938: Tartan ties belonging to various Scottish clans on display in a Whitechapel shop in the East End of London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 27 - Whitechapel - pub

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Canberras

Canberras
31st May 1952: A squadron of twin-jet Canberra bombers. A light bomber which carries no armament, relying on speed and height. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5879 - RAF Scare: The Truth - pub

Background imageEngland Black Collection: London View

London View
circa 1800: A 19th century etching by N Whittock, from the drawing by Anthony van der Wyngrede in 1543, of Westminster and Southwark. From the Bodleian Collection

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Express Train

Express Train
1880: North Eastern Railway express locomotive. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Doorstep Gossip

Doorstep Gossip
circa 1895: A ragged group sitting on a doorstep in a Liverpool slum. (Photo by J. Burke/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Election Ladder

Election Ladder
6th October 1900: Two ladders front the Daily Graphic Office in the Strand, with life-size figures of Lord Salisbury and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Telephone Operator

Telephone Operator
circa 1896: An operator at the distant-message wires, in the telephone exchange in Manchester. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Panda Head Bucket

Panda Head Bucket
6th July 1959: Chi-Chi the giant panda attempts to remove a rubber bucket from her head at London Zoo. (Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Forbidden Fruit; A young girl endeavours to pick an apple from the tree

Forbidden Fruit; A young girl endeavours to pick an apple from the tree
31st December 1956: A young girl endeavours to pick an apple from the tree. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8782 - Champion Children - unpub. (Photo by Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: A man in a bowler hat walking under the arches on the cobbled Wapping High Street, London

A man in a bowler hat walking under the arches on the cobbled Wapping High Street, London
3rd December 1949: A man in a bowler hat walking under the arches on the cobbled Wapping High Street, London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4931 - The Pool Of London - pub

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Treacherous Sands; Low tide, or low water slack, at Goodwin Sands

Treacherous Sands; Low tide, or low water slack, at Goodwin Sands
1st May 1948: Low tide, or low water slack, at Goodwin Sands. The area is seamed with gullies and swillies formed by the swirling tides. Some of the holes have twelve feet of water above the sand

Background imageEngland Black Collection: The Steam Locomotive Flying Scotsman at Wembley

The Steam Locomotive Flying Scotsman at Wembley
21st April 1925: The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman at Wembley. It is being moved sideways from its track into position for exhibition. (Photo by Brooke/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: World War II

World War II
Fine Art Storehouse Vintage Photo Art: War: World War II

Background imageEngland Black Collection: 3-Litre Lagonda

3-Litre Lagonda
24th October 1953: A 3-Litre Lagonda motor car. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6771 - German Diesel Car For The Motor Show - pub. 1953 (Photo by Carl Sutton/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Steering Gear of SS Endurance

Steering Gear of SS Endurance
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 1914: The steering gear of SS Endurance during preparations for Sir Ernest Shackletons Antarctic expedition at Millwall Docks in London, England

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Unionist Rally

Unionist Rally
27th July 1912: Crowds cheering during the Great Unionist Rally at Blenheim Palace. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Bembridge Regatta

Bembridge Regatta
30th August 1935: The start of the dinghy race, with a record 42 entrants, at the Bembridge Sailing Regatta and annual meeting, Isle of Wight. (Photo by G. Adams/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: FA Fans

FA Fans
20th September 1919: Millwall Football Club football match against Reading. (Photo by Thompson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Subway From Track

Subway From Track
June 1907: A subway leading off the track at Brooklands racetrack. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Passenger Train

Passenger Train
2nd September 1930: A replica of the first train on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway used in 1838. (Photo by J. Gaiger/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Steam Tractor

Steam Tractor
October 1906: A steam tractor belonging to the East Lancashire & Oldham Carrying Co Ltd. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: AJS Motorcycle

AJS Motorcycle
13th November 1930: An AJS 3.49 horsepower motorcycle at the Motor Cycle Show at Olympia, London. (Photo by Davies/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Happy Tank

Happy Tank
13th June 1952: A Cromwell tank jumping a distance of 31 feet after taking off from a concrete ramp. A demonstration at the Royal Armoured Corps Centre at Bovington Camp, Dorset. (Photo by E)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Derby Favourite

Derby Favourite
24th April 1946: Racehorse trainer Walter Earl on the paddock at Stanley House Stables in Newmarket Heath, in training for Mays big racing event, the Derby One Thousand

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Watching Derby

Watching Derby
June 1921: People on the top of motor buses watch the Derby at Epsom Downs, Surrey. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Enigma Code

Enigma Code
7th January 1926: Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, HQ of the Allied cryptopgraphers during WW II and where the German Enigma and Lorenz codes, both considered unbreakable, were deciphered

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Battersea Controls

Battersea Controls
30th August 1978: An interior view of Battersea Power Station, an Art Deco building in south London, showing scientific instruments and controls. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Midland Bank Safe

Midland Bank Safe
October 1938: The entrance to the Midland Bank Safe Deposit in the new Head Office Building, Poultry, London, EC2. The door and its frame together weight 35 tons

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Nat West Tower

Nat West Tower
circa 1977: The exterior of the National Westminster Bank in Bishopsgate, London, under construction. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Dunstans Bus

Dunstans Bus
24th October 1938: A bus outside the entrance to St Dunstans, a new rest and holiday home for blinded soldiers, sailors and airmen, at Ovingdean, East Sussex. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Background imageEngland Black Collection: Milking Time

Milking Time
16th March 1946: 19 year old Daphne Perry milking a cow, on the farm where sheis a relief-worker, in a scheme set up by the Womens Land Army in East Sussex



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