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Pkt Collection (page 5)

Background imagePkt Collection: Fighter Pilot

Fighter Pilot
28th June 1952: A US Airforce pilot stationed in Britain standing in a doorway with a sign above him reading Through These Portals Pass The Best Damn Fighter Pilots In The World

Background imagePkt Collection: Prayer Flag

Prayer Flag
24th February 1951: A Tibetan prayer flag which, according to Lamaist religion, releases a prayer with every flutter of the wind. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5210 - Tibet Dissolves - pub

Background imagePkt Collection: Metal Dump

Metal Dump
1953: A waste metal dump. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6317 - Waste Probe - unpub. (Photo by Raymond Kleboe/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePkt Collection: No Lift

No Lift
February 1955: Two skiers make their way up a marked trail on the ski slopes at Klosters in Switzerland. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7524 - Trials Of A Photographer - pub. 1955 (Photo by H)

Background imagePkt Collection: Waterloo Lovers

Waterloo Lovers
24th September 1955: A young couple at Waterloo Station, London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8002 - Leave Youth Alone - pub. 1955 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePkt Collection: Dangerous Waters

Dangerous Waters
1st May 1948: The mastheads of previous victims can been seen over the flooding tide that hides the treacherous Goodwin Sands on the Kentish coast

Background imagePkt Collection: Austin Engines

Austin Engines
3rd April 1948: Engines suspended from a monorail at the Austin Motor Companys Birmingham production plant which exports many cars to America

Background imagePkt Collection: Ram And Lamb

Ram And Lamb
20th December 1947: A lamb and ram in the church in the French village of Les Baux-en-Provence before the ceremony to commemorate the journey of the shepherds to Bethlehem

Background imagePkt Collection: Bird Dog

Bird Dog
17th January 1948: A gun dog bringing a pheasant out of a lake. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4480 - Training Gun Dogs - pub. 1948 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePkt Collection: Two Wet Dogs

Two Wet Dogs
17th January 1948: Two wet gun dogs emerge from a river with a pheasant. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4480 - Training Gun Dogs - pub. 1948 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePkt Collection: Obsolete Machinery

Obsolete Machinery
28th March 1953: Machinery in a tinplateworks in South Wales factory which is due to close. This is because of the building of giant strip-mills which need fewer workers to run them

Background imagePkt Collection: Getting Ready

Getting Ready
28th February 1953: Backstage, British models getting ready for a fashion show by John Cavanagh. The designer is in Paris with four British models to show off his work

Background imagePkt Collection: Winter Ranch

Winter Ranch
15th December 1951: A cow and its calf being rounded up in the snow at a cattle ranch in Canada. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5616 - Round-Up In The Snow - pub

Background imagePkt Collection: Sheep Rescue

Sheep Rescue
12th September 1953: Three crofters set out for home with an injured lamb in Strath Gairloch, on the north west coast of the Scottish Highlands

Background imagePkt Collection: Pedigree Pig

Pedigree Pig
5th May 1945: A pedigree white pig from the Gostrode herd owned by Mr T F Billingford of Chillingford, Surrey. Original Publication

Background imagePkt Collection: Goods In Window

Goods In Window
1st October 1938: Clothing on display in a shop window in the village of Polperro in Cornwall. Original Publication: Picture Post - 3 - The Life Of A Village - pub

Background imagePkt Collection: Fox Hunting

Fox Hunting
19th November 1938: The field is spurred on as the hounds pick up the scent of a fox. Original Publication: Picture Post - 44 - Hunting The Fox - pub

Background imagePkt Collection: Cypriot Livestock

Cypriot Livestock
7th September 1946: Livestock on the plain of Messaoria, Cyprus, drink water that has laboriously been hand pulled from the well and carried to the water trough

Background imagePkt Collection: QE2 Liner

QE2 Liner
1952: Two men lean on the rails on deck of the Queen Elizabeth as the liner comes to dock at Southampton. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6344 -The Queen Elizabeth Comes In - unpub

Background imagePkt Collection: Public Nuisance

Public Nuisance
28th January 1939: An unusual sign in Londons Mayfair warns passers-by against making a public nuisance of themselves. Original Publication: Picture Post - 80 - Mayfair - pub

Background imagePkt Collection: Thomas Leaning

Thomas Leaning
10th August 1946: Welsh poet and playwright Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953). Original Publication: Picture Post - 4156 - Nest Of Singing Birds - pub. 1946 (Photo by Francis Reiss/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePkt Collection: Ant Expedition

Ant Expedition
5th May 1948: Worker ants walking along the edge of a piece of bark during a group forage for food. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4559 - The Mysterious Life Of Ants - pub

Background imagePkt Collection: Shopping By Bicycle

Shopping By Bicycle
2nd October 1948: For the tenth anniversary of Picture Post, the magazine has sought out the model who posed for their most popular cover, Jane Webb, who has been married three years to David

Background imagePkt Collection: Lighting Candles

Lighting Candles
24th July 1948: A devotee lighting candles at the shrine at Holywell, North Wales. The shrine is sacred to St Winefride, who supposedly rose from the dead by a miracle

Background imagePkt Collection: Milking Greenfly

Milking Greenfly
5th May 1948: Worker ants with a herd of greenfly allowed out to pasture with careful supervision. The ants tend the greenfly in underground cells of the nest

Background imagePkt Collection: Ant Food

Ant Food
5th May 1948: Three ants dragging a worm they have killed back to the nest where its pre-digested form will be shared among the community

Background imagePkt Collection: Glasgow University

Glasgow University
17th October 1953: Glasgow Univerity on Gilmorehill above the River Kelvin. The university, founded in 1451, is the second oldest in Scotland and the fourth oldest in Britain

Background imagePkt Collection: Hog Wash

Hog Wash
5th May 1945: Pedigree Large White Gostrode pig Greenback XVth has a wash in preparation for the Crewe agricultural show in Cheshire

Background imagePkt Collection: They re More My Size

They re More My Size
28th February 1953: A young boy examines an exhibit in a glass cage in the elephant room in the Natural History Museum, London

Background imagePkt Collection: Hotel Luggage

Hotel Luggage
25th April 1953: A pile of suitcases deposited in the doorway of the Merton Hotel on Jersey. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6496 - Honeymoon In Jersey - pub

Background imagePkt Collection: Hunters Head Home

Hunters Head Home
24th December 1938: Two hunters head home after a pheasant shoot in the English countryside, carrying several brace of game birds. Original Publication: Picture Post - 57 - Pheasant Shooting - pub

Background imagePkt Collection: Good Youngsters

Good Youngsters
20th June 1953: The Good quadruplets, five-year-old Jennifer, Bridget, Elizabeth and Frances with their big sister, seven-year-old Susan, standing on a cars running-board, ready to go to school

Background imagePkt Collection: Top Deck Ride

Top Deck Ride
13th May 1939: The Kings four orderly officers sightseeing on the top deck of a London bus. Every year four officers from the Indian Army are chosen to attend the King as his special bodyguard

Background imagePkt Collection: Toy Fieldsmen

Toy Fieldsmen
10th July 1948: Miniature fieldsmen are equipped with a rounded slot to enable them to catch the ball, in the new game of table-top cricket

Background imagePkt Collection: Highland Cattle

Highland Cattle
11th August 1945: A herd of Highland cattle in the foothills of the Grampian Mountains, Scotland. Kept mainly for their appearance

Background imagePkt Collection: Roadside Pub

Roadside Pub
31st March 1945: A whitewashed public house is illuminated by a motorists headlights. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1936 - The Magic Lantern Of A Cars Headlights - pub

Background imagePkt Collection: Resourceful Crowd

Resourceful Crowd
25th April 1953: People at the back of the crowd using step ladders to see procession after the marriage between Prince Jean, heir to the Luxembourg Throne, and Belgian Princess Josephine-Charlotte

Background imagePkt Collection: Spring Crocuses

Spring Crocuses
21st March 1953: Shelley the tortoise sniffing the first crocuses of spring. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6446 - First Whiff Of Spring - pub

Background imagePkt Collection: Hounds Hunting

Hounds Hunting
22nd July 1939: The Crowhurst Otter Hounds hunting the scent of otters in and by a river. Original Publication: Picture Post - 130 - Hunting The Otter - pub

Background imagePkt Collection: Pack Of Hounds

Pack Of Hounds
22nd July 1939: The Crowhurst Otter Hounds awaiting the signal to move off. They are of various breeds to make the pack stronger

Background imagePkt Collection: Caged Monkey

Caged Monkey
9th February 1946: Monty the monkey who performs with Chessington Circus. Original Publication: Picture Post - 3080 - The Circus Gets Ready For The Road Again - pub

Background imagePkt Collection: Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw
20th July 1946: Irish dramatist, writer and social reformer, George Bernard Shaw in the garden of his home in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire

Background imagePkt Collection: Swans Hatching

Swans Hatching
13th July 1946: A pen waiting for his turn at hatching on the nest he shares with his cob at the ancient swannery at Abbotsbury in Dorset

Background imagePkt Collection: Ferret

Ferret
2nd February 1946: A ferret in a laboratory during experiments into the influenza virus. Original Publication: Picture Post - 3078 - Can We Beat Influenza - pub

Background imagePkt Collection: Haystacks

Haystacks
4th September 1948: Stooks of wheat stand drying in a field at Stockbridge, Hampshire. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4640 - Battle For The Harvest - pub.1948

Background imagePkt Collection: A Farmers Pony

A Farmers Pony
29th April 1939: A pony in a field on a farm in England. Original Publication: Picture Post - 139 - Farm In Spring - pub. 1939 (Photo by Felix Man/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePkt Collection: Plaza Cinema

Plaza Cinema
1st October 1955: A neon sign lights up the Plaza cinema in the Scottish industrial town of Kilmarnock. Kilmarnock is home to a variety of industries

Background imagePkt Collection: Cockfighting

Cockfighting
14th December 1946: Two birds fighting to the death during a cockfight in Bali. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4271 - A Cockfight In Bali - pub



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