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Fire Cartcirca 1905: A group of firemen sit on their fire cart at station headquarters. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Honest Toil1907: A country parson chopping up a tree. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
a Scout1909: An Automobile Association inspector, wearing the Associations new uniform, signals danger by standing at attention. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Dunrobin Castle1st July 1913: Pipers lead the procession from Dunrobin Castle, Inverness, at the 4th Duke of Sutherlands funeral. The castle dates from the12th century
City FathersThe City Fathers being photographed by a woman before leaving for the Lord Mayors Show
Smoke Helmetcirca 1908: A fireman from the London Fire Brigade, wearing a smoke helmet. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Fire FightersTwo fire women at drill, with a hose spraying at full force
Catholic ProcessionChildren carrying religious banners in a Catholic procession. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Belfast City Hallcirca 1900: Under the dome of the City Hall in Belfast. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Traffic At BankJune 1912: Traffic and passers-by at Bank, London. The Royal Exchange is in the background. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Escape And Pumpcirca 1906: Two horse drawn fire carts leave the station to tackle a blaze: the escape is on the left and the pump on the right. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Railway Porter26th October 1907: A railway porter stands with a trolley on a platform luggage weighing scale at Marleybone station, London
Parading Sea Scouts9th November 1912: Sea Scouts in a boat on wheels at the Lord Mayors Show. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Bumping Race19th May 1909: A bumping race during the Oxford Eights Week. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Scout Campcirca 1908: A group of Boy Scouts on camp haul a log of wood. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Scouts At Work1908: A pair of Scout masters hiding a message in a wood. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Frank Whittle10th January 1944: English engineer and inventor of the jet plane Sir Frank Whittle (1907 - 1996). (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Keep AwayA nurse tends to young patients in a river ambulance for sufferers from infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB)
Ascot CarsJune 1907: Motor cars parked in the official garage at Ascot Races with chauffeurs in attendance. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Racing To The Blazecirca 1910: A horse drawn fire engine races to the scene of a blaze. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)
Artificial Sun17th 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
Guarding The St Louis17th June 1939: Gendarmes and plain-clothes police guard the St Louis, as it docks at the Belgian port of Antwerp with its cargo of German-Jewish refugees, after being denied admittance to Cuba
Black US Soldiers Pointing Rifles In Civil WarTwo Black soldiers in the Union Army aim their rifles beside a corner of a builidng in Picket Post, a Mathew Brady photograph from the American Civil War, 1860s
The Roxy Theatre & Taft HotelExterior view of the kiosk of the Roxy Theatre, located at the intersection of Seventh Avenue and 50th Street, beneath the Taft Hotel, New York, New York, late 1931
Good Youngsters20th 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
Marshal BerthierFrench cartographer and military leader Louis-Alexander Berthier (1753 - 1815), Napoleon Bonapartes Chief-of-staff, circa 1798. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A police officer on the street, San Francisco, early 20th century (photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Ruins At HampiA British soldier among the ruins of the city of Hampi, the last capital of the Hindu Kingdom of Vijayanagar, in the Bellary district of India, circa 1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
School PlaygroundGirls playing at one of the schools in Bournville Village near Birmingham, a new town founded by Chocolate manufacturer and social reformer George Cadbury, July 1909
Holloway PrisonA corridor in Holloway womens prison in north London, circa 1890. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Board SchoolA nature class on plant roots at Gordon Memorial School, Kilburn, London, April 1908. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Recruiting SergeantsBritish army recruiting sergeants outside a public house at Westminster in London, 1877. Original publication Street Life in London by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith - pub
Railway WorkersRailwaymen on the line connecting Hampton and Whitacre, 1907. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Americans In TrenchAmerican troops in trenches near Manila, during the Spanish-American War, 1898. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Battlefield SignalsAmerican troops at Fort Malate signal for reserves to advance after the retreat of the Spanish during the Battle of Manila in the Spanish-American War, 13th August 1898
Aftermath Of SkirmishAmerican troops after a skirmish in Manila during the Spanish-American War, September 1898. (Photo by Rischgitz/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Firing On InsurgentsAmerican troops fire on insurgents in the Philippine jungle during the Philippine-American War, circa 1899. (Photo by Captain JF Case/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
British Topical Press Agency (1903 - 1957)Fine Art Storehouse Vintage Photo Gallery: Press Photography: British Topical Press Agency (1903 - 1957)
Paris GendarmeA French policeman watches a pair of young lovers walking down a Paris street on a hot spring day
GendarmesFrench policemen patrolling the Champs-Elysees in Paris, during a period of unrest between politicians General de Gaulle and Guy Mollet
Frederick the Great (1712-1786), Prussian king, steel engraving, published 1868Frederick II (German: Friedrich, 1712 - 1786), King of Prussia from 1740 until hith death. Called: Frederick the Great (Friedrich der Grose), or the Old Fritz (Alter Fritz)
Nicholas I of Russia (1796-1855), steel engraving, published in 1868Nicholas I (1796 - 1855), Emperor of Russia from 1825 until his death, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland. Steel engraving, published in 1868
Antique illustration of French soldier