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Historical Central Press Art Prints Collection

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Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Bell Rock Lighthouse

Bell Rock Lighthouse
16th December 1955: Bell Rock lighthouse, near Arbroath, off the Angus Coast. The lighthouse, built between 1807 and 1810

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Ruins At Baalbek

Ruins At Baalbek
November 1957: The remaining columns of the Temple of Jupiter (foreground) and the Temple of Bacchus at Baalbek (ancient Heliopolis). (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Blackpool Illuminations

Blackpool Illuminations
Illuminations on the promenade at Blackpool, Lancashire. Blackpool Tower is in the centre

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Radio Caroline

Radio Carolines pirate radio ship MV Mi Amigo runs aground at Frinton-on-Sea on the Essex coast during a storm, 20th January 1966. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: U2 Spy Plane

U2 Spy Plane

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Franklin D Roosevelt

Franklin D Roosevelt
19th January 1938: United States president Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) addressing a press conference. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Astoria Cinema

Astoria Cinema
August 1929: Exterior of the Astoria Cinema, Brixton, south London. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams
23rd March 1965: Tennessee Williams, born Thomas Lanier (1911 - 1983), American playwright, in London to attend the first night of Night Of The Iguana at the Savoy Theatre

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: London Smithy

London Smithy
4th October 1928: A blacksmiths forge off Arundel Street near the Strand in London. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: The Mighty Mo

The Mighty Mo
The battleship USS Missouri bombards Chongjin, North Korea, with her 16 inch guns during a mission to set out the lines of communication between the Northern

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman
24th June 1959: Benny Goodman (1909 - 1986), the American clarinettist and band leader known as the King Of Swing, at the Savoy Hotel during a short holiday. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: R 101 Dining Room

R 101 Dining Room
Members of the Dominion Legislative Conference dine on board the luxurious R101 airship. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Royal Carriage

Royal Carriage
19th March 1953: The intricate decoration on the State Coach that will take the Queen to Westminster Abbey for the coronation

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Imperial Airmail

Imperial Airmail
The Armstrong Whitworth Argosy bi-plane, which started Britains Imperial Airways in 1927, preparing to leave Croydon for a UK-India airmail service. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Berlin Revolution

Berlin Revolution
A demonstration in front of the Reichstag, during the revolution which broke out after Germanys defeat in World War I. The poster reads Down with the bloody Spartakus dictatorship

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Strike Breakers

Strike Breakers
Railway volunteers at work on railway track during the General Strike of 1926, in which trade union members from various key industries in Britain stopped work for a week in support of the miners

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Parading Anzacs

Parading Anzacs
March 1919: Australian soldiers taking part in a peace parade. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Officers At Home

Officers At Home
1929: A group of British soldiers, one sporting an eyepatch, drinking tea at the elegantly furnished officers home in Grosvenor Street, London. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: R100 Airship

R100 Airship
November 1929: Passengers on board the lounge promenade of the R-100 Airship at Howden, Yorkshire. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Bournes Bash

Bournes Bash
18th September 1929: A garden party held by Cardinal Bourne at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham. The gathering forms part of the celebrations surrounding the Catholic Emancipation Congress

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Catholic Procession

Catholic Procession
14th September 1929: A procession in London, which forms part of the celebrations surrounding the Catholic Emancipation Congress. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Pearlies

Pearlies
1929: A family of Pearlies posing in full costume. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Ascot Crowds

Ascot Crowds
circa 1930: Race-goers at Ascot. Some stand on their cars to get a better view. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Puppet Show

Puppet Show
16th July 1926: Crowds watching a Punch and Judy show on the beach at Ryde, on the Isle of Wight. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Gas Leak Drill

Gas Leak Drill
14th February 1950: A soldier stands by outside the village of Alberbury in Shropshire, during the monthly gas mask drill held as a precaution because of the poison gas dump in the vicinity

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Anti-Strike Women

Anti-Strike Women
circa 1926: A demonstration by anti-strike supporting women, led by Mrs Drummond. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Early Equipment

Early Equipment
circa 1930: Equipment at the BBC Broadcasting Station, (2LO), at Savoy Hall, London, from the early days of broadcasting. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: March Past

March Past
November 1914: Grenadier Guards march past Buckingham Palace, just before leaving for the Front. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Radio Days

Radio Days
May 1929: Pupils in a London County Council school using the radio for lessons on the lumber industry, helped by a large map. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Ship Wreck

Ship Wreck
circa 1916: A hospital ship wrecked off Scarborough during World War I. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Vessel Sinks

Vessel Sinks
26th November 1975: The bows of the Russian ship Gorizoni sink into the English Channel after a collision with a Moroccan cargo ship

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Great Lamb Trek

Great Lamb Trek
1930: A shepherd drives his flock through a town in the Great Lamb Trek to Aboyne in Scotland. There are good walking routes from Glen Mark to Aboyne

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Riverside Church

Riverside Church
1920: St Peters Church, Darmouth, Devon. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Suburban Sprawl

Suburban Sprawl
1933: The net work of rows and sprawl of identical houses on the housing estate at Saltdean in Sussex. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Carrying The Catch

Carrying The Catch
1927: Women in Devon carry loaded baskets of fish along the shore, watched by the men. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Church Riots

Church Riots
circa 1918: Mounted police at a peace riot at a North London Church at the end of World War I. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Labour Strike

Labour Strike
May 1926: A scene from the General Strike with mounted armed militia riding through the street. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Sea Elephant

Sea Elephant
circa 1930: A herd of Bull Sea Elephants. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Autumn Leaves

Autumn Leaves
30th October 1961: A view of Hyde Park, showing the autumn leaves settling on the ground with many more yet to fall. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Leaving Rhine

Leaving Rhine
December 1929: The Royal Fusiliers march through Wiesbaden. They are the last of the British troops to leave the Rhine. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Permanent Wave

Permanent Wave
circa 1930: A woman has her hair waved at the hairdressers. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Sunray lamp

Sunray lamp
circa 1927: A woman under a sunray lamp, on show at the first International Exhibition of Light and Heat in Medicine at Central hall, Westminster. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Christmas Shopping

Christmas Shopping
circa 1926: A crowd of Christmas shoppers on Oxford street in Central London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Refreshments

Refreshments
1926: Volunteers on a mobile refreshment stand at the Horse Guards Parade, London, during the General Strike. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Going Down

Going Down
22nd January 1979: A view from the top of The Magic Mountain Colossus roller-coaster ride near Los Angeles. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: End Of Season

End Of Season
circa 1920: Workers in a boatyard loading up the boats for the winter. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: The Rock

The Rock
1933: The Rock of Gibraltar, the main landmark of the British dependency of Gibraltar and the southernmost point of the Iberian Peninsula. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Orange Parade

Orange Parade
1920: An Orange Day parade through the streets of Belfast. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Spartacist Air Raid

Spartacist Air Raid
1919: Spartacist aeroplanes drop bombs on Government troops during the Spartacist uprising in Berlin. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Table Mountain

Table Mountain
10th May 1966: Table Mountain illuminated and the city of Cape Town. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Lowering The Flag

Lowering The Flag
December 1929: An officer taking down the flag at the British Headquarters at Wiesbaden, as the last of the British troops leave Germany. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: London Market

London Market
Circa 1930: The Caledonian Market in London. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Spinning Wheel

Spinning Wheel
Circa 1930: A woman wearing a typical dress working a traditional spinning wheel on the island of Trustan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Lion Gargoyle

Lion Gargoyle
November 1957: A detail of the ruins of Baalbek city, near to Damascus in Lebanon, remarkably spared after many attacks and an earthquake in 1759. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Bull Fight

Bull Fight
30th August 1979: Ahead on clash between two bulls at a bull fight in Switzerland where the animals fight each other with no matador. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Tourist Towers

Tourist Towers
6th October 1978: The Tourist Towers in Kuwait. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Striped Okapi

Striped Okapi
circa 1965: A mother Okapi and her fawn in an enclosure in their native homeland in the former Belgian Congo. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Repairing St Paul s

Repairing St Paul s
December 1947: The giant screen which has been built across the damaged north transept of St Pauls Cathedral in London, whilst bomb damage is being repaired

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Volunteer Drivers

Volunteer Drivers
May 1926: Civilians who have volunteered to be drivers during the General Strike gathered for a briefing in Horse Guard Parade. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Railway Workers

Railway Workers
1926: A group of volunteers working on the railway during the General Strike. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Discrded Placards

Discrded Placards
27th May 1980: A pile of discarded pickets placards after the mass picket of the Isle of Grain power station by the General and Municipal Workers Union

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: St Pancras Strike

St Pancras Strike
May 1926: Striking railwaymen at St Pancras Station in London, during the General Strike of 1926. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Belfast March

Belfast March
1914: Members of the Protestant Orange Order marching through Belfast. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Ship Ahoy

Ship Ahoy
circa 1930: A river pilot uses a telescope to keep watch for ships from the Pilot Station at Gravesend, Kent. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Artificial Island

Artificial Island
2nd February 1979: An offshore oil field island at Long Beach California, USA, with sound-proof towers. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Riding High

Riding High
22nd January 1979: An aerial view of the Train of Terror. A view from the top of The Magic Mountain Colossus roller-coaster ride near Los Angeles. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Patrolling Crowds

Patrolling Crowds
1926: Police patrol onlookers on a London street during the General Strike of 1926. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Tea Time

Tea Time
11th January 1960: Tea estate workers make their way home after a day picking leaves on a tea plantation in Ceylon. Baskets on their backs are to hold the leaves

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Derby Preparations

Derby Preparations
15th January 1946: Workmen repairing the roof of the Epsom Grandstand in preparation for the first post WW II Derby. It was damaged when a time-bomb landed on the grandstand

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Racehorse Auction

Racehorse Auction
1928: A racehorse auction at Tattershalls. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Deaf As A Parrot

Deaf As A Parrot
circa 1929: Uncaged parrots perch beside a gramophone. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: BBC Building

BBC Building
1930: The new Broadcasting House in Langham Place, London. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Postal Sorters

Postal Sorters
Woman post office workers sorting the mail. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Cotton Reels

Cotton Reels
Ring spinners in a Lancashire cotton mill. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Fishermens Wives

Fishermens Wives
A group of fishermens wives wearing traditional shawls, staging an anti-strike demonstration at Cullercoats in Northumberland. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Tube Tunnel

Tube Tunnel
A section of the London Undergrounds newly constructed 11 mile-long Victoria Line. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: On A Roll

On A Roll
A commuter rollerskates to work, complete with lunch, in an effort to beat the General Strike. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Giraffe Herd

Giraffe Herd
A herd of giraffes, caught by Jimmy Chipperfields trappers in Uganda, acquainting themselves with their new surroundings at Longleat Safari Park. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Champagne Service

Champagne Service
Passengers on board one of French Air Unions fleet of Breguet and Bleriot Golden Ray (Rayon d Or) passenger planes being served champagne to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the airlines

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: May Day Rally

May Day Rally
Communists in London celebrating May Day. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: British Bombs

British Bombs
Pilots of the RAF London Air Defence at Kenley loading a full complement of bombs ranging from 520 lb to 2 lb bombs. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Tank Train

Tank Train
Cruiser Tank MK IV tanks being transported by rail somewhere on the LNER network. Such trains had right of way and passenger services were often disrupted to make way for them

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Gallipoli

Gallipoli
The River Clyde on the rocks at Gallipoli. Seaborne troops, including the Royal Munster Fusiliers, land on V Beach during an amphibious attack on the Dardanelles area of Turkey

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Night Airmail

Night Airmail
French Air Union plane Vendee at Croydon for a new London-Paris night airmail service. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)



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