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Topical Press Agency Collection (#2)

Early 20th Century images captured by one of the leading photo agency of the time

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Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Airship

Airship
July 1919: The arrival of the R34 airship at Pulham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Lords Match

Lords Match
1906: Spectators watching a match at Lords cricket ground, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Douglas OC Model

Douglas OC Model
A Douglas OC 600cc motorcycle on display at the Motorcycle Show at Olympia, London, 23rd September 1925. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Airship

Airship
17th October 1929: The tail-end section of the giant airship R101, riding on the mooring mast at Cardigan, Bedford. The R101 was part of a British government programme to develop civil airships

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Watch This Space

Watch This Space
October 1919: Tottenham Court Road at the junction with Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road, London. The Court Playhouse is on the right, and the Underground station in front

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Golf Caddies

Golf Caddies
9th April 1929: Mrs Edge and her daughter with their two young caddies during a practice game. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Market Stall

Market Stall
24th May 1928: Market traders at Messrs Reuben Levys stall at Spitalfields Market, east London. (Photo by J. Gaiger/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Greenwich Paddlers

Greenwich Paddlers
1928: London children paddling in the Thames by the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Naval Review

Naval Review
July 1907: Battleships lined up in the Solent, for the Kings Naval Review of the British Fleet. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Old Spitalfields Market

Old Spitalfields Market
T. J. & J. Coolings fruit and vegetable stand in Old Spitalfields Market, May 1928. (Photo by S. R. Gaiger/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Wheelchair

Wheelchair
13th January 1926: Miss May Turbell, in her mechanical wheelchair which enabled her to go out for the first time in twenty years. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Garratt Locomotive

Garratt Locomotive
A London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Garratt steam locomotive is shown to members of the press and public, July 1925. (Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Old Cairo

Old Cairo
circa 1880: Old buildings in the Touloun quarter of Cairo. Examples of highly decorated mashrubiyeh windows. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: HMS Dreadnought

HMS Dreadnought
1909: British warship HMS Dreadnought. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Dock Cranes

Dock Cranes
April 1921: Huge cranes tower over the George V docks in London. (Photo by Brooke/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: New Golden Arrow Loco

New Golden Arrow Loco
The locomotive William Shakespeare at Victoria Station, London, before entering service on the Golden Arrow route from London to Dover for the channel crossing, 11th October 1951

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Moving Eros

Moving Eros
18th February 1925: Workmen men move the statue of Eros from its plinth in Piccadilly Circus, London. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Girder Train

Girder Train
circa 1928: A traction engine towing a giant girder down Farringdon Street, London, in the early hours of the morning. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Dartmouth Regatta

Dartmouth Regatta
30th August 1925: Start of the crack yachts at Dartmouth, Devon, England. (Photo by Gill/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Chinatown

Chinatown
April 1911: A street in Limehouse, Londons Chinatown. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Rowing Race

Rowing Race
A view of the Head of the River Race from Barnes Bridge, London

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Female Surgeons

Female Surgeons
American female doctors in an operating theatre being watched by students. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Vantage Point

Vantage Point
27th August 1938: A row of spectators watching the match between Arsenal and Portsmouth from a convenient vantage point overlooking the Arsenal ground

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: A Days Outing

A Days Outing
circa 1928: A line of seventy-five buses taking five-thousand poor children for a day out at Theydon Bois, Essex. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Crippen Trial

Crippen Trial
August 1910: Crowds gather outside the Old Bailey law court during the trial of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen who murdered his second wife Belle Elmore at their home in London

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Brough Superior

Brough Superior
29th November 1931: The new Brough Superior at the Olympia Motorcycle Show in London. The vehicle boasts a baby cat engine, twin rear tyres and a side radiator. (Photo by J. A)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Belfast March

Belfast March
July 1920: Members of the Protestant Orange Order march through Shaftesbury Square in Belfast. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Panto Rehearsals

Panto Rehearsals
12th November 1936: Dancers waiting in the wings during rehearsals for the pantomime Cinderella, to be performed at The Coliseum, St Martins Lane, London. (Photo by A)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Off To sea

Off To sea
August 1922: Battleship HMS Hood leaving Plymouth passes the pier. (Photo by Gill/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Swanwick Station

Swanwick Station in Hampshire, 25th August 1913. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Shoe Lane

Shoe Lane
August 1919: The Daily Sketch, Evening Standard and Edward Hulton offices in Shoe Lane, off Fleet Street, home of Britains national press. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bournville Baths

Bournville Baths
The Girls Baths, a swimming pool complex on Bournville Lane, in Bournville Village near Birmingham, a new town founded by Chocolate manufacturer and social reformer George Cadbury, July 1909

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bournville Swimming Baths

Bournville Swimming Baths
The mens swimming baths in Bournville Village near Birmingham, a new town founded by Chocolate manufacturer and social reformer George Cadbury, July 1909

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Cape Town Pier

Cape Town Pier
The Adderley Street pier in Cape Town, South Africa, with Table Mountain and Lions Head mountain in the background, circa 1900. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Glamorgan Colliery

Glamorgan Colliery
Police guarding the Glamorgan Colliery during the strikes and riots in the coalmining town of Tonypandy, in the Welsh Rhondda, November 1910

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Leaving Fishguard

Leaving Fishguard
30th August 1909: A railway train departs from Fishguard Station. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Cheltenham Flyer

Cheltenham Flyer
The GWR (Great Western Railway) Cheltenham Flyer (aka Cheltenham Spa Express ) service, leaving Paddington station, London, on its way to Cheltenham Spa, Gloucestershire, July 1937

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Peace Rally

Peace Rally
July 1919: Open-air thanksgiving service at St. Pauls Cathedral, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Almanzora

Almanzora
The White Star superliner Olympic (behind) moored next to the Royal Mails Almanzora at Southampton Dock. (Photo by E Bacon/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Duchess Of Bedford

Duchess Of Bedford
The Canadian Pacific liner Duchess of Bedford is decorated with flags at Liverpool, prior to her maiden voyage across the Atlantic to Quebec and Montreal. (Photo by Edward G Malindine/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Away They Go

Away They Go
27th May 1925: Horses and riders at the start of the Epsom Derby in Surrey. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bathing Fashions

Bathing Fashions
18th May 1928: A group of young women wearing the latest in bathing fashions put on their make-up beside a pool at a Southport holiday camp, Merseyside. (Photo by Edward G)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Ascot Racecourse

Ascot Racecourse
13th June 1927: A workman stands on a roof to paint the finishing post at Royal Ascot race course. (Photo by Brooke/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Sidecar 2, 000

Sidecar 2, 000
12th February 1925: A mototrcycle and sidecar at Ealing Common, London, during a 2, 000 mile non-stop reliability trial. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Outdoor Swimming Pool

Outdoor Swimming Pool
7th May 1927: Bathing at Chiswick Baths. (Photo by Davis Jr/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Coursing Dogs

Coursing Dogs
23rd February 1926: Dogs at the Saluki Coursing Clubs Spring Meeting at Amport St Mary s, Hampshire. (Photo by Brooke/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Racing Girls

Racing Girls
Mrs Norman Holden and Miss Wanda wearing elegant floral dresses with wide-brimmed straw hats at the Royal Ascot horse-racing course near Windsor in Berkshire, June 1928

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Epsom Derby

Epsom Derby
Spectators watch the races from the roof of their car during the Epsom Derby in Surrey, 27th May 1925. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)



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