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Topical Press Agency Collection (page 13)

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

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Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Making Poultry Pen

Making Poultry Pen
23rd November 1929: Land girls making a poultry pen at a poultry pen in Hertfordshire. (Photo by Puttnam /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Farmer In Car

Farmer In Car
21st October 1925: Farmer Vivian Woodward at the wheel of his car at his farm at St Osyth in Essex. He is setting off to deliver churns of milk to market

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Man Ploughing

Man Ploughing
3rd October 1928: Champion ploughman John Claydon competing in the Surrey Agricultural Associations 96th ploughing match at Dorking. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Daily Mail Ball

Daily Mail Ball
June 1928: Two men standing in front of a huge ball inscribed with the words Daily Mail at the opening of a new sports ground in Tottenham, London. (Photo by E)

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: R-101 Airship

R-101 Airship
2nd October 1929: Members of the Air Ministry examining one of the R101 Airship engines at the Royal Airship works Cardington, Bedfordshire. (Photo by Puttnam /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Junkers Aeroplane

Junkers Aeroplane
16th October 1926: Interior of a German Junkers aeroplane at Croydon. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Seasons First Paddle

Seasons First Paddle
15th May 1925: Young girls and a boy have the first paddle of the season during a heatwave. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Redcar Beach

Redcar Beach
17th August 1927: People walking along the promenade beside the beach at Redcar, Cleveland, England. (Photo by W. G. Phillips/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Seasons First Dip

Seasons First Dip
10th March 1929: A girl prepares to take the plunge during a heatwave in Brighton. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Sheringham Beach

Sheringham Beach
July 1926: Two young women sunbathing on the beach at Sheringham in Norfolk. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Air Mechanic

Air Mechanic
30th August 1929: Fifteen-year-old mechanic Raymond Lane, the British teams mascot in the Schneider Trophy. (Photo by Puttnam /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Model Aeroplane

Model Aeroplane
10th July 1926: Model aeroplane on the wing of a bi plane. (Photo by Brooke/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Shoreditch Library

Shoreditch Library
June 1925: The Shoreditch Public Library in London, the site of a recent fatal shooting. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Chinese Shop

Chinese Shop
September 1925: A shop selling Chinese goods at Pennyfields in the Limehouse district of London. (Photo by Hawkins/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Motor Car

Motor Car
circa 1930: Old motor car being loaded on to Silver City Airways aeroplane. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Indian Mail

Indian Mail
30th March 1929: The City of Glasgow Argosy bi-plane on the runway at Croydon air field. It is being piloted by AS Wilcockson on its inaugural mail flight to India. (Photo by Edward G)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Domestic Family

Domestic Family
28th December 1925: A mother and child looking over the bottom half of their front door in Limehouse, East London. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Romany Family

Romany Family
1st July 1926: A Romany family at the back of their horse drawn caravan at Epsom, Surrey. One of the girls holds a fox in her lap. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Sailors Truck

Sailors Truck
5th May 1926: Sailors arriving on the back of a truck to start strike duty during Britains General Strike of May 1926. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bus On The Mall

Bus On The Mall
17th August 1927: A bus turning into Constitution Hill in London, passing the Guardsman on duty. Heavy vehicles have been given permission to travel along the Mall for the first time

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Six Wheel Bus

Six Wheel Bus
7th September 1927: A new six-wheeled luxury bus operating in London. (Photo by Brooke/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Making Music

Making Music
24th July 1926: Holidaymakers playing music with home-made instruments on board a narrow boat on the Norfolk Broads. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Fuelling

Fuelling
28th August 1928: Fuelling the Junkers Atlantic Flight plane, Queen of the Air, from a petrol tanker in a hangar at Croydon airfield. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Taking The Breeze

Taking The Breeze
15th June 1926: The captain of the Crested Eagle talking to two female passengers on the bridge. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Brighton Girls

Brighton Girls
10th March 1929: Young girls waving from the waters edge on Brighton beach. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Engineer Strike

Engineer Strike
1926: Striking engineers crossing Blackfriars Bridge, London, on a march to Memorial Hall. (Photo by G. Adams/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Fuelling The R38

Fuelling The R38
1st August 1928: Handing up petrol cans in preparation for the flight of airship R 38 to America. (Photo by Lawrence/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Triple Roll

Triple Roll
26th July 1929: Three sisters using a roller to even the surface of their tennis court. (Photo by S. R. Gaiger/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Japanese Mother

Japanese Mother
circa 1930: A Japanese mother fans her baby who is lying on a cushion on the floor. The mothers hair is styled in a bun on top of her head, held in place with long pins

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Eton Sprint

Eton Sprint
19th March 1926: Eton boys watching their schoolfriends finishing one of the heats of the 100 yards sprint. (Photo by Brooke/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Quick Fix Scaffold

Quick Fix Scaffold
17th January 1927: A worker putting a Quick Fix in place. The new invention does away with lashing scaffolding poles together and is held in place by the weight of the pole fixed to it

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Beach Smoke

Beach Smoke
May 1929: A young bather lighting a cigarette with the tip of her friends on the beach at Broadstairs. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Charleston On Deck

Charleston On Deck
1st July 1926: A collection of couples wearing their pyjamas to dance on deck during their holiday on the Norfolk Broads. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Tea On The R-100

Tea On The R-100
Tea being served on the R100 airship during its construction at Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, July 1928. The aircraft made its maiden flight in December 1929

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Pre-Race Flight

Pre-Race Flight
9th August 1927: A Supermarine Monoplane N220, a competitor on the Schneider Cup Trophy, is wheeled out for a test flight at Calshot, Southampton. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Crusader Seaplane

Crusader Seaplane
11th August 1927: A Bristow-Short-Bristol Crusader, one of the six seaplanes chosen to go to Venice for the Schneider Cup race, at Felixstowe, Suffolk

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Shingle-Free

Shingle-Free
16th April 1927: Two young men helping a woman across the shingle on the beach at Brighton during the Easter Holiday. (Photo by Davis/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: Rolling Churns

Rolling Churns
21st October 1929: Dairymaids rolling their churns, in preparation for the Dairy Show at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington, London. (Photo by Edward G)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: At The Gymkhana

At The Gymkhana
15th April 1925: The Albrighton Hunt hold their Gymkhana at the Werge, Tettenhall near Wolverhampton. Left to right: - Mr Charlie Hickman, Miss Gillanders, Mrs Charlie Hickman and Mr Neale

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Ruggles Orientator

Ruggles Orientator
7th December 1926: The Ruggles Orientator, or Bath Tub, used by the US School of Aviation Medicine in preflight testing to give students the feel of instrument flying

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Light Brigade

Light Brigade
31st October 1928: The Charge of the Light Brigade is reenacted near Aldershot in Hampshire for the British silent film Balaklava (aka Jaws of Hell ), directed by Maurice Elvey and Milton Rosmer

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Japanese Bluejackets

Japanese Bluejackets
23rd March 1927: Japanese bluejackets with their colours marching through Shanghai. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Fleetway Golfers

Fleetway Golfers
23rd August 1926: Members of the Fleetway House Golfing Society on the putting green, at Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire. (Photo by Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: London Street

London Street
September 1925: Limehouse Causeway in South East London. (Photo by Hawkins/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Road To Derby

Road To Derby
2nd June 1926: Racegoers studying form while travelling to Epsom for the Derby. (Photo by G. Adams/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Yum Yum Fashion

Yum Yum Fashion
20th May 1927: Yum Yum beach fashion at Rottingdean. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)



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