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

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Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Speakers Corner

Speakers Corner
January 1912: Orators in Hyde Park. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Welsh Church Demo

Welsh Church Demo
21st June 1913: A section of the enormous crowd demonstrating in Hyde Park against the Welsh Church Disestablishment. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Signal Failure

Signal Failure
1950: A short-lived device for signalling with electricity, used briefly in the early days of the railways in Britain. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Les Salines

Les Salines
1911: Les Salines (salt mounds). (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: School Outing

School Outing
23rd July 1912: Pupils are driven away from the station during the LNW school outing to Brickett Wood. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: School Outing

School Outing
6th August 1908: School children on an outing to Shirley Hills are queuing to go into tea. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Welsh Church Demo

Welsh Church Demo
21st June 1913: A section of the enormous crowd at a demonstration in Hyde Park, London, against the Welsh Church Disestablishment. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Regents Park

Regents Park
18th August 1908: Children playing in the sand pits at Regents Park, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Conservative Vans

Conservative Vans
10th December 1907: Conservative Party propaganda vans during electioneering. The slogan reads; British Work For British Hands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Sand Pit

Sand Pit
18th August 1908: Children playing in the sand pit at Regents Park. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: School Holiday

School Holiday
circa 1905: London school children fishing during the holidays; the envy of the crowd has caught a gudgeon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Dublin Massacre

Dublin Massacre
29th July 1914: Nationalist Volunteers following the hearse at the funeral of one of the victims shot by the Kings Own Scottish Borderers, during the Bachelors Walk Massacre in Dublin

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Curragh Troops

Curragh Troops
23rd March 1914: British soldiers from the Duke of Cromwells Light Infantry on parade at the Curragh Camp, near Dublin. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Franco-British Fair

Franco-British Fair
circa 1907: The site and start of the construction of the Franco-British Exhibition at White City, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Funeral Tram

Funeral Tram
6th January 1912: The compartment for the coffin on the new funeral tramway car, in Paris. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Quiet Shops

Quiet Shops
22nd August 1911: Two shops in an empty street in Wales which were subsequently wrecked in anti-semitic riots. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Great Ulster Rally

Great Ulster Rally
4th April 1914: The Ulster and South West Ireland Unionists arriving at Hyde Park, London, for an anti-Home Rule Rally. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Parliament Opens

Parliament Opens
7th February 1911: The State coach leading a procession to mark the Opening of Parliament. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Cambridge Museum

Cambridge Museum
February 1911: Cambridge museum showing the prehistoric and Cretan cases. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Land Campaign

Land Campaign
11th October 1913: 3, 000 people listen to Lloyd George as he opens his Land Campaign in Bedford. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Election Results

Election Results
21st August 1913: The returning officer declares the result to a waiting crowd during the Chesterfield Bye- Election. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Poll Results

Poll Results
19th February 1914: Crowds gather for the declaring of the Poll at the Old Guildhall, during the South Bucks Bye- Election at High Wycombe. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Anti-Home Rule Demo

Anti-Home Rule Demo
September 1912: Armed Unionists marching through Portadown, County Armagh, in a demonstration against Home Rule. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Labourers Arcade

Labourers Arcade
August 1906: An Independent Labour Party meeting in Yarmouth. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Retriever Trials

Retriever Trials
1st November 1912: The Horsham Retriever Trials - the meet at Peper Harrow, Godalming, Surrey. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Emptying Nets

Emptying Nets
1st September 1907: Fisherman at their nets at Sowleys Pond in Hampshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Track During Race

Track During Race
16th July 1913: The racetrack at Brooklands during the BMCRC Six Hours Race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Motorcycle Line-Up

Motorcycle Line-Up
24th March 1913: Contestants for the second motorcycle race line up at Brooklands, amidst a crowd. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Cody Craft

Cody Craft
5th June 1911: Samuel Codys 1910 model in flight at Brooklands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Oscillator Machine

Oscillator Machine
17th August 1910: An oscillator machine for teaching flying at Brooklands (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Brooklands Glider

Brooklands Glider
1st July 1910: A glider aeroplane on its launch mechanism. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Hanoveraner

Hanoveraner
6th September 1918: A captured German Hanoveraner aeroplane. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Morris Dancers

Morris Dancers
1st May 1909: Esperance Morris Dancers performing at a Cumberland Market. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Codys Machine

Codys Machine
August 1910: The aircraft flown by Samuel Cody at the Lanark Aviation Meeting. American-born British aviator Samuel Cody (1862 - 1913)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Shorts Shamrock

Shorts Shamrock
1st April 1919: The Short Shamrock bi-plane which had to withdraw from the Daily Mail Transatlantic Competition. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Sopwith In Flight

Sopwith In Flight
1st November 1910: Thomas Sopwiths flight at Brooklands for the Michelin Cup. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Motor Boat Club Meet

Motor Boat Club Meet
circa 1913: Craft at the landing stage at the British Motor Boat Club Meet on the Thames at Kingston. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Motor Boat Racing

Motor Boat Racing
10th September 1913: The motorboat Crusader, a British contestant in the International Motor Boat Races at Osborne Bay, Isle of Wight. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Early Motor Boat

Early Motor Boat
1st August 1905: Thorneycrofts shallow draught motor boat. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bellamy Plane

Bellamy Plane
9th March 1907: Bellamy aeroplane at Brooklands airfield at Weybridge. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bellamy Plane

Bellamy Plane
18th June 1908: Bellamys aeroplane at trials in Petersham Meadows showing a front view of the propellers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Brooklands Plane

Brooklands Plane
20th September 1910: McFie bi-plane at Brooklands Aviation meeting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Channel Flight

Channel Flight
21st May 1914: Aviator Princess Ludwig of Lowenstein-Wertheim in the skies above Hendon, during her flight across the English Channel. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Ballooning Race

Ballooning Race
25th May 1907: Ballons are brought out for the Ballooning Ranelagh Race for the Harbord Cup. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Antoinette XIII

Antoinette XIII
1st September 1909: Lathams Antoinette Mark XIII in flight in September 1909 during the unsuccessful cross Channel attempt. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Hurlingham Balloons

Hurlingham Balloons
25th May 1911: A large crowd at Hurlingham for a balloon event. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Airship Lighthouse

Airship Lighthouse
24th November 1913: Lighthouse for airships erected the Lindberg Observatory, Buskow, Germany. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Well Dressing

Well Dressing
May 1923: The pagan rite of well dressing shown on one of the five wells in the village of Tissington, Derbyshire. The design is made of clay on a wooden frame and stuck with flowers and berries



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