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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: Motor-Boat Club

Motor-Boat Club
May 1906: Members of the British Motor-Boat Club at Kingston. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Etretat Beach

Etretat Beach
circa 1911: Boats on the beach at Etretat. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Motor Boats

Motor Boats
5th May 1906: Boats from the British Motor Boat Club, sailing on the Thames at Kingston. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Water Course

Water Course
9th August 1911: A motorcyclist tackles the water course during the Auto Cycle Union Reliability Trials. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Arriving For Meet

Arriving For Meet
10th November 1905: Participants arrive for a meet of the Atherstone Hounds at Brownsorer. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Picking Flowers

Picking Flowers
August 1910: Women picking mountain flowers on Schynige Platte, at a height of 6, 800 feet. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Watching Trials

Watching Trials
11th August 1911: Spectators watching the Auto Cycle Union Reliability Trials at Blue Bank. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Atlantic Coast

Atlantic Coast
18th July 1926: The Atlantic Coast Express leaving Waterloo Station, London, for the West of England. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Crossing River

Crossing River
August 1911: After attending a Northern Counties Otter Hounds Fair, a group of people cross a river in the countryside. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Torpedo Boat

Torpedo Boat
8th August 1904: Destroyer Durendel, a French torpedo boat, a participant in the Calais-Dover motor-boat race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Tin Man

Tin Man
September 1928: A tin man robot which speaks, answers questions and shares hands when told to. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Golfers At Bunker

Golfers At Bunker
7th October 1905: Golfers at the 5th bunker at Westward Ho Golf Links in Devon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: River Scene

River Scene
circa 1900: Three women watch swans and their cygnets from a river bank. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Rounding Bend

Rounding Bend
9th August 1911: Motorcyclists P Shaw and G G Piggott, riding a 6 hp Zenitha, round the bend at Sutton Bank during the Auto Cycle Union reliability trials. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Aareschlucht

Aareschlucht
August 1910: Aareschlucht at Mieringen. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Atherstone Hounds

Atherstone Hounds
10th November 1905: The Atherstone Hounds during a meet at Brownsorer. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Grafton Hounds

Grafton Hounds
4th January 1905: Grafton Hounds during a meet at Prestbury, Buckinghamshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Scottish Meet

Scottish Meet
May 1906: A meet of the Dumfriesshire Otter Hounds at Shieldhill, Dumfries and Galloway in south-west Scotland. The groups title, Otter Hounds

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Scottish Meet

Scottish Meet
20th November 1906: A meet of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hounds at Grogan Park. The hounds pick up the scent of a fox and chase it across the countryside before they catch their quarry

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Motor-Boat Club

Motor-Boat Club
August 1905: Members of the British Motor-Boat Club in their motor-boats docked at Sea View on the Isle of Wight. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Synagogue

Synagogue
circa 1910: The Jewish synagogue at Biarritz, France. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Roundabout

Roundabout
1939: Cyclists overlooking a valley at Caterham in south east England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Lauterbrunnen

Lauterbrunnen
August 1910: Visitors arriving at a restaurant and cafe at Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Motor Club Cars

Motor Club Cars
April 1911: The opening meet of the Essex Motor Club, at Layermarney. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Lucerne

Lucerne
August 1910: Lucerne, in Switzerland, viewed from the Sutsch. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Swans

Swans
circa 1909: Two gamekeepers tagging swans. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Breakfast Stop

Breakfast Stop
5th August 1911: A motorcyclist competing in the Herts County AC rally leaves the Aberford breakfast stop. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Carlton Fire

Carlton Fire
9th August 1911: Firemen fighting the blaze at the Carlton Hotel, in the Haymarket, central London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Wembley Exhibition

Wembley Exhibition
1925: The Empire exhibition grounds at Wembley. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: The Derwent

The Derwent
11th July 1925: The 1845 Derwent locomotive in the Railway Centenary procession. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Ticket Office

Ticket Office
1909: The Great Northern Railway General Receiving Office on Oxford Street, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Pub In Floodwater

Pub In Floodwater
3rd February 1953: The Lord Nelson public house on the outskirts of Sittingbourne, Kent, surrounded by floodwater some ten feet deep. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Chinchilla Cat

Chinchilla Cat
22nd August 1956: Arctic Snow the white chinchilla cat, winner of the Challenge Certificate at the Hertfordshire and Middlesex Cat Club show at the Old Horticultural Hall, Westminster, London

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Quay Station

Quay Station
6th October 1938: A new soundproofed and air-conditioned London and North Eastern Railway train at a quayside station in Harwich, Essex. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: LNER Express

LNER Express
May 1925: An London and North Eastern Railway express locomotve passing a signal point. (Photo by Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bombed House

Bombed House
July 1915: Crowds outside a house in Shoreditch, London, bombed in a zeppelin raid during World War I. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Dangerous Cuppa

Dangerous Cuppa
5th August 1927: An umbrella and fancy goods shop in kentish Town, London where a woman and her two teenage daughters died in a gas filled room after a kettle boiled over and put the gas out

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Wash From Flying Boat

Wash From Flying Boat
9th June 1937: As she takes off in the Solent, near Southampton, the giant Empire flying boat Capella produces an enormous wash. As seen from a passenger seat

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Improvised Shelter

Improvised Shelter
30th April 1939: A child shelters from the rain under a womans coat during the ceremony at the Cavalry memorial at Stanhope Gate, Hyde Park, London. (Photo by Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Waterloo Station

Waterloo Station
May 1922: Exterior of Waterloo Railway Station, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Girl On A Donkey

Girl On A Donkey
1907: Miss Evelyn Wall riding a donkey. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Police Guard

Police Guard
July 1906: Policemen sent to Brooklands to guard the motor racing track. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: A Day By The Sea

A Day By The Sea
circa 1900: A seaside party, with fishing nets and umbrellas, prepare for a day on the beach. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Motor Car Rally

Motor Car Rally
2nd March 1905: A motor car rally at Ticehurst, Sussex, in 1905. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Council Chambers

Council Chambers
1922: The interior of the council chambers in the new county hall in London with benches round half of the circular room and a raised platform for the presiding authority

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Gaiety Theatre

Gaiety Theatre
1907: The Gaiety Theatre in the Strand, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Boillot In Peugot

Boillot In Peugot
12th July 1913: Boillot takes a bend in his Peugot, near Bores, during the 1913 French Grand Prix. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Mass Meeting

Mass Meeting
18th August 1911: Liverpool tramway employees attending a mass meeting at Dindal, Liverpool, during the railway strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)



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