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Topical Press Agency Collection (#3)

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

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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)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Mauretania Propeller By Rail

Mauretania Propeller By Rail
An 18-ton bronze propeller for the Cunard Liner RMS Mauretania, being loaded onto a railway truck at the LMS (London, Midland and Scottish Railway) goods yard at Camden Town, London

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Traffic At Holborn

Traffic At Holborn
A mix of horse drawn and motorised traffic at the junction between Holborn and Kingsway, London. The new Underground station is on the corner. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Railway Cleaner

Railway Cleaner
26th October 1907: A man sweeping a Great Central Railway carriage, at Marylebone. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Cowes Boat

Cowes Boat
1910: The bow of the Germania one of the ships competing in the Cowes Regatta. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Westward Ho Links

Westward Ho Links
1st October 1905: The links from the 6th tee at Westward Ho Golf Links in Devon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Railcar

Railcar
1928: The Clayton Steam Coach. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Air Pageant

Air Pageant
circa 1927: A line of aeroplanes awaiting rehearsals for Hendon Air Pageant. (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: Littleport Skaters

Littleport Skaters
1st January 1907: Children enjoying themselves on the ice at Littleport, near Ely. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bradford

Bradford
July 1921: Forster Square in Bradford, Yorkshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Tennis At Scarborough

Tennis At Scarborough
1922: The tennis courts at South Cliff, Scarborough, north Yorkshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: SS Arandora Star

SS Arandora Star
11th July 1931: Blue Star liner Arandora Star at Immingham docks, Lincolnshire. (Photo by J. B. Helsby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Travel Information

Travel Information
17th August 1913: The indicator board showing train arrivals and departures at Charing Cross Railway Station in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Railplane

Railplane
The Bennie railplane being demonstrated at Glasgow, Scotland. It consists of self-propelled passenger cars driven by air screws, suspended from a steel girder

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: W H Smiths

W H Smiths
January 1921: Exterior of W H Smith & Son booksellers, newsagents and stationers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Deeside Valley

Deeside Valley
15th September 1952: The River Dee flowing through the valley at Ballater, in the Scottish Highlands. (Photo by Monty Fresco/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: London Smog

London Smog
November 1922: Fog at Ludgate Circus, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Tooting Fire Brigade

Tooting Fire Brigade
27th February 1908: A motorised fire engine leaves Upper Tooting Fire Station, in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Mothercraft

Mothercraft
circa 1910: Mothercraft lessons for girls at a day nursery in Acton, showing how to bath a baby. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Tobogganing

Tobogganing
1908: The starting point of the skeleton event, the Cresta Run at Saint Moritz, Switzerland. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Tobogganing Slope

Tobogganing Slope
1908: A skeleton competitor taking off on the Cresta Run at Saint Moritz, Switzerland. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Tobogganing Slope

Tobogganing Slope
1908: A skeleton competitor on the Cresta Run at Saint Moritz, Switzerland. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bus Driver

Bus Driver
March 1929: A set of instruments on a bus route survey vehicle for measuring distance, gradient and camber on roads used by the London General Omnibus Companys fleet of buses

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Parasol Vendor

Parasol Vendor
July 1909: A busy sunshade vendor at Henley waiting whilst the lady punters settle into the punt during the Henley Regatta. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Station Interior

Station Interior
17th February 1928: A general view of the interior of Marylebone Station, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Indian Ace

Indian Ace
29th October 1927: The first Indian four-cylinder engine motorbike, on view at the motorcycle show at Olympia, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: X-ray Outfit

X-ray Outfit
1st March 1909: A medical worker, dressed in protective clothing, prepares to take an X-ray. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Robinsons Store

Robinsons Store
July 1923: Peter Robinsons department store in Oxford Circus, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Kaiser Hof Hotel

Kaiser Hof Hotel
1920: Guests sitting outside the Kaiser Hof Hotel, Dar es-Salaam, Tanganyika, East Africa. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: The Alhambra

The Alhambra
circa 1919: The Alhambra Music Hall theatre on Charing Cross Road, central London. It was demolished in 1936 to build the Odeon cinema, Leicester Square. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Chalking The Cue

Chalking The Cue
Circa 1908: A portrait of Mr Spiller preparing his billiard cue by chalking the tip, taken against a painted backdrop. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Princess Flying Boat

Princess Flying Boat
19th August 1952: Holidaymakers at Cowe, Isle of Wight, watching the launching of a 140 ton Saunders-Roe Princess flying boat prior to flight trials

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Airspeed Consul

Airspeed Consul
30th September 1946: An Airspeed Consul civilian passenger plane on show at the display of planes for the businessman at White Waltham Airfield, near Maidenhead

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Electric Train

Electric Train
A new electric train leaves Blackheath railway station in London, 8th June 1926. (Photo by MacGregor/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Winter In Broadstairs

Winter In Broadstairs
Broadstairs Bay in Kent, after a blizzard, 16th February 1929. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: SS Maloja

SS Maloja
The P&O liner SS Maloja at anchor off Aden in Yemen, July 1926. (Photo by Hawkins/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Shopping Arcade

Shopping Arcade
July 1910: Royal Opera Arcade, Covent Garden, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bristol University

Bristol University
King George V and Queen Mary make their way down Park Street in Bristol, having just opened the new Wills Memorial Building, part of Bristol University, June 1925

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Handley Page Victor

Handley Page Victor
The Handley Page Victor, a four-jet crescent-wing bomber, makes an appearance at the Farnborough Air Show, 7th September 1953. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Kings College Hospital

Kings College Hospital
The out-patients waiting hall of Kings College Hospital in Denmark Hill, London, April 1914. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bluebird

Bluebird
January 1929: The Napier Arrol Aster Car Bluebird used to break the land-speed record by Sir Malcolm Campbell. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Ascot Racegoers

Ascot Racegoers
16th June 1925: A group of spectators at Ascort racecourse. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Mauretania Tender

Mauretania Tender
Passengers disembarking from the Sir Francis Drake, tender to the Cunard liner Mauretania upon their arrival at Fishguard, Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: SS Mauretania

SS Mauretania
The Cunard liner Mauretania draws into the bay at Fishguard, Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Train Lounge

Train Lounge
1st January 1918: The lounge of an American Army Ambulance Train at St. Pancras. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Sunningdale Links

Sunningdale Links
28th July 1906: The links at Sunningdale Golf Club. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)



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