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Topical Press Agency Collection (#5)

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 R-101

Airship R-101
October 1929: Airship R101 passing over St Pauls Cathedral, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Engine Driver

Engine Driver
26th October 1907: An engine driver on the Great Central Railway standing beside his locomotive, with an oil can in his hand. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Shaftesbury Theatre

Shaftesbury Theatre
March 1923: The exterior of Shaftesbury Theatre in London which is showing the play Stop Flirting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Womens Trade Union

Womens Trade Union
circa 1913: Suffragettes carrying the banner of the Womens Trade Union League of New York on a Labour Day Parade through the city. (Photo by Paul Thompson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Air Raid Ruined Buildings

Air Raid Ruined Buildings
12th May 1941: Buildings devastated during air raids near the dome of St Pauls Cathedral in the City. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Ludgate Circus

Ludgate Circus
3rd January 1914: A policeman stops the traffic and helps pedestrians to cross the road at Ludgate Circus in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: SS Mauretania

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

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: A Good Pull

A Good Pull
25th May 1929: Cunard liner the SS Berengaria with tugs in attendance. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: SS Berengaria

SS Berengaria
4th May 1933: The giant Cunard liner Berengaria entering Southampton harbour assisted by tugs. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Passenger Transfer

Passenger Transfer
Passengers disembarking from the Cunard liner SS Mauretania onto a tender at Fishguard, Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Laconia

Laconia
Three ladies watch the second Cunard liner to be named Laconia leaving Liverpool on a transatlantic voyage to New York. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace
25th April 1914: A general view of Crystal Palace football ground during the FA Cup final between Burnley and Liverpool. Burnley won 1-0. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Racing Start

Racing Start
20th September 1924: Start of the Junior Car Clubs International 200 miles race at Brooklands. Nos 2 and 3 are Alvis cars and nos 4 & 6 Horstmann. (Photo by Osbourne/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Spitalfields Market

Spitalfields Market
R. Rumbolds fruit and vegetable stand at Spitalfields Market, 23rd November 1928. (Photo by S. R. Gaiger/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Girl Guides

Girl Guides
July 1927: Girl Guides setting off to their camp from Waterloo Station in London. (Photo by Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: A Railway Tractor

A Railway Tractor
A tractor running on the Never Stop Railway in the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, London

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Portable Sun Tan

Portable Sun Tan
circa 1927: A woman with a sun lamp at the International Exhibition of Light and Heat in Medicine. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Farewell Son

Farewell Son
19th September 1925: Call boy Alfred Ayre waves goodbye to his mother at Waterloo train station, London, to take up his contract in America. (Photo by MacGregor/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Goodbye Kiss

Goodbye Kiss
1929: A Welsh soldier kissing his loved ones goodbye, before setting off from Waterloo Station, London, for service in Egypt. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Boy Farm Emigrants

Boy Farm Emigrants
circa 1926: A large party of boy farmers departing from Waterloo Station, London, on their way to New Zealand. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Giant Propeller

Giant Propeller
1926: Workers at LMS railway preparing a huge propeller for loading. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Dangling Apples

Dangling Apples
1928: Women trying to eat apples from the end of pieces of string, at an event organized for the opening of Tottenham sports ground. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Sheep Walking

Sheep Walking
July 1925: Two British Bluejackets take the New Zealand sheep for exercise whilst they are at Wembley. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Transatlantic Cable

Transatlantic Cable
28th May 1926: Local children help the workers drag the British end of a Transatlantic cable or communications line ashore at Sennen Cove, Lands End. (Photo by E)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: After You

After You
9th April 1925: A punt full of bathers waiting their turn to dive into the river Thames at Richmond, Surrey. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Fancy That

Fancy That
2nd September 1926: Two competitors in a fancy dress competition arriving as bride and bridegroom at the fete in Sandown, Isle of Wight. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Tank Capture

Tank Capture
14th December 1927: The crew of a German tank surrendering to the crew of a British tank in a scene from a British film shot in Dorset, England. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Dog Show Entrant

Dog Show Entrant
November 1926: An entrant at the Metropolitan and Essex Canine Society Show at Alexandra Park, London. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Mannequin Parade

Mannequin Parade
18th June 1925: A striking bathing costume being admired by business girls, during a mannequin parade. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Exploding Policeman

Exploding Policeman
5th November 1925: A young boy plays a practical joke on a policeman with a rick-rack firework attached to his jacket. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Best Friends

Best Friends
3rd March 1926: George Spinney with his bulldog at the Middlesex Hospital Open Championship Dog Show at Crystal Palace. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: New World Cooker

New World Cooker
2nd December 1926: A woman demonstrating the Radiation `New World Gas Cooker. Decades - 1920s - 1249 61 (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Summer Scarf

Summer Scarf
30th April 1928: A bathing belle modelling a swimsuit on the roof of an Oxford Street department store enjoys an iced drink. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Lady Spectators

Lady Spectators
17th April 1925: Miss Yoskyl and Miss Nancy Pearson at the Horsham and Crawley Point to Point steeplechase at Dial Post near East Grinstead. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Tea Room

Tea Room
Nippies, waitresses for Lyons Corner House Tea Rooms, serve some of the 1, 000 disabled soldiers being entertained with tea at Coventry Street Corner House, London. (Photo by H F Davis/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Missing Mystery

Missing Mystery
6th December 1926: A car being used in a police reconstruction of events surrounding the disappearance of detective story writer Agatha Christie near Newlands Corner, Guildford, Surrey

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: The Debenhams

The Debenhams
23rd September 1925: The Debenham sisters on their BSA motorcycles. They are wearing fur and waterproof clothing for the winter motorcyclist. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bathing Tents

Bathing Tents
12th April 1929: Two women changing discreetly on a beach in Skreenette bathing tents. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Coal Scrounging

Coal Scrounging
1st May 1926: Young children with their sacks, scrounging in the coal yard for odd pieces of coal which fall from vans at Kings Cross, London during the General Strike. (Photo by H. F)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Crowd At Pithead

Crowd At Pithead
1st March 1927: A large crowd waits at the pithead at Cwm near Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, after an explosion in the pit killed many miners on the night shift

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Football Supporter

Football Supporter
25th April 1925: A Cardiff supporter buys a leek for good luck upon her arrival in London from Wales to watch Cardiff City FC play Sheffield United FC in the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium

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: Arsenal And Villa

Arsenal And Villa
24th February 1926: A section of the crowd at the football match between Arsenal and Aston Villa at Highbury. (Photo by W. G. Phillips/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Clearing The Streets

Clearing The Streets
14th May 1926: Mounte and foot police clearing the streets before the first tram leaves the New Cross depot, London, after the general strike. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Ascot Fashions

Ascot Fashions
June 1925: Fashionable guests at Ascot. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Welwyn Garden City Station

Welwyn Garden City Station
The new railway station in Welwyn Garden City, 5th October 1926. (Photo by Davis/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: East Ham Co-Op

East Ham Co-Op
A busy street scene along the shopfront of the London Co-Operative Society Ltds store in the East Ham, London, England, United Kingdom, in April 1929

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Horse Race Fair

Horse Race Fair
April 1925: A dwarf posing on a funfair ride with a group of people on Newmarket 2, 000 Guinea Race Day. (Photo by W. G. Phillips/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)



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