Images Dated 1st September 2005 (#16)

Crew Carries Boat
Members of the London School of Medicine crew carrying their scull to the River Thames at Barnes to practise for the University Boat Race

Wet Harvest
Volunteer workers wearing army capes provided for them, stand by helpless as the rain beats down on the crops at a farm in Godstone, Surrey, preventing the harvest

Prize Cats
Three white prize cats in a show glass case at the Rosental Cattery at Horndon-on-the-Hill

Practice Guns
A Royal Navy instructor checks the aim of huge dummy guns after pupils had aimed them at an imaginary target. The 15 guns are on a WWI vessel now used as a training ship

New St Francis Church
St Francis Church under construction near the Great West Road at Isleworth

Yacht Masts
Huge yacht masts being prepared for the racing season at Gosport, Hampshire

Ex-Drum Horses
On the left, the Royal Artillery Drum Horse and on the right the Royal Household Cavalry Drum Horse pulling a harrow on a farm during WW II

Gas Mask Squad
A detachment of soldiers stationed in the Home Counties undergoing revolver training in suburbia

Glen Aray
Scottish valley of Glen Aray in Argyllshire

Castle Corridor

Dry Ski Slope
Skiers practising on an artificial ski slope at Waterloo Station, which was built for a Scottish Holiday Exhibition

Solar Heating
A view of an amateur system of solar heating where the inventor has utilised normal plastic garden hose on the roof of his jhouse

Wharf Fire
Fire at Colonial Wharf, London showing fire hoses at work amid the smoke

Ideal Time
Houses and a bridge on preview day at the Ideal Home Exhibition, Earls Court, London

Look No Hands
This eleven-year-old gorilla is an expectant mother and seems to be enjoying a lazy snack at Chester Zoo

Baby Chimps
Two young chimpanzees at play in the London Zoo, where they were born

Sheeps Clothing
Two Suffolk sheep take part in the Smithfield Show at Earls Court

Thames Dinghy Race
A view of the start of the Greater London Councils dinghy race which runs from Putney to County Hall

Guildford Flood
The main street in Guildford in Surrey after the river Wey overflowed its banks following a deluge of rain, causing heavy flooding

Crystal Palace Burns
The night sky lights up as Londons Crystal Palace burns

Completed Extension
A section of the newly completed Western Avenue Extension motorway into central London, which connects the Western Avenue at White City to the Harrow Road Flyover

County Galway
An Irish village with the mountains of Connemara in the background

Crowd At Blackpool
1920: A crowd on the beach at the popular resort of Blackpool. Blackpool Tower is on the left. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Caught In Ice
circa 1935: Ice floes in a Greenland inlet, during the North Greenland expedition. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Roadside Rest
A man asleep by the roadside

Radiolympia
circa 1935: The Radiolympia Exhibition at Olympia, London. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Croquet
circa 1930: A woman playing croquet. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Weekend Trippers
circa 1930: Cars queuing to cross the border into Mexico at Tiajuana. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Hydroelectric Power
Water pipe at Shannon hydroelectric power station where one of the pipes dwarfs a man standing next to it

Shipss Propellers
circa 1930: Ships propellers in dock at Bremen, Germany. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Scheveningen Pier
circa 1930: Pier and forefront buildings at Scheveningen, a holiday resort in Holland. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Soap Flakes
Factory girls packing Lux soap into boxes by means of automated machines

Oh No
A stylised sculpted head with staring eyes and gaping mouth

Foundations
Building the foundations of the San Francisco Bay bridge

Camera Shy
A keeper lifts the shell of a giant tortoise in London Zoo so that the photographer can get a good view

Overload
30th April 1934: An Indian cargador (carrier) bent under a load of earthenware pots (colas) fastened onto a thong-bound frame called a cacaste. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Panda Lunchtime
A panda bear eating

Ladies Cape
A lady wearing a three piece suit of beige and blue plaid cloth

Exhibition Site
The derelict Earls Court exhibition site

Bridge Construction
Work continues through the night on the construction of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge

New Building
New buildings going up next to the Grosvenor House on Park Lane in London

Hoop La
circa 1930: A girl plays with a hoop in a park. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Fire Fighter
A fire fighter in full protective clothing, stands beside a fire engine with his hose

Salmon Angling
Salmon fishers heading up the Restigouche River from Kedgwick, New Brunswick, Canada

Skiers
circa 1930: Two people skiing. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Japanese Scene
Japanese children playing underneath the cherry blossom by the Imperial Palace moat in Tokyo

Coal Barges
River barges full of coal

Writing On Rock
circa 1930: Writing on a rock near Tunbridge Wells in Kent. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

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