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Stretch of beach that has been closed to the public at Eastbourne for the duration of the war. A small baby is well protected whilst his parents bathe. 24th June 1941
Education was far more sexist in the 1930s than it is today. These little girls who attend holland Street School are obviously learning how to be good wives and mothers. Circa 1930s
Queen Elizabeth II visits Chester Races in May 1966. *** NOTEQueen Elizabeth II visits Chester Races in May 1966. ***NOTE : This picture possibly taken on the 4th May 1966, as The Queen is wearing a different hat than she did on the 3rd
Beating the bounds, Newbiggin, Northumberland. 20th May 1931
The main signal box at Central Station, Newcastle. 6th May 1938
A female police officer, circa 1930
North Seaton Colliery. 18th September 1939
A group of miners enjoying a meal after the opening of a pithead canteen at Isabella Pit in Throckley near Newcastle. 1st March 1942
The shot hole driller looks like a modern Hercules in modern industry, Daily Mirror Published Picture Wednesday 15th May 1935, Pages 16 & 17
Children of All Saints School, Gateshead, arriving at Gateshead Station for evacuation to-day. 1st September 1939
Preparatory Training Centre, Rathbone Road, Liverpool, 2nd July 1940. The school is now being expanded for use as a training centre for the instruction in the engineering trades
Mr and Mrs Lambert, Mr and Mrs Fraser, engineering shop, Stockport. 23rd June 1941
The clogs of the cotton-mill workers on the cobblestones in the street were once part of everyday life - but now their sight and sound have gone forever. 17th August 1932
This is the Whitley Community Centre (Reading) calling. You are listening (in theory) to four-year-old twin brothers Peter and Tony Brownlee at their bedtime concert
Kneller Hall Band, performing concert in grounds of the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall, Twickenham, 19th October 1935
The filming of The Great St Trinians Train Robbery starring Portland Mason (James Masons daughter) and George Cole as Flash Harry. On location at Longmoor Army Camp, near Liss, Hampshire
New houses being built on the edge of Kirkby. April 1939
Jacqueline Darcy, twenty three year old of the French Resistance (third right), who forged more than three hundred identity cards
A Sherman Firefly 1C Tank of the 11th Armoured Division leads a column of tanks through Gemert, Holland. 26th September 1944
Two Prefabricated Ports, each as big as Gibraltar were manufactured in Britain in sections, towed across the Channel, and set down off the coast of Normandy
Land Army Girls out and about in Reading. Circa 1942
The Battle of Taranto during the Second World War. The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history
Cilla Black, at the London Palladium. 8th May 1964
The Cheeseman boys seen here playing with their new pedal car in Malden September 1936
Traffic lights on Dillwyn Street, Swansea. Circa 1935
The nuclear mushroom cloud rising over the Japanese city of Nagasaki following the dropping of the plutonium implosion bomb codenamed Fat Man on the city on the 9th August 1945
Cilla Black, singer, couldn t resist having a swing as she strolled past a childrens playground in Edinburgh, Scotland, 6th May 1968
Dr Vladimir Petrow, the man who discovered the Volidan birth pill, checking an experiment with one of his research team in one of the laboratories
Marty Wilde, Singer, November 1958
Woman have her hair cut and curled at the hair dressers, 7th June 1962
Magician sawing man in half also performing the swords in a box trick. Magician: Bernard Hughes. Man: George Gell. April 1965 A1116-004
The ceremony of initiating the new bard, T Llew Jones, at the Eisteddfod, Ebbw Vale. 6th August 1958
Londoner Pauline Weller, 20, sunbathes on the rocks at Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan, Wales. 30th June 1958
Scottish cup finalists Glasgow Rangers pose for a group picture. They are back row left to right: Robert Watson, Jimmy Millar, Kai Johansen, Billy Ritchie, Ronald McKinnon
The tea taster at work. A sip, a quick taste and Mr Edward Pedvin, of Hollywood, near Birmingham has sampled one more of the 200 -250 sampoles on which he must pass each day at the Ty-phoo Tea
General scenes of the construction of the Hunterson, a Nuclear Power Station. 1955 A809-001 Picture circa 1st MArch 1955
Cat Woman: Mrs Nan Cotton who has 80 cats as pets in her home. Picture taken 29th March 1962
People looking in the shop window of a bakery in Liverpool, Merseyside. Circa 1967
Val Doonican singer and entertainer with wife Lynn Dbase
Maureen Flanagan, Model and Market Stall Holder, London, 26th June 1969
Mr Derek De Cora, who is giving Punch and Judy shows at the Tyneside Summer Exhibition, gives a close up view of two of the puppets to two girls. Exhibition Park, Newcastle. 23rd August 1963
Pavement Artist at work on the Embankment, London. Circa 1945
Rugby player Phil Judd with his wife, and on the right, the secretary of Coventry Chamber of Commerce, Mr K P Bolton. County Chamber of Commerce Banquet, Hotel Leofric Coventy. 17th February 1967
The Hoppings fair, held on the Town Moor in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear. The belle of the sideshow attracts the attention of both young and old as they listed to the showmans patter
Designer Mary Quant with her husband Mr Alexander Plunket Greene. 29th August 1963
Colin Evans Pontypool Rugby Union Player, match action, Circa 1959
Des Greenslade, Newport Rugby Union Player, pictured after being announced as new welsh cap, Circa 1962
Roy Burnett, Newport Rugby Union player, match action, 1957
