1949 Collection (page 2)

Old Barn dated 1721 in Carr Lane, Roby that now houses an Electricity Sub Station, built in 1937, pictured 18th January 1949

PRINCE PHILIP & QUEEN ELIZABETH II VISITING WAR VETERANS, PUDSEY, YORKSHIRE - JULY 1949

Discovery of an unexploded parachute mine in Hull after the Second World War. Navy and Army bomb disposal squads moving the parachute mine from the dredger to a waiting truck. May 1949

Castleford v Hull rugby match. Bastow of Castleford was in the middle of this scrimmage right on the line when he made a superhuman effort to place the ball for a try

Sport - Football - Wales v England - Frank Scrine, the Welsh forward and Englands Bert Mozley tussle for the ball - 15th October 1949

Ballerina Margot Fonteyn pictured as Giselle. October 1949

The lowering of the road under the Queen Street bridges is well under way. The one side has been completed and traffic travelling eastwards is now running on the newly lowered surface

Rehearsal for ballet Giselle at the Mercury Theatre, London, Sunday 20th November 1949. Our picture shows... from left to right, Paula Hinton, Nathalie Krassovska, Tamara Toumanova

Marjorie Tallchief, Ballerina, pictured during rehearsal, London, Sunday 20th November 1949

Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at Mersey Docks during their visit to Liverpool. 30th March 1949

Princess Elizabeth arrives in Albert Square, Manchester, and is welcomed outside the Town Hall by the Lord Mayor. Circa 1949

Princess Elizabeth visits Manchester. Pictured after the dedication ceremony in the Garden of Remembrance with the Lord Mayor of Manchester, Ald

Princess Elizabeth inspecting the Guard of Honour provided by the 8th Ardwick Battalion (Manchester Regiment) in Albert Square, Manchester

Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean and his son Charles at home in Yealand Conyers, Lancashire. 1949

Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean in the book lined study of his home in Yealand Conyers, Lancashire. 1949

Quality control seen here being carried out on anvils manufactured at K & L Steel Founders and Engineer Limited, Letchworth. Circa November 1949

Fluorescent tubes being manufactured at the Thorn Electrics factory in Enfield 14th November 1949

Components for the construction of mobile cranes seen here being manufactured at the Jones Crane factory in Letchworth. Circa November 1949

Shipbuilders at the King George V dry dock in Southampton replace one of the mighty propellors of the Cunard liner R.M.S. Queen Mary

Machinist at Newly Brothers Engineering works in Birmingham. 10th November 1949

Fitzroy Maclean playing with his son Charles at home at Yealand Conyers, Lancashire. 1949

Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean at home with his dog Fury, in Yealand Conyers, Lancashire. 1949

Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean at home in Yealand Conyers, Lancashire. 1949

Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean, whose book "Eastern Approaches"
Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean, whose book " Eastern Approaches" is to be published this month, photographed in the lounge of his home in Yealand Conyers, Lancashire. 1949

Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean playing with his sons Charles and Jeremy at home at Yealand Conyers, Lancashire. 1949

Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean looking through a copy of Life with his children Jeremy, Susan and Charles at home at Yealand Conyers, Lancashire. 1949

Fitzroy Maclean playing with his children, Jeremy, Susan and Charles at home at Yealand Conyers, Lancashire, 1949

Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean playing with his son Charles at home at Yealand Conyers, Lancashire. 1949

Lace making at John Heathcoats factory in Tiverton. 10th November 1949

Fabric is measured and checked for imperfections at John Heathcoats factory in Tiverton. 10th November 1949

Drawing pin manufacture at Fisco Co Limited in Aberdare, Wales. Drawing pins are removed from the polisher.10th November 1949

Diesel engines being assembled at the Perkins factory in Peterborough. 10th November 1949

Odette Churchill. 3rd June 1949. Odette Churchill. 3rd June 1949
Odette Churchill. 3rd June 1949.Odette Churchill. 3rd June 1949. French secret agent and heroine Odette Sansom

In the early years of WW2 two of Britains most important industrial cities, Liverpool and Manchester were woefully unprotected from enemy bombing raids

A close-up view of the Range Finder and the men who work it. 20th February 1940

Wally Barnes Football Player of Arsenal - 15 / 10 / 1949 Daily Mirror
Wally Barnes Football Player of Arsenal - 15/10/1949 Daily Mirror arsenal060606

Dancing - Dancers Be-bop

Char-Women holding their mops. February 1949

Poignant moment as Amethyst wounded arrive at St. Martin-in-the-Field for the short, simple thanksgiving service that was held there

St Winefrides Well Shrine in Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, 15th December 1949. Also know as Winifreds Well, it claims to be the oldest continually visited pilgrimage site in Great Britain

The men of the bridge. Painting the Forth Bridge is a long and complex task, taking three years to complete. It requires 50 tons of paint each year and a squad of 24 men working permanently

Holiday scenes in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. 26th August 1949

Views from Waterloo Bridge showing "Discovery"
Views from Waterloo Bridge showing " Discovery", " President" and " Wellington" training ships. St Pauls Cathedral in the background. 5th August 1949

The wife of US Ambassador Lewis Douglas unveils the statue of Lady Godiva in Broadgate, Coventry, West Midlands, watched by the Mayor. 22 October 1949

Colmore Row, Birmingham. 25th March 1949

A mobile welfare van tours the districts of Birmingham without a District Welfare Centre. Picture shows mothers collecting their orange juice from the van at the Maypole prefab estate. 30th March 1949

Legendary Everton footballer Dixie Dean pays a special visit to Goodison park, home ground of his former team, to congratulate Everton goalkeeper Ted Sagar who the previous week broke Deans record

Exterior view of the Manchester Hippodrome building, formerly the Ardwick Empire Theatre, situated on the corner of Higher Ardwick and Hyde Road at Ardwick Green. 7th November 1949

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