The picture of the iceberg taken from passing German liner Prinz Adalbert has appeared in books about the disaster but an accompanying note which gives it credibility was virtually unknown until now

On the same day, the Titanic's sister ship, the RMS Olympic, that had been launched in October 1910, set off on her maiden trip to Liverpool

Never-seen-before photographs showing the launch of he ill-fated Titanic from a shipyard in Belfast

Linoenewald was the chief steward on the German liner Prinz Adalbert that passed the disaster scene on the morning of April 15. The Titanic had sunk at 2.20am on the same day.

After the official inquiry into the Titanic, pictured, disaster in which 1,523 people died, both items were framed and hung in the company's boardroom until they went out of business in 2002

A passenger points out Piccadilly Circus on an early Underground map. The modern graphic design of the maps was first drawn up by Harry Beck in 1933

A 'new-look' London Underground station in 1960 with its long escalators

1950s PIDC Building

After the eruption of Mount Tarawera.

After the eruption of Mount Tarawera.

Pilgrims doing Tawaf – there wasn’t such a big crowd

60-70 years ago, when reaching to Hajar Al-Aswad then wasn’t hard

There was a time when every Muslim could enter the Holy Kaaba

One of the entrances to Masjid Al Haram

Streets of Makkah during the mid-1950s – you can see very few cars in the street.