In the later years of the 19th century, the rough and tumble party spot was even dubbed ‘Sodom by the Sea'

In the midst of revelling, a preacher from the Brookyln City Mission speaks to crowds who have gathered on the beaches (circa 1900)

Photo of Shiprock Peak, Tsé Bit’a’í, New Mexico on the Navajo Nation. This Beautiful Photo was taken in 1914.

The first jet-assisted take-off performed in the United States. In this August 1941 test,

The Reschen Lake in southern Tyrol, Italy which covers the sunken village of Graun which was the site of the Italian Sailing Championship in 1953

Italy's Fausto Coppi finishing the seventeenth lap of the bicycle race across Italy, on June 5, 1952.

The family visited Highland Castle, Scotland in 1920 and saw some of the estate's residents

In October 1919 Tottenham Court Road at the junction with Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road, London. The Court Playhouse is on the right, and the Underground station in front

A boy and adult approaching a ticket seller's booth for the ornate Algerian Theatre in 1896

Visit were spoilt for choice when it came to bar and restaurant choices to entertain themselves with after a swim (photo taken in 1900)

Hammersmith Broadway with the underground station on the right and elaborate railings at the entrance to public conveniences in the centre, in 1910

British tourists pose in front of the Sphinx in Giza, Egypt in fashionable clothing from the 1880s

Bathing machines shelter shy holidaymakers from prying eyes at St-Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, in 1895

Jeddah in 70's

The Enemy, 1944. With the outbreak of world war two, photojournalism was enlisted in defence of Mother Russia.