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.

Tales of the Sea, 1976. Lithuanian photographer Vitaly Butyrin draws on a rich Soviet history with his often surreal photo-montages.

Perfume No8, 1958. This picture, the eighth in a series on perfume, shows Alexander Khlebnikov’s move into fashion and advertising photography in the 1950s.

Images from the 1873 book The Wonderland of the Antipodes and other sketches of travel in the North Island of in New Zealand

Italian driver Alberto Ascari steers his Lancia at the finish line of the 1000 Miles race in Rome in 1954

A stall holder sells live crabs at a market in an Italian fishing town, circa 1950

The family interact with locals selling items on market stalls outside an Egyptian ruin in 1913

The crumbling ruins of Karnak, Egypt in 1913. The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak, comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings

In the days before tourists were banned from climbing the pyramids, a group pf Egyptians clambering up the rock slabs in 1910's

Else relaxes by the Nile in Luxor reading a book on December 23, 1913

Victorian tourists finish a tour of a salt mine in Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden, on a special train

1960 Road Side Scene near Rawalpindi - Islamabad

1950s Rashid Minhas as a kid with family .

After the eruption of Mount Tarawera.

Khrushchev and Castro have lunch at a kolkhoz in Georgia, 1963.

Concrete Factory, 1954. After serving in the second world war,

City gents travelling by the London Underground railway system in 1939

Planted flowers form the design of Mickey Mouse's face, with the colourful Disneyland train in background in 19555

The workings of the German supergun remain something of a mystery, in Poland 1942

A small boy plays with the pigeons in the Piazza del Unita, Trieste in 1950

Eiffel Tower Completed on March 31, 1889, this was the world’s tallest man-made structure for 41 years until the completion of the Chrysler Building in New York in 1930, stretching to 1,062 feet

The CN Tower in Toronto today stands an impressive 1,800 feet high. But this 1973 photograph shows the structure looking slightly less imposing

The magnificent Sydney Opera House stands proud in the Sydney Harbour,

A vintage postcard showing a slice of Kabul

Duck farmer in the outskirts of the city in Shanghai in 1930's

Crowds and boats in the Shanghai harbour in China 1930's

The Rockefeller Center was built between 1931 and 1939 and took the place of more than 200 smaller buildings in the area and employed 225,000 people during the Depression

Many know the famous Hollywood sign in Los Angeles, but some do not know that it actually used to read Hollywoodland, originally conceived as an outdoor ad campaign for a suburban housing development

Grand Central Terminal in New York officially opened on Sunday, February 2, 1913, and more than 150,000 people visited the new building on its opening day

A platform of the Central London Railway extension at Liverpool Street Station in July 1912

A 630-feet tall Gateway Arch remains the tallest man-made national monument in the USA. The foundation of the structure was laid in 1961 but work began in 1963 finishing in two years later in 1965

Space Needle restaurant is moved into place for final assembly. The restaurant serves food to guests 500-foot above sea level and was one of the feature attractions of the Seattle World's Fair of 1962

The Hoover Dam (previously called the Boulder Dam) on the Colorado River under construction in 1936. It stands over 700 feet high today

Photograph of the Los Angeles River on the north side of Griffith Park, ca.1898-1910.

A group of boys playing in a village ban in 1950

A gondolier navigates his way through Venice, in front of St Mark's square circa 1950 photo Getty Images

Hajj in 1889

Qurbani animals stayed with the pilgrims

Stoning the devil in the mid-1900s

Tents in Arafah during Hajj in the 1950s