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Friday, 8 January 2016

A young Afghan girl looking through the UN cameraman’s equipment in 1970's


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One of the most famous features was Luna Park that opened in 1903 and was a fantasy world with live camels and elephants


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


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


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


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


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Thursday, 10 December 2015

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


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


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


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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


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


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


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Saturday, 5 December 2015

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


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


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


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