Month: September 2024

Unique and Weird-Looking Cars: The Most Eccentric Designs of 1900s-1960s

Picture the early days of cars—a time of wild experimentation and bold ideas. From then till the mid-20th century, some truly outlandish vehicles hit the roads, breaking all the rules and grabbing attention like nothing else. At that time, technology…

The Photographic History of RMS Olympic (Titanic’s Sister Ship), 1911-1935

RMS Olympic was the largest ocean liner in the world for two periods during 1910–13, interrupted only by the brief tenure of the slightly larger Titanic (which had the same dimensions but higher gross register tonnage) before the German SS…

More than HALF of elderly voters will heat their homes less this year due to Keir Starmer’s plan to strip 10 million pensioners of winter fuel payments, damning poll reveals

More than half of pensioners will heat their homes less due to the winter fuel payment cut, a poll has revealed. Some 55 per cent said the move to strip ten million voters of the subsidy will cause them to…

The Last Days of the Slums: 20 Amazing Vintage Photographs Capture Life on the Streets in Manchester in the 1960s

From neighbors chatting between rubble-strewn terraces to kids playing cricket on cracked pavements, Shirley Baker’s photographs capture a rich street life on the brink of being bulldozed into history… The Last Days of the Slums The Last Days of the…

Airship R33 in amazing pictures, 1919-1925

The British airship R33 in its hangar as it prepares for its first-ever flight at an aerodrome in Barlow, Yorkshire. 1919. The airship R33 was built by Armstrong Whitworth and was completed after the end of the First World War….

Rollermania! 45 Interesting Photos of Roller Disco in the 1970s and 1980s

A roller disco is a discothèque or skating rink where all the dancers wear roller skates of some kind. The music played is modern and easily danceable, historically disco but in modern times including almost any form of dance music…

Découvrez 50 photos fascinantes de mariages français des années 1950.sn

Voici une galerie de 50 grandes photos de groupe prises par Roger Durand en 1951. Durand était un photographe basé à Nogent-le-Rotrou, en France. Reconnaissez-vous les personnes sur ces photos ? Groupes de Mariage en France au Début des Années…

Pictures of Women’s Fashions in the 1960s and 1970s ‎

The 1960s was the era of rising hemlines and the mini skirts. Up until the 1960s hemlines were at an acceptable knee height with the introduction of the ’60s hemlines grew shorter this created controversy when they first appeared exposing…

Portraits of Beautiful Young Girls Featured on the ‘Top of the Pops’ Album Covers of the First 40 Volumes ‎

Beginning in 1968 and running for some 92 volumes through into the eighties, the Top of the Pops albums formed one of the longest series of record releases in the U.K. Issued every few weeks, each new Top of the Pops album brought together…

Vintage Color Snapshots of Birmingham in the 1960s

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. In the last 200 years, from a market town of Warwickshire, Birmingham has risen into the fastest-growing city of the 19th century, spurred on by a combination of…