Old Pictures of Working Women During the First World War
During the war, women entered the workforce in new ways. Women served in the navy and marines, and thousands served as nurses. On the home front, women worked in factories and in the government. Women unloading barrels in Bordeaux, France….
Black and White Photographs of Life in London in the 1970s
These pictures are a selection from those taken in the five years between 1973 and 1978, when Tony Bock lived in the East End working as a photographer for the East London Advertiser. “Britain in the nineteen seventies never seemed…
20 Fascinating Vintage Photos of British Holidaymakers Frolicking by the Seaside from the Early 20th Century
Donkey rides for workhouse kids on a away day and smartly dressed men in suits mingling with women in modest swimming costumes. Striking images show sun worshippers lounging on the beach from the early 1900s right through to the 1930s….
Margaret Lockwood: One of the Britain’s Biggest Film Stars of the 1930s and 1940s
Born 1916 in Karachi, British India, English actress Margaret Lockwood began studying for the stage at an early age at the Italia Conti, and made her debut in 1928, at the age of 12, at the Holborn Empire where she…
Wonderful Pictures Give an Extraordinary Glimpse Into Daily Life of the Modern Gypsies in 1986
Unrelated to the Roma, the new gypsies began in 1986 when a group of Post-Punk Anti-Thatcher protesters headed out of London into the English countryside. London based photographer Iain McKell followed these New Age Travelers to the West Country and over the…
Beautiful Vintage Postcards of the Glamorous Butlin’s Ocean Hotel in Saltdean
Opened in 1938 the Ocean Hotel occupied a site of around 4 acres with 344 bedrooms and a dining hall that could seat 300 people. It consisted of a main building shaped like a crescent which contained the whole of…
Capturing Everyday Life: 40 Stunning Vintage Photos of 1920s London
London in the 1920s changed its mood. The lifting of war time restrictions in the early 1920s created new sorts of night-life in the West End. Entrepreneurs opened clubs, restaurants and dance halls to cater for the new crazes: jazz…
24 Heartwarming Photos of Camberley Kate and Her Stray Dogs From Between the 1950s and 1970s
Looking after stray and rescued dogs the rather odd Camberley Kate was regularly seen walking them around the town. All towns have at least one eccentric resident who is known throughout the area and Camberley is no exception. Kate Ward,…
London’s Life of the 1950s
These monochrome images of the threadbare postwar years of London from a series of postcards published by Charles Skilton. London’s Life of the 1950s London’s Life of the 1950s London’s Life of the 1950s London’s Life of the 1950s London’s…
Before There Were Alarm Clocks, Knocker-Ups Were Paid to Wake Up Their Clients by Knocking!
A knocker-up, sometimes known as a knocker-upper were a profession in Britain and Ireland that started during and lasted well into the Industrial Revolution, when alarm clocks were neither cheap nor reliable, and to as late as the beginning of…