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Gallery Package - Newly discovered gems from the Archive


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Woodmen splitting logs with an axe and mallet for use as clogs .<br>Early 1900s

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The wooden hulk of the old battleship , HMS Hannibal of the Black Sea Fleet , moored at Charlton on the River Thames before being broken up at Henry Castle & Sons ship and timber yard .<br>Early 1900s

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A wooden carving of a christian missionary by Africans from the Loango region of central Africa . .<br>Early 1900s

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Edwardian ghostbuster

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Edwardian children dancing round the maypole - c.1910

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Harold Bastin, c1890/1900 - Loading the Hay Wain<br>The really skilled part of the job was loading the hay wain evenly, so that the load would not slip.  How did the woman work through a hot day in her tight bodice and heavy skirt?

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H . Castle & Sons Ltd<br>The Temeraire mantelpiece , taken from the battleship, HMS Temeraire which fought at the Battle of Trafalgar .  It was carved from mahogany and oak taken from ships broken up by Castles .<br>Early 1900s

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Henry Castle & Sons Ltd<br>The figureheads from the old wooden ships , HMS Collinwood and and HMS Imperieuse  at Castle ' s Shipbreaking and Timber yard on the Thames at Charlton .<br>Early 1900s<br><br>

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Edwardian motor cars<br>Early 1900s

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Edwardian landscape gardeners uprooting and moving  an oak tree .

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An Edwardian couple with hats covering their faces , resting in the sun .<br>Early 1900s<br>

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Edwardian family enjoying the countryside on a bridge over a dried up stream .<br>Early 1900s

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Hot Air Ballooning . 1920 ' s

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Women haymaking on Lingfield Racecourse , apparently unperturbed by the racing in progress .

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Women haymaking on Lingfield Racecourse apparently unperturbed by the racing in progress .

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" Fet " , with H . Sprague , the jockey , and Mr Harry Hedges , his trainer ; training at Epsom , Surrey , England .<br>1936

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Mr George Polsue .

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Mrs George Polsue .

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Paris .<br>Hotel Du Louvre .<br>

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The modern method of grooming bloodstock , the electric vacuum brush , a sideline at the Ascot Bloodstock sales .<br>©TopFoto

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Funeral of nurse Cavell , her coffin seen here leaving Victoria Station .<br>Edith Louisa Cavell ( 4 December, 1865 - 12 October 1915 ) was a British nurse and humanitarian . She is celebrated for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German - occupied Belgium during the First World War . Her subsequent execution received significant sympathetic press coverage worldwide .<br>14 May 1919<br>

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Dickens 69th Anniversary at Westminster Abbey .<br>Bourchier ( left ) and Henry Dickens Hawksley (right) ; the great great Grandsons of the famous author arrive with their wreaths .<br>9 June 1939<br>

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55th Anniversary for Charles Dickens  at Westminster Abbey <br>Photographed is Lady Dickens and her son Peter at the Service .<br>7 February 1925

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London Scotsmen Vs London Englishmen Bowls Match at Paddington .<br>Photographed is Mr Campbell Houston , one of the Scottish skips .<br><br><br>

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Funeral of Dr William Gilbert Grace  ( 1848  - 1915 ) an English amateur cricketer who captained England and Gloucestershire . <br>He was buried in the family grave at Elmers End Cemetery in Beckenham , Kent ; 23 / 10 / 1915<br>The Widow Agnes Nicholls Grace is following in black .

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The Prince of Wales , now a member of the Grenadier Guards in London , before he leaves for the Front . First World War .

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Charcoal making - building the charcoal pile<br>© TopFoto

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Strawberry pickers c . 1910

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Bastin 149<br><br>Tow path horse<br><br>North Devon <br><br>c 1910

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Zoo keeper with chimpanzee<br>1908

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Edwardian knitting circle

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