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Gallery Package - John Topham: Memory Lane 1933-1950


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John Topham slide show<br><br><br><br>John Topham presentation<br><br><br><br>Topham lecture<br><br><br><br>Shire horse and two heavy greys<br><br><br><br>©TopFoto
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Child study - The world before him - 1933<br>©TopFoto
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Ladies cooking dinners at the communal ovens in the East End of London from the leftover heat in the baker ' s oven 1933<br>©TopFoto
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Newton ' s rents off Twine Court in Shadwell - the centre of one of the worst slums in Stepney , London . When the picture of the three women and the baby around the communal pump - shared by eleven families was published in ' The Star ' in 1931 , there was a public outcry and the cottages were demolished and replaced by Stepney Council's Ring House scheme<br><br>©TopFoto
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Women wait beneath the sign of the three balls for the pawnshop to open on a Monday morning in Stepney , East London - 1933<br>©TopFoto
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Child study - rolling in a motor tyre for fun in 1933<br><br>©TopFoto
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The raising up of Tower Bridge causing a traffic hold up . 1933<br>©TopFotoT
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The arm of the law - a novel view of a British policeman .<br> 1934 <br>©TopFoto
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Telegraph wire men in 1934<br>©TopFoto
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Folk dancing in 1934 - the Folk Song Society had merged with the English Folk Dance Society in 1932<br>©TopFoto
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Waving from the steps of a double decker bus or tram to passengers aboard a steamship at the London Docks in 1934<br>©TopFoto
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Enjoying the almond blossom in Kent - 1935<br>©TopFoto
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Hop pickers returning from the Kent fields loaded up with full sacks of hops - 1935<br>©TopFoto
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Coal miners coming up in the cage from the mine shaft - 1935 / 6<br><br>©TopFoto
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Sleeping quarters in a tramp steamer in the 1930s - no privacy - little comfort with the wall being the iron plating of the ship . Four men in a small room - 1935-1936<br>
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Basket weaving in Swanley 1936<br>©TopFoto
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Bexley Heath Swimming Baths opening in Kent - 1936<br>©TopFoto
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Jim Bradford preparing to haul in the shrimp nets - 1936<br>©TopFoto
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Rag and bone man with his cart - 1937 <br><br>©TopFoto
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Boxing display watched by the children of East Central School , Dartford , 19 July 1937<br>©TopFoto
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Stationmaster E W Allen of New Eltham serves tea to visitors to the holiday coach now on view at his Southern Railway Station - 22nd February 1937 <br>©TopFoto
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Nursemaids in Rochester , Kent , have a good view of the flying boat tests on the River Medway where the Mayo dual flying boats are being constructed . The flying boat in the picture is one of the the Empire Class " Cambria " arriving back after a test flight - 27 September 1937<br>©TopFoto
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R A F Empire Day rehearsal at Biggin Hill in Kent - 15 May 1937<br>©TopFoto
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East Peckham , Kent - going to the hop fields by car in 1938<br>©TopFoto
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Press photographer in gas mask - 1939 <br>©TopFoto
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Dartford - Purfleet pilot tunnel completed . The picture shows the scene in the pilot tunnel when the Essex and Kent tunnellers met in the centre - 11 October 1938<br>©TopFoto
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The Reverend J M Coates of Sidcup bids farewell to his son , a volunteer in the Artists Rifles , on the first day of the war - 3 September 1939<br>©TopFoto
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Windmill showgirls visit the troops during WW2 - 1939<br>©TopFoto
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Land Girl driving a tractor during WW2 - a girl now in training for the Womens ' Land Army at an agricultural college in Kent . It is her first time out with the tractor and plough after having learned to plough on a miniature sand field - 12 September 1939<br><br>©TopFoto
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Vapour trails over Sidcup suggest a dogfight - aerial combat between fighter aircraft .1940<br>©TopFoto
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Children of the hop pickers take shelter to watch the Battle of Britain rage overhead . This became one of the most published pictures of the war - 1940<br>©TopFoto
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Supt F Smeed investigates the scene of the Wrotham murder in 1946<br>©TopFoto
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RAF fighter pilot of 602 Squadron at dispersal - playing chess while waiting for the call to scramble . Perranporth , Cornwall , 1943<br>©TopFoto
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Land Girls pulling onions during WW2<br>1940s<br>©TopFoto
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Rescue at a factory in Bexley , Kent after a bomb during the Blitz - 30 September 1940<br>©TopFoto
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Children sleeping during the day at Wanstead House School in 1946<br>©TopFoto
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Cookery lesson in 1946<br>©TopFoto
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Mrs M Crop with her children and grandchildren sheltering in a hop pickers hut . After publication the children were taken into care and questions raised in parliament - December 1946<br>©TopFoto
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FW Conference at Windermere in 1946<br>©TopFoto
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Hop wiring on stilts - January 1947<br>©TopFoto
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Painting a gasometer in 1946<br>
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Ploughing in a snowstorm when Britain needed food - January 1947<br>©TopFoto
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Winter work indoors . Sorting Majestic seed potatoes - a job for the snowy weather on W Rogers ' farm at Horton Kirby in Kent . 10 February 1947<br>©TopFoto
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Mr Philip Rye and family - wife and six children , who had lived in this hut at Crockenhill in Kent for more than six years - 5 November 1948<br>©TopFoto
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Fire at the Darford Paper Mills in Kent which burnt for three days - 3 March 1949<br>©TopFoto
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Policeman with a broken toy after a fatal traffic accident - 17 December 1948<br><br>©TopFoto
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King George VI inspects Sea cadets on Navy Day at Chatham in Kent . 12 July 1948 <br>An award winning photograph<br>©TopFoto
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Pilots of 615 Squadron - Biggin Hill in Kent - 30 June 1949<br><br>©TopFoto
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Tom Nixon a character at the Carlisle Winter Hirings - 21 November 1951<br><br>©TopFoto
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A farmer's widow with her two brothers at Mountain Farm , Rhydwen Farm , Llangower , North Wales - 19 December 1950<br>©TopFoto
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With a felling axe , Harry ( Heathfield ) the Hedger of Charing , Kent , has cut off the stumps of a hedge he previously trimmed . 6 February 1951<br><br>©TopFoto
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Fruit pickers at tea time during their spell of apple picking in the orchards at Malling in Kent .<br>23 August 1951<br><br>©TopFoto
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Old housing in Woolwich , London - 17 October 1951<br><br>©TopFoto
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Draghunt meets in the fog at Birling in Kent - January 1953<br>©TopFoto
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Footpath through cornfield at Tumberton Bottom in Kent - September 1952<br>©TopFoto
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Car and bus crash at Birchwood in April 1953<br>©TopFoto
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Mr and Mrs W J Turner walking hand in hand down the street after 62 years of marriage in May 1940 - An award winning photograph for John Topham .<br><br>©TopFoto
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C.D. Vaughan perfects his delivery at the Broadstairs and St Peter’s Sixth Open Bowling Tournament<br>29 September 1951 <br>©John Topham / TopFoto
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Home defence troops are left in drag as their Christmas charity performance was interupted by a coastal alert near Gravesend<br>1940<br>©John Topham / TopFoto
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Terry Thomas the well known comedian, went hunting with the Old Surrey and Burstow Hunt, at Edenbridge, Kent.<br><br>His horse was late in arriving and as soon as he was mounted he was thrown - breaking a wrist.<br><br>He is seen in the village High Street after having hospital treatment.<br><br>1 December 1954<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
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A signed portrait of Winston Churchill taken by John Topham at Chartwell.<br>1953
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