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Abandoned boy holding a stuffed toy animal amongst the rubble, London, 1945


Japanese archers, circa 1860


Nashville, Tennessee, 1864


Joseph Goebbels scowling at photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt after finding out he’s Jewish, 1933


British soldiers on a train on their way to the front line at the outbreak of war, September 1939


British soldiers: Pioneer Charles Manners, Guardsman William Webster and Henry Lemmen of the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, 1854


Sergeant-Major James Beardsley, 'C' - Troop of the Royal Horse Artillery, 1854


Sergeant John Geary, Thomas Onslow and Lance-Corporal Patrick Carthay - 95th Derbyshire Regiment of Foot, 1854


William Noble, Alexander Dawson and John Harper of the 72nd Highlanders, 1854


Sergeant Patrick Carroll, 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade, 1854. Personally addressed by the Queen upon their return from Crimea, this regiment won 8 Victoria Crosses during the war - the most out of any regiment serving.
 
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This street in York, England is called "The Shambles" and some of the buildings date back to the 14th century









 
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England's Christmas street decorations from the past

By Chris Ellis
BBC News
19 December 2014

From balloons and horses to traditional crowns and stars, Christmas decorations in all shapes, sizes and colours have brightened up England's streets over the years. Enjoy some examples of the past here:



London's Christmas displays are world famous, and more than 50 years ago they were just as innovative with decorations shaped like hot-air balloons featuring in Regent Street's display in 1957.



In neighbouring Oxford Street the Christmas lights first went up in 1959.

In the 1960s, the street featured huge illuminated festive decorations which created a breathtaking spectacle.



In the same decade, Christmas decorations of all shapes and sizes brightened up town and city streets across the country, including in Birmingham, Norwich and in Sutton-in-Ashfield.



In Manchester, vehicles and precarious looking ladders were used to install the decorations in Market Street in the 1960s.

By 1993, thousands of Christmas lights were used to decorate the city's Albert Square.



In Newcastle, illuminated stars, snowflakes, angels and candles attached to street lights decorated Northumberland Street in 1987.



In Mousehole, in west Cornwall, Christmas lights have brightened up the village and quays for more than 50 years.

The spectacle attracts people from all over the world.



Over the years world-famous department stores have also competed to lure shoppers through their doors with glamorous outdoor displays.

From Christmas trees positioned between the pillars at Selfridges in London in 1935, to thousands of bright lights being used in festive displays in Harrods and Hamleys almost 70 years later.



The Christmas tree has been the centrepiece of many of the displays. Since 1947 the pine tree in London's Trafalgar Square has been a gift from the people of Norway in recognition of Britain's support during World War Two.

The following year, in the capital's Regent Street, battery-operated lights were precariously placed around Christmas trees on department store window ledges.

And in 1949, Euston Station's main booking hall was decorated with Christmas trees and festive displays.




BBC News - England's Christmas street decorations from the past
 
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Written by British photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot The Pencil of Nature, published in six installments between 1844 and 1846, was the "first photographically illustrated book to be commercially published" or "the first commercially published book illustrated with photographs".

It was wholly executed by the new art of Photogenic Drawing, without any aid whatever from the artist's pencil and regarded as an important and influential work in the history of photography.

the book detailed Talbot's development of the calotype process and included 24 calotype prints, each one pasted in by hand, illustrating some of the possible applications of the new technology. Since photography was still very much a novelty and many people remained unfamiliar with the concept, Talbot felt compelled to insert the following notice into his book:

The plates of the present work are impressed by the agency of Light alone, without any aid whatever from the artist's pencil. They are the sun-pictures themselves, and not, as some persons have imagined, engravings in imitation.

Here are some of Talbot's photographs from the book, many of which were taken at his photography studio at Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire (where, almost 200 years later, some of the interior scenes of two Harry Potter films were filmed):




"The Ladder" - 1844


"The Open Door" - 1843


"Articles of China" - 1843
 
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The construction of the London Underground's Central Line, 1898


Summer days of 1852: Hippo Obaysch is spotted taking a nap in the Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park, London. He was donated by Egypt in 1850 in exchange for English greyhounds and deerhounds, and he lived until 1878​



As London became more industrialised, concern grew that historic parts of London were being lost. In response, the Society for Photographing the Relics of Old London photographed places such as Henry Dixon and Son's shop in Macclesfield Street, Soho, in 1883​


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Life on the Thames, or as photographer John Thomson called it in 1876, the 'Silent Highway'. Two sailors head down the river in a barge​





The village of Wilhelm Burger, near Yokohama, Japan, in 1869. This photograph was taken by Wilhelm Burger, who was attached to the Austro-Hungarian diplomatic mission which travelled to the Far East to develop commercial relations​







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D. S. George's 'Construction of the Aswan Dam' in around 1899, is from an album of views recording the progress of the construction of one of the largest engineering schemes undertaken in Egypt in the late 19th century​
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Berlin's Olympic Stadium; the date: 14 May 1938

Foreign Office order that the England team, which included the legendary Stanley Matthews, perform the salute even though Hitler wasn't there.
 
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Locutus said:
Berlin's Olympic Stadium; the date: 14 May 1938

Foreign Office order that the England team, which included the legendary Stanley Matthews, perform the salute even though Hitler wasn't there.
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He was a great player was Sir Stanley. A legend who played in the famous 1953 "Matthews Final" FA Cup Final when his Blackpool side beat my hometown team Bolton Wanderers. It was Stan Mortensen who scored the hat-trick in Blackpool's 4-3 win, yet the game has still been immortalised as "the Matthews Final."
 
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Two men, possibly J.B. Dancer and Lord Rosse, and a child with a telescope, 1845. John Benjamin Dancer was a British scientific instrument maker and inventor of microphotography.


British soldiers during the Second Anglo-Sikh War between Britain and the Sikh Empire, 1848-49.
 
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