Archive Collection

Steep Street Bristol OP08887
The junction of Steep Street and Trenchard Street, Bristol, 1866. John Hill Morgan (b 1833), platinum print. This view was recorded five years before Steep Street, curving away to the left

London Zoo 1929 MD93_07025
London Zoo, Regents Park, Westminster. Line drawing entitled " The Gardens of the Zoological Society of London 1929" and " the Gardens 1829" (inset)

Nottingham EAW025936
Nottingham, 15 August 1949. Aerofilms Ltd cellulose nitrate negative. Aerofilms view of Nottingham records the construction of the new, H-shaped County Hall

Holy Trinity Blythburgh MD41_00041
Holy Trinity Church, Church Lane, Blythburgh, Suffolk. A view from the marsh looking north-east past houses towards Holy Trinity Church. Pencil drawing by Charles Bannerman Phillips dated 1914

Woolworths Southend FWW01_01_0033_002
F W Woolworth And Company Limited, 29-35 High Street, Southend-on-Sea. A view south along the High Street in Southend-on-Sea in October 1938, with shoppers and cyclists outside the store

Wentworth Woodhouse EAR007511
Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Aerial view by Aeropictorial. Aerofilms Collection. August 1946

Consett Steel Works FF98_00247
Consett Steel Works, County Durham, 1945-80. Eric de Mare (1910-2002) cellulose acetate negative. Steel-making dominated Consett for 140 years from 1840, and the steelworks, employing 6

Dudley Castle EPR005977
Dudley Castle, West Midlands. Aerial view by Aeropictorial. Aerofilms Collection. June 1939

Root Bodied Forth BB96_02064
Festival of Britain 1951. Lambeth, London. Mitzi Solomon Cunliffes sculpture Root Bodied Forth exhibited on the South Bank Exhibition site

Leighton Buzzard Market Cross BB86_01958
Market Cross, Market Square, Leighton Buzzard, Leighton-Linslade, Central Bedfordshire. A horse and cart beside the Market Cross, Leighton Buzzard, with a market taking place in the square

St Giles Fair, Oxford CC49_00539
St Giles Fair, Oxford, Oxfordshire, September 1905. Photographed by Henry William Taunt (1842-1922) on silver gelatin glass plate negative

Mobile midwifery med01_01_0490
Queen Charlottes Maternity Hospital And Midwifery Training School, Goldhawk Road, Hammersmith And Fulham, Greater London. Midwives leaving the hospital on motorised bicycles carrying analgesia

East Barsham Manor MD41_00047
Gatehouse, East Barsham Manor, East Barsham, Barsham, Norfolk. A view from the south of East Barsham Manor, with the Gatehouse in the foreground

Humber ferry EPW036413
Nelson Street and a Paddle Steamer moored at Victoria Pier, Kingston upon Hull. Paddle steamers were used on the ferry service across the Humber estuary between Kingston upon Hull and New Holland

British Embassy in Madrid P_D00718_003
British Embassy Offices, 16 Calle Fernando El Santo, Madrid, Spain. Photographed in 1966 for the Ministry of Public Building and Works

Witney Fair TS00006
Witney, Oxfordshire. Carousels at Witney Fair, with crowds watching the fun. Hand-tinted lantern slide photographed by Henry Taunt 1890s

Shoreham harbour BB060004
Shoreham By Sea, West Sussex. Two horse-drawn ballast carts in the sea beside the slipway of Stow and Son Yacht Builders, Shoreham Harbour. Photographed by E J Bedford between 1905 and 1925

Shoreham harbour BB060002
Shoreham By Sea, West Sussex. A partly submerged horse-drawn ballast cart in the sea off Shoreham Harbour, in front of the premises of Stow and Son Yacht Builders

Lichfield Cathedral MOX01 / 01 / 001
Lichfield Cathedral, Staffordshire. The Cathedral reflected in Minster Pool. One of a series of colourised lantern slides dated 1869

Barnsley Hall Hospital EAR017085
Barnsley Hall Hospital for Nervous and Mental Diseases, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Designed by George Thomas Hine and opened in 1907, since closure in 1966 it has now mostly been demolished

Royal Festival Hall OP04529
Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, Lambeth, London. The Royal Festival Hall, Shot Tower and Festival Pier seen from across the Thames. Photographed by J H Stone

Crowsteps, Newbury
Crowsteps, Tydehams, Newbury, Berkshire, c 1930. Herbert Felton (c 1887-1968), silver gelatin DOP (developing out paper) print

Alhambra Leicester Square CC97_00503
Alhambra theatre, Leicester Square, Westminster, London 1870-'82. York & Son wet collodion glass plate negative. The Alhambra in Londons Leicester Square was the brainchild of the impresario

Farrier, Woodbastwick, Norfolk a98_13563
Woodbastwick, Norfolk. Interior of blacksmiths shop. A farrier shoeing a horse. A working horse would need re-shoeing about every five weeks

Guildford High Street MD41_00037
High Street, Guildford, Surrey. Looking east along the High Street from Guildford Bridge. Pencil drawing by Charles Bannerman Phillips dated 1921

Winchester College MD41_00036
Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire. Looking past the School and Cloisters towards the south elevation of the Chapel at Winchester College

Alderwasley Hall EAR015192
Alderwasley Hall, Derbyshire. The late 18th century main house forms the centrepiece of an independent school founded in 1930. Aerial view by Aeropictorial. Aerofilms Collection. July 1951

Dudley blast furnaces OP02658
Blast furnace, Russells Hall, Dudley, West Midlands, 1859. Mr Mills, dilute albumen print. Mr Mills, otherwise unknown as a photographer, recorded the blast furnaces at Russells Hall, west of Dudley

Hertford Square Coventry OP00980
Hertford Square, Coventry, West Midlands, 1953. John M Prest (1908-'86), silver gelatin DOP (developing out paper) print

Tattershall Castle DD73_00173
Tattershall Castle, Tattershall, Lincolnshire, 1857. Attributed to Henry D Taylor (b 1814), paper negative. A rare example of a fortified medieval house

Ballingdon Hall a98_12868
BALLINGDON HALL, Sudbury, Suffolk. In 1972 the hall was moved 200 yards when the A131 was improved. The timber-framed house was built circa 1593 by Sir Thomas Eden. Hallam Ashley

Moving the earth JLP01_10_00113
John Laing excavators and other plant at work during the construction of the M1 motorway. Photographed 1958-9

Church Door, Wissett MD41_00054
St Andrews Church, Wissett, Suffolk. Sketch showing the north door. Pencil drawing by Charles Bannerman Phillips dated 1913

Woolworths, Kingston-upon-Thames BL25186
F W Woolworth And Company Limited, Kingston Upon Thames, Greater London. The front of the Kingston-upon-Thames branch of F W Woolworth & Co Ltd (Woolworths) 3d and 6d stores

Woolworths, Birmingham FWW01_01_0103_001
F W Woolworth And Company Limited, Spiceal Street, Birmingham. Exterior view of the shop front, with two women walking towards the camera in the foreground, 1921-35

Day trip a107204
Corfe Castle Station, Dorset. Three women on the down platform with Corfe Castle visible in the background and locomotive LSWR Drummond M7, destined for Swanage, pulling away from the platform

Fundraising funfair med01_01_0493
Soho Square Gardens, Westminster, Greater London. Nurses waving from the merry-go-round at The Soho Fair and Market. Photographed for the Topical Press Agency Ltd in July 1939

Embassy in Bonn P_D00149_003
British Embassy Offices, Bonn, West Germany. Photographed in 1953

Robin Hoods Bay CGH01_01_0343
Robin Hoods Bay, Fylingdales, North Yorkshire. Drawn by C G Harper 1892-1933

Oil rig on the move JLP01_10_01584_6
Graythorp Dry Dock, Hartlepool. The Graythorp basin flooded and the dock gates removed for float out of oil platform. The Laing Offshore Graythorp project involved the development of the former

British Embassy in Paris P_D00634_015
British Embassy (Hotel De Charost), 39 Rue De Fauborg Saint Honore, Paris, France. Looking along the gallery beside the ballroom at the Hotel de Charost, the British Ambassadors residence in Paris

Woad production, Algarkirk, Lincolnshire NMR02_01_00009
Algarkirk, Lincolnshire. A group of man and women cropping woad and collecting it in large wicker baskets. The earliest woad production in Britain dates from the Iron Age

Memories CC025337
Wells, Somerset. A woman leaning against the low stone wall on the west side of the moat around the Bishops Palace, holding a posy of flowers in her hand

Ramsbury Wiltshire BB97_11952
Ramsbury, Wiltshire. Women and children posing outside a thatched cottage. Photographed by Frederick Ault. Part of the Henry Taunt collection (1860-1922)

Hepworth sculpture a51_06861
Festival of Britain 1951, Lambeth, London. A Barbara Hepworth sculpture at the South Bank Exhibition site. Photographed by M W Parry

St Peter Mancroft, Norwich COB01_08_001
Church of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich, Norfolk, c 1850. Albumen print by Thomas Damant Eaton (1800-71). Thomas Damant Eaton, described as the father of the arts in the Eastern Counties

East Lyng flooding 27897_016
East Lyng, Somerset. At the end of the 9th century AD King Alfred the Great established a burh, or fortified settlement, at the eastern end of the Lyng ridge

Operating theatre med01_01_0379
St Michaels Orthopaedic Hospital, Marine Parade East, Clacton On Sea, Tendring, Essex. A view of the operating theatre. Photographed for the Topical Press Agency Ltd in May 1939

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