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RMS Olympic BL24990_002
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St Pancras Hotel DD59_00075
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Birmingham Law Courts BL11041
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Birmingham Law Courts BL11046
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Crowsteps BL30421_004
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Telephone box in 1926 BL28503
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Fenian bombing BL05153
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Sessions House, Preston BL18224
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Sessions House, Preston BL18223
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John Rylands Library BL15862
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John Rylands Library BL15845
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Royal Train BL17842
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Halton House gardens BL11779
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Birmingham Law Courts BL11052
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Althorp BL11672
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Hampton Court Palace DD57_00149
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The Grange, Northington BL08705
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SS Massilia BL05099
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Victorian drawing room BL11105
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HMS Ophir BL16520_030
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Euston Road DD64_00012
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Albert Buildings BL15329
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Birmingham Law Courts BL11042
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RMS Aquitania BL26730_001
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Witley Court BL25081_009
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London Pavilion Theatre BL05961
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Spurgeons Orphanage BL05098
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Courtlands, Clapham Park BL13947
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Thames boathouse BL11138
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A calculating machine BL21177
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Sessions House, Preston BL18232
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Mattress delivery vans BL14021
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Sandwich board men 1910 BL21037b
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National Liberal Club BL08413
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Tower of London BL10013h
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Romanos Restaurant BL05675
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Bomb damage, London 1941 BL5947
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Lyons Popular Cafe BL18609
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National Liberal Club BL08404
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Eaton Hall BL08262
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John Rylands Library DD59_00090
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Eridge Castle BL13512
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Moorish smoking room BL11220
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RMS Olympic BL24990_021
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Dog collecting money BL20502
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Office work BL_20490_03
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Tower of London BL05995
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New Gallery BL08775
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![Dining at the Savoy BL13446](/t/106/dining-savoy-bl13446-1341754.jpg.webp "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>Dining at the Savoy BL13446</figcaption></b><br>THE SAVOY HOTEL, The Strand, City of Westminster. Interior view of the Dining Room set for a "French dinner" for English and French naval architects. Photograph by Bedford Lemere, taken for the hotel management in February 1896.<br><em>© Historic England</em>")
Dining at the Savoy BL13446
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Sessions House, Preston BL18222
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National Liberal Club BL08410
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National Liberal Club BL08409
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National Liberal Club BL08411
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National Liberal Club BL08406
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![Dining at the Savoy BL12027](/t/106/dining-savoy-bl12027-1344483.jpg.webp "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>Dining at the Savoy BL12027</figcaption></b><br>THE SAVOY HOTEL, The Strand, City of Westminster, London. Interior of the Pinafore Room with table laid. The theatrical impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte had the Savoy Hotel built next to his Savoy Theatre in 1889. The Theatre was home of the Gilbert & Sullivan Savoy Operas of which "HMS Pinafore" was amongst the most famous and successful. Photographed by Bedford Lemere for the proprietor in April 1893.<br><em>© Historic England</em>")
Dining at the Savoy BL12027
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Red Lion, Kilburn BL09810
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Freemasons Hall BL15810_002
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Jacques Cartier BL21086_002
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Motor ambulance BL23011
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Minley Manor kitchens BL17959A
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John Rylands Library BL15842
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Air raid warning device BL24100
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National Food Fund BL22913_002
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Hospital kitchen BL22899
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World War I Propaganda BL22847
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Children's ward BL12177
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Victorian dining room BL13773
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Victorian shop BL11535
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RMS Aquitania BL26730_002
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Child in hospital BL12178_001
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Petrol station 1922 BL26025
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Vacuum cleaning 1910 BL21028
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Port Sunlight BL14041_027
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Harewood House BL10369
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Victorian entrance hall BL09661
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Eaton Hall, Cheshire BL08264
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Arts and Crafts interior BL16685
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Machine Room BL13617_001
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Dining at the Savoy BL14894
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Chicksands Priory BL11946
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![Empire Music Hall BL10924](/t/106/empire-music-hall-bl10924-1343817.jpg.webp "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>Empire Music Hall BL10924</figcaption></b><br>THE EMPIRE PALACE THEATRE, Newgate Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Described as the "Empire Music Hall", this interior detail shows the Ceiling and Gallery in the Auditorium soon after completion in 1890. It was photographed by Bedford Lemere for the architect (Oliver & Leeson) in August 1891.<br><em>© Historic England</em>")
Empire Music Hall BL10924
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Royal Northern Hospital BL08707
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Pumping Station BL16280_013
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Hewell Grange BL11643_019
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Convalescing Airmen BL24090_008
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Machine gun troop BL24191_008
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![Pierrot clowns and piano BL23789](/t/106/pierrot-clowns-piano-bl23789-7945033.jpg.webp "<b class=qtipBold><figcaption>Pierrot clowns and piano BL23789</figcaption></b><br>Two Pierrot clowns performing a routine with a piano. Photographed in 1917 by Bedford Lemere and Co as a promotional photograph for J B Cramer and Company, a London based piano manufacturing firm. The Bedford Lemere daybook records that this photograph was taken at "Cramer's Ken", which may refer to the factory in Kentish Town or their showroom in Kensington.<br><em>© Historic England</em>")
Pierrot clowns and piano BL23789
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Open air ward BL23137
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Military hospital BL23135
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Inventor's Cheque BL23095
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Mercedes electric bus BL19992
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Sessions House, Preston BL18230a
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Liberty and Co BL27070_016
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Liberty and Co BL27070_014
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YMCA reading room 1907 BL20046
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Wireless World 1916 BL23577
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Cafeteria 1920 BL24881_012
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Leaf-picking BL23660_007
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Billiard Hall 1903 BL17646
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Port Sunlight BL14041_020
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Port Sunlight BL14041_005
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National Liberal Club BL08417
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Bedford Lemere Collection (1860s-1944)
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