'The Syren and Shipping Illustrated' shipping journal - main editorials from April 23, 1958

Linhope Linn sketches: deer and the valley (1975)

The Beeching report - plan of railways before and after

Anthony Eden in 1943 - charming photo

2ndWW news May 5th 1945

General George Patton's shocking prayer to God during the Battle of the Bulge

Argosy Magazine (short stories) for April 1956 - with preview page of (otherwise unlisted) Ray Bradbury short story

Battersea Power Station when it was only half-sized (in 1940)

Piano manufacture in the 1930s from encyclopedia, with photos

2nd World War news reports

2nd World War Forces news

GCHQ Inside story

Moscow agents in UK & US WW2

Stasi targetted Britain

Albert Speer- Hell's architect

India as presented in the 1930's in British 'The Book of Knowledge' - with photos

On India's Ancient Past

Magic as presented in the 1930's 'Book of Knowledge'

Trungpa Rinpoche - demise of the Tibetan Buddhist guru and profligate

Robinson Crusoe's actual cave - really Alexander Selkirk - on Juan Fernandez Island

Royal Navy Walks on Water

Biggest Pumpkins ever photographed? (from 'The Book of Knowledge 1930s')

Biggest great white shark ever caught?

Three truly huge pumpkins on a cart from the 1930s

'Men Only' Magazine - covers for November and December, 1954

South Shields - bygone days, Hoppings Fair (photos etc.)

South Shields - Marsden Rock and Grotto history

Airship R34 outlined from The Book of Knowledge, 1933

2nd World War forces' newspapers: Union Jack scrapbook

Kenny Barker Quartet with Pete Marbin, Tommy Henderson and Robert

Norway's greatest jazz drummer for decades pre-2000 - Atom-Jørgen Gaardvik

Cecil Gee striped shirt, 1958, best stripes ever

Haynes Park, Gidea Park, Hornchurch, Essex

Hotel Rama, Lavelle Road, Bangalore

Ashraya Hotel, Infantry Road, Bangalore

Mada'in Salih-Saudi_Arabia

Cambridge_English_High_School,_Yelahanka Bazaar, nr. Bangalore - photo of pupils from January 1997

Julenissen og Rup*rt

Jackson Browne on stage at theGlastonbury Festival in 1982

Womad festival, 1982 Shepton Mallet photos

Plough by Night - wartime poster

Adolph Hitler in a flying helmet

Bernard Bresslaw in The Army Game 1950s

Woolworth's mug owl motif

Strange hats of many lands and how they were made
Tibet - Roumania, Russia, Czecho-Slovakia and Black Forest - Nigeria, Egypt, Borneo, Abyssinia -
France (Douarnenez), Alsatia, France (Abranches) - Gutachtal - Black Forest - Syria Beduoin -
Durban (SA) rickshaw headgear - Ceylon (Kandyan chief), Bhutan (Lepcha), Maori, Prince of Wales Island -
Turkey, Algeria - Syrian arab, Cape Province Malay bride, Sweden sunbonnets -
Syrian Druse women headgear, Abyssinia women head-covering, Manchurian hat -
Mekeo tribe, British New Guinea - Lapland hats - woman's cap Caudebec-en-Caux, France -
Burmese woman's head-dress, Tunisian Arab garb - Female costumes, Hardfanger, Norway

Blue Rupert Bear

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