Here at the Manchester and Salford students' Rag day parade that was staged in 1974. The students of seventy four parading through the streets of the city accompanied by a…
In the late 1800s swimwear consisted of fully covered gowns and bloomers that revealed very little. Although the sun’s harmful UV rays were an unknown danger at the time, this…
Britain in 1950 was different, in many ways, from Britain today. The most obvious difference was in the physical fabric of the country. In 1950 the legacy of the Second…
Thurston Hopkins was one of Britain’s greatest photojournalists and, while working for Picture Post, captured the humanity, spirit and social inequality and contradictions of life in post-war 1950s Britain. During the…
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and county in South West England. It is England's sixth and the United Kingdom's eighth most populous city, and the most populous city…
Laszlo Torday (1890–1975) was a chemical engineer, industrialist and a keen and gifted amateur photographer. He arrived in Tynemouth in January 1940 from Hungary and eventually moved to Jesmond. His…
The Tyne Bridge is a through arch bridge over the River Tyne in North East England, linking Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead. The bridge was designed by the engineering firm…
Roger Mayne was one of the outstanding British photographers of the postwar period. He is best known as the photographic poet of London's dynamic street life in the then dilapidated…
12th July 1952: From left to right, Windmill Girls Lesley Wade, Maureen O'Dea and Lee Pearson drinking tea on the sunny rooftop of the Windmill Theatre in London's West End.…
Photographer Bob Mazzer spent two decades commuting to work and back on the tube. As he traveled, he used his Leica M4 and his own unique perspective to capture Londoners,…