tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80002522271571501532024-02-20T17:41:16.289+00:00Vintage Found Photo StoriesPhotos of interest found in England.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809886067387619852noreply@blogger.comBlogger159125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000252227157150153.post-12357677376674276082012-10-04T09:59:00.002+01:002012-10-04T09:59:55.507+01:00Child on the beach with a toy boat<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/7902448110/" title="Child on the beach with a toy boat by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8461/7902448110_6b5eddcd11.jpg" width="500" height="380" alt="Child on the beach with a toy boat"></a>
Something idyllic about this one.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809886067387619852noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000252227157150153.post-22900024601689578642012-08-02T11:08:00.001+01:002012-10-04T10:06:38.749+01:00Hong Kong - Canton steamboat captains<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/7328401112/" title="Captain Lossius and his wife aboard SS Kinshan. Hong Kong - Canton Line. 1900s. by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Captain Lossius and his wife aboard SS Kinshan. Hong Kong - Canton Line. 1900s." height="371" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7076/7328401112_cda8a4230d.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
Captain Lossius and his wife on the deck of SS Kinshan.<br />
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I found these three photos in a flea market in England. Having spent my childhood in Hong Kong I was quite thrilled to come across them. I've managed to find out a great deal about these people thanks to various on-line databases and helpful individuals..... <br />
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Norwegian-born Jacob (a.k.a. Iacob) Johan Lossius (1853 -1942) and his wife Agnes Mary Potter Lossius (d. 1938). They were married in Liverpool in 1877. Both are buried in Hong Kong cemetery, Happy Valley. The SS Kinshan was a steamer which ran between Hong Kong and Canton. She was captured by the Japanese in WW2 and became the "Hachian Maru". She was sunk by USS Thresher, Dec. 30 1942.<br />
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(Below) Captain AW Dixon exercising with Indian clubs on the deck of the SS Sainam.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/7310378814/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Captain Arthur Wesley Dixon on the deck of paddle steamer 'Sainam' (Hong Kong, Canton and Macau steamboat company). Xi River, China. Exercising with Indian clubs. by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Captain Arthur Wesley Dixon on the deck of paddle steamer 'Sainam' (Hong Kong, Canton and Macau steamboat company). Xi River, China. Exercising with Indian clubs." height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7218/7310378814_9a0b856f9f.jpg" width="333" /></a>Article from the 'The Adelaide Advertiser'. 17th July 1906:
<i>A number of Chinese pirate junks last week attacked the paddle steamer Sainam, 588 tons, Captain A.W. Dixon, belonging to the Hong Kong, Canton and Macau steamboat company, near Etuchow.
They overpowered the officers and crew of the vessel, and murdered the Rev. Dr. MacDonald, who was a passenger. Captain Dixon and the Chief Engineer were seriously wounded.
The shallow-draught river gunboat, Moorhen, 180 tons, attached to the China squadron, has been dispatched to the scene of the outrage.</i><br />
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Dixon survived and is recorded as having died in Shanghai in 1928. <i><br /></i><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809886067387619852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000252227157150153.post-3715219604379967722012-07-27T15:57:00.001+01:002012-07-27T15:57:38.769+01:00Sports<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/7169847193/" title="Cricket on the beach. Unidentified location by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Cricket on the beach. Unidentified location" height="211" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7094/7169847193_f363e1d062.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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My contribution to the <a href="http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/sepia-saturday-136-28-july-2012.html">Sepia Saturday theme</a>. Some recent finds from the flea markets. A cricket match on an unidentified beach. A team of athletes from the British Workers' Sports Federation giving the raised-fist salute. The BWSF were a mainly communist organisation and the occasion is probably one of the Workers' Olympiads in the 1930s, maybe the one in Antwerp in 1937. Lastly, the cheerful 'Womens' League of Health and Beauty' parading through what looks like an English seaside town (maybe Brighton, where I found it).<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/7355052306/" title="British Workers' Sports Federation (BWSF) team. 1930s. by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="British Workers' Sports Federation (BWSF) team. 1930s." height="356" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7227/7355052306_f03f27035c.jpg" width="500" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/7257089026/" title="The women's league of health and beauty. by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="The women's league of health and beauty." height="490" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7237/7257089026_3ec84413a1.jpg" width="500" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809886067387619852noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000252227157150153.post-57395676741573533522012-07-13T15:42:00.003+01:002012-07-13T15:43:17.754+01:00Prams<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6273310845/" title="Two ladies and a baby in a wicker pram. (enlarged detail) by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Two ladies and a baby in a wicker pram. (enlarged detail)" height="408" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6114/6273310845_924a5854e1.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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My contribution to this week's <a href="http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/sepia-saturday-134-14-july-134.html">Sepia Saturday</a> theme.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/5997045985/" title="Limpsfield, Surrey. 1899. (baby, hat, parasol & pram detail) by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Limpsfield, Surrey. 1899. (baby, hat, parasol & pram detail)" height="429" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6017/5997045985_af30bb0ce2.jpg" width="500" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6691298929/" title="Baby John. 14th April 1946 by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Baby John. 14th April 1946" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6691298929_fcb126d079.jpg" width="349" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809886067387619852noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000252227157150153.post-76444400712234189232012-06-19T09:23:00.000+01:002012-06-19T09:40:34.228+01:00Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. 1939. Previously unseen photographs.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/7169856643/" title="Excavation of an Anglo-Saxon ship burial. Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. 1939 by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Excavation of an Anglo-Saxon ship burial. Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. 1939" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7088/7169856643_d6d6bb846c.jpg" width="302" /></a><br />
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There was some <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8292937/Unseen-photographs-of-1939-excavation-of-Sutton-Hoo-discovered.html">excitement last year</a> when a set of previously unseen photos of the 1939 <a href="http://www.suttonhoo.org/archeology.asp">Sutton Hoo</a> ship excavation were discovered. Most of the original official photographs were destroyed during the war. I found these two in a flea market last week. There hasn't been a flurry of press interest this time, however. Oh well.....<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/7355073610/" title="Excavation of an Anglo-Saxon ship burial. Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. 1939. by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Excavation of an Anglo-Saxon ship burial. Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. 1939." height="297" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7091/7355073610_83f387d9d6.jpg" width="500" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809886067387619852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000252227157150153.post-71559435137727371142012-04-19T12:51:00.000+01:002012-04-19T12:51:42.610+01:00Captured British seamen aboard German raider 'Pinguin'. 1940.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/7092937689/" title="Captured crew and passengers of the merchant ship 'Port Wellington', on board German auxilliary cruiser (hilfskreuzer) 'Pinguin'. November 1940. by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Captured crew and passengers of the merchant ship 'Port Wellington', on board German auxilliary cruiser (hilfskreuzer) 'Pinguin'. November 1940." height="295" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5336/7092937689_70ed5909ea.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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One of my colleagues at work, Roy Johnson, knows that I collect old photos and just mentioned in passing "Oh, I have a photo of my father on board the German raider that sank his ship and captured him during the war". I had to see this! Thanks Roy for letting me use these scans. Roy's father, Albert, was a member of the crew of the Port Wellington, which was attacked by the German auxiliary cruiser (hilfskreuzer) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_auxiliary_cruiser_Pinguin">'Pinguin'</a> on 30th November 1940. Most of the crew and seven female passengers were captured. Here we see them all on the deck of the Pinguin. The first officer of the Pinguin was kind enough to go back on board the Port Wellington before she was scuttled to retrieve clothes for the women. The Pinguin herself was sunk by the Royal Navy the following year. Below is Albert in '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlag_und_Milag_Nord">Marlag und Milag Nord</a>' POW camp in Germany. That's him on the front row at the far right. <br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6946869644/" title="British merchant navy POWs. Marlag und Milag Nord POW camp, near Westertimke, Germany. by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="British merchant navy POWs. Marlag und Milag Nord POW camp, near Westertimke, Germany." height="319" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5040/6946869644_3722c03d37.jpg" width="500" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809886067387619852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000252227157150153.post-82722627159932524482012-03-15T09:30:00.000+00:002012-03-15T09:36:56.515+00:00Ezidor Bennett, photographer. Manchester. 1870s.By chance I came across several of these group photos by the same Manchester photographer, Ezidor Bennett. An old <a href="http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/24281/pages/40/page.pdf">newspaper article</a> tells us that he went bankrupt in 1876, which helps date them. He appears to have specialised in these groups of children. Many of them appear quite down-at-heel. The photos may have been paid for by an orphanage or church charity. Though small, these photos preserve a great deal of detail, which only becomes evident with the help of a scanner and photoshop.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6979647799/" title="Group of children. Manchester. 1870s. by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Group of children. Manchester. 1870s." height="297" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7189/6979647799_88f9b53767.jpg" width="500" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6979828651/" title="Children. Manchester. 1870s (enlarged detail) by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Children. Manchester. 1870s (enlarged detail)" height="307" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7177/6979828651_13c356fde0.jpg" width="500" /></a>
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I have come across parts of this collection <a href="http://vintagefoundphotostories.blogspot.com/2011/09/palestine-first-world-war.html">previously</a>. It appears to show the same platoon (no.11), probably the machine gun corps, in action in Palestine.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6825832784/" title=""No. 11 Platoon" British soldiers. Machine gun corps? Palestine WW1 by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt=""No. 11 Platoon" British soldiers. Machine gun corps? Palestine WW1" height="301" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7184/6825832784_89f164ed2f.jpg" width="500" /></a>
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Girls with fans. Need I say more? Probably 1920s. I posted <a href="http://vintagefoundphotostories.blogspot.com/2011/07/girls-with-fans-bingley-yorkshire.html">another</a> older photo a while back with the same title.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809886067387619852noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000252227157150153.post-46000691431258400802012-03-06T12:22:00.000+00:002012-03-06T12:23:59.367+00:00Hastings. 1907.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6795037590/" title="Paddling. Hastings. 1907. (enlarged) by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Paddling. Hastings. 1907. (enlarged)" height="306" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7049/6795037590_8bece8cec2.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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After scanning, enlarging and correcting, these great girls appeared out of a very faded postcard. They look somehow so modern. One of them had written on the reverse "Here we are again, having a ripping time. Eva." Which one were you, Eva?<br />
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This billboard was part of a nationwide ad campaign by United States Tires in the 1920s. See an example <a href="http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/29045">here</a> of one in Florida.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809886067387619852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000252227157150153.post-56868240581232341912012-03-06T12:10:00.001+00:002012-03-06T12:11:17.205+00:00Bothy<br />
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An interesting view of an old couple living an essentially medieval life. The location is unidentified. I have found photos of very similar structures in the Western Isles of Scotland, but this is somewhere with more trees. Probably 1930s.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809886067387619852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000252227157150153.post-7226428189591736062012-02-26T22:36:00.001+00:002012-02-26T22:36:37.795+00:00London Photo Fair<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6786437182/" title="Older lady outside taking tea. by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Older lady outside taking tea." height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7193/6786437182_2ebaacfc90.jpg" width="310" /></a><br />
I was at the the <a href="http://flic.kr/p/bkGHcw">London photo fair</a> today....<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6932548935/" title="Group of children. Manchester. by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Group of children. Manchester." height="298" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7191/6932548935_792956f7ab.jpg" width="500" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6786427244/" title="Couple and girl with books and a box. London. by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Couple and girl with books and a box. London." height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7204/6786427244_dfa3dfe483.jpg" width="330" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6932540529/" title="Pretty woman. Anvers / Antwerp, Belgium by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Pretty woman. Anvers / Antwerp, Belgium" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7044/6932540529_33f128fdbb.jpg" width="303" /></a>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6932533897/" title="Woman with a huge bustle. London by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Woman with a huge bustle. London" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7051/6932533897_1d6f452f0f.jpg" width="302" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809886067387619852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000252227157150153.post-83034672664514013502012-02-13T15:53:00.000+00:002012-02-13T15:53:06.508+00:00Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. 1910.<br />
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I visited a friend's house yesterday and by chance her mother was staying with her over the weekend, and had brought with her a box of old family photographs. Amongst them was this fantastic image taken inside a textile mill in Lancashire, decorated with paper chains to celebrate the 1910 coronation. The girl on the right of the group, with the scissors in her belt, was her grandmother, Alice Brady. She started working in the mill at the age of 14. A search on the internet reveals that <a href="http://oswaldtwistle.shutterfly.com/6101">other photographs</a> were taken inside the same mill during the coronation celebrations. <br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6870048901/" title="Workers amidst the looms in Oswaldtwistle textile mill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. Decorated for the 1910 coronation. (enlarged detail) by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Workers amidst the looms in Oswaldtwistle textile mill, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. Decorated for the 1910 coronation. (enlarged detail)" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7039/6870048901_7364813e07.jpg" width="500" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809886067387619852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000252227157150153.post-54804210882902670752012-01-23T21:34:00.000+00:002012-01-23T21:41:34.495+00:00Kansas City, USA. 1909.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6722299531/" title="Victorian houses. Unidentified street. Kansas City, Missouri, USA. 1909. Pendleton Heights? Scarritt? by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Victorian houses. Unidentified street. Kansas City, Missouri, USA. 1909. Pendleton Heights? Scarritt?" height="352" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7008/6722299531_d1d0653ffe.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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Another fragment turned up of the fascinating <a href="http://vintagefoundphotostories.blogspot.com/2011/05/usa-1909.html">1909 USA</a> set I found ages ages ago. Thanks to local history enthusiasts in Kansas City I was able to pin down the street today. It is North Indiana Avenue. The house on the left still exists but the one one the right was demolished. Our intrepid anonymous British photographer was most interested in the sort of 'house moving' that went on in America. On the back of this he wrote <i>"two storey houses that have been moved over 300 yards in Kansas City, Missouri. Each house was lifted bodily onto rollers and then over a road and put onto foundations." </i><br />
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Decorated with flags probably taken during the king's visit on 27th September 1906. Compare it with <a href="http://flic.kr/p/67n8SL">this</a> photo of the same corner taken on that day, looking down in the opposite direction from one of the buildings in my photo.<br />
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This girl on the right is beautiful. I scanned this faded CDV last year but she only really came to life when I enlarged her today. Probably 1870s judging by the dress.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/5135950523/" title="Man with eight women. Liverpool. by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Man with eight women. Liverpool. " height="294" src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4072/5135950523_1461ccf24f.jpg" width="500" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809886067387619852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000252227157150153.post-20472951132956505502011-12-31T15:33:00.001+00:002011-12-31T15:33:36.324+00:00New Year. 1951.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6606966155/" title="New Year. 1951. by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="New Year. 1951." height="348" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6606966155_c8d6579d62.jpg" width="500" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809886067387619852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000252227157150153.post-34737434143778185102011-12-27T10:11:00.001+00:002011-12-27T10:13:21.804+00:00Christmas 1948. Tea and cake.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/5716337707/" title="Christmas 1948. Tea and cake. by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Christmas 1948. Tea and cake." height="293" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2449/5716337707_a288f8dcc7.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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Two cakes! That was a luxury in England during those rationing years. I find this image quite endearing. Maybe it's those rose-tinted retrospective spectacles. I showed this one to my parents and it had quite the opposite effect on them. It reminded them of hard times in the 1940s when they were children growing up in bombed-out industrial cities. No romance in it for them!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809886067387619852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000252227157150153.post-68854266023143972252011-12-13T08:05:00.006+00:002011-12-13T09:15:56.781+00:00England. 1940.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6498018309/" title="An RAF fighter pilot at rest. 1940. by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="An RAF fighter pilot at rest. 1940. " height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6498018309_c18c18ee00.jpg" width="378" /></a><br />
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An RAF fighter pilot at rest. 1940.<br />
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One of my work colleagues lent me these old WW2 press photographs he picked up at a sale a few years ago.<br />
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"Thrusting into sand bags with bayonets are Dutch naval cadets, dressed in British battle dress for Home Guard duty. The men are continuing their training here after escaping from the famous naval college of Den Helder after Holland was overrun by Nazis. They will later join Dutch warships fighting with Britain. The college is run entirely by Dutch personnel." 1940.<br />
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The Duke of Gloucester meets New Zealand Maori soldiers. 1940.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809886067387619852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000252227157150153.post-80099810621105827122011-11-21T16:16:00.001+00:002011-11-21T16:16:50.461+00:00Older couple<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6368616151/" title="Older couple by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Older couple" height="500" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6032/6368616151_9e33164d1d.jpg" width="322" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809886067387619852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000252227157150153.post-3542369293553762532011-11-20T12:36:00.001+00:002011-11-21T16:09:23.460+00:00French Navy. 1930s<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6368602131/" title="Sailor Carpenters on French Navy training ship 'Armorique'. 1932. by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Sailor Carpenters on French Navy training ship 'Armorique'. 1932." height="348" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6097/6368602131_8410b9657a.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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Carpenters on French training ship '<a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armorique_%28navire%29">Armorique</a>'. 1932. The Armorique was used as a base by the kriegsmarine during WW2 and scuttled in 1944.<br />
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A street wedding in the 1920s. The man in the bowler hat appears in the photo below too.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6368607233/" title="1920s France by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="1920s France" height="500" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6230/6368607233_848ddacd31.jpg" width="314" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809886067387619852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8000252227157150153.post-1537146478790198512011-10-27T18:50:00.001+01:002011-10-27T18:50:46.334+01:00Boat race on the Swan River. Perth, Australia, 1923.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26093461@N00/6286209823/" title="Boat race on the Swan River, Western Australia. 1923. by benicektoo, on Flickr"><img alt="Boat race on the Swan River, Western Australia. 1923." height="311" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6052/6286209823_a311157296.jpg" width="500" /></a>
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