Luna park Coney Island 1910-1915
Tour de France: A look back at the past
Mountain stages used to be a little different on the tour , similar routes just the road conditions might have resulted in a few punctures these days. Picturesque mountains in the background.
The 1928 Tour passing through a village, women waiting to cross the road. Again the roads look in poor condition but the riders don't seem to be going too fast here.
Running repairs, bit of grease from a man hanging out of a support car. Health & Safety in full force.
Only a few years old the Tour was growing in popularity and as we see above the 1906 was attracting lots of spectators through a French town.
World Cup 1950: Brazil vs Uruguay
As another Football World cup takes place we look back at the 1950 match between Brazil vs Uruguay. An amazing photo showing so much detail of the players and crowd. Look at the shot seemingly goal-word bound with defending holding up their arms in protest.
Those were the days when the fans would pack in so tight. The legs of the people dangling down over the advertising signs.
Ohh yes, this was the final. Just the 173,000 people in attendance.
WW2 Destruction: Caen & Saint-Lô France, Cologne Germany
Caen, France 1944. Ariel shot of the city showing the devastation left by WW2 and the German invasion.
Saint-Lô France 1944. American troops entering the town. Not often I use colour photos but this one seems to be untouched and natural.
The German city of Cologne 1945, which was destroyed by Allied carpet bombing. In the center is seen the famous Cologne Cathedral
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WW2 Caen,
WW2 Cologne,
WW2 Destroyed city,
WW2 Destruction,
WW2 Saint-Lô
London 1900's: Kensington & Muffins
London 1901. Bangor Street was in the potteries district of Kensington, where a Rag
Fair was held. In the early 20th century it was a more renouned street
market than Portobello. The street was coloured lowest class black in
Booth’s colour coded poverty maps of 1889-1902.
A muffin seller in London early 1900s. Bell to help sell the muffins on the streets.
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Kensington 1900s,
London 1900's,
Muffin Seller,
Poverty London
WW1 Planes: Australian Palestine, Salmson & British crash
A flight of bombing planes 1st Australians flying corpse, Palestine.
French Salmson plane.
A crashed British plane that looks in good condition - other photos show
crumpled heaps - so it may simply have run out of fuel and made an
impromptu landing.
Flying planes in WW1 was an extremely dangerous task, more died in training than in battle. Given flight being rather new and the very fragile planes they used meant a pilots life was often short.
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Flight of Bombing Planes 1st Australian Flying Corps, Palestine - See
more at:
http://picturesofworldwar1.com/photographer-frank-hurley/a-flight-of-bombing-planes-1st-australian-flying-corps-palestine#sthash.RK9llAHU.dpuf
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Flight of Bombing Planes 1st Australian Flying Corps, Palestine - See
more at:
http://picturesofworldwar1.com/photographer-frank-hurley/a-flight-of-bombing-planes-1st-australian-flying-corps-palestine#sthash.RK9llAHU.dpuf
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Flight of Bombing Planes 1st Australian Flying Corps, Palestine - See
more at:
http://picturesofworldwar1.com/photographer-frank-hurley/a-flight-of-bombing-planes-1st-australian-flying-corps-palestine#sthash.RK9llAHU.dpuf
WW1 Liberty Bonds Rally: New York Charlie Chaplin
Douglas Fairbanks holding up Charlie Chaplin in front of crowd to promote Liberty Bonds, Lower Manhattan, NYC , 1918. As you can see there was a rather large crowd here!
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Chaplin WW1,
Charlie Chaplin,
Liberty Bonds WW1,
WW1 Rally
WW1 Movies: La Grande Illusion, The Road to Glory.
La Grande Illusion is a 1937 French film about a German POW camp. Always interesting watching non-english WW1 movies and their prospective on how things unfolded.
The Road to Glory - an interesting look at Trench life and relationships in WW1.
WW1 Battlefield & Trench: Somme
Spanish clearing up some of the mess left on the battlefield at the Somme. A few things we notice similair to many other Somme photos is the total destruction of the landscape, boggy, mud, awful conditions for anyone.
Sadly not the best of photos but it convays over to us the reality of the Somme and other battlefields in WW1. Wire fence behind the water filled trench where lancfusiliers are patrolling.
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Somme Battlefield,
Spanish WW1 Troops,
WW1 Somme,
WW1 Trenches
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