British Tennis player Ann Jones signs autographs for her young fans at The Wimbledon Tennis Championships of 1967. Picture taken 7th July 1967.
Miss Doreen Dawne from Chelsea, wearing a tennis hat at Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Picture taken 3rd July 1967.
Two little boys wade down the street after severe flooding in Esher, Surrey, 18th January 1955. A sudden thaw of snow caused the rivers Mole and...
Two boys row their canoe down the street after severe flooding in Esher, Surrey, 18th January 1955. A sudden thaw of snow caused the rivers Mole and...
The first ever 'Notting Hill carnival', created in response to the previous year's racial riots in the area and the state of race relations at the...
The umpire is on the telephone to the match referee Fred Hoyles as John McEnroe waits for him to arrive on Centre Court during the Wimbledon Lawn...
World light heavyweight boxing champion Archie Moore at Toby's Gym in Bermondsey, London, 9th May 1956. He is in training for an upcoming...
Craftsman decorates the leather binding of a book with gold leaf at an exhibition of The Making and Uses of Gold Leaf at the Craft Centre of Great...
The current Earl Stanhope unveils a blue plaque commemorating the residence of his ancestor, reformer and inventor Charles Stanhope, the 3rd Earl...
A marine chronometer completed in 1759 by English clockmaker John Harrison , on display at the Science Museum, London, 22nd May 1952. The timepiece...
Harrison Number One, or H1, a marine timekeeper completed in 1735 by English clockmaker John Harrison , on display at the Science Museum, London,...
Henry John Burns sniffs his armpit, March 1976. Burns was quoted in the Evening Standard newspaper as saying 'You've got to sniff your own armpits,...
Revellers dancing round some of the tableaus at the Chelsea Arts Ball on New Year's Eve at the Albert Hall London, 31st December 1951.
The Waterloo Gallery in the Wellington Museum at the Duke of Wellington's former residence Apsley House, Hyde Park, Corner, London, 17th July 1952.
The doorway of Number 10, Downing Street in London, official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury , 21st December 1954.
The church of St George in the East on Cannon Street Road, east London, 4th February 1950. It was built by architect Nicholas Hawksmoor in the early...
The home of Mr Jack Brafman in Streatham, in south London, September 1953. Mr Brafman has created a bar in one of the rooms, and decorated it with...
Model Pat Manwaring with the Marilyn De Luxe cocktail cabinet in a walnut veneer finish at the British Furniture Exhibition at Earl's Court, London,...
Models Jean Evans and Lynne Kennedy demostrating the push button cocktail cabinet at the British Furniture Exhibition at Earl's Court, London, 15th...
Arsenal footballers, including Lionel Smith, Don Roper and Jack Kelsey, running on the streets around the club's Highbury stadium in preparation for...
Year-old Jane McLintock takes her three dolls on the Queen Mary boat train from Waterloo Station, bound for New York, 11th January 1956.
English policewomen Caroline Henthorn and Sheila Richards in London for a press conference prior to their departure for Africa, 4th November 1955....
British Prime Minister Harold McMillan and his new Home Secretary Richard Austen Butler leaving Buckingham Palace after an audience with the Queen,...
British Conservative Party Leader Winston Churchill with Prime Minister Clement Attlee at the Remembrance day service at the Cenotaph. London, 6th...
French actress Jeanne Moreau, apparently caught by surprise in a state of undress, at the Savoy Hotel, 3rd July 1956. She is in London with co-star...
In this digital composite image a comparison has been made between the left picture showing vehicles travelling down Shaftesbury Avenue in front of...
Passengers board BOAC's new Britannia propeller-turbine airliner G-ANBI at London Airport, en route to Johannesburg, 1st February 1957. In the...
Welsh politician Aubrey Jones , the new Minister of Fuel and Power, at his desk in the Ministry of Fuel, 22nd December 1955.
British Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee leaves Downing Street with his wife Violet at the beginning of a thousand-mile election tour, 8th...
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill with Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden , 1st September 1954.
Circa 750 AD, An earth spirit with a human face, horns and wings on a horse's body on show at an exhibition of art of the Tang Dynasty, , held in...
Circa 750 AD, An earth spirit with horns, wings and a horse's body on show at an exhibition of art of the Tang Dynasty, , held in 1955.
British artist Norman Wilkinson in his north London studio with his painting of the Royal Yacht Britannia, 7th July 1954.
Little boy finds it hard to contain his excitement at a giant Easter egg display in a sweet shop on London's Regent Street.
Joe Maxim, the American boxer and Heavyweight Champion of the World fighting British boxer Freddie Mills in a title fight at Earl's Court.
Princess Margaret Rose , younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and sister of Queen Elizabeth II in a limousine on her way to...
General Eisenhower , who became the 34th US President in 1952, greets Sir Winston Churchill at Grosvenor where they are both guests of the English...
The river walk on the South Bank, London, during the Festival of Britain. The sculpture of 'The Islanders' and part of the Skylon are visible.
Sister Dorothy Vinall holding a baby girl born to Mrs Lucy McDonald at the East London Maternity Hospital.
The first letter using the stamps of the new reign, that of Elizabeth II, being posted at 3am in London after the stamps were on sale after mid-night.
Chelsea FC manager Ted Drake congratulates captain Roy Bentley on his win against Sheffield Wednesday at Stamford Bridge, making Chelsea champions of...
Tug pulling the American liner, the United States, into Southampton, following its record breaking crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.
Shackletons of RAF Coastal Command at a Fly Past over Buckingham Palace at the ceremony of Trooping the Colour.