Old snaps

Terraced houses near a factory in the north of England, circa 1970. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images

Manchester City Police officers and local firefighters face the flames on the corner of Silver Street during the bombing of Manchester over the Christmas period of 1940. Vist Manchester City Police World War 2 Collection to view more of these historic images. For more information please follow Greater Manchester Police Museum and Archives. To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website. www.gmp.police.uk You should call 101, the new national non-emergency number…

theimperialcourt: “ A veteran of the Battle of Waterloo with his wife, 1850 ”

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When I reached Stockport on the Mersey walk the other day, I took a stroll around the town and ended up in the Art Gallery on Wellington Road where a new exhibition had just opened. Street Scene: A…

The Old Shambles

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Bolton 1950... My home town

Weavers Triangle- Burnley, Lancashire

Manchester Central Station UK [640x438] (Photographer: Ian Capper)

false sunset during the blitz, with tower bridge silhouetted against burning docks, london, 1940 photo by william vandivert

Note the boats on the right of the photograph and what appears to be water gushing from a pipe connected to premises on the right hand side of the river bank. The half demolished tower in the background is Manchester Cathedral. An original note with this photograph states that at the time the Cathedral tower was being demolished prior to being rebuilt.

undr: “ Marc Riboud, GB. England. Leeds. 1954. © Marc Riboud/Magnum Photos Thanks to tytusjaneta ”

Chorlton On Medlock, Bridge Cottage, //1900 Ref no: m18560

Dobson & Barlow, Bolton. Chimney 367ft 6in