Images Dated 22nd March 2016

Abraham Lincoln Statue, Westminster, London

Statue of US President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Parliament Square, Westminster, London (now re-located slightly to stand in front of the Middlesex Guildhall) - a replica of the original piece by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, erected in Lincoln Park Chicago. In the rear can be seen The Buxton Memorial Fountain originally constructed (as seen) in Parliament Square but removed in 1940 and placed in its present position in Victoria Tower Gardens in 1957. Date: circa 1920

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Vegetables, Fruit and Berries of the Garden, Victorian Botanical Illustration

Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraved Victorian Botanical Illustration of Vegetables, Fruit and Berries of the Garden: Plate 50, from The Book of Practical Botany in Word and Image (Lehrbuch der praktischen Pflanzenkunde in Wort und Bild), Published in 1886. Copyright has expired on this artwork. Digitally restored

© bauhaus1000

Regtl Tailor - Jack Blight

Photograph: Regtl Tailor - Jack Blight.Shows a man sitting behind a sewing machine, with various pin ups on the wall behind him.From a photograph album containing 620 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1940-1941.With captions taken from a separate index volume.Associated with World War Two (1939-1945). Date: 1940

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library