Images Dated 4th August 2017

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Teesmouth, County Durham. Where the River Tees discharges into the North Sea, the Seal Sands National Nature Reserve sits alongside petro-chemical works and deep-sea port facilities. A container ship is heading into the mouth of the river and Middlesborough is visible in the distance. Photographed in August 2017

Victorian jewellery remounted as diamond brooches 1937

This illustration shows how pieces of Victorian jewellery were being reused as ornamental brooches more in keeping with the 1930s. The jewellery department in Army & Navy invited owners of similar jewels to submit designs allowing them to adapted their old jewellery into more desirable brooches of the time.
1937

© Mary Evans Picture Library

The Dance of the Forty-One, Mexico

The Dance of the Forty-One, Mexico -- a notorious society scandal uncovered by a police raid on a private residence on 17 November 1901, where a group of men were dancing, many of them in women's clothing. It resulted in the number 41 being avoided in everyday life. Date: 1901

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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