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Ludgate Circus, London CC97_01518

LUDGATE CIRCUS, City of London. A busy street view of Ludgate Circus looking towards St Paul's Cathedral with horse-drawn buses in the foreground and a steam train on the bridge. The Circus was constructed at the junction of Ludgate Hill and Fleet Street between 1864 and 1875. A late 19th century photograph by York and Son

© Historic England

New York Worlds Fair

New York World's Fair 1939-1940 - held at Flushing Meadows - Corona Park in Queens, New York, United States. It was the second-most expensive American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. The New England exhibit - a group of buildings created arouns a waterfront dock in which is anchored an old sailing vessel common to the seaports of old New England.
circa 1939

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Cobbles and cloth cap - Saltaire, Yorks

A man in sports jacket and cloth cap walks across a wet cobbled street in Saltaire, Yorkshire, England. Sunday Times. Image first appeared in The Sunday Times c1990 Date: circa 1990

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library