1959 Gallery

Dry Stone Walling
Two working class men in flat caps build a dry stone wall together at Galashiel, Selkirkshire, Scotland

Old Bill kneeling in front of the Cenotaph in Whitehall
His Pals - Fragments Copyright. Old Bill kneeling in front of the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 1St Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1888-1959)

Catalan Atlas, 14th century. The 6-page Catalan Atlas (1375) was produced on vellum by the Jewish cartographer Abraham Cresques

Austin-Healey Frogeye Sprite Mk 1
car, Austin-Healey, Sprite, Mk, 1, British, English, England, Britain, UK, United, Kingdom, UK, United, Kingdom, Great, GB, white, 1959, 1950s, 50s, fifties

Labour Party election posters and television speakers
Labour Party election posters and speakers for Labours series of five short television programmes in the run-up to the General Election of 8th October 1959 (which the Conservatives won)

LCC-LFB Recruit firefighters training at Brigade HQ SE1
During the 1950s recruit firefighters were trained at the Brigade Headquarters in Lambeth. Here they are undertaking hook ladder drills on the stations nine-storey drill tower

Police Officers London
Police officers wearing old and new uniforms. On left wearing 1980 uniform, on right the old from the period 1959-1980 Metropolitan Police in London near Houses of Parliament

Errol Flynn / Warner
ERROL FLYNN Irish-American film actor, best known for his swashbuckling roles

Chelsea Football Club - 1959-1960 season. Left to right: (Back row) S. Anderton, R. Whittaker, R. Matthews, J. Mortimore, C. Livesey, J. Compton; (front row) James Peter ( Jimmy ) Greaves (1940-), P

London Film Festival Poster - 1959
Poster from the 3rd London Film Festival - 1959

Dodge Coronet 1959 Green 2-tone

Errol Flynn / Robin Hood
ERROL FLYNN Irish-American film actor as Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood, with Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian

Jaguar XK150s Roadster 1959 White

Chevrolet Impala convertible 1959 White

WILLOWGARTH TUG BOAT
Willowgarth, one of the REA diesel tugs, on the River Mersey at Liverpool, England. Date: built 1959

Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, built in 1959, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States of America, North America

Stevenage New Town
This pedestrianised shopping centre at Stevenage New Town, Hertfordshire, England was the first in England, opened in 1959. It was also the first designated New Town in 1946. Date: July 1966

Scene on Conwy Harbour, North Wales
A wonderful, atmospheric view of Conwy Harbour, North Wales, with the silhouette of the Castle in the background. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd 1960

Well, if you Knows of a Bette ole, Go to It
WELL, IF YOU KNOWS OF A BETTE OLE, GO TO IT !. Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 1St Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1888-1959)

Advertisement for Cadburys Golden Key -- male and female models (Barry Trengove and Geraldine Hill) posing. 1959

MGA Twin cam coupe 1959
1959 MG A Twin Cam coupe

Tatler cover: Queen Elizabeth II and her family
The Tatler front cover featuring a photograph taken in June 1959, of the Queen Elizabeth II with her housband, Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh and their children

Advertisement for Ford Anglia cars -- male and female models posing (Geraldine Hill, Susan Ingram and Ossie O Leary). 1959

Fidel Castro in 1959
FIDEL CASTRO - President of Cuba, on manoeuvres in the jungle in 1965. *UNAVAILABLE FOR USE IN ASIA AT PRESENT*

Sir Stanley Spencer, c.1926
Photograph of Sir Stanley Spencer (1891-1959), the English painter, standing in front of his painting The Resurrection, c.1926

Fidel Castro / Che Guevara
ERNESTO (CHE) GUEVARA Che Guevara holds an impromptu meeting in Havana, Cuba, with Fidel Castro and Castros brother. *UNAVAILABLE FOR USE IN ASIA AT PRESENT*

Salvador Dali
The surrealist artist, Salvador Dali (1904-1989), was photographed with a statuette of the Madonna and Child during a visit to London in 1959. At the time Fleur Cowles was writing a book about him

Publicity still for the Hollywood film Some Like It Hot (1959): Director and Producer, Billy Wilder. Marily Monroe with her co-stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in drag

Major fire in Wandsworth Road, Clapham SW8
London firefighters and the London Salvage Corps (in the long coats) at the scene of a fire involving shops and dwellings in Wandsworth Road, Clapham, SW8, on 9 September 1959

Uffington Station, Oxfordshire, August 1959
A view of locomotive No. 90676 passing through Uffington station in Oxfordshire while transporting goods in August 1959. The image also shows Uffington signal box

Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station, near Annan, Dumfries- shire, Scotland, officially opened on 2 May 1959. Date: 1959s

Traffic congestion, Covent Garden, London WC2
Traffic congestion in the Covent Garden area, London WC2, showing a view along Henrietta Street from the corner of Bedford Street during the morning of 26 March 1959

Well, if you knows of a better ole, go to it
Ttwo soldiers stuck in a trench, during a battle in World War One. This famous illustration for The Bystander was by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather (1888-1959)

JACQUES COUSTEAU (1910-1997). French oceanographer. Cousteau climbing into his Diving Saucer on board the Calypso docked in New York Harbor in August 1959

CM6 1829 Graham Robson, 1959, Sebring Sprite, 5506 AR
Graham Robson, 1959, Sebring Sprite, 5506 AR, Goodwood 73rd Members Meeting. 73rd Members Meeting, 1959, 5506 AR, Chris McEvoy, circuit racing, CJM Photography, cjm-photography, Classic Racing

Cheltenham Spa (Malvern Road), Gloucestershire, 2 May 1959
A view of Cheltenham Spa Malvern Road station in Gloucestershire, on 2nd May 1959. Locomotive number 31619 is passing through the station and a lone woman is walking along the platform

Poster, Le Mans 24 Hour Rally 1959
Poster, Le Mans 24 Hour Rally, 20-21 June 1959. Date: 1959

Boeing Stratocruiser G-ANTY BOAC London Airport
BOAC Stratocruiser Coriolanus joined the fleet in 1954 flying the transatlantic route. In 1959 Coriolanus flew the final scheduled Stratocruiser service

Ford Anglia 100E, 1959, Blue, light
Ford Anglia 100E 1959 Blue light

Family pose for a group photograph in late afternoon light
September, 1959 Date: 1959

Burrell General Purpose Traction Engine TA369 Red Gauntlet (msn 3798) at the 1959 Andover Steam Fair. (Charles Burrell & Sons were builders of steam traction engines, agricultural machinery)

Sentinel S4 Steam Wagon DKN380 (msn 9276), built in 1936, seen at the 1959 Crystal Palace Steam Rally. (Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd was a British company based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire) Date: 1959

Gold, Silver, Lapis and Obsidian in the Splendid Swords of the Kings - The Royal Treasure of Dorak c.3000 BC - report of the finds from the excavations by James Mellaart, Assistant Director

HMS Opossum - Oberon Class Submarine powered by diesel generators. Oberon was laid down by Chatham Dockyard on 28th November 1957, and launched on 18th July 1959

Major fire in Wandsworth Road, Clapham SW8
London firefighters and the London Salvage Corps (in the long coats) at the scene of a fire involving shops and dwellings in Wandsworth Road, Clapham, SW8, on 9 September 1959. Date: 1959

Advertisement for Horlicks -- Better Luck Next Time. Female model (Julie Bishop) in the foreground, looking with disappointment at a dancing couple in the background. 1959

Advertisement for Rolls Royce cars -- Spirit of Ecstasy bonnet ornament photographed in motion. 1959

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