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Sixty Years Ago the London Hippodrome Became the Talk of the Town

Sixty Years Ago the London Hippodrome Became the Talk of the Town

On the opening night in 1958 Eartha Kitt opened the nightspot appearing to the audience by rising up from beneath the stage in a vintage Rolls Royce. ...
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The Futuro House: Spaceship Living On Earth (1965)

The Futuro House: Spaceship Living On Earth (1965)

"This object, looking like everyone else's idea of a flying saucer from outer Space, is the Finnish idea of the perfect weekend cottage." - Daily Mail reviews The Future at the Finnexpo fair in 1968 ...
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Oh I Say! Pictures of the Wimbledon Championships in 1967

Oh I Say! Pictures of the Wimbledon Championships in 1967

The first colour transmissions from Wimbledon were broadcast on BBC2 in 1967. Albeit mainly for the benefit of the manufacturers and the rental firms. ...
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Football In The 1970s:  When Footballers Wanted A Pint, A Smoke And To Bring Back Hanging

Football In The 1970s: When Footballers Wanted A Pint, A Smoke And To Bring Back Hanging

Most of the old match-day rituals have passed but we can relive football's glory days with these terrific photos ...
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Blank VHS Cassette Packaging Design Trends: A Lost Art

Blank VHS Cassette Packaging Design Trends: A Lost Art

In the 1970s and 1980s we bought millions of blank VHS cassettes. Their cover designs were familiar to us all ...
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Remebering Gary Warnett: Streetwear Guru And Sneaker Supremo

Remebering Gary Warnett: Streetwear Guru And Sneaker Supremo

It was a remarkable week for those of us interested in the accumulation of knowledge ...
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Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue: Brilliant Photos by Ken Regan from 1975

Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue: Brilliant Photos by Ken Regan from 1975

In 1974 music promoter Bill Graham had arranged for Ken Regan to photograph Bob Dylan at the end of his tour with The Band for a Time magazine piece. ...
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1970: England World Cup Footballers Get Free Ford Cortina 1600Es

1970: England World Cup Footballers Get Free Ford Cortina 1600Es

On the doors of each car was a logo that bore the legend ‘Chosen for England’. ...
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This Is No Dream: Making Rosemary’s Baby

This Is No Dream: Making Rosemary’s Baby

"He chose you, honey! From all the women in the world to be the mother of his only living son" - Minnie Castevet ...
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‘For Faces and Places’ – 20th Century Negative and Photo Wallets

‘For Faces and Places’ – 20th Century Negative and Photo Wallets

On holidays and every day! ...
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Photos of Portobello Road Market in 1977

Photos of Portobello Road Market in 1977

Portobello Road is a construction of the Victorian era. Before about 1850 it still consisted mostly of hayfields, orchards and other open land. ...
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‘Terminal City’: Extraordinary Photos of Vancouver 1972-1982

‘Terminal City’: Extraordinary Photos of Vancouver 1972-1982

Greg Girard's photographs of Vancouver before gentrification ...
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    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

      These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. St. Petersburg. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe... the ...
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    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer ...
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    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of art and science Muybridge secured the services of two women, ...
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    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957) found fame with Siouxsie and The Banshees, the band she so-created with Steven Severin. Many pictures of Siouxsie Sioux and the rest of the group and their friends were taken by photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of Nils Stevenson, who managed ...
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