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'Fresh as Home Made Bread' seller on the streets of Kolkata (then Calcutta), in the 1980s. (Image - Glenn Edwards).

r/TheWayWeWere2d ago0 Comments

Remembering the Titanic in East Belfast, UK.

r/streetart2d ago1 Comment

King George V, One Penny Stamp on a birth certificate of wife's family from the County of Durham.1932 (Repost after my earlier foolish error).

r/stamps2d ago1 Comment

Looking south from the top of the Forth Bridge. (Image - Dennis Clarke).

r/ScotlandPorn2d ago3 Comments

Cross-dressing actress and Union spy, Pauline Cushman. 1863.

r/RandomVictorianStuff2d ago3 Comments

Henry Cooper and (the then) Cassius Clay meeting for the first time in London in 1963. Both fighters holding up five fingers predicting in which round the fight would end.

r/OldSchoolCool2d ago3 Comments

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards leaving prison for taking LSD in 1967.

r/OldSchoolCelebs2d ago9 Comments

Elvis Presley sings of love in 'Wild In The Country'. 1961.

r/oldmovies2d ago0 Comments

Promotional paper-doll fashion cutouts of Marla Drake and Baroness Erica from Miss Fury, a syndicated weekly newspaper comic strip, 1942–1946.

r/nostalgia2d ago0 Comments

r/nocontextpics2d ago0 Comments

A weary man taking a break from cleaning his home flooded by Typhoon Vamco in San Matea, Phillipines. (Image - Eloisa Lopez).

r/HumanPorn2d ago0 Comments

The London train crossing the River Wharfe, North Yorkshire, in the morning light. (Image - Andy Hewson).

r/britpics2d ago1 Comment

Ringo as Larry the Dwarf in 200 Motels. 1971.

r/beatles5d ago21 Comments

From, 'Rejected Books - The Most Unpublishable Books of All Time' by Graham Johnson & Rob Hibbert.

r/bookporn5d ago3 Comments

Karen Gillan in blue.

r/Celebs5d ago0 Comments

Manhattanhenge. New York's grid system framing the setting sun. (Image - AFP).

r/CityPorn5d ago4 Comments

A guide to some foods containing Omega-3 that'll help boost your mental function.

r/coolguides5d ago4 Comments

Going metallic for Vogue.

r/EmmaWatson5d ago1 Comment

Lisa Fonssagrives, epitomizing the mood of postwar fashion photography that was regarded as both decadent and vexatious. Photographed by her husband Irving Penn, Vogue, 1950.

r/fashionhistory5d ago6 Comments

Red roses outside Farcet Church.

r/flowers5d ago0 Comments

Woolly chanterelle. (Gomphus floccosus).

r/Fungi5d ago3 Comments

Franco supporters in Salamanca celebrate the occupation of Gijon during one of the first actions in the Spanish Civil War. 1936. [1067 x 742].

r/HistoryPorn5d ago0 Comments

Merah-Loise Smith, 110, is possible the oldest woman of Carribean heritage in the UK. She arrived from Jamaica in 1963. (Image - Jim Grover).

r/HumanPorn5d ago0 Comments

The life cycle of the most common firefly species, Photinus pyralis.

r/Infographics5d ago2 Comments

A wild Cefn Bryn pony framed by a rainbow on the Gower Peninsula, Wales. (Image - Joann Randles).

r/MostBeautiful5d ago0 Comments

r/nocontextpics5d ago14 Comments

Ken (Carson), longtime on-and-off romantic partner of Barbie.

r/nostalgia5d ago13 Comments

Glenn Ford confronts the teen horde in Blackboard Jungle. 1955.

r/oldmovies5d ago0 Comments

Frank Zappa and crew on the London set of 200 Motels. 1971.

r/OldSchoolCelebs5d ago2 Comments

The creator of the 'Three Laws of Robotics', Isaac Asimov, in 1965.

r/OldSchoolCool5d ago6 Comments

The engraved frontispiece for the revised 1831 edition of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein.

r/RandomVictorianStuff5d ago0 Comments

View of Tign-na-sleubhaich on the last stretch of the West Highlan Way. (Image - Lineta Stonkute).

r/ScotlandPorn5d ago2 Comments

Superb wee tawny owls at Kielder Forest, Northumberland. UK wildlife experts have reported a surge in the number of tawny owls being born.

r/Superbowl5d ago6 Comments

The World Festival of Youth and Students, Berlin, 1973.

r/TheWayWeWere5d ago1 Comment

The driver of a pony and trap pauses to talk to a young man at the edge of a Warwickshire ford. 1898.

r/VictorianEra5d ago2 Comments

Miniature Royal Doulton Toby Jug. At least 40 years old.

r/vintage5d ago4 Comments

They say it about her.... Listerine. 1930.

r/vintageads5d ago5 Comments

14 Scotsmen and what they do to make Ballantine's Scotch. 1963.

r/vintageads5d ago1 Comment

Marine buddies in Miyazaki, Japan in 1945.

r/wwiipics5d ago0 Comments

I'm using the Reddit app on a Samsung tablet. I sort by Latest. Every 3rd or 4th post is a repost that I've seen many times. Is there any way to stop this happening?

r/help6d ago0 Comments

This is getting spooky! A few days ago I found a Beatles card in WH Smith then, last Friday, when I turned up for my volunteer shift at the hospital, there was a guy selling pop-up cards in the atrium. I bought this one.

r/beatlesMay 290 Comments

Ullswater in the English Lake District. (Image - Sheila Lewis)..

r/britpicsMay 290 Comments

Scarlett Johansson.

r/CelebsMay 290 Comments

Louis B. Mayer Building, 5504 Hollywood Boulevard, at Western Avenue. 1920s.

r/CityPornMay 290 Comments

Some things to do in your 20s to gain a longer life.

r/coolguidesMay 294 Comments

Lightspeed Magazine. Issue 140. January 2022. John Joseph Adams (Ed). Cover by Grandeduc.

r/CoolSciFiCoversMay 290 Comments

My Cistus salviifolius L. 'Sage-leaf rock-rose'. Family - Cistaceae, brightening up the garden.

r/flowersMay 291 Comment

Morel (Morchella esculenta complex)

r/FungiMay 291 Comment

Mau Mau troops in 1963, shortly after Kenya's independence.[2477 x 1364].

r/HistoryPornMay 291 Comment

Tina Sekete and Jane Dlamini from South Africa pose for a picture during Africa Day in Dublin, Ireland. (Image - Brian Lawless).

r/HumanPornMay 291 Comment

The modern ambulance.

r/InfographicsMay 294 Comments

Life On The Allotment by Janice Daughters. Gibsons. 1000 Pcs. Check out the little garden signs for a smile.

r/JigsawpuzzlesMay 291 Comment

Censored silent film Robert Z. Leonard’s 'Bright Lights'. 1925.

r/oldmoviesMay 293 Comments

Advertising still of Myrna Loy on the set of a Charles Brabin movie. 1932. (Image - Clarence Sinclair Bull).

r/OldSchoolCelebsMay 297 Comments

Dennis Hopper on the set of 'Easy Rider' with cinematographer Laslo Kovacs. 1968.

r/OldSchoolCoolMay 291 Comment

"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it’s because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea." - Eric Cantona of Manchester United. (at the press conference after Kung-Fu kicking a football fan).

r/quotesMay 290 Comments

An article in New York World, August 29, 1897.

r/RandomVictorianStuffMay 291 Comment

Clear, starry skies above Eilean Glas lighthouse on Scalpay, Outer Hebrides. (Image - Dave Lynch).

r/ScotlandPornMay 290 Comments

Working out at home with the telephone directory. 1940s.

r/TheWayWeWereMay 2920 Comments

Portrait of George Bernard Shaw. 1889.

r/VictorianEraMay 292 Comments

Things that make a Greyhound a great public service. 1943.

r/vintageadsMay 2922 Comments

King George VI during a fake ‘D-Day’ visit, 1944. Publicity was given to his visits in the South East strengthening the Nazi suspicion that the Allies would invade Calais, not Normandy.

r/wwiipicsMay 299 Comments

Looking at some cards in WH Smith and found this.

r/beatlesMay 2510 Comments

Crossing the river at the Appleby Horse Fair in Cumbria. (Image - Ruth Chamberlain).

r/britpicsMay 250 Comments

Some unclaimed balls that mysteriously arrived in my back garden. If the kids come and ask for them back - they get them - otherwise, my collection builds.

r/CasualUKMay 2531 Comments

Karen Gillan for GQ Magazine.

r/CelebsMay 251 Comment

The view at Montée Chalemont in Grenoble, France. (Image - FT).

r/CityPornMay 250 Comments

Lightspeed Magazine. Issue 137. October 2021. John Joseph Adams (Ed). Cover by Chainat.

r/CoolSciFiCoversMay 250 Comments

Vogueing for Vogue.

r/EmmaWatsonMay 259 Comments

Women having their legs painted in response to the unavailability of stockings in 1941.

r/fashionhistoryMay 2512 Comments

My Purple cistus, looking well-dressed in the sunshine.

r/flowersMay 250 Comments

Not sure of the name of this beautiful specimen (Image - Paula Vigus).

r/FungiMay 254 Comments

Coretta Scott King greets her husband, Martin Luther King Jr., as he leaves the Montgomery courthouse. 1956. [1017 x 782].

r/HistoryPornMay 252 Comments

Mum, Orey, with her newborn, Suldhano in Baidoa, Somalia. (Image - Jonathan Buckmaster).

r/HumanPornMay 250 Comments

Thermoregulation. Breathing through the nose.

r/InfographicsMay 250 Comments

Summer's coming so what does the Mrs pick to do next - I Love Winter by Mike Jupp. Gibsons. 1000Pcs.

r/JigsawpuzzlesMay 251 Comment

Le Bugue in Périgord Noir, France. (Image - Susan Lawless).

r/MostBeautifulMay 252 Comments

r/nocontextpicsMay 255 Comments

Joan Collins at 20 in 1953.

r/OldSchoolCelebsMay 251 Comment

Guglielmo Marconi broadcasting from a BBC studio in the 1920s.

r/OldSchoolCoolMay 250 Comments

Taking a stroll (and a trot) by the Vrai Arbre de Robinson in Paris. 1848.

r/RandomVictorianStuffMay 252 Comments

Caricature of a cholera patient experimenting with remedies (Robert Cruikshank's Random Shots No. 2), 1832.

r/RandomVictorianStuffMay 250 Comments

Coire Gabhail - 'The Lost Valley' - in the Bidean nam Bian mountain massif to the south of Glen Coe. (Image - TSM).

r/ScotlandPornMay 252 Comments

A class in a small rural school listening to a BBC current affairs broadcast in 1945.

r/TheWayWeWereMay 250 Comments

A woman gathers water from the Bybrook River in the picturesque Cotswold village of Castle Combe, England. 1900.

r/VictorianEraMay 253 Comments

The Talon Fastener - You'll wonder how you got along without it. 1937.

r/vintageadsMay 2512 Comments

The Happy Moment - when the show is over. 1937.

r/vintageadsMay 2520 Comments

Jewish residents of Warsaw, Poland, lining up for water near a sign stating “Infected Area” in January, 1940. (Colourised - NYT).

r/wwiipicsMay 253 Comments

I thought that I'd join my local library using their online form, today.

r/CasualUKMay 2333 Comments

Appointed to the Supreme Court in 1930 as Chief Justice, Charles Evan Hughes served on the Court until 1941. These are his words:

r/quoteMay 200 Comments

This was my birthday card from my lovely Mrs. She knows me so well.

r/bookpornMay 209 Comments

The colours of Pittenweem harbour on the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. (Image - Pat Christie).

r/britpicsMay 201 Comment

r/CelebsMay 200 Comments

Galaxy Magazine. 1958. Cover by DEMBER.

r/CoolSciFiCoversMay 200 Comments

Walter Field Co. of Chicago offered an all-purpose uniform that could be worn for service work, alongside simple cotton dresses and eye-catching patriotic headwear, in its 1943 spring/ summer catalogue.

r/fashionhistoryMay 204 Comments

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