Nostalgia
The day the Railway reached Falmouth in Cornwall
Describing Falmouth the ILN remarked, "in regard to its efficiency as a port, it is second to none in the kingdom, and in beauty inferior only to the Bay of Naples."
Reginald Frontispiece Ltd
On leaving school in 1960, I worked in Fleet Street, in press photography. My interest in the printed image expanded to include vintage and antique prints. What was a collection became a business!
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The liberation of Valletta, Malta, in 1800
Next time you post a letter to Malta, remember that it's full postal address is Malta, G.C.
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The second day of the Great Fire and the Royal Exchange is destroyed
Following its destruction, the Royal Exchange was rebuilt on the same site and was re-opened in 1669.
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The Great Fire of London 1666
The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Thomas Bloodworth exclaimed, “Pish! A woman might piss it out!”
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Giant's Causeway visit of the British Association in 1874
The scientists treading the 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, would no doubt have accepted that the 'causeway' was the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption
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French royalty at the Botallack tin mine, Cornwall
All three being French aristocrats from the Orléans dynesty.
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Harvard v Oxford the 1st International University Boat Race in 1869
Oxford beat Harvard.
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Arnold Toynbee and the establishment of a mission in the east end
Toynbee died in 1883 at just 30 years of age.
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USS Niagara "paying out the land end" of the first Atlantic Cable between Great Britain and North America
The cable would stretch across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean from ... Western Ireland to Heart's Content on the eastern coast of Newfoundland.
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Captain James Cook claims eastern Australia for Great Britain
Today the population of New South Wales represents almost one third of the population of Australia.
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John Flamsteed, Astronomer Royal
King (Charles II) ... appointed Flamsteed "The King's Astronomical Observator" by Royal Warrant.
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Devonport launch of wooden paddle-wheel frigate HMS Avenger in 1845
HMS Avenger was commanded by Captain Charles George Elers Napier, who went down with his ship, together with 247 sailors of a compliment of 256.