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schweppervescence! Eleven Schweppes Ads From The 1950s and 60s

schweppervescence! Eleven Schweppes Ads From The 1950s and 60s

Johann Jacob Schweppe founded the Schweppes Company in Geneva in 1783 to sell carbonated water. ...
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Bill Brandt’s Underground Shelter Photographs from November 1940

Bill Brandt’s Underground Shelter Photographs from November 1940

Not long after the Blitz began the Ministry of Information commissioned Bill Brandt to photograph ...
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Fourteen Glorious Pages of Kays Catalogue Menswear from 1973

Fourteen Glorious Pages of Kays Catalogue Menswear from 1973

Kay and Co Ltd was actually originally founded in Worcester in 1886 when William Kilbourne ...
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15 Beautiful French Art-Deco Travel Posters by Roger Broders

15 Beautiful French Art-Deco Travel Posters by Roger Broders

Roger Broders was born in Paris in 1883. A brilliant illustrator he is best known ...
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Ephemera from the Sixth Bond Movie – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

Ephemera from the Sixth Bond Movie – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

  On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, released in 1969, was the sixth film in the ...
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Twelve Photos of Cilla Black, 1943 – 2015

Twelve Photos of Cilla Black, 1943 – 2015

Twelve Gorgeous Photos of Cilla Black, 1943 - 2015.
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Ten Great Kodachrome Photos of London in 1953 by Max Gene Leonard

Ten Great Kodachrome Photos of London in 1953 by Max Gene Leonard

They give us those nice bright colors They give us the greens of summers Makes ...
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Thirty Pictures of London’s West-End in the Heatwave of ’76.

Thirty Pictures of London’s West-End in the Heatwave of ’76.

Klaus Hiltscher, occasionally known as the Rock n’ Roll accountant or Affendaddy as he is known on ...
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The Deaths of Mama Cass and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Mayfair Flat

The Deaths of Mama Cass and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Mayfair Flat

  Mama Cass Elliot famously died choking on a ham sandwich, everybody knows that. Except ...
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Glamorous Photographs of the Durham New Town Peterlee by J.R. James

Glamorous Photographs of the Durham New Town Peterlee by J.R. James

Peterlee is maybe alone among the English new towns that came into being after the ...
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19 Glorious Pages of Womenswear from the Kays Catalogue of 1983

19 Glorious Pages of Womenswear from the Kays Catalogue of 1983

1983: The era of off-the-shoulder sweatshirts and leotards with matching tights (the brighter and shinier ...
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The Rise and Fall of the Lyons’ Cornerhouses and their Nippy Waitresses

The Rise and Fall of the Lyons’ Cornerhouses and their Nippy Waitresses

In 1924 the directors of J. Lyons and Co. decided to update their image and specifically their waitresses. They held a staff competition to choose a nickname for the newly styled Lyon’s teashops’ waitresses. The former name of ‘Gladys’ was now seen as very old fashioned. The name ‘Nippy’ was eventually chosen, probably for the connotation that the waitresses nipped speedily around. ...
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