Manchester London Road (now Manchester Piccadilly) station, 1913
(from National Railway Museum)
“Watkin’s Folly” - an attempt to build a London version of the Eiffel Tower, at Wembley.
That’s as far as it got. It was finally blown up in 1907, a sorry end to a chapter of Anglo-French rivalry.
(Source: surviving-history.blogspot.co.uk)
“To promote 1970’s The Vampire Lovers, Hammer took the girls to a zoo for reasons best known only to themselves! The girls in question from l to r, Madeline Smith, Pippa Steel and Janet Key”
lostsplendor: Over Hammersmith Bridge, London c. 1888 (via)
Gamages, a London department store once as famous as Selfridges or Harrods.
(Source: skyscrapercity.com)
“Jugend” magazine, a German art magazine which started in the late 19th century. (Flickr, by Plum leaves)
April 1896 Nr.14.
Senta Berger
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The amazing new Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Central Station). At the top are the east-west tracks (see the train at the top of the image). Downwards, there are then various station and commerce/shopping levels, until finally at the bottom (just visible) are the north-south lines.
(Flickr by Alexander Rentsch)
Manon von Gerkan
(Source: fuckyeahswimsuitmodels)
