Some very old photo's Historical - USA - UK - Wild west :)

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In them times Heroine was a trade marked brand owned by Bayer pharma!

Yh them guys make paracetamol look like smarties :p

I'd just like to say thanks for the photo's, really enjoyed them.

Looking forward to the next installation.

a reply to: VoidHawk



Awesome pics mate, LOVE looking at stuff like this

a reply to: blupblup


Thought I'd add some
Lacemakers in Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire- circa 1890






Banbury members of the Oxfordshire Yeomanry, pictured in 1914





The last Cattle Market in Bicester, Oxfordshire - 1910

a reply to: VoidHawk

Awesome stuff,VoidHawk.
Some of the sharpest vintage pics I have ever seen.

a reply to: blupblup

Thanks for adding those

I have a ton of old pics of the US but very few of the UK so they're very welcome!

The Lacemakers picture.
It looks so peaceful, No traffic No phones, just a lazy summers day.

originally posted by: FalcoFan
a reply to: VoidHawk

Awesome stuff,VoidHawk.
Some of the sharpest vintage pics I have ever seen.

Thanks

originally posted by: VoidHawk
a reply to: blupblup

Thanks for adding those

I have a ton of old pics of the US but very few of the UK so they're very welcome!

The Lacemakers picture.
It looks so peaceful, No traffic No phones, just a lazy summers day.

You're welcome mate.
LOVE old photographs, well... all photos really

Cheers

Great thread !
It makes you realise that even fifty years ago, life was totally different to the way we live now.

NM

As one of the most poignant lines in a B movie springs to mind for this.

"A moment frozen in time", how many of those photos will survive us and our facebook selfie era. We look at pictures like these and think "What was their lives like" with no facebook, computers, health and safety etc.
What will future generations think of our time and the things we take for granted now, what will they think of our way or life, our technology?

Last year I went to Beamish Museum up in the North or England and whilst looking at the 'historical' artifacts (Beamish is a town from the steam / coal era ) there was a cabinet of 60's and 70's even some 80's gear and a young child of no more than 8 saw an old Spectrum 128k tape computer on display and asked his father what it was?
Of course the guy told him what it was and what it did and and the child went "EERrrhhh it looks sucky, bet its not as good as my phone".

I wonder what pictures will be left behind for future generations will be left behind seeing as we seem to store most of them on digital format nowadays. What will remain if some thing happens to the storage devices, will they simply fade into the past or will by some happenstance some moments frozen in time remain for future pondering?

originally posted by: DataWraith

I wonder what pictures will be left behind for future generations will be left behind seeing as we seem to store most of them on digital format nowadays. What will remain if some thing happens to the storage devices, will they simply fade into the past or will by some happenstance some moments frozen in time remain for future pondering?

I've often wondered about that. Many people dont realize that the prints they run of from their printers will fade. I've got photo's I printed of no more than ten years ago and the colors are already fading, what will they be like in 50 years?
I am the keeper of my families digital photos, there's hundreds of them, and I have them duplicated on several hard drives just in case a drive should fail. DVD's are not reliable long term, and neither are usb sticks. Secure long term storage is a problem.

@ VoidHawk - As requested

Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister. 1933 in Geneva.

If Memory serves me right, this is a photo taken by a Jewish Journalist. Goebbels had been informed of that just prior to the snapping of the photo.

As requested -

Behind the Picture: Joseph Goebbels Glares at the Camera, Geneva, 1933

The unsettling image of the Third Reich’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, glaring at photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt during a League of Nations conference in 1933 remains, 80 years later, one of the signature—and certainly one of the most unflattering—portraits ever made of any high-ranking Nazi figure. In the photo, Goebbels’s bony hands grip the arms of his chair. His tense posture transmits an almost palpable enmity. Hunched, wary, Goebbels resembles a seething homunculus.

If any picture from the pre-World War II era captured the sheer malevolence animating the Reich’s ideology and actions, it was Eisenstaedt’s photo of Goebbels at the Carlton Hotel in Geneva.


Read more: Goebbels in Geneva, 1933: Behind a Classic Alfred Eisenstaedt Picture | LIFE.com life.time.com...

Click link for remainder of article.

a reply to: Xcathdra
Thanks Xcathdra

That knowledge makes the photo so much more interesting, just look at the mans expression!
Imagine being the photographer!

I'll make a small contribution from my home town, although nowhere near as fascinating as the OP...

This is Curwen hall, built around mid to late 1300's, Mary Queen of Scots spent her first night in England on the run here in 1568, where she wrote a letter to Queen Elizabeth I.....I on the other hand simply fell off the top and gashed my leg attempting to get inside.....




Pow Street late 19th century:



The pub, late 19th century (not sure which one):



Some random woman (Liz something) visiting the docks mid 20th century:



Harrington Road, early 20th century(?) waiting for some other random person:



A shop on Wilson Street, possible late 19th century:

Thanks for that. I really enjoyed them. Love to see some more and t
hanks for your effort VoidHawk. Much appreciated
a reply to: VoidHawk

Best. Thread. Ever.

a reply to: woogleuk

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Hi woogle, thanks for those photo's

This photo that you posted


From my OP


The Dogs!!! I'm sure there's a conspiracy here somewhere!

originally posted by: harrietcapes
Thanks for that. I really enjoyed them. Love to see some more and t
hanks for your effort VoidHawk. Much appreciated

a reply to: VoidHawk

Some more on the way quite soon

originally posted by: CantStandIt
Best. Thread. Ever.

Thank you!