Olden days

London at the end of Victorian era was the most important city in the world. Take a tour of this city and era with these beautiful pictures of a bygone era.

Navy nurse kissing her sailor before deployment

Promeneuses sous la pluie, Paris, 1934 (photographe inconnu)

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Olden days!

Good old Leon and Levy where would I be without them. There is a Police Officer standing on the traffic island in the middle of the photograph, he is probably from POW. On the left is a hoarding surrounding the building site for what was then known as the New Government Offices and is now The Treasury; work was started in 1899 and completed in 1915 so I may be on the cusp here. Lovely bonnets Ladies.

How Edwardians kept their home cool in the summer. "The woman who must stay in the city all summer [...] should put her wits to work to make her house or apartment look as cool as possible - for the appearance of coolness leads us to imagine that the thermometer is really lower than it is." (Chicago Tribune, 1909)

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This term at school the junior classes are looking at the "olden days" and the other week had an excursion to Yarrabee Yesterday World. They were to dress up in old-fashioned attire suitable for students, and were taught about the olden days in un-powered classrooms with slate and chalk to write with, and a taste of old style discipline ;) Before we headed off to school in the morning, Sienna and Ash let me take a few photos, they looked so cute. All of Ash's clothes are his normal…

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