Images Dated 23rd April 2019

Lifeboat Coxwain Robert Scraper Smith with his daughter on Cullercoats beach, circa 1900

Postcard circa 1900, Victorian/Edwardian Social History. Lifeboat Coxwain Robert Scraper Smith with his daughter on Cullercoats beach. The Medals on his chest are: British Empire Medal for Gallantry, RNLI and Tynemouth Trust medals for services with Tynemouth Lifeboat, and 'Rocket Apparatus Long Service' [Cullercoats Volunteer Life Brigade - formed one year after TVLB

© Design Pics / John Short

Old woman trying on a pink bonnet in a shop, circa 1815

Old woman trying on a pink bonnet in front of three young shopgirls, Women appear to have sworn to lie about youth up to their last breath. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. Old woman trying on a pink bonnet in front of three young shopgirls, Women appear to have sworn to lie about youth up to their last breath. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

U.S. Virgin Islands - St. Thomas - A Cha Cha Family

U.S. Virgin Islands - St. Thomas - A Cha Cha Family. A small population descended from 17th and 18th century French Huguenot immigrants who originally settled on St. Barts. The Virgin Islands has a number of ethnic groups making up its population. The Cha Chas the tiniest in number (no more than 3000 of the 100,000+ on all 3 islands and 99.9% of them live on St Thomas), they form a distinct ethnic unit apart from other islanders (probably the closest comparison group to them would be the Cajuns of Louisiana). This fact is even noted in the Encyclopedia Brittanica in its coverage of the Virgin Islands (they also referred to them as a clannish, aloof and industrious community). Date: 1937