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Picture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection (#5)

Snapshots of Britain and the world in the 1930s, 40s, & 50s. Published between 1938 and 1957, this is a collection of archive prints which filled the pages of the weekly magazine which included light-hearted and humorous stories and major social issues, both domestic and international.

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Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Back Pack

Back Pack
24th February 1951: A Tibetan loads wool onto a mule, to sell in the Indian markets. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5210 - Tibet Dissolves - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Pony Vacation

Pony Vacation
circa 1954: Working horses on a holiday arranged by the International League for the Protection of Horses. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6944 - A Horse On Holiday - unpub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Hong Kong Washing

Hong Kong Washing
29th October 1949: Laundry hanging out on washing-poles from a building in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4888 - Hong Kong The Waiting Days - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Swans Cleaning

Swans Cleaning
December 1956: Swans groom themselves after swimming through an oil spill on the River Thames. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8941 - Cleaning The Swans - unpub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Hiroshima

Hiroshima
6th August 1955: A view of bomb damaged areas of Hiroshima, ten years after the Atomic bomb was dropped on the city. The dome in the background became known as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Good Wood Madam

Good Wood Madam
8th July 1939: A lawn bowler raises her hands in satisfaction at a throw. Original Publication: Picture Post - 175 - Good Wood, Madam - pub. 1939 (Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Castle Combe

Castle Combe
3rd August 1946: A man walks towards the picturesque village of Castle Combe, Wiltshire. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4151- A Walk In The Heart Of England - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Hollywood Homes

Hollywood Homes
1st May 1951: Houses for ordinary families in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5298 - We Go To Hollywood - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Old Sporting Guns

Old Sporting Guns
1956: A close-up of muzzle and breech-loading flintlock sporting guns. Original Publication: Picture Post - 9038 - Shooting With Old Guns - unpub. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Old Sporting Guns

Old Sporting Guns
1956: A close-up of muzzle and breech-loading flintlock sporting guns. Original Publication: Picture Post - 9038 - Shooting With Old Guns - unpub. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Couple In Car

Couple In Car
5th August 1939: A couple driving through the town of Stratford-upon-Avon. Original Publication: Picture Post - 181 - Town That Lives On Shakespeare - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Corby Ironworks

Corby Ironworks
11th February 1950: Corby Ironworks in Northamptonshire at night. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4975 - Did You Know This Was Happening To England? - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Factories On Canal

Factories On Canal
February 1955: Industrial plants on the banks of Manchesters Ship Canal. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7538 - Manchesters Lifeline - pub. 1955 (Photo by Frank Horvat/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Hanging Gardens

Hanging Gardens
24th June 1950: The ruined substructure of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5071 - War In The Desert - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Carving On Wall

Carving On Wall
24th June 1950: A carving of a horse on a wall in the ruins of Babylon. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5071 - War In The Desert - pub. 1950 (Photo by Raymond Kleboe/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Wall Carvings

Wall Carvings
24th June 1950: Wall carvings in the ruins of Babylon. Original Publication: The Ishtar Gate and hanging towers of Babylon

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Snow Scene

Snow Scene
1958: A snow scene in Newcastle, England. Original Publication: Picture Post - 9073 - Snow Scenes, Newcastle - unpub. (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Courting Couple

Courting Couple
16th April 1956: Young lovers walking down a solitary road in Gretna Green. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8451 - Gretna Green - unpub. (Photo by Charles Hewitt/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Warners Cinema

Warners Cinema
1951: The exterior of Warners Cinema with its steel tower and neon signs in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5298 - We Go To Hollywood - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Western Film Set

Western Film Set
1951: A screen set with a town water pump and horse watering trough built for a western film at Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Newcastle Workers

Newcastle Workers
May 1954: Workers pushing their bikes up the hill from the Tyne towards Newcastle town centre. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7143 - Newcastle: Revival Of A City - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Art Collector

Art Collector
26th June 1948: A 90 year old collector, Joseph Granger, with some of his paintings which he has been collecting for fifteen years

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Black Watch Sniper

Black Watch Sniper
20th August 1955: A lone soldier of the Black Watch Depot, Queens Barracks, Perth, during target practice. The Black Watch, Am Freiceadan Dubh in Gaelic

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Ship Building Strike

Ship Building Strike
1st April 1957: A vessel under construction at the Burrow-in-Furness shipyard where work has stopped during a strike. Original Publication

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Dereliction

Dereliction
8th January 1955: The derelict buildings and discarded machinery of a worked-out coal mine near Wigan, Lancashire. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7467 - Problem Of A Dying Coalfield - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Steel Furnace

Steel Furnace
16th August 1952: Liquid metal spraying out of the furnace at Thomas and Baldwins steel works in Ebbw Vale, Wales. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6005 - Steel Town - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Doll Mould

Doll Mould
15th December 1951: Parts of a doll in an injection mould at Cascelloids factory at Leicester. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5617 - Toys Are Big Business - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Making Waves

Making Waves
July 1956: Holidaymakers take advantage of the fine weather at Shanklin Beach on the Isle of Wight. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8944 - Summer Holidays - unpub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: The White Continent

The White Continent
circa 1950: A scene from the Crown Film Unit production The White Continent, about life in the Antarctic with The Norsel ice-breaker trapped fast by pack ice

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: The White Continent

The White Continent
circa 1950: A scene from the Crown Film Unit production The White Continent, about life in the Antarctic. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5893 - Who Hates The Crown Film Unit - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Button Back Hat

Button Back Hat
1956: A flower pot hat which buttons at the back at a fashion show at Burlington House, London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8799 - Hat Fashions - unpub. (Photo by David E)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: View Of Venice

View Of Venice
9th February 1946: A silhouette of a gondola on the canal in Venice. Original Publication: Picture Post - 3067 - Venice Is Still Serene - pub. 1946 (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Goal Scoring Machine

Goal Scoring Machine
1st December 1951: Arthur Milton of Arsenal aims a shot at a novel goal-scoring machine during a training session. Milton also plays cricket for Gloucestershire

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Autosilo

Autosilo
4th June 1955: An Autosilo - a multi-storey ramp garage, invented in Switzerland - at Karlsruhe. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7789 - A Plan To End The Traffic Jam - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Which Way ?

Which Way ?
1949: Two of the competitors in the Monte Carlo Road Race check their maps en route for Monte Carlo. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4708 - Monte Carlo Road Race - unpub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Mystery Play

Mystery Play
circa 1953: The backview of an audience watching a mystery play performed out of doors. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5758 - Mystery Plays On A Cart - unpub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Safe Deposit

Safe Deposit
8th October 1938: A man leaving a safe deposit bank, before the grille descends and the shutters are brought across. Original Publication: Picture Post - 16 - Safe Deposit - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Parliament Fog

Parliament Fog
21st January 1939: The Houses of Parliament, London, engulfed in fog. Original Publication: Picture Post - 68 - Foggy Morning - pub. 1939 (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Under The Arch

Under The Arch
31st January 1948: Two children walking in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. The Gorbals tenements were built quickly and cheaply in the 1840s

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Asbestos Mines

Asbestos Mines
19th October 1946: Asbestos mines at Amiandos in the Troodos mountains in Cyprus. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4202 - Cyprus A Challenge To British Rule - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Telephone

Telephone
22nd May 1955: An early, crank-handled telephone on display at Hull Telephone Exchange. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7762 - Hulls Own Hello - pub.1955

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Fighting The Pounds

Fighting The Pounds
26th November 1955: Principal Boy actress Lynette Ray working out under the supervision of Mickey Wood at his Tough Guy Agency in Marylebone, London

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: TS Eliot

TS Eliot
2nd June 1951: American-English poet and playwright TS Eliot (1888 - 1965). Original Publication: Picture Post - 5314 - Are Poets Really Necessary

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: 40s Glamour

40s Glamour
14th March 1947: A clothing dummy on display at the Ideal Home Exhibition. London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4339 - Ideal Woman For Ideal Homes - pub.1947

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Horses Nosebag

Horses Nosebag
1940: Horses feeding at Carter Patersons stables. Original Publication: Picture Post - 332 - Carter Patersons Stables - unpub. (Photo by Felix Man/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas
10th August 1946: Welsh poet and playwright Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), relaxing outside. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4156 - Nest Of Singing Birds - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Searching Car

Searching Car
2nd September 1950: A customs officer searching the boot of a car at Calais. Original Publication: Picture Post - Through The French Customs - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Bernard Shaw At 90

Bernard Shaw At 90
July 1946: Irish dramatist and writer George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) sitting in a garden at the time of his 90th birthday. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4140 - Ninety This Month - pub



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