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High Street, Barnes, West London

A simply stunning real photographic postcard showing the High Street, Barnes, West London, featuring a very smart carriage (left) with two finely-dressed coachmen and a horse bus behind. On the right is an ironmongers shop, complete with a wide selection of baths, buckets and watering cans! Date: 1911

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

German Massage Parlour

Greetings from the Massage Parlour ! A young lady in spotty swimwear is treated (rather vigourously I would imagine) by a rather solid-looking Masseuse, who is kneading away at knots, aches and pains in her client's upper thigh. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Fashion for 1956

A bolero and dress of lightweight wool georgette with all accessories from Debenham and Freebody, is a spring winner. The bolero, high lighted with a spotted silk surah and the dress beneath with the straight long look cost 20gns. The hat is a navy shantung Baku cloche

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10272860

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