Beresford Brothers' boats at Fishery Lock on a frosty morning, 1950.

Syon House, LT poster, 1954. Poster produce

The observatory at Hartwell Manor, Buckinghamshire, 1851.

Near the summit of the Jitong line, China, 2005

'Morning Star' 'Lebaudy' airship in flight, early 20th century.

Eleanor Rathbone MP walking down the street, London, 22 October 1935.

Charles Hutton, British mathematician, late 18th-early 19th century.

Woman outside the 'Inverness' B&B, Broadstairs, Kent, c 1920s.

Newspaper boy delivering the 'Daily Herald', 13 December 1935.

Whitby Harbour, North Yorkshire, c 1905.

Sand glass, 19th century.

Small girl shovelling wet sand into a bucke