Images Dated 5th November 2018

Folly Ditch, Jacobs Island, (c1878). Creator: Unknown

Folly Ditch, Jacob's Island, (c1878). Jacob's Island, a notorious slum on the south bank of the River Thames in Bermondsey, London, was made famous in Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist. The villain Bill Sikes is chased by police and dies in the mud of Folly Ditch'. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places. The Southern Suburbs, Volume VI, by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, c1878]

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Morane 406 at Vassincourt Aerodrome with French Curtiss Hawk and Hurricane, 1939-1940, (1941)

A Morane 406 Beats Up Vassincourt Aerodrome (A French Curtiss Hawk and a Hurricane in the foreground), 1939-1940, (1941). From Fighter Pilot - A Personal Record of the Campaign in France. September 8th, 1939, to June 13th, 1940. [B. T. Batsford Ltd., London, 1941]

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A Remarkable Locomotive on the Midland, 1922. Creator: Unknown

A Remarkable Locomotive on the Midland, 1922. From The Romance of Modern Railways, by T. W. Corbin. [Seeley Service & Co. Limited, London, 1922]

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