Old pictures of Basingstoke and Deane District

c. 1940

Winchester Street

1889

Police Force

1921

A train passes through densely packed housing

1954

Little Benny Merrell aged six takes some of the ancient wood bricks

1969

Opening of Fluff Boutique

1910

Edwardian ladies board a taxi

c. 1895

Commercial Road,

1893

Cousins

1960

The Red Lion pub

1878

Georgie and Amy Pirkis with their amah

1940

London Library Bombed

c. 1895

Hyde Park Corner

1910

Testing gas pressure in street lighting.

1934

The start of the tricycle race

1942

Princess Elizabeth

1951

King George VI with his grandson Prince Charles

1948

Charles Philip Arthur George

1932

Traffic lights in Croydon

1943

Female military personnel looking at model 731 stockings

1948

Annual London to Brighton relay race

1948

Elizabeth Taylor, aged 16, looking over the Thames

1953

Commuters entering