Historical pictures

[Mike D]

World champions, Graham and Damon hill.

 

[Mike D]

Patrick McGoohan stands over Stanley Baker while Sean Connery and Sid James look on. Hell drivers 1957.

 

[Trumo]

Construction workers on their lunch break in New York.

 

[Lee909]

 

Rosa Parks having her finger prints taken after her refusal to give up a seat on a bus.

[Lee909]

Geronimo and his soldiers before there surrender to the U.S forces

 

 

Geronimo at a US prisoner of war camp.

 

 

Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Coady at a wild west show

 

When you consider how badly the Natives of the US are still treated and the fact that 50 years ago they didn't have free elections for everyone you would think they wouldn't have the balls to continually demand free and fair election everywhere else

[KMD7]

[Mike D]

women assembling hurricanes 1942.

 

[Sugar Ape]

Demonstrator at the Harlem Peace March to end racial oppression carries an anti-war sign, 1967.

 

 

An Irish guard faints during a ceremony, but other guards kept their attention, 1966.

 

[Sugar Ape]

East Fife vs Kilmarnock, the 1938 Scottish Cup Final at Hampden Park, with 93,000 spectators

 

 

Readers browsing through the bomb-damaged library of Holland House, London, 1940

 

[Sugar Ape]

Steven Spielberg examining a scale model on the set of “Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark”, 1980

 

 

Maurice Tillet, a wrestler suffering from acromegaly. He died in 1954 & was the inspiration for the character Shrek.

 

[Sugar Ape]

Citizens in a bar celebrate the end of alcohol prohibition in the United States. December 5, 1933.

 

 

American troops treat a wounded dog on Orote Peninsula, 1944

 

[Sugar Ape]

Roald Dahl with the Oompa Loompa actors on the set of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, ca. 1971.

 

 

Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948

 

[Bjornebye]

The recording of the MGM Lion, 1929.

 

 

 

 

 

 

That is quality 

[Mike D]

 

Special effects director Derek Meddings holds the Fireflash during the filming of Thunderbirds 1964.

[Sugar Ape]

1981: Muhammad Ali talked a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide. A young man with psychiatric problems stood on a 9th floor window ledge threatening to jump. Police negotiators and psychiatrists talked to him for over two hours but had made no progress. As if it were a scene in a movie Mohammad Ali, former heavyweight champion, arrived to help. The boxing great climbed out the window next to the confused and frightened man. Ali told the man that they were “brothers” and that he was there to help. Miraculously Ali managed to convince the young man to come back inside. He was then taken to the hospital for evaluation and treatment.

 

 

Actress Phyliss Gordon out shopping with her pet cheetah, 1939

 

[Mike D]

Graham Chapman, Michael Palin and Terry Jones take a break while filming Life of Brian 1979.

 

[Sugar Ape]

Al Capone's cell at the Eastern State Penitentiary.

 

 

George Harrison's original lyrics for Here Comes the Sun, 1969.

 

[General Dryness]

David Purley tries in vain to gather assistance to rescue Roger Williamson at the 1973 Dutch Grand prix.

 

Theres video of that on youtube, the sheer anguish and frustration in Purleys actions is heartbreaking. When he realises he can't get Williamson out by himself, he tries to flag down other drivers as they're the only other ones wearing flameproof suits, and could have helped. Marshalls weren't issued with that kind of gear then, but they were after this incident.

 

Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948

 

 

This may be up there with the saddest pictures I've ever seen. We can only imagine the levels of poverty that would drive someone to do something like this.

[Trumo]

Graham Chapman, Michael Palin and Terry Jones take a break while filming Life of Brian 1979.

 

 

 

 

They hung Palin the right way up after this break. NAIIIIIIL 'EM UP!

[Sugar Ape]

All this technology is making us antisocial.

 

 

Alfred Hitchcock directing the MGM Lion.

 

[Bjornebye]

Bruce and Brandon Lee

 

[KMD7]

 

South Vietnamese National Police Chief Brig Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a single pistol shot in the head .

[Mike D]

Holiday makers view the devastation after a fire in the Summerland holiday complex which claimed 50 lives in Douglas on the Isle of Man 1973.

 

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German boy walks on a road with hundreds of bodies from prisoners near the Bergen-Belsen extermination camp, May 1945.

 

 

Wonderful photo of Villa Park during a match between Aston Villa and Liverpool in 1907