Historical pictures

[Bjornebye]

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Sick that mate 

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

The strides on stringy in this photo. fuck sake 

[General Dryness]

The strides on stringy in this photo. fuck sake 

 

Nah, Stringy missed this match. He had to go and collect his pension.

[General Dryness]

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.

 

 

Fucking awful. They'd clad the thing in a clear plastic called Oroglas, which despite claims of its safety went up like a roman candle. One of the worst days in the islands history, that. A year before my time. They rebuilt a similar kind of place on the site, but it was apparently never the same. And I always felt there was an eerie atmosphere there. The rebuild was pulled down a couple of years ago. They'll probably end up building more apartments that nobody can afford on the site.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerland_disaster

[Sugar Ape]

Powerful photo of a priest holding a dying soldier while bullets are fired around them. Venezuela, 1962

 

 

Dogs which survived the Titanic disaster. Twelve dogs were known to be aboard, and only these three survived. 1912

 

[Mike D]

Crew members push a Huey helicopter into the ocean to make room on the Kirk's small deck for more incoming crafts carrying Vietnamese refugees, the fall of Saigon, Vietnam 1975.

[Mike D]

Fucking awful. They'd clad the thing in a clear plastic called Oroglas, which despite claims of its safety went up like a roman candle. One of the worst days in the islands history, that. A year before my time. They rebuilt a similar kind of place on the site, but it was apparently never the same. And I always felt there was an eerie atmosphere there. The rebuild was pulled down a couple of years ago. They'll probably end up building more apartments that nobody can afford on the site.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerland_disaster

my dad was there, staying nearby not in Summerland but did go there several times, to this day he wont talk about it.

[Bjornebye]

The priest trying to get a shooting victim to help on bloody sunday 

 

[Trumo]

Charles Lindbergh and his plane The Spirit Of St.Louis after landing in Paris following his solo Atlantic crossing.

 

[General Dryness]

my dad was there, staying nearby not in Summerland but did go there several times, to this day he wont talk about it.

 

Lot of people that won't. Theres some links on that Wiki site with more pictures, particularly of the building once the flames were out, if you want a better idea of how horrific it was. Because so much of it was combustible material, it basically ended up just a huge blackened skeleton. Somebody in authority signed that building off as being safe, but government ranks were closed and nobody was ever brought to book for it. Pointing the finger obviously wouldn't bring any of the deceased back, but someone near as damnit got away with murder there.

[General Dryness]

The priest trying to get a shooting victim to help on bloody sunday 

 

 

That Venezuala one that rapey posted brought this one to mind for me.

[Sugar Ape]

A chimpanzee feeding a leopard cub at Southam Park Zoo, UK. 1971.

 

 

World's smallest man in 1956, Henry Behrens, dancing with his cat.

 

[Mike D]

Mel Blanc continues to record voices for the Looney tunes cartoons in his hospital bed following a car crash and coma in 1961.

 

a very funny and talented man, recommend this documentary for those interested

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRlmb0xAtBs

[Bjornebye]

That Venezuala one that rapey posted brought this one to mind for me.

 

same for me mate

[Sugar Ape]

Black children looking in on a whites-only playground, Mobile, Alabama, 1956

 

 

Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, who were not allowed to be buried together. Roermond, NL, 1888

 

[Bjornebye]

[Sugar Ape]

Joe Strummer’s handwritten lyrics for London Calling, 1979

 

 

Robert Wadlow, The Giant of Illinois, is the tallest (272 cm/ 8' 11") person in history. C. 1940

 

[Sugar Ape]

Selk'nam natives on their way to Europe for being exhibited as animals in zoos. C. 1889

 

 

Soviet flag on the Reichstag, Berlin. May 1945.

 

[KMD7]

 

Abraham Lincoln's Hearse, 1865

[Sugar Ape]

Paul McCartney, John Lennon & George Harrison performing at a wedding reception, 1958

 

 

Feeding polar bears from a tank. c 1950.

 

[KMD7]

 

Jimi Hendrix driving a dune buggy with an unidentified woman. October 6, 1968.

[KMD7]

What a shit time to be out of rep, brilliant thread.

[Mike D]

 

Three train crash at Harrow and Wealdstone station in 1952. The Perth to London Euston express train crashed into the rear of a stationary train then moments later the Euston to Liverpool express hit the wreckage. 112 dead and 340 injured in Britains worst peacetime railway disaster.

[Sugar Ape]

A vulture waiting for a starving boy to die, to eat him. Taken by Kevin Carter, who later committed suicide. 1993

 

 

The "Great Manta” that was captured by Captain A.L. Kahn on August 26, 1933.

 

[A Red]

 

 

 

Shocking and saddening how someone could do this. Its E not i