The 1st Tour de France. Maurice Garin, in white, won the Tour.

A lion in a sidecar in a 'Wall of Death' - 1930s

The famous Hollywood sign, which originally said 'Hollywoodland'. The last four letters were removed in 1949

A man finds out that the victim of a car accident was his own wife. Brooklyn, 1936

London, 1899

Workers pose during construction of 60-story tall Chase Manhattan Bank, 1955

Bengali colonial woman carries a British merchant on her back. India, 1903

The Grand Prix in Monaco, 1955

Sheffield FC in 1865

A high school football game continues as a fire rages on at a school in Northfield, Massachusetts, 1965

A London policeman gives tea to a homeless man after a V1 attack that killed his wife and destroyed his home, 1944

Children playing with a guillotine, unknown year

Beach accident at Coney Island draws knot of people. The reviving victim lies in center, attended by lifeguards. 1951

Rioting in Derry, 1969

A one-legged race in New York, 1918

World's first hockey team - Montreal, 1881

Kamikaze pilots just before setting out on their flights

Kids dressed up for Halloween in 1900


One of the first self-portrait photos, 1839

Execution by firing squad in Iran, 1979

A cow watches Belgian cyclist Jules Buysse, who won the first stage of the Tour de France in 1926

Workers carrying a car across a river in Nepal, 1948

The delivery of Norwich Council's first computer. 1957

Will add more later ......