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Picture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection (#6)

Snapshots of Britain and the world in the 1930s, 40s, & 50s. Published between 1938 and 1957, this is a collection of archive prints which filled the pages of the weekly magazine which included light-hearted and humorous stories and major social issues, both domestic and international.

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Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Searching Car

Searching Car
2nd September 1950: A customs officer searching the boot of a car at Calais. Original Publication: Picture Post - Through The French Customs - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Bernard Shaw At 90

Bernard Shaw At 90
July 1946: Irish dramatist and writer George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) sitting in a garden at the time of his 90th birthday. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4140 - Ninety This Month - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Fighter Pilot

Fighter Pilot
28th June 1952: A US Airforce pilot stationed in Britain standing in a doorway with a sign above him reading Through These Portals Pass The Best Damn Fighter Pilots In The World

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: F-86 Sabre

F-86 Sabre
28th June 1952: A US Airforce pilot stationed in Britain waits as an engineer refuels an F-86 Sabre. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5927 - The Yanks In England - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Prayer Flag

Prayer Flag
24th February 1951: A Tibetan prayer flag which, according to Lamaist religion, releases a prayer with every flutter of the wind. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5210 - Tibet Dissolves - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Steel Mill

Steel Mill
1st May 1955: Men working at the furnaces of a Sheffield steel mill. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8067 - Importance Of Yorkshire - unpub. (Photo by Joseph McKeown/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Beach Ballet

Beach Ballet
August 1955: A ballet dancer draws circles in the sand with the points of her toes. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8498 - Festival Ballet Dancer - unpub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Irish Castle

Irish Castle
8th April 1950: A woman walks through the grounds of an Irish castle. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5004 - Irelands Castles: Grandeur In Decline - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Metal Dump

Metal Dump
1953: A waste metal dump. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6317 - Waste Probe - unpub. (Photo by Raymond Kleboe/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Lost In Sheep

Lost In Sheep
11th August 1951: A flock of sheep manoeuvre their way around a parked car on their way down the slopes of Snowdonia, at Hafod-y-Llan, Wales

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Swimming Sheep

Swimming Sheep
11th August 1951: Sheep-dipping during the shearing season in Hafod-y-Llan, Wales. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5377 - Shearing Time In Snowdonia - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Horses Eye View

Horses Eye View
December 1951: A pair of legs in seamed tights, a view of the principal boy as seen by the pantomime horse. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5642 - Brothers Under The Skin - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Giant Dethroned

Giant Dethroned
13th January 1951: On a January day on a bomb site near Oxford Street in London, a plaster model of Santa Claus languishes forgotten, along with the seasons festivities

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: No Lift

No Lift
February 1955: Two skiers make their way up a marked trail on the ski slopes at Klosters in Switzerland. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7524 - Trials Of A Photographer - pub. 1955 (Photo by H)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Waterloo Lovers

Waterloo Lovers
24th September 1955: A young couple at Waterloo Station, London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8002 - Leave Youth Alone - pub. 1955 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Portsmouth Beach

Portsmouth Beach
19th August 1939: A solitary deckchair in front of the esplanade on Portsmouth beach, Hampshire. Original Publication: Picture Post - 202 - Portsmouth - Pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Lancashire Valley

Lancashire Valley
4th June 1955: A cow standing in a valley in Lancashire. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7794 - What Hope In The Hills - pub. 1955 (Photo by Maurice Ambler/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Snowdonia Sheep

Snowdonia Sheep
11th August 1951: Sheep in Hafod-y-Llan, Snowdonia, Wales. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5377 - Shearing Time In Snowdonia - pub. 1951 (Photo by Grace Robertson/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Dangerous Waters

Dangerous Waters
1st May 1948: The mastheads of previous victims can been seen over the flooding tide that hides the treacherous Goodwin Sands on the Kentish coast

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Goodwin Sands

Goodwin Sands
1st May 1948: As the tide begins to flood, the water rises through the sands, rendering it treacherous with all the firmness of molten wax

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Austin Engines

Austin Engines
3rd April 1948: Engines suspended from a monorail at the Austin Motor Companys Birmingham production plant which exports many cars to America

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Well Trained Gun Dogs

Well Trained Gun Dogs
17th January 1948: Well trained gun dogs are able to sit perfectly still despite the temptation to chase a rabbit. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4480 - Training Gun Dogs - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Ram And Lamb

Ram And Lamb
20th December 1947: A lamb and ram in the church in the French village of Les Baux-en-Provence before the ceremony to commemorate the journey of the shepherds to Bethlehem

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Ballet Dancer

Ballet Dancer
24th December 1938: A dancer with Antony Tudors London Ballet looking into a wardrobe at Toynbee Hall in east London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 55 - Ballet In The East End - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Bird Dog

Bird Dog
17th January 1948: A gun dog bringing a pheasant out of a lake. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4480 - Training Gun Dogs - pub. 1948 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Two Wet Dogs

Two Wet Dogs
17th January 1948: Two wet gun dogs emerge from a river with a pheasant. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4480 - Training Gun Dogs - pub. 1948 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Obsolete Machinery

Obsolete Machinery
28th March 1953: Machinery in a tinplateworks in South Wales factory which is due to close. This is because of the building of giant strip-mills which need fewer workers to run them

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Getting Ready

Getting Ready
28th February 1953: Backstage, British models getting ready for a fashion show by John Cavanagh. The designer is in Paris with four British models to show off his work

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Winter Ranch

Winter Ranch
15th December 1951: A cow and its calf being rounded up in the snow at a cattle ranch in Canada. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5616 - Round-Up In The Snow - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Salford Slum

Salford Slum
19th November 1938: Storey Street in a poor area of Salford. Original Publication: Picture Post - 41 - Manchester - pub. 1938 (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Sheep Rescue

Sheep Rescue
12th September 1953: Three crofters set out for home with an injured lamb in Strath Gairloch, on the north west coast of the Scottish Highlands

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Dorset Rams

Dorset Rams
9th July 1949: Dorset Horned rams from a flock at the Maiden Castle Farm, Dorset. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4826 - Where Are The Downland Sheep? - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Pedigree Pig

Pedigree Pig
5th May 1945: A pedigree white pig from the Gostrode herd owned by Mr T F Billingford of Chillingford, Surrey. Original Publication

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: The Needles

The Needles
5th November 1938: One of the isolated cliff faces that form the Needles, obscuring their lighthouse off the Isle of Wight. Original Publication: Picture Post - 10 - Life In A Lighthouse - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Tie Shop

Tie Shop
15th October 1938: Tartan ties belonging to various Scottish clans on display in a Whitechapel shop in the East End of London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 27 - Whitechapel - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Goods In Window

Goods In Window
1st October 1938: Clothing on display in a shop window in the village of Polperro in Cornwall. Original Publication: Picture Post - 3 - The Life Of A Village - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Wild Wolf

Wild Wolf
17th June 1950: Greyhound Wild Wolf in action at the White City Stadium, London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5068 - Wild Wolf Grows Up - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Fox Hunting

Fox Hunting
19th November 1938: The field is spurred on as the hounds pick up the scent of a fox. Original Publication: Picture Post - 44 - Hunting The Fox - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Onion Harvest

Onion Harvest
March 1953: An onion crop at a farm in Norwich, England. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6447 - Norwich Leads Britain - pub. 1953 (Photo by Raymond Kleboe/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Morris Minor

Morris Minor
25th October 1952: A Morris Minor saloon car parked on an English village street. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6156 - 1952 - Motor Show - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Cypriot Livestock

Cypriot Livestock
7th September 1946: Livestock on the plain of Messaoria, Cyprus, drink water that has laboriously been hand pulled from the well and carried to the water trough

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw
30th July 1949: 93-year-old Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) sitting in his neighbours garden in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: QE2 Liner

QE2 Liner
1952: Two men lean on the rails on deck of the Queen Elizabeth as the liner comes to dock at Southampton. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6344 -The Queen Elizabeth Comes In - unpub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Public Nuisance

Public Nuisance
28th January 1939: An unusual sign in Londons Mayfair warns passers-by against making a public nuisance of themselves. Original Publication: Picture Post - 80 - Mayfair - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Romantic Holiday

Romantic Holiday
9th September 1939: A courting couple embrace, overlooking the promenade and beach on the Isle of Man. Original Publication: Picture Post - 196 - The Isle Of Man - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Thomas Leaning

Thomas Leaning
10th August 1946: Welsh poet and playwright Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953). Original Publication: Picture Post - 4156 - Nest Of Singing Birds - pub. 1946 (Photo by Francis Reiss/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas
10th August 1946: Welsh poet and playwright Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), relaxing outside. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4156 - Nest Of Singing Birds - pub

Background imagePicture Post, Premier British News Magazine Collection: Ant Expedition

Ant Expedition
5th May 1948: Worker ants walking along the edge of a piece of bark during a group forage for food. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4559 - The Mysterious Life Of Ants - pub



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