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326 photos and 88 illustrations tagged britain, from 20 members of Flickr Commons.

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• unitedkingdom
• england
• publicdomain
• uk
• victorian
• 19thcentury
• war
• english
• francisbedford
• blackandwhite
• ww1
• nih
• albion
• britannica
• 1800s
• albumenprint
• firstworldwar
• nationallibraryofmedicine
• imagesfromthehistoryofmedicine
• ihm
• historyofmedicinedivision
• pp
• nlm
• hmd

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• National Science and Media Museum 91 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 88 photos & illustrations
• Archives of the Law Society of Ontario 80 photos & illustrations
• IWM Collections 44 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Scotland 35 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 31 photos & illustrations
• British Library 16 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 10 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 5 photos & illustrations
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 2 photos & illustrations
• LSE Library 2 photos & illustrations
• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 2 photos & illustrations

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Manufacturing fishing floats

from North East Museums

• optimal chicken said:

  Oh wow! I didn't read the text and looked at the image first - I thought they'd been making canon balls up until that date. Haha!

Testing guns at the firing range, Silloth

from North East Museums

• optimal chicken said:

  Still waiting for your write up as I say this but.. were the guns 'proven' on Tyneside or taken elsewhere for testing? I can't imagine huge bangs along the river! Mind, stranger things happened..

• Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said:

  Hi [https://www.flickr.com/photos/flyeye] this one was taken at Silloth-on-Solway, although Ridsdale in Northumberland was also frequently used.

• steviej 007 said:

  I remember when I played Silloth Golf Club somebody told me that their was a firing range

• Billy Embleton said:

  Another great industrial image. Some of the worlds greatest battleships were built at Elswick.

• Jonathan Casey said:

  
  Your wonderful capture was seen in Black & White Photos
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Elswick Shipyard, 1885

from North East Museums

• 1 older comment, and then…
• optimal chicken said:

  That's fantastic! The tall steeple which can still be seen along Scotswood Road is in this photo. Of particular interest to me is the fact they appear to be on a sandy beach?! It certainly doesn't look like that now - all thick deep dirty mud..

• Michael Brady said:

  That tall Steeple is St Stephens church and as you say, can still be seen today, and I believe they are on the sandy shoreline of what was once Kings Meadows Island, which a local tower block took its name from. This apparently is the only known picture of the island which had its own public house and horse racing track...all long since dredged away of course.

• Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said:

  Many thanks for your comments - we've updated the entry to take account of them.

• optimal chicken said:

  Fascinating. I'll have to go trawling through my old maps now!

• Billy Embleton said:

  Chilean ironclad Blanco Encalada moored on the left of the photo, the first ship in the world to be sunk by a torpedo in 1891!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_ironclad_Blanco_Encalada