The world’s first commercial electric railway opened in 1881 at Lichterfelde in Berlin.  This marked the end of the era of horse drawn stree...

The invention of panoramic postcards was a nice but impractical idea. Much effort went into producing often genuinely startling wide angle v...

Axminster is a small market town in East Devon with a long association with carpet making. Close to the centre of town, at the foot of Castl...

Saintes is a small town in Charente-Maritime on the railway linking La Rochelle with Bordeaux. A local postcard photographer has succumbed t...

“Hey Magda, show us a smile”, they called through their stained and broken teeth, their hungry eyes followed her contours as she navigated t...

An adoring group of female admirers have gathered to pay homage to the courage and skill of the neighbourhood snake handler.  Look closer an...

Between the wars every seaside town and resort would have at least one photographic business that specialised in selling visitors their phot...

It’s our very own National Theatre of Cruelty, an antiquated forum of futility.  On one side the benches are occupied by the defenders of pr...

It seems the arrival of the camera was anticipated since the signalman has brought his daughters along to be part of the photograph. Father ...