This smiling girl, dirtied but apparently not injured, was assisted across a London street on October 23 1940 after she was rescued from the debris of a building damaged by a bomb.

London in 1918.

Poor kids on the street in 1893.

Her Royal Highness Princess Anne horse riding at Olympics in 1972

Two future British Prime Ministers – President of the Board of Trade, David Lloyd George, and Manchester North West MP Winston Churchill, both members of the Liberal Party – in 1907.

London filmed during the 1940s in colour.

Workmen clean the Statue of Justice at the top of the Old Bailey, in London, in 1933.

May Day celebrations in Padstow, Cornwall, c1950.

A group of men with a cart in front of Stonehenge. Photo: English Heritage.

England in 1967. Any idea on locations?

A toddler learning how to walk in a wicker frame, while mum gets on with the washing in 1910.

Portobello Road, London, in 1966.

Rugby in England in 1901.

Children from Plaistow, London, in 1904.

Newspaper deliveries in Farringdon, London, in 1900.

A street knife grinder sharpens a lady's blade, in London, 1928.

Ladies playing cricket in London's Regent's Park in 1909.

Queen Elizabeth with Prince Charles and Elizabeth II at Princess Margaret's wedding in 1960.

Euston Road and St Pancras Road, London in 1898.

England recovering after the end of WW2 in 1945.