1959 Collection

Harley Davidson Hydraglide Panhead

Well, if you knows of a better ole, go to it
Ttwo soldiers stuck in a trench, during a battle in World War One

HMS Hermes (R12) shortly after being accepted by the Royal Navy, 1959

Labour Party election posters and television speakers
Labour Party election posters and speakers for Labours series of five short television programmes in the run-up to the General Election of 8th October 1959 (which the Conservatives won)

Dry Stone Walling
Two working class men in flat caps build a dry stone wall together at Galashiel, Selkirkshire, Scotland

Austin-Healey Frogeye Sprite Mk 1
car, Austin-Healey, Sprite, Mk, 1, Britain, British, England, English, UK, United, Kingdom, White, 1959, 1950s, 50s, fifties, classic, sportscar, sportcar

Austin-Healey Frogeye Sprite Mk 1
car, Austin-Healey, Sprite, Mk, 1, British, English, England, Britain, UK, United, Kingdom, UK, United, Kingdom, Great, GB, white, 1959, 1950s, 50s, fifties

Old Bill kneeling in front of the Cenotaph in Whitehall
His Pals - Fragments Copyright. Old Bill kneeling in front of the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 1St Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1888-1959)

Poster, Le Mans 24 Hour Rally 1959
Poster, Le Mans 24 Hour Rally, 20-21 June 1959. Date: 1959

Ford Anglia 100E, 1959, Blue, light
Ford Anglia 100E 1959 Blue light

Catalan Atlas, 14th century. The 6-page Catalan Atlas (1375) was produced on vellum by the Jewish cartographer Abraham Cresques

Errol Flynn / Robin Hood
ERROL FLYNN Irish-American film actor as Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood, with Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian

Publicity still for the Hollywood film Some Like It Hot (1959): Director and Producer, Billy Wilder. Marily Monroe with her co-stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in drag

Chevrolet Impala convertible 1959 White

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, built in 1959, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States of America, North America

Police Officers London
Police officers wearing old and new uniforms. On left wearing 1980 uniform, on right the old from the period 1959-1980 Metropolitan Police in London near Houses of Parliament

Errol Flynn / Warner
ERROL FLYNN Irish-American film actor, best known for his swashbuckling roles

Rackhams, Birmingham. 20th January 1959

Start of 1959 Tourist Trophy race at Goodwood. Creator: Unknown
Start of 1959 Tourist Trophy race at Goodwood

Ford Zephyr, 1959, Yellow
Ford Zephyr 1959 Yellow

Dodge Coronet 1959 Green 2-tone

Jaguar XK150s Roadster 1959 White

Rover P4 75, 1959, Black
Rover P4 75 1959 Black

Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station, near Annan, Dumfries- shire, Scotland, officially opened on 2 May 1959. Date: 1959s

JACQUES COUSTEAU (1910-1997). French oceanographer. Cousteau climbing into his Diving Saucer on board the Calypso docked in New York Harbor in August 1959

Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California

Sir Stanley Spencer, c. 1926
Photograph of Sir Stanley Spencer (1891-1959), the English painter, standing in front of his painting The Resurrection, c.1926

Fidel Castro / Che Guevara
ERNESTO (CHE) GUEVARA Che Guevara holds an impromptu meeting in Havana, Cuba, with Fidel Castro and Castros brother. *UNAVAILABLE FOR USE IN ASIA AT PRESENT*

Chelsea Football Club - 1959-1960 season. Left to right: (Back row) S. Anderton, R. Whittaker, R. Matthews, J. Mortimore, C. Livesey, J. Compton; (front row) James Peter ( Jimmy ) Greaves (1940-), P

Advertisement for Cadburys Golden Key -- male and female models (Barry Trengove and Geraldine Hill) posing. 1959

Major fire in Wandsworth Road, Clapham SW8
London firefighters and the London Salvage Corps (in the long coats) at the scene of a fire involving shops and dwellings in Wandsworth Road, Clapham, SW8, on 9 September 1959

LCC-LFB Recruit fireman training at Brigade HQ, SE1
During the 1950s recruit firefighters were trained at the Brigade Headquarters, Lambeth. Here a fireman is undertaking a hook ladder drill on the stations nine-storey drill tower

LCC-LFB Recruit firefighters training at Brigade HQ SE1
During the 1950s recruit firefighters were trained at the Brigade Headquarters in Lambeth. Here they are undertaking hook ladder drills on the stations nine-storey drill tower

Stevenage New Town
This pedestrianised shopping centre at Stevenage New Town, Hertfordshire, England was the first in England, opened in 1959. It was also the first designated New Town in 1946. Date: July 1966

Tatler cover: Queen Elizabeth II and her family
The Tatler front cover featuring a photograph taken in June 1959, of the Queen Elizabeth II with her housband, Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh and their children

Scene on Conwy Harbour, North Wales
A wonderful, atmospheric view of Conwy Harbour, North Wales, with the silhouette of the Castle in the background. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd 1960

Well, if you Knows of a Bette ole, Go to It
WELL, IF YOU KNOWS OF A BETTE OLE, GO TO IT !. Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 1St Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1888-1959)

Salvador Dali
The surrealist artist, Salvador Dali (1904-1989), was photographed with a statuette of the Madonna and Child during a visit to London in 1959. At the time Fleur Cowles was writing a book about him

Advertisement for Rolls Royce cars -- Spirit of Ecstasy bonnet ornament. 1959

CM6 1829 Graham Robson, 1959, Sebring Sprite, 5506 AR
Graham Robson, 1959, Sebring Sprite, 5506 AR, Goodwood 73rd Members Meeting

Traffic congestion, Covent Garden, London WC2
Traffic congestion in the Covent Garden area, London WC2, showing a view along Henrietta Street from the corner of Bedford Street during the morning of 26 March 1959

Uffington Station, Oxfordshire, August 1959
A view of locomotive No. 90676 passing through Uffington station in Oxfordshire while transporting goods in August 1959. The image also shows Uffington signal box

WILLOWGARTH TUG BOAT
Willowgarth, one of the REA diesel tugs, on the River Mersey at Liverpool, England. Date: built 1959

STUDEBAKER AD, 1959. Studebaker automobile advertisement from an American magazine, 1959

Fidel Castro in 1959
FIDEL CASTRO - President of Cuba, on manoeuvres in the jungle in 1965. *UNAVAILABLE FOR USE IN ASIA AT PRESENT*

Errol Flynn / Robin Hood
Errol Flynn is at his swash- buckling best in Michael Curtizs saga which also offers Olivia de Havilland as Marian, Claude Rains and Basil Rathbone as the nasties

Advertisement for Ford Anglia cars -- male and female models posing (Geraldine Hill, Susan Ingram and Ossie O Leary). 1959

MGA Twin cam coupe 1959
1959 MG A Twin Cam coupe

Queen Elizabeth II at the Badminton horse trials, 1959
The Queen on horseback at the Badminton horse trials, 1959. 1959

Cheltenham Spa (Malvern Road), Gloucestershire, 2 May 1959
A view of Cheltenham Spa Malvern Road station in Gloucestershire, on 2nd May 1959. Locomotive number 31619 is passing through the station and a lone woman is walking along the platform

Maria Teresa de Filippis pictured in her Red Maserati 250F before for the BRDC International Trophy race at Silverstone. Maria retired after 40 laps due to a transmission problem

Blyth Spartans A. F. C. Back row: T. Ray, G. Davis, R. Ovington, H. Mills, W. Brown and F
Blyth Spartans A.F.C. Back row: T. Ray, G. Davis, R. Ovington, H. Mills, W. Brown and F. Stamper (Captain). Front row L-R B. Nicholls, H. Clark, G. Wills, F. Turney and W. Haley. 22nd April 1959

Young lads gather around the fountain in Stevenage Town Centre, Hertfordshire. 13th October 1959

Foden 5 ton Steam Wagon M8681, built in1916, at the 1959 Andover Steam Rally. (Foden Trucks was a British truck and bus manufacturing company which had its origins in Elworth near Sandbach in 1856)

Sentinel S4 Steam Wagon DKN380 (msn 9276), built in 1936, seen at the 1959 Crystal Palace Steam Rally. (Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd was a British company based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire) Date: 1959

Gold, Silver, Lapis and Obsidian in the Splendid Swords of the Kings - The Royal Treasure of Dorak c.3000 BC - report of the finds from the excavations by James Mellaart, Assistant Director

HMS Opossum - Oberon Class Submarine powered by diesel generators. Oberon was laid down by Chatham Dockyard on 28th November 1957, and launched on 18th July 1959

Boeing Stratocruiser G-ANTY BOAC London Airport
BOAC Stratocruiser Coriolanus joined the fleet in 1954 flying the transatlantic route

Major fire in Wandsworth Road, Clapham SW8
London firefighters and the London Salvage Corps (in the long coats) at the scene of a fire involving shops and dwellings in Wandsworth Road, Clapham, SW8, on 9 September 1959. Date: 1959

Advertisement for Rolls Royce cars -- Spirit of Ecstasy bonnet ornament photographed in motion. 1959

Toddington Station, Gloucestershire, July 1959
A view of Pannier tank locomotive no. 9445 and trailer no. 238 leaving for Cheltenham, from Toddington station in Gloucestershire, July 1959

Thumbelina flies off with her Fairy Prince
Thumbelina meets the Fairy Prince and flies off with him, and they live Happily Ever After. Illustration to a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, first published 1835

Thumbelina flies away on the Swallows back
Thumbelina escapes from the Field Mouse and the Mole on the back of the Swallow. Illustration to a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, first published 1835

Thumbelina kisses the Swallow goodbye
Thumbelina stands on tiptoe and kisses the Swallow goodbye. Illustration to a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, first published 1835

Ac Pigou / Granta
ARTHUR CECIL PIGOU British economist

1959 Vauxhall Cresta PA. Creator: Unknown
1959 Vauxhall Cresta PA

Gloster Javelin FAW-4
RAF Gloster Javelin Faw-4 Date: 1959

Boeing Stratocruiser G-AKGK BOAC, London Airport
The instantly recognisable fuselage shape of the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser. Canopus was one of the more famous BOAC Stratocruisers operating on the between 1950 and 1959

Advertisement for Crane petite boilers -- male model (Tony Gale) extending his hand. 1959

Tatler cover photoshoot focusing on sunglasses. A variant shot from this particular photoshoot was used for the cover of The Tatler issue for 4 November 1959. 1959

Advertisement for Silvikrin hair products -- male and female models posing. 1959

Advertisement for Manns brown ale -- male model constructing a pyramid of bottles. 1959

Advertisement for Horlicks -- Better Luck Next Time. Female model (Julie Bishop) in the foreground, looking with disappointment at a dancing couple in the background. 1959

Pannier Tank No. 9445 Entering Broadway Station, July 1959
This photograph shows Pannier Tank No. 9445 entering Broadway Station in Worcestershire, July 1959

Broadway Station, July 1959
This photograph shows Pannier tank No. 9445 sitting at Broadway station in Worcestershire in July 1959

Major fire in Wandsworth Road, Clapham SW8
London firefighters and the London Salvage Corps (in the long coats) at the scene of a fire involving shops and dwellings in Wandsworth Road, Clapham, SW8, on 9 September 1959

LCC-LFB Recruit firemen training at Brigade HQ, SE1
During the 1950s recruit firefighters were trained at the Brigade Headquarters, Lambeth

Ferrari 251 GT Spyder California

Puss in Boots Master dressed in fine clothes
Puss in Boots Master dresses in fine clothes given to him by the King after his drowning incident. Illustration to a fairytale by Charles Perrault, first published 1697

Puss tries on his new Boots at the Cobblers Shop. Illustration to a fairytale by Charles Perrault, first published 1697

Puss in Boots presents a rabbit from his Master to the King
Puss in Boots presents a gift of a rabbit from his Master to the King. Illustration to a fairytale by Charles Perrault, first published 1697

Puss in Boots and the Poor Millers Son
The Poor Millers Son leaves the mill with his cat (Puss in Boots). Illustration to a fairytale by Charles Perrault, first published 1697

Pannier Tank 8460, at Honeybourne Junction
Pannier Tank 8460 at Honeybourne Junction on 17th October 1959, with the nameboard for the station behind

A female worker at Kumficar factory, Halifax in West Yorkshire. June 1959

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"Step back in time to 1959, a year of historical moments and cultural icons. Witness the artistry of Dry Stone Walling as skilled craftsmen create enduring structures that stand the test of time. The majestic HMS Hermes (R12) sails proudly through the seas, symbolizing Britain's naval prowess. In a solemn tribute, Old Bill kneels before the Cenotaph in Whitehall, honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Meanwhile, speed enthusiasts revel in the sleek design of the Austin-Healey Frogeye Sprite Mk 1, a true marvel on wheels. Travel further back with the Catalan Atlas from the 14th century, an exquisite map showcasing ancient cartography techniques. In political arenas, Labour Party election posters and television speakers echo promises of progress and change. Amidst bustling streets filled with Police Officers London maintaining order and safety, Hollywood heartthrob Errol Flynn captivates audiences as both Robin Hood and Warner's charismatic leading man. Sports fans cheer on Chelsea Football Club during their thrilling 1959-1960 season – a testament to teamwork and determination. On roads adorned with vibrant colors like Dodge Coronet Green 2-tone or Jaguar XK150s Roadster White - automotive masterpieces that turn heads wherever they go. " Experience an era where history intertwines with innovation; immerse yourself in all that made 1959 truly unforgettable.