These color photographs capture an innocent age a century ago of everyday life in Britain.
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| Two young adults sit in the grass by a cliff near water and the village of Rottingdean in East Sussex in 1931 |
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| A group of children sit, playing in the sand in 1931 at Dymchurch beach in Kent, which lies south-west of Folkestone |
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| A girl puts an envelope in a postbox in Oxford in 1929 |
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| A girl sits in front of the rhododendrons in 1929 at Kew Gardens in south-west London, which was founded in 1840 |
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| Two Chelsea Pensioners in signature scarlet coats in 1929 |
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| Two women buy ice cream from a vendor out of his converted car in Cornwall in 1928 |
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| An informal portrait of a farmer and his cart in the small town of Crowland in Lincolnshire, near Peterborough, in 1928 |
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| Locals enjoy the view of the Surrey Hills, in 1928 |
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| A young girl plays on the beach with bucket and spade in Sandown on the Isle of Wight in 1928 |
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| Characters in a pageant - Britannia and her colonies and dependencies - on the grass in Southampton in 1928 |
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| A man posts a letter next to a traditional telephone box in Oxford in 1928 |
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| A police constable passes the day with farmers gathering hay in Lancashire in November 1928 |
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| Children play on the sand near Yarmouth, a popular destination for holidaymakers on the Isle of Wight in 1928 |
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| A group of women hike in Cumbria in 1928 |
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| A woman sends a letter at a red pillar box on the Isle of Wight in 1928 |
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| Two girls send a letter at a red pillar box in Belfast in 1927 |
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| English Boy Scouts on a hike stop for a rest near Ambleside, north-west of Windermere in Cumbria in 1929 |
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| Two Chelsea Pensioners sit on the steps in Oxford in 1929 |
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| An Ulverston tour bus in Cumbria in 1929 |
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| A man mows grain in 1929 |
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| Passengers ride on 'Billy', a locomotive picture running at the Kent seaside resort of Margate in 1931 |
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| A child stands by The Cat and the Fiddle Inn in Exeter in 1931 |
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| A woman walks on the street in Clovelly, 1931 |
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| A woman posts a letter in Oxford in 1928 |
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| Actors dress for a pageant as Britannia and her four knights as they pose for a photo in Southampton, Hampshire, 1928 |
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| A part of the company of Yeomen preparatory, known as Beefeaters, at the Tower of London |
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| A girl stands in an unidentified field in Lincolnshire in 1929 holding barley |
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| An English woman points to her farm cart in Cambridgeshire, which bears the year before the photo was taken |
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| Two children and a lady stand outside of a thatch-roofed cottage in Hampshire in 1931 |
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| A family builds a sandcastle at the seaside resort of Sandbourne, near Bournemouth in Dorset in 1932 |
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| A woman admires flowers in Clovelly, Devon, 1928 |
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| Two girls talk outside a home in Chillington, Devon in 1928 |
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| A boy posts a letter in a postbox in Sussex, 1928 |
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| Two soldiers stand in Hythe, Kent, 1928 |
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| A woman sells artificial flowers for charity on Alexandra Day in Kent |
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| The Chief Warder, a Coldstream Guardsmen, and a Yeoman Warder pose at the Tower of London in 1929 |
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| Two girls eat lunch in a hayfield near Hawkshead in Lancashire in 1929, which is now part of Cumbria |
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| A portrait of Boy Scouts at Abinger Hammer, a village in Surrey situated in between Dorking and Guildford, on a Sunday hike |
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| Veteran soldiers - known as Chelsea Pensioners - sit on the steps of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London in 1928 |
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| A young girl stands outside her cottage near Clovelly, a village on the coast of North Devon in 1928 |
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| A postman delivers packages with his parcel post barrow in front of a shop in Oxford offering 'haircutting and shaving' in 1928 |
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| Two women enjoy a leisurely tea in 1928 in front of the Clock House in Buckinghamshire, which was originally a hospice |
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| A policeman directs buses at the intersection of Trafalgar Square in the centre of London in 1929 |
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| Women sit near the Avon River with Holy Trinity Church behind in Stratford in 1929 |
