All these ones I just posted were among the images put on to the Voyager Golden Record

OMG, whatever will the aliens make of them!

Grand Central Terminal in the 1920s, before tall buildings blocked out the light...


http://i.imgur.com/ao7XZj4.jpg

That's really cool!

..some great pictures of the early London Underground...


http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014...90723605-7.jpg

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014...90723485-7.jpg


Liverpool Street station, circa 1890...

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014...0724108-20.jpg


Hammersmith Broadway, 1910...

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014...0724807-16.jpg



The interior of a District Line Underground carriage, 1911...

..The back of the Hoover Dam before it filled with water 1936 ...


http://i.imgur.com/EiuJ0nz.jpg

He did love India didn't he?

Powerful photo of a newly liberated Holocaust victim holding his former captor at gunpoint, 1945...


http://i.imgur.com/Rp89gFT.jpg

John Lennon signing an autograph for Mark Chapman just six hours before Chapman Assassinates him.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-riHILJFGFw...ohn+Lennon.jpg

98 years after this photo was taken I was knocked down by a smart car in that exact spot lol.

The oldest surviving pic from my family from late 1800's. I think it deserves a spot lol.

This is from Canada, I think they were maids or cooks. No resemblance whatsoever.

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..wow, you're ok though, Daniel..were you quite young when that happened..?..


..ahh, it's lovely to have personal pics, Daniel...I always think that I would like to trace my family tree but I've never quite got round to it...

The ticket hall of Liverpool Street Station, 1912...

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014...0725226-16.jpg

The platform of the Central London Railway extension at Liverpool Street Station, 1912...

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014...90724893-9.jpg

Interior of an all-steel London underground train, circa 1920...

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014...0723977-12.jpg

A man writing on a complaints poster, 1922...

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014...0725696-13.jpg

Farringdon Street (Farringdon) Station in March 1924...

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014...90723111-7.jpg

The entrance to Blackfriars Underground station, 1924...

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014...90725082-7.jpg

Clapham South, 1926...

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014...90723694-7.jpg

London tram workers queue up for their pay at the tram subway in Kingsway, High Holborn, 1926...

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014...0723785-12.jpg

. An underground train being transported on wheels through the streets of London, 1926...

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014...0725163-16.jpg

The Mayor of Westminster turns on the escalators at Piccadilly Circus in 1928...

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2014...0723191-20.jpg