Old cigarette packet for Ogden's 'Robin' cigarettes, c. 1950. This cardboard box featured an illustration of a European Robin (Erithacus rubecula) on the front. Thomas Ogden's tobacco company began producing cigarettes in Liverpool. It later became part of Imperial Tobacco - a vintage twentieth century item for editorial use only.
An outdoor shelter in Reading town centre, Berkshire, for office workers to take a cigarette or smoking break. A waste-paper bin and a bin for cigarette stubs are visible.
Advertisement claiming that smoking cigarettes could prevent, perhaps even cure, Cholera. This was published at the time an epidemic of the disease was raging in Hamburg and there were fears of it spreading to Britian. From The Illustrated London News September, 1892.
Newsagents Cigarette shop display; tobacco products; cigars; on show; in plane view, on sale; shelves full; packed; choice; variety; clear health message; Stop smoking message; packets cigarettes; smoking; health concerns; addictive; killer disease; IPSV3862 Vertical image; Copyright Keith Erskine 2009
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Still on display April 2009. Cigarettes in tobacconists shop, central London, England, UK, Europe. It is likely that such blatant displays of potentially harmful tobacco products will soon be banned. Hence this image of a future rarity!
Roman before his New Years resolution, ; Romans New Years Resolution, Roman smoking a cigarettes, Roman and cigarette, Roman Smoking, Smoking a cigarette, Smoking cigarettes, smoking
cigarettes; favourite brands, choices, availability, packs, tobacco products; on sale; open shelf shelves; not concealed or hidden; on offer; highly visible, blatant, promotions, small cigars; smokes; smoking; serious health concerns; colorful packages; temptation; addiction; harm; harmful; cravings; bad habit, yearnings, health warnings; prices; racks display; on show; shopping, impulse buy purchase, naughty, shelves full, April 2009; legislation ban on tobacco products on display coming soon, London; England; Europe; offensive, IPSV3862 Vertical image; Copyright Keith Erskine 2009
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Still on display April 2009. Cigarettes in tobacconists shop, central London, England, UK, Europe. It is likely that such blatant displays of potentially harmful tobacco products will soon be banned. Hence this image of a future rarity!
"Our Darlings" magazine front cover - The Children's Treasury edited by Dr Barnardo circa 1880s.; ; Children's games and pastimes, wicket-keeper, batsman, cricketing, Victorian Illustration, cricket,
Early 19th century illustration published at 137, Fleet Street, London depicting all manner of persons puffing out the smoke of tobacco using all types of implements.; ; ephemera, print, cloud of smoke, tabacco-pipe, clay, claypipe, cigarette holder, meerschaum, churchwarden, dudeen, ; cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco
Boys Own Paper; illustration; cartoon; 1895; William Gilbert Grace; W G Grace; English amateur cricketer; cricket; cricketing; sport; batting; cricket bat; stumps; ball;
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W G Grace produced in 1895 a season that has been called his "Indian Summer", he completed his hundredth century playing for Gloucestershire against Somerset.
winter, sunshine, Ogden reservoir, Yorkshire water, woodland path, sunshine through trees, West Yorkshire, Halifax, walking, woodland by reservoir, reservoir seen through trees
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Winter sunshine on the trees at the edge of Ogden reservoir, Halifax
Portrait of cricket player Hedley Verity of Yorkshire and England that form part of an old set of cigarette cards from John Player and Sons, Nottingham, part of Imperial Tobacco. The set is entitled: Cricketers 1934. These sets of cards were given away singly in packets of cigarettes and were (and are still) popular collector's items. Many of these players played in the England versus Australia Ashes series of the nineteen thirties, including the infamous Bodyline series in Australia of 1932-3. Vintage graphics from M&N Publishing
Portrait of cricket player Brian Valentine of Kent and England that form part of an old set of cigarette cards from John Player and Sons, Nottingham, part of Imperial Tobacco. The set is entitled: Cricketers 1934. These sets of cards were given away singly in packets of cigarettes and were (and are still) popular collector's items. Many of these players played in the England versus Australia Ashes series of the nineteen thirties, including the infamous Bodyline series in Australia of 1932-3. Vintage graphics from M&N Publishing.
Portrait of cricket player Bill Woodfull of Victoria and Australia that form part of an old set of cigarette cards from John Player and Sons, Nottingham, part of Imperial Tobacco. The set is entitled: Cricketers 1934. These sets of cards were given away singly in packets of cigarettes and were (and are still) popular collector's items. Many of these players played in the England versus Australia Ashes series of the nineteen thirties, including the infamous Bodyline series in Australia of 1932-3. Vintage graphics from M&N Publishing
Portrait of cricket player Bill Ponsford of Victoria and Australia that form part of an old set of cigarette cards from John Player and Sons, Nottingham, part of Imperial Tobacco. The set is entitled: Cricketers 1934. These sets of cards were given away singly in packets of cigarettes and were (and are still) popular collector's items. Many of these players played in the England versus Australia Ashes series of the nineteen thirties, including the infamous Bodyline series in Australia of 1932-3. Vintage graphics from M&N Publishing.