"Rio"

"Lydia"

"Mode 46"

Extinct: Rosenthal and

Doucette, Inc., shoes.

At the Cordwainers College

Historic Shoe Collection.

Living: John Gall/Spine Out/Luc Sante.

Living: Window shopping. The activity of

browsing shops with no intent to purchase.

Bon Marché by Eugène Atget, 1926.

Extinct: Ziegfeld Girls, 1907-1931.

Follies chorus girls (notable rejects:

Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer).

Photographs by A. C. Johnston.

Extinct: Baked beans. Originally baked by

Native Americans using bear fat, venison

and maple syrup, they have been stewed

since the settlers got hold of the recipe.

Quail and haggis Scotch egg

Living: The Scotch egg. Invented by

Fortnum and Mason c.1851 when the craze for

food that was prepared as "to require no cutting"

swept the nation. Quail, hen, duck, goose and

ostrich Scotch eggs (£75) still available today.

Altered afterlife: Charles Chaplin now

possibly born "in a caravan that belonged

to the Gypsy Queen . . . on the Black Patch*

in Smethwick near Birmingham."

Portrait by Straus-Peyton Studio, c. 1920,

National Portrait Gallery, London.

*what's left when gypsies move on

Living: Spode Blue Italian, in production

since 1816 and brought back to Stoke-on-Trent

in 2009, after a sojourn in the Far East.

Flower Lady, Piccadilly Circus, 1921

Chief White Horse Eagle, 1926

Living: Typologies and dignitaries

by E. O. Hoppé (1878-1972).

On show at the National Portrait Gallery.

"Britain's Glory", oil painting

Harlequin Antiques, watercolour

Seaside Village, collage

Hidden in the attic: The work of

Stanley Dyson, school teacher, 1920-2007.

On show at Robert Young Antiques.

Spring

Summer

Before

After

Living: Who doesn't love a makeover?

Top 2 photos at Broadway, in Worcestershire.

Lower 2 at Cottesbrooke Hall, Northamptonshire.

Gardens by James Alexander-Sinclair, of Blackpitts.

Extinct: The New York Times

in Times Square, New York

(+ lack of everything else).

Photographs via Shorpy, c. 1911.

Living: Liberty Spring 2011.

Lola Weisselberg, designed by

her uncle, Sholto Drumlanrig.

Drayton Village Hall, Leicestershire

Medbourne Village Hall, Leicestershire

Village Green Preservation Society, Part 1:

Village Hall china, un-chipped and in use.

Living: The tools of domestic bliss, drawn

+ printed on nice paper by Hannah Schlee.

Now available at Ancient Industries UK.

Living: The Silver Cross perambulator.

Hand made in England since 1877.

Living: Etretat: View from the First Tee,

1908, by Gerald Kelly, at Abbott and Holder.

Living: The Oxford and Cambridge bike loop.

Apparently only found in Oxford and Cambridge.

Bike and loop courtesy of Persephone Books.

Living: Let's talk about the weather.

Letterpress cards made by Karen Wilks

in East Sussex, (currently 9 degrees celsius

and raining) at Ancient Industries UK.

Soldiers and Peasants, Cassel

The Courtyard, Hotel Sauvage, Cassel

German Planes Visiting Cassel

A German Gunners Shelter, Warlencourt

Living: The Great War in colour

by Sir William Orpen, 1917.

All at the Imperial War Museum.

Living:

The Snowdrop, in purest white array,

First rears her head on Candlemas day

—An Early Calendar of English Flowers

Photograph by Kendra Wilson

taken this day in Middle England.

A Hot Foot-Bath

Ladies' Sun Bath Boxes and Shower-Bath

The Steam Cabinet Bath

Ladies' Physical Culture in the Air Bath

Extinct: Air baths and bathing boxes

(in the seaside town of Hastings).

Photographs by Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles

at the Victoria & Albert Museum.