Astonishing moments of history

 1880s -  Canal Street - New Orleans, USA

1880- Newcastle, UK, Black Gate, close-up of the gateway with a woman leaning against a shop doorway.

Angela Luff could not attend the local 1953 Coronation party in Hortensia Road, Chelsea, London because she had measles. The organisers relented and said she could attend providing she sat a certain distance from the other partygoers.

 Rush Hour in Chicago, 1909.

Early car at the gas station.