1904 Gallery

Lyons Popular Cafe BL18609

THE POPULAR CAFE, Piccadilly, London. Restaurant interior from the entrance with tables set and ready for customers. The start of a new restaurant venture for Lyons, the Popular Cafe opened to the public on 10 October 1904 with seating for 2000. This is where the band leader Victor Sylvester started his career by providng musical accompaniment for the diners every afternoon. It closed in July 1939 at the outset of the second world war. Photographed by Bedford Lemere for J Lyons & Co a few days before the grand opening

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Russian Japanese War 1904 - 1905

Russo - Japanese War 1904 - 1905: Russian political prisoners in Siberia being released from their shacklesand given their liberty on condition they that defend their country against the Japanese. From "Le Petit Journal" Paris, 27 August 1905

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Entente Cordiale illustration

Entente Cordiale (1904), Anglo - French agreement which ended a number of mutual antagonisms and brought about co - operation against the threat of German aggression during the early part of the 20th century. The First Moroccan Crisis or the Tangier Incident

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