Street Gallery

Lord de Grey and Ripon , Vanity Fair, Ape

GEORGE FREDERICK SAMUEL ROBINSON, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1827-1909), known as Viscount Goderich (1833-59) and as the Earl de Grey and Ripon (1859-71). Born at 10 Downing Street, London, the second son of Prime Minister Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich. Although his father was a Tory, he sat as a Liberal member of Parliament for Hull, and later Huddersfield and the West Riding of Yorkshire as well as being a member of every Liberal Cabinet from 1861 until his death. Caption Qualis ab inepto Date: 1827-1909

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View over Wincobank and Brightside, Sheffield, Yorkshire, 1940s - 1950s

From (right) Jenkin Road showing (foreground, left of gas lamp) Tipton Street (left) St. Margaret's C.of E. Church, Brightside and (background) English Steel Corporation's River Don Works, Brightside Lane.
From an original at Sheffield Local Studies library: s43500

© Sheffield City Council

Brightside, English Steel Corporation, Gas Lamps, Jenkin Road, Panoramic Views, River Don Works, Sheffield, St Margaret, Steel, Tipton Street, Yorkshire

Children play outside the old Gannex factory in Elland

Children play outside the old Gannex factory in Elland, Yorkshire, England. The waterproof Gannex raincoats became fashion icons after being worn by British Prime Minister Harold Wilson. They were worn by The Queen, Nikita Krushchev and other world leaders. The factory was demolished in 2010. The Sunday Times Date: 1988

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