T THIS DATE FOR OVER A CENTURY

FROM guests waiting for a royal garden party at Buckingham Palace to the UK’s only female blacksmith, these seven big shots capture Britain on this day at various moments since 1912.

War brides of Australian servicemen start the long journey home to re-join their husbands, arriving at London Waterloo by coach Trainee nurses gather at the bedside of ‘Mrs Brown’, a dummy patient complete with false teeth and moveable legs and arms