TDF Historic / Iconic / Amazing pic thread

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celebrating the end of the great war on top of the Trinity College


The old Forge, Blanchardstown village, Corduff cross, at the turn of the century


War of independence, Aston Quay


Rebuilding the Four courts in the 1920s

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Richmond barracks, Inchicore, 1920


British Calvary leaving Dublin in 1922


Ready for the visit of King George, 1911

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Swastika laundry headquarters


British troops on the streets of Dublin


Crowds greet released prisoners on amnesty day, 1927, Westland road station


14th March 1921 - Dubliners amass on Mountjoy to pray for six prisoners, to be executed that day.

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Keogh square, Inchicore. British handover to Irish soldiers in 1922


The burned out car belonged to O'Rahilly - 1916


Auxiliary Police march - O'Connell street - 1940


Firemen, during the war of independence

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O'Connell street, under British rule


Main street, Swords, early 1900s


Road works on North Earl street, Circa 1890s

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1916

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1916

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1916

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1916

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Kubrick sneaking a self shot while pretending to take one of Jack Nicholson


Ben-Hur, 1959


Cemetery for radioactive vehicles used in clean up of Chernobyl.


A boy waves to soldiers on the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate

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Kurt Cobain suicide scene photo


Vova Egorov, a 15 year old soldier in the Red Army. 1942


Elvis and his dad


Behind the scenes of Reservoir Dogs

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The Godfather behind the scenes


Rare behind the scenes shot from the set of Brian De Palma's Scarface


An American M4A2 carrying a Japanese Type 94 light-tank on its back, Namur, 1944


Adam West as Batman

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Director Jonathan Demme feeding Anthony Hopkins a french fry on the set of Silence of the Lambs


Wendy backing up the stairs swinging the baseball bat in The Shining. Stanley Kubrick had this scene shot 127 times.


The Strip, Las Vegas, 1954

After they started the CSI series that place really took off


German boy walks on a road with hundreds of bodies from prisoners near the Bergen-Belsen extermination camp, May 1945

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Breaking Bad: Hank (Dean Norris) posing with Tortuga's head on a tortoise


On the set of Jaws


Dummy head used by John Anglin to fool prison guards while he and two other convicts escaped Alcatraz. 1962


Marlon Brando having ageing make-up done for The Godfather. He was only 47 when he was cast as Vito. New York, 1971

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The domino scene in V for Vendetta involved 22,000 dominoes, and took 4 professionals 200 hours to set up


Apollo 9 Lunar Module - March 6, 1969


Giant lights on cranes were used to create moonlight for Django Unchained


Back to the Future 1985

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Darty discusses forum handover from Rout, 2012

[D & B]

No, he had to pop out....pfft.

[MrPickles]

Some absolute crackers in here, I wouldn't stand under the lights from Django at all!

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A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994.



Einstein at the Grand Canyon, 1922

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1923 Testing the new bullet proof vest.



Bob Marley on the beach with Miss World 1976 Cindy Breakspeare, mother of Damien Marley.


The beginning of the Hollywood era: the filming of the MGM screen credits, 1928.