Rare color photographs of England, 1928

The late 1920s and early 1930s photographer Clifton R. Adams (Clifton R. Adams) spent in England, where he went on behalf of the National Geographic to capture the English farms, towns and cities, and British people at work and leisure.

The policeman regulates the movement of buses at the intersection of Trafalgar square in London

Actors in knight costumes at the contest in Britain

English proudly points to the farmer's wagon in Cambridgeshire

Adams, in those days managed to make the colored frames using AVTONOMNYY the process represented by the lumière brothers to the market in 1907. The main component of autochrome served potatoes. Tiny grains of sand painted starch, about 4 000 000 in one square inch, covered with a glass plate. And the space between the grains were filled with soot.

The boy scouts during a camping trip near Ambleside

A view of the liner "Mauritania" Cunard dock in Southampton, Hampshire

Clifton R. Adams took these photos at the age of 38 years. He photographed and in many other European countries, and Central and North America, working for National Geographic from 1920 until his death. The photographer died in 1934 at the age of 44 years.

Two women buying ice cream from the seller converted to a stall of the car in Cornwall

Double-Decker London bus picks up a passenger

Girl playing in the sand in Sandown, Isle of Wight

House with grape vines on the streets of Stratford-upon-Avon in County Warwickshire

Ladies drink tea in Buckinghamshire

Lunch haymaking in Lancashire

Police and farmers gathering hay in Lancashire

Traffic supervisor stops the buses at Trafalgar square in London

Two young girls are enjoying the September sun in England

Corner of high street and Cornhill in Oxford

The woman looks out the window of a stone house in Ambleside, lake district

Girls selling paper flowers to the charity on the Day of Alexandra, Seaford, East Sussex

The driver and conductor standing in front of a tourist bus in Ulverstone, Cumbria

War veteran sells matches on the street in Canterbury, Kent

The little boy throws the letter into the mailbox in the hedge, Sussex

A girl sells artificial flowers for charity on the Day of Alexandra in Kent

A young woman sends a letter in Oxford