Throwback photos of British live in the 1920s

This wonderful set of photographs captures British life almost a century ago. The images from the 1920s and 1930s also include scenes of postmen on their rounds, police officers directing buses and characters in a pageant. They were taken by Clifton R. Adams, who was sent to England by National Geographic magazine to photograph life in the country. Mr Adams, who died in 1934 aged just 33, had instructions to record its farms, towns and cities, and its residents at work and play. Pictured: A boy posts a letter in a hedgerow postbox in Sussex (left); children play on a sandy beach near Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight (centre); two women buy ice cream from a vendor out of his converted car in Cornwall (top right); and a postman delivers packages with his parcel post barrow in Oxford (top right).

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