These color photographs capture an innocent age a century ago of everyday life in Britain.

Two young adults sit in the grass by a cliff near water and the village of Rottingdean in East Sussex in 1931

A group of children sit, playing in the sand in 1931 at Dymchurch beach in Kent, which lies south-west of Folkestone

A girl puts an envelope in a postbox in Oxford in 1929

A girl sits in front of the rhododendrons in 1929 at Kew Gardens in south-west London, which was founded in 1840

Two Chelsea Pensioners in signature scarlet coats in 1929

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