Jan20 Collection (page 2)

Hello Stranger - A large dog greets a little black kitten who is walking along his back. Date: 1940s

WW1 - Home Front - Belgravia War Hospital Supply Depot, London - New Rubber Crutch invented by Mr G. Healing. Date: circa 1917

First Day Cover Commemorating the Moon Landing on July 20, 1969. Armstrong walked on the surface on July 21. Date: 1969

Bees, mainly for the beginner, 1941
Bees, mainly for the beginner, by Apis, 1941. Beekeeping advice. Date: 1941

Intensive vegetable production, 1940
Intensive vegetable production. Inter-cropping as a war time necessity, 1940. Date: 1940

What digging for victory really means, 1940
This is what Digging for Victory really means, 1940. Growing vegetables in an allotment or garden. Date: 1940

Manual and sedentary workers, 1942
Exercises for manual and sedentary war workers, 1942. Date: 1942

Driving under blackout conditions, 1939
Driving under blackout conditions, article by the Earl of Cardigan in Britannia & Eve, November 1939. Date: 1939

Edible and medicinal seaweeds, 1940
Edible and medicinal seaweeds by W.P. Pycraft Date: 1940

No coupons needed, 1942. Making slippers, hood and mittens in wartime. 1942

Leather permitting, 1944 - making a bag
Leather permitting, 1944. Making a leather satchel bag in wartime. 1944

Vegetable variety, 1943. Wartime recipes. Date: 1943

Food for the winter store, 1942. Preserving garden produce in wartime. Date: 1942

Queer fish, 1943. Wartime recipes using fish such as ling, rock salmon, skate and dogfish. 1943

Its in the cooking, 1943. Wartime cooking and recipes. Home front in Britain. Date: 1943

Make yourself these string slippers, 1944. Wartime crochet pattern. 1944

Dress by Jean Burnup. Article from Britannia & Eve, 1942, on how to dress in wartime. Home front in Britain. Date: 1942

George Stephenson at Darlington - embroidery
Engraving of a painting by A. Rankley, " George Stephenson at Darlington in 1823." Stephenson would often drop in on Joseph Pease to talk with him about the progress of the Darlington

Austen Chamberlain with family in garden
Austen Chamberlain with his wife and family in the garden of their country cottage at Five Ashes. Date: 1921

Neville and Austen Chamberlain
The Brothers Chamberlain: Neville Chamberlain (to be Minister of Health) and Sir Austen Chamberlain (First Lord of the Admiralty). Date: 1931

The Jungman sisters at the Ballerina premiere
Mrs Arthur James (Zita Jungman) and her sister, Miss Theresa Baby Jungman, members of the Bright Young People, seen at the premiere of Ballerina in 1933. Date: 1933

HMS Pinafore, Little Buttercup mixes up the children
HMS Pinafore. Little Buttercup explains that when she was baby-farming (nursing babies while their Papas and Mamas were travelling), she mixed up baby Captain Corcoran and baby Ralph Rackstraw

HMS Pinafore, Corcoran presents Little Buttercup
HMS Pinafore. Corcoran presented blushing Little Buttercup to Sir Joseph, who gave her sixpence on the spot. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, Captain Corcoran marched away
HMS Pinafore. Captain Corcoran is taken away. A couple of marines marched him off under the command of the smallest midshipman in the ship. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, Dick Deadeye and Captain Corcoran
HMS Pinafore. Captain Corcoran and sailor Dick Deadeye. " Deadeye!" said the Captain, " You here? Don t!" Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, Little Buttercup and the captain
HMS Pinafore. Little Buttercup and Captain Corcoran. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, Sir Joseph Porter and Josephine Corcoran
HMS Pinafore. Sir Joseph Porter with Josephine Corcoran at the ships table. Her short and snappish replies to Sir Josephs pretty speeches at dinner. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, Josephine Corcoran on deck
HMS Pinafore. Josephine Corcoran on the ships deck. So she came on deck to indulge in a reverie all alone. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, lunch on board ship
HMS Pinafore. Luncheon in the ward-room on board ship (the apartment assigned to the lieutenants on board a man-o -war}. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, sailors on board deck
HMS Pinafore by Gilbert & Sullivan. Sailors on board deck - in short, [Captain Corcoran] did everything possible to make everybody on board thoroughly ill and happy. Date: 1908

HMS Pinafore, crew and Little Buttercup
HMS Pinafore. The ships crew with Little Buttercup. I know who takes sugar-plums to bed with him. Date: 1908

Amphibious army exercises in East Anglia, 1941
Amphibious army exercises in East Anglia: troops attacking an enemy seaplane with fast motorboats, 1941. Protecting East Anglian waterways from possible enemy landings

The Blue Lion Debating Club
Lively portraits of participants in political debate at the Blue Lion Debating Club. 1888

A Bare living by Wilton Williams
A cabaret dancer wearing very little entertains diners at a smart restaurant. Date: 1928

The Call of the Sea by Margaret Bradley
Three playful mermaids (or sirens) play in the sea. Date: 1928

The Debs Progress by Molly Bishop
The Debs Progress: No. 1 by Molly Bishop. Invaluable advice to those about to come out - out-dress your rivals at Ascot. A young lady in an flamboyant dress

Mr. C. B. Cochran introduces his old ladies
Brilliant illustration by H. H. Harris imagining the scene in a theatre if impresario C. B. Cochran introduced his old rather than the usual young ladies

Bystander Christmas Number 1932
Inner front cover of The Bystander Christmas Number 1932 featuring a stylised illustration by Tom Gentleman of a coach and four galloping through the snow. Date: 1932

Eros Gets That Christmas Feeling by Pearce
Lovely illustration of Piccadilly Circus in the centre of London, covered in snow and with the famous Eros statue decorated with holly and ribbons for Christmas. Date: 1932

Middlesex Golf Club Secretaries by H. H. Harris
Secretaries of various golf clubs in the Middlesex area in 1932, caricatured by H. H. Harris. Those featured are Major E. A. Proute of Northwick, Captain W

Mrs. Richard Herbert by Madame Yevonde
Mrs. Richard Herbert, formerly Miss Marjorie du Pre photographed by Madame Yevonde contemplating a theatrical mask. Date: 1932

Engagement of the Beaton sisters
An impression by society sketch portraitist Pat Charles of the two recently engaged sisters of Cecil Beaton with their fiancÚ│« Nancy Beaton is seen with Sir Hugh Smiley

Black velvet pyjamas from H. J. Nicholl by Madame Yevonde
A pair of stylish black velvet pyjamas (for evening wear rather than bed!) available from H. J. Nicholl in 1932. Photographed by Madame Yevonde. Date: 1932

Lady Sibell Lygon by Madame Yevonde
Lady Sibell Lygon (1907 - 2005), English socialite, part of the Bright Young Things. Daughter of the 7th Earl Beauchamp, she was the eldest of the four Lygon sisters

Familiar Faces, Brilliant Brunettes by Pat Charles
A sextet of well-known society women who happen to have brunette hair. Top left, model Hilary Charles, sister of the artist Pat Charles, top right Lady Pamela Smith, daughter of Lord Birkinhead

Hilary Charles at Heston in Matita advertisement
Advertisement for Matita sports clothes featuring model and socialite Hilary Charles looking wonderfully elegant at Heston air field. Date: 1932

Margaret Watts by Gluck
Portrait of Margaret Watts, daughter of the illustrator Arthur Watts, by Gluck, which was exhibited in a Gluck show at the Fine Art Galleries. Date: 1932

Winter Ensembles, 1932 by Madame Yevonde
Two ensembles for winter, photographed by Madame Yevonde. Top is a short fitted coat of novelty woollen material check in black and white with white revers and lined in black

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