Privileged Collection (page 2)

Cerebos Salt advertisement, 1928
Cerebos Salt, an essential part of the social season, designed to give one pep and vitality while while at Royal Ascot, sitting down to a DIY silver service lunch. Date: 1928

Picnics - Russian High society
A picnic held in 1913 that is seemingly entirely consisting of members of the Russian aristocracy. Date: 1913

JOHN THANE antiquary, author of the British Autography, of which we are privileged to possess a copy... at the age of 41 Date: 1748 - 1818

Privileged sport. Illustration shows an automobile driven by a chauffeur speeding down a road, surrounded by newspaper clippings with headlines about numerous taffic accidents involving pedestrians

Boys playing rugby at Rugby School. This truly English game is played in perfection at the fine Elizabethan school, at Rugby in Warwickshire. Date: 1845

School yard, Eton College
Eton College school yard. Date: 1909

Pupils with tuck boxes, Marlborough School
Pupils raid their tuck boxes at Marlborough School. Date: 1962

Pupils in study room, Marlborough College
Pupils relaxing in a study room at Marlborough College. Date: 1962

Pupil in library, Marlborough College
Pupil studies in the library of Marlborough College. Date: 1962

Victorian schoolboy ready for the holidays
A Victorian schoolboy, smoking a small cigar, sits on a pile of suitcases on the platform of a railway station, ready for the long school holidays

Elegant lady in a country house interior, Mid Wales
An elegant lady in a full-length white dress poses in a country house interior in Mid Wales. There is a fireplace and decorated screen on the left, and an upright piano on the right

Two Edwardian children on a swing, Mid Wales
Two Edwardian children on a swing in a garden, Mid Wales. The swing has a safety bar at the front

Men playing tennis at Crosslands House
Two men taking part in a doubles tennis match at Crosslands House

Two boys with a water hose in a Devon garden
Two boys cooling off during a hot summer in their garden in Devon. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Eton schoolboys on 4 June
Five Eton schoolboys in smart suits and top hats, sitting on a wall on 4 June, traditionally the date when King George IIIs birthday is celebrated at the school with speeches

Pancake Day at Westminster School
Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday) at Westminster School -- the pancake is tossed, and the boys compete to get the largest portion, the winner receiving a guinea

Heads Up- Tails Down by Howard K. Elcock
An impression of the famous Roulette Room in the Casino at Monte Carlo. Although baccarat and other games of chance are played

Le Five O Clock At Deauville by Edmund Blampied
An impression of the polo ground at Deauville during the tea hour. Since the war, afternoon tea - that formerly despised meal - has become the most fashionable of ceremonies among l haut monde

Vignettes Of A Whirling World by Helen McKie
A selection of illustrations by Helen McKie of life on the Riviera. The Riviera was a fashionable destination for the privileged classes, particularly during the 1920s and 30s

A Summer Morning In France by Blampied
An illustration by Edmund Blampied or Blam of a morning game of golf taking place with the sun rising in the background. Blampied (1886-1966) drew countless illustrations for the ILN magazines

Polo At Biarritz by Edmund Blampied
Our Artists impression of the new polo ground at Beyris, half-way between Biarritz and Bayonne, which was opened last year by the King of Spain

La Route Aux Courses by Edmund Blampied
An impression of a typical scene on the road to the racecourse at Dinard. The all-conquering motor has not yet entirely ousted the more elegante horse equipage

Pursuit by Edmund Blampied
An illustration of cupid, sent by an admirer, trying to catch up with two elegant ladies. Blampied (1886-1966) drew countless illustrations for the ILN magazines

Sunbathing Consequences
When these ladies change from their bathing costumes into their evening dresses, the consequences of sunbathing can be seen

St Teresa & Child Jesus
Though Teresa normally met Jesus as an adult, on one occasion she was privileged to meet him as a child - the scene depicted in this window

The Turkey Trot
Two French dancers performing le Turkey-Trot are privileged to be depicted by the noted artist Juan Gris, better known as a cubist !

ASCOT 1890
Fashionable racegoers in the privileged enclosure on Gold Cup Day

ASCOT 1904
The brilliant scene at Ascot on Gold Cup Day when those privileged to be admitted to the Royal Enclosure watch the races in the presence of Royalty Itself !

Class of boys at a school in North London
A small class of boys with their teacher at a school in North London -- it appears to be a private school

Quadrangle, Rugby School
View of the Quadrangle at Rugby School

Headmasters house, Rugby School
Headmasters house at Rugby School

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