1938 Collection (page 11)

Times Square, New York, USA, during a heatwave in July 1938. 1938

Vice-Admiral Ws Leveson Gower, Isle of Man
Vice-Admiral Ws Leveson Gower, 4th Earl Granville, Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man, taking part in a procession on Tynwald Hill, an ancient ceremony promulgating new laws, on 5 July 1938. 1938

Anna Neagle as Queen Victoria
Anna Neagle, actress, as Queen Victoria. She played the role in two films, Victoria the Great (1937) and Sixty Glorious Years (1938). 1930s

Mary Kessell working on mural 1938
Artist Mary Kessell (1914-1977) working on a mural painting for the Shell B.P. Pavilion at the Empire Exhibition, Glasgow, 1938. Date: 1938

Sandy Cove Estate, Kimnel Bay, Rhyl, North Wales
Magazine insert advertising Sandy Cove Estate, Kimnel Bay, Rhyl, North Wales - You can make this 250 seaside home pay for itself! 1938

Dismantling Norfolk House, St Jamess Square
Workmen taking down one of the gilded mirrors in the ballroom at Norfolk House, St Jamess Square, London, the fittings of which are dismantled prior to the demolition of the whole residence

Lewis and Clark Memorial, Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA, commemorating the expedition of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark (1804-1806)

Sal Sagev Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, and El Trovatore Arizona Autel Court. Date: 1938

Cruise liner
Workers Empire Exhibition pamphlet cover illustration: Come and see the empire by the all red route Workers Empire Exhibition Committee, 1938. Date: 1938

London Fire Brigade fireboat Massey Shaw underway
The Massey Shaw fireboat nearing her berth at Blackfriars on the Victoria Embankment, London. Date: 1938

Christmas present - blackbird headdress 1938
Womens unusual evening headdress, with five blackbirds mounted on velvet-cover, available from Dickens and Jones, " nice to be given something really frivolous

Poster, Winter in the Vallee de Joux, Jura, Switzerland
Poster, Spend the Winter in the Vallee de Joux, Jura, Switzerland. Lithograph by A Marsens, Lausanne. circa 1938

Ballet dancers turn to the Lambeth Walk, 1938 Date: 1938

Doing the Lambeth Walk in Hollywood, 1938
Oi! Dixie Dunbar (Christina Dunbar 1919-1991) and Johnny Downs (1913-1994) doin the Lambeth Walk at the Baby Party given by the Westside Tennis Club of Hollywood. Date: 1938

Lady Churston with her son
Elizabeth Mary Yarde-Buller (nÚÑáDu Pre), Lady Churston (1910-1951), Daughter of William Baring Du Pre; first wife of 4th Baron Churston with her son John Francis Yarde-Buller

Countess of Listowel with Julius Caesar
Judith Hare (nÚÑáde Marffy-Mantuano), Countess of Listowel (1903-2003), Journalist, author and first wife of 5th Earl of Listowel. 1938

Rohays Burnett
Elizabeth Rohays Mary (nÚÑáBurnett), Lady Boyd-Rochfort (1916-1993), Former wife of Hon. Henry Kerr Auchmuty Cecil, and later wife of Sir Cecil Boyd-Rochfort; daughter of Sir James Lauderdale Gilbert

Compton Mackenzie
(insert) 1938

The Countess of Rosse and her Daughter
Anne Messel, the Countess of Rosse and her eldest daughter from her first marriage are shown in this photography. Anne Messel (later Parsons) was previously married to Ronald Armstrong-Jones

Gatwick Airport, showing Terminal building and rail links
Gatwick Airport, Surrey - showing Terminal building (the Beehive opened in 1936) and rail links via the Brighton Main Line. The main airport today is north of this site. Date: 1938

National Socialist student demonstration
Demonstration by National Socialist students at Vienna university Date: 21 November 1938

National Socialist student rally - Anschluss
National Sociatlist student rally in Vienna Date: 22 February 1938

Nationalist Socialist rally in Graz - Anschluss
Nationalist Socialist rally in Graz Date: 26 February 1938

Austrian officers - Anschluss
Officers of the Tirolen Kaiserjaeger (Innsbruck) and the Deutschmeisters, two crack Austrian regiments laying a wreath in memory of their fallen comrades. Date: 1934-1938

GERMANY UNITED W AUSTRIA
Germany and Austria at last together under a single Fuhrer who will lead the two united nations to victory, success, prosperity, military glory and domestic happiness... maybe Date: 1938

MODEL PLANE CONTEST 1938
Model aircraft competition at Frankfurt-am-Main Date: 27 November 1938

KAMAKAZE JAP AIRMEN
The heroic crew of a damaged Japanese bomber, instead of seeking safety, crash their plane onto a Chinese gun emplacement, anticipating WW2 kamakaze pilots Date: September 1938

MUSSOLINI / GENEVA / 1938
In Genova, Mussolini speaks to the people from a podium shaped like a ship. Date: 1938

N CHAMBERLAIN / MARCH 1938 NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN British Prime Minister and his wife in March 1938, given flowers by an admirer in gratitude for his peacemaking Date: 1869 - 1940

MUSSOLINI STRIPS
Mussolini is warmly applauded when he strips to the waist to show that he, too, is a worker, when he gives a triumphant agrarian speech in the fields Date: July 1938

MUSSOLINI AT GENOVA
Mussolini at a rally at Genova, after giving a speech which was very well received by his hearers Date: 14 May 1938

GERMANS INVADE SUDETEN
German troops march into the Sudetenland, on the grounds that they are liberating the German-speaking citizens of the country Date: 1 October 1938

OCCUPATION OF SUDETEN
German troops ride into the Sudetenland, greeted happily by the German minority, fiercely resented by the Czech majority Date: 1 October 1938

Tipsy B G-AFKP (msn 05), at Cowes (Somerton) on the Isle of Wight, circa 1949. Built in 1938 as a Tipsy B, with a smaller rudder and lower all-up weight

HMS Pegasus - ex HMS Ark Royal
HMS Pegasus (ex HMS Ark Royal) at A Spithead re in 1938. HMS Pegasus was re-named from the 1914 HMS Ark Royal seaplane carrier, which saw action in WWI and in the 1920s She was re-named in 1934

Arpin A-1 G-AFGB (msn 1), designed and built by M.B Arpin & Co at Hanworth and first registered on 17 March 1938. This aircraft survived the war but was scrapped in 1946. Date: 1938

Parnall Heck 2C G-AEGI, seen with race number 33 at Elmdon for the 1949 Kings Cup Air Race. On 29 July 1949, G-AEGI flew in the Kings Cup Race at Elmdon airport

Boeing P-12J 32-42 (msn 1538, Model 234) built as a P-12E, 32-42 was converted to P-12J, by fitting a Pratt & Whitney SR-1340H supercharged engine and a special bomb sight

Goodyear Blimp NC-8A Volunteer in the late 1930s Volunteer (I) (NC-8A)First flight: April 27, 1929Volume: 86, 000 cu. ft.Length: 128 ft.Diameter: 36 ft.Engines

Shorts S. 20 Mercury G-ADHJ
Shorts S.20 Mercury G-ADHJ of Imperial Airways Major Robert H. Mayo, the Technical General Manager at Imperial Airways, proposed mounting a small

United States Navy - Kinner XRK-1 Envoy. Four civil examples were completed from 1934, fitted with 300 h.p. Kinner C-7 engines, sold to civil pilot owners

Foster-Wickno Warferry DR613
Foster-Wickno GM.1 Warferry DR613. Built as Foster-Wickno GM.1 Wicko G-AFJB (msn 5) for the Midland Aero Club in 1938, AFJB was impressed into the Royal Air Force in July 1941

Georges Van Damme in the cockpit of the Renard R. 35 airliner
Ex Warrant Officer Georges Van Damme sat in the cockpit of the ill-fated Renard R.35, a pressurised airliner developed in Belgium from 1936

Phillips and Powis T. 1-37 Gipsy Six engine installation
The Engine installation for the 220hp de Havilland Gipsy Six Engine fitted to the Phillips & Powis T.1/37 ( Miles M.15), trainer prototype. Date: 1938

Children of the Chinese city of Hankou, Wuhan, are evacuated by boat as the city comes under attack by Japanese forces during the Sino-Japanese War Date: 1938

Members of the Chipstead Golf Club, Surrey Date: 1938

Uniformed men of the Auxiliary Fire Service marching to church. After an inspection by the chief officer of the London Fire Brigade

Nurses at patients bedside. Reverse reads Highgate Hospital. Anderson Meningitis patient 1938. Junior Nurse, Junior Nurse, Staff Nurse, Sister g. Thomas, Staff Nurse. Date: 1938

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