1947 Collection

Royal Wedding 1947 - the cake
Wedding cake made by Mr F. Schul of McVitie and Price in Harlesden, London for the wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten in November 1947

Thames Estuary during the winter of 1947
A scene during the great freeze of 1947, one of the harshest winters known in Britain

Promotional postcard for BEA - Domestic and International
Promotional postcard for BEA - Domestic, Cross-Channel and International Services and Routes. Date: 1947

Royal Wedding 1947 - family tree
Family tree showing how Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh are both descended from Queen Victoria

RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park, detail of mural, 1947-1948. MEXICO. Mexico City. Diego Rivera Web Museum. Central detail. Fresco on portable pannels

A L Ecu de France, Jermyn Street, London
A L Ecu de France restaurant on the corner of Jermyn Street and Babmaes Street, Mayfair, London, 1947 Date: 1947

Partition. Map of East and West Punjab
The areas of the Western and Eastern Punjab where there were many outbreaks of violence between Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus following Partition and the creation of modern India and Pakistan

Chez Auguste on Old Compton Street, Soho
Chez Auguste at 38 Old Compton Street, Soho, London; next to Coiffure Internationale, the international shaving saloon and hairdressers; on the end is F Gennari Ltd, wines and provisions. 1947

Aleister Crowley performing rites at his temple, with followers knelt before him

The Town & River, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England. Date: 1947

UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico
Irving Newton, Met. Officer at Roswell USAFB, New Mexico, holds debris of a supposed flying saucer found by rancher Mac Brazel, stated by the US Air Force to be a weather balloon

Poster, The Vegetabull, a vegetable dish made with dried eggs or household milk is as good as a joint (post-WW2 rationing was still going on at this time). 1947

Princess Elizabeth and Lt Philip Mountbatten - Engagement
Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) (1926-2022) and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten (later Prince Philip)

The Royal Bride - Queen Elizabeth II portrait - Published in the Illustrated London News November 29 1947 1947

Judy Garland (1922 1969), American singer, actress. Date: 1947

UFO crashes at Aztec, New Mexico
A flying saucer which allegedly crashed near Aztec, New Mexico, reported by Frank Scully with spurious data from Dr G, but with possible basis in fact

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, later Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1921) pictured at the time of his engagement to Princess Elizabeth. Date: 1947

Robot Aesop Simak 1947
Aesop (Clifford D. Simak) A rather sad-looking robot

Boating Lake, Bridlington, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1947

Avro York C1 G-AGNN BOAC
A BOAC aircraft until sold to British South American Airways in 1947. Named Madras while at BOAC it was renamed Star Crest at BSa. It flew again with BOAC and then Skyways of London. Date: 1946

Marriage certificate, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip
Marriage certificate of Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor (Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II) and Philip Mountbatten (Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)

Central Flying School, RAF Little Rissington, September 1947. From top: Bristol Buckmaster, North American Harvard, Supermarine Spitfire and de Havilland Mosquito

Royal Wedding 1947
A page from The Tatler entitled, Happiness was the Keynote with two photographs of the wedding day of Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten (Prince Philip)

Royal Wedding 1947 - crowds at Romsey
Huge crowd of well wishers waiting in the churchyard of Romsey Abbey to catch a glimpse of the newlywed Princess Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh

Leonis Quo Vadis restaurant, 1947
Peppino Leonis Quo Vadis restaurant on Dean Street, Soho, London in 1947. It is next door to Leon Jaeggi, kitchen equipment, tinner and coppersmith, and Townsends. 1947

Lyons Corner House, central London
Lyons Corner House on the corner of Coventry Street and Rupert Street, London. Date: 1947

Denis Compton at Hastings
Cricketer Denis Compton acknowledges the crowd at the Central Recreation Ground, Hastings

ILN Royal Wedding Number November 1947 by Terence Cuneo

Humber car advertisement
Advertisement for Humber cars which, claims the manufacturer, is a car you will be proud to own

Kaiser Wilhelm II and his wife Hermine
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941)pictured with his second wife, Princess Hermine Reuss (1887-1947)

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, (1867-1947)
Portrait of Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley; the Conservative politician and Prime Minister

A map of the Colne Valley Cloth District
Pictorial map of the Colne Valley Cloth District in Yorkshire, drawn by the poster artist and designer Leslie MacDonald Gill the year before his death, in 1946

The Union Flag over the Lucknow Residency
On 15 August, 1947, British India ended and the two new Dominions of India and Pakistan came into being under Independence. New flags were raised at the new capitals, Delhi and Karachi respectively

Maison Basque restaurant, Mayfair, 1940s
People outside the Maison Basque restaurant, 11 Dover Street, Mayfair, London, 1947 Date: 1947

Covent Garden Royal Opera House in London. Floral Street is on the right. Date: 1947

King Victor Emmanuel III
Photographic portrait of Victor Emanuel III, King of Italy (1869-1947). A constitutional monarch, he defied parliamentary majorities in bringing Italy into World War I on the side of the Allies

R. M. S. Queen Mary and R. M. S. Queen Elizabeth, off Cowes
Photograph of the two huge liners Queen Mary, in the foreground, and Queen Elizabeth, at top right

Ww2 Clothing Coupons
Two CLOTHING BOOKS containing coupons without which you couldn t buy clothes : note the date - two years after the end of the war !

The Royal Lincolns in Malaya
A photograph of officers of the 1st Battalion Royal Lincolnshire Regiment taken at Taiping. Back row: Lt. J. Mills, 2/Lt. M.H. Best, Lts. E.C. Whitby, A.F. Townsend, 2/Lts N.L. Williams, W.C

Dewey Decimal System
Card index showing use of the Dewey Decimal Classification system, the most widely used library classification system, devised by Melvil Dewey in the 1870s

Windmill Theatre
The Windmill Theatre on the corner of Great Windmill Street and Shaftesbury Avenue, and the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in London

Coliseum, London
The London Coliseum, on St Martins Lane, London, now the home of English National Opera (ENO). The memorial statue to Edith Cavell is in the foreground left. Date: 1947

Elizabeth Ii / Philip 1947
ELIZABETH II with her fiance, Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, in 1947

A couple walk arm in arm on a railway platform, beside the luxury locomotive the Golden Arrow, which linked London to Dover, where passengers caught the ferry to Calais, France. Date: 1947

Aerial View of Southwick Shoreham Harbour (post-war) Date: circa 1947

Kettners Restaurant, Soho 1940s
Kettners Restaurant on the corner of Romilly Street and Greek Street, Soho, London in 1947, with a view of St Annes Church in the background. 1947

Dominion Theatre and Horse Shoe Hotel
The Horse Shoe Hotel next door to the Dominion Theatre on Tottenham Court Road, London

Denis Compton at Hastings
Denis Compton turns a ball from spinner Jim Laker (out of picture)

Ballerinas in their dressing room
Ballet dancers prepare for a performance in their dressing room. One dancer is seen applying make up, while the feet of another await her silk ballet slippers. c.1947

David Wright woman in a red swimsuit
Elegant woman with red hair, wearing a one-piece red swimsuit, red shoes, and a wide brimmed floppy hat. She is sitting on a table with a red and white tablecloth

David Wright woman holding black negligee
Elegant naked woman sitting on a red and gold couch, holding a flimsy black negligee or underskirt. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour

Older Woman Baking 1947
An older woman wearing a flowery apron rolls out pastry for some home baking

Ellen Cicely Wilkinson
ELLEN CICELY WILKINSON Trade union and womens rights activist, who led the march of workers to London on the Jarrow Crusade

David Wright woman in a white bikini
Elegant woman with blonde hair, wearing a white bikini and shoes to match. She is sitting on the grass, with a wide-brimmed floppy hat at her side

Piccadilly Circus and the Statue of Eros, London. The street scene is dominated by advertising hoardings and illuminations for Gordons Gin, Wrigleys Chewing Gum and others

Christian X / Danish Royal
CHRISTIAN X King of Denmark (1912-47)

Gardening Book / Tobacco
Baccy, Grow and Smoke Your Own An instruction booklet on how to grow your own tobacco

The Pink Hat by William Barribal
Glamorous portrait of a young woman wearing a veiled jaunty pink hat, with pink champagne in the foreground

Ufos / Roswell Crash
At the Foster Ranch, New Mexico, debris supposed to be from a crashed UFO is found, alien bodies allegedly retrieved from second site on the Plains of San Agostin

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Wool without coupons
The Caption is Wool without coupons. Although the card was posted in 1947, the drawing is about wartime clothes rationing which did not finish until 1949. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1947

John Derry, Supermarine test pilot, at the 1947 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Radlett on 14 September. Date: 1947

Fantastic Adventures - The Secret of Elenas Tomb
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1947, featuring the story The Secret of Elenas Tomb by Karl Tanzler von Cosel

Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten announcement of his engagement
Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten (Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort to Queen Elizabeth II of Britain). At the age of 26

Princess Elizabeth, announcement of her engagement
Princess Elizabeth, (future Queen Elizabeth II of Britain) at the age of 21. On the officially announcement of her engagement to Lieut Philip Mountbatten, formerly Prince Philip of Greece. July 1947

RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). Zapotec Civilization. 1947. Mural Pre-Hispanic Mexico and Colony in the corridor of the north wall. Detail

Wedding of Nicholas Mosley
Marriage of Nicholas Mosley (born 1923) to Miss Rosemary Salmond, daughter of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Salmond

Ley-Ons Chop Suey Restaurant, Soho
Ley-Ons Chop Suey Restaurant in Soho, London, 1947 Date: 1947

The Roswell Incident
At the Foster Ranch in New Mexico, debris supposed to be from a crashed UFO is found, with alien bodies allegedly retrieved from a second site on the plains of San Agostin

Chislet Colliery 1930S
Chislet Colliery was located next to the Canterbury-Margate road, Kent. Two shafts were first sunk in 1914. Despite surviving nationalisation in 1947, the mine closed in 1969. Date: 1930s

Cover design, Simplicity Sewing Book, helpful hints for beginners and experts. 1947

Cap badge, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Brass cap badge (the Kings Crown Shield) of REME, the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Royal Wedding 1947 - crowd in Trafalgar Square
A section of the vast crowd which assembled in London to greet Princess Elizabeth and her bridegroom, Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten on 20 November 1947

Royal Wedding 1947 - bridal procession
The Irish Coach containing Princess Elizabeth and her father, King George VI

Royal Wedding 1947 - honeymoon at Broadlands
Broadlands, near Romsey in Hampshire, the home of Earl Mountbatten, where Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh spent the first part of their honeymoon

Hungaria Restaurant, Regent Street, London
Exterior of the Hungaria Restaurant, Regent Street, London, 1947. A prominent sign next door advertises the Womans Fair and Exhibition. Date: 1947

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. In the foreground, the corner of Catherine Street and Tavistock Street. Date: 1947

Mapleton Hotel, Coventry Street, London
Mapleton Hotel and restaurant, Coventry Street in central London just along from Piccadilly Circus

Daphne Du Maurier / Kids
DAPHNE DU MAURIER English novelist and writer, author of " Rebecca" and " Jamaica Inn" pictured with her children, Christian, Flavia and Tessa in 1947

Futuristic Rocket Car
THE SHAVER MYSTERY by Richards Shaver. A red rocket car speeds past strange stone carvings of monsters in a cave, evading the fire from a ray-gun

Royal Tour 1947
ROYAL TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA & RHODESIA: King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princesses Elizabeth (foreground) and Margaret (background) grouped together in a relaxed pose

North American P-51D Mustang N169MD
North American P-51D-25-NA Mustang N169MD (ex 44-73140) February 1945: Delivered to the United USaF. 7 June 1947: Delivered to the Royal Canadian Air Force as Mustang Mk.IV, s/n 9567. Date: circa 1968

Blackburn YA. 1 Firecrest RT651
Blackburn YA.1 Firecrest RT651 at the 1947 SBAC Radlett air-show, parked next to the first prototype Boulton Paul Balliol VL892

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1927
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, born 10th June 1921, son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenburg. Consort of Queen Elizabeth II. Pictured wearing a sailor suit in 1927

Casino Theatre, on Old Compton Street, Soho
The Casino Theatre, on Old Compton Street in Soho, London

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