1948 Collection (page 16)

Scout leading Australia at 1948 London Olympics
Scout holding the Australian sign in front of the Australian athletic contingent to the 1948 London Olympics at Wembley Stadium. 1948

Fanny Blankers-Koen and her daughter
Dutch athlete Mrs Fanny Blankers-Koen was a star of the 1948 London Olympics, becoming the first woman ever to win three Olympic titles. She won the 100 and 200 metres, and the 80 metres hurdles

Advert for Gossard underwear 1948

Fall / Pomeranian / 1948
CHAMPION DIMPLES OF HADLEIGH Owned by Mrs Dyke. Date: 1948

Broadcasting House 1948
BROADCASTING HOUSE, London, headquarters of the British Broadcasting Corporation Date: 1948

Kasuga Japan Warship
Italian-built cruiser, bought by Japan, in service till the 1920s when she becomes a training ship, finally scrapped in 1948. Date: launched 1902

Naiad turboprop engine on display at the Napier stand, Radlett Air Show, 1948 Date: 1948

Avro Lincoln test bed for the Naiad engine RF402 Date: 1948

Avro Lincoln test bed for the Naiad engine RF530 Date: 1948

David Wright woman in red and cream evening dress
Elegant woman with dark brown hair, wearing a low-cut red and cream patterned evening dress with a red flower at the front. She is raising her skirt to adjust her stockings

David Wright woman in red underwear
Elegant woman with brown hair, wearing skimpy red underwear, and holding a red and black striped evening dress in front of her

David Wright woman in wide green skirt
Elegant woman with dark brown hair, wearing black blouse and a wide green skirt. She is sitting on a long pink couch. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour

David Wright woman in black fur stole
Elegant woman with black hair, wearing a long black fur stole over a turquoise day dress. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour

Workhouse interior, Oliver Twist film, 1948
A workhouse interior from the 1948 film of Oliver Twist, directed by David Lean. A female inmate carries a baby. Behind her are workhouse " coffin beds"

Richard Tauber (1891-1948) Austrian tenor

GWR nameplate for the Athelney Castle
Great Western Railway nameplate for the locomotive Athelney Castle, built in 1948

Fountains of Trafalgar Square lit with blue to welcome birth
The fountains of Trafalgar Square in London lit blue for a boy to celebrate the birth of Prince Charles on 14th November 1948

Union Workhouse, Northallerton, North Yorkshire
The Northallerton Union workhouse at Friarage Fields, Northallerton, North Yorkshire. A small dog stands near the entrance

Earl of Derby / Stamp
EDWARD GEORGE VILLIERS STANLEY, 17th Earl of Derby KG, GCB, GCVO, TD, PC, KGStJ, JP (1865 - 1948) British soldier, Conservative politician, diplomat

Flatford Cottage
Willy Lots cottage, Flatford, Suffolk : subject of one of Constables paintings, and scarcely changed since then

Flatford Mill, Suffolk : subject of one of Constables paintings

Tatler front-cover: Phyllis Calvert
Phyllis Calvert poses in an Italian setting at Anacapri where she was filming in The Golden Madonna. The attractive British screen star was educated at the Institut Francais

Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884-1948), third son of Kaiser Wilhelm II and grandson of Vicky, Princess Royal of Great Britain and Empress of Prussia

Forget me-not by G. E Studdy
Colour illustration by George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948) showing Bonzo the dog watering a plant pot of forget-me-nots

Bma Approves Nhs
The British Medical Association special representative meeting lasts seven hours, and agrees to co- operate in the new national health service

Nhs Ballot Papers
Ballot papers are destroyed following the plebiscite of doctors organised by the B.M.A. The doctors voted overwhelmingly against the National Health Service Act

Dr Guy Dain Speaks / 1948
Dr H.Guy Dain, chairman of the British Medical Association, speaks at a special meeting in opposition to the terms of the proposed national health service

Sir Malcolm and Donald Campbell, Utah, 1935
Photograph showing Sir Malcolm Campbell (1885-1948) and his son, Donald Campbell (1921-1967), standing next to Bluebird after one of Malcolms land speed record attempts on Utah Salt Flats in 1935

Timothy Carew O Brien (1861-1948)
Engraved portrait of Timothy Carew O Brien (1861-1948), the Anglo-Irish cricketer, pictured in 1884

L Braithwaites / Speare
LILIAN BRAITHWAITE English actress in the roll of Anne Page in Shakespeares Merry Wives of Windsor

George Gibson (1885-1953) Chairman of the TUC from 1940-1941 and Director of the Bank of England from 1946-1948

Sir George Aylwen
Alderman Sir George Aylwen, Lord Mayor of London from 1948-1949

German Workers Re-erecting a Free Passage Sign, Berlin, 19
Photograph showing German workers re-erecting a Russian and German sign declaring Free Passage on the border between West Berlin and the Soviet Sector at the end of the Berlin Blockade, May 1949

Interior of a Transport Airplane filled with coal, 1948
Photograph showing the interior of a Dakota airplane loaded with kitbags full of coal, destined for Berlin during the airlift of 1948

Wolseley Motorcar in the London to Brighton Rally, 1948
Photograph showing Mr. W.T. Grose driving his 1903 10-h.p. Wolseley car over Westminster Bridge in London, during the Royal Automobile Clubs Veteran car run from London to Brighton, 14th November 1948

Unloading an airplane, Gatow Airport, Berlin, 1948
Photograph showing a generator set being unloaded from a York aircraft at Gatow Airport, during the Berlin Airlift, 1948. Between April 1948 and May 1949 Stalin, leader of the USSR

Royal Air Force York at Gatow Airport, Berlin, 1949
Photograph showing a Royal Air Force York transport airplane, after landing at Gatow Airport, carrying the millionth ton of supplies during the Berlin Airlift of 1949

Exchanging Clothes at a Second-hand Depot, Berlin, 1948
Photograph showing several citizens of West Berlin bringing their old woollen garments to a second-hand clothing depot, Berlin, August 1948

West Berlin Train Crew Prepare to Travel, Berlin, 1949
Photograph showing the crew of a West Berlin locomotive hoisting the banner Greetings to Western Germany onto the front of their train at the end of the Berlin Blockade, May 1949

The First Bus out of West Berlin after the Blockade, 1949
Photograph showing the first civilian bus to leave West Berlin after the end of the Soviet blockade, May 1949. The bus shown was heading for Hanover and proudly bore the banner Hurra

Darracq Motorcar in the London to Brighton Rally, 1948
Photograph showing Mr. R.D. Gregory driving his 1904 15-h.p. Darracq car up Brixton Hill, during the Royal Automobile Clubs veteran car run from London to Brighton, 14th November 1948

Woman making a telephone call, West Berlin, 1948
Photograph showing a female citizen of West Berlin making a call from a public telephone box, August 1948. At that time, the fact that this telephone had a steel cable to secure the handset to

Citizens of West Berlin outside the Schoeneberg Town Hall, 1
Photograph showing up to 500, 000 West Berliners gathered outside the Schoeneberg Town Hall to celebrate the end of the Berlin Blockade, 12th May 1949

The Statistics Board at Frankfurt Airport during the Berlin
Photograph showing American aircrew studying the achievement board at Frankfurt-on-Main showing the daily and overall tonnage of supplies flown from Frankfurt to Berlin, during the airlift of 1948

Gatow Airport, Berlin, 1948
Photograph showing a York transport airplane at Gatow Airport, during the Berlin Airlift, 1948. In the background of the image, extension work on the runway can be seen being undertaken

The East-West Frontier in Berlin, 1949
Photograph showing a West Berlin policeman (on left) talking to a Soviet Sector policeman over an East-West frontier barrier, in Berlin, 1949

Map at the Berlin Air Safety Centre, during the Berlin Airli
Photograph showing a large wall map of Berlin and its air corridors, in the Berlin Air Safety Centre, during the airlift of 1948

Children at the Circus, 1948
Photograph showing children watching circus performers in 1948

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