Balls Gallery

Murraygate, Dundee - Celebration of the Jute Industry

Murraygate, Dundee - Celebration of the Jute Industry - this, along with its other major industries gave Dundee its epithet as the city of "jute, jam and journalism". Jute is a long, soft, shiny vegetable fibre that can be spun into coarse, strong threads. During the British Raj in the 19th and early 20th centuries, much of the raw jute fibre of Bengal was carried off to the United Kingdom, where it was then processed in mills concentrated in Dundee. Date: circa 1907

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Edward Huskinson, editor of The Tatler magazine

A photograph of Edward (Teddy) Peter Huskinson (1877-1940), editor of The Tatler from 1908 to 1940. His career began as a political cartoonist of the Conservative party before he became a journalist. He was a director of the Illustrated London News Group (of which The Tatler was part) and described in his obituary as a first-class cricketer, a keen yachtsman and a popular member of the Bath Club. He was tragically killed in 1940 after becoming trapped between a train and platform at Savernake Station. Pictured here wearing fancy dress in The Sketch with his wife (and an unidentified other) after the Midnight Ball in July 1914, although the magazine calls him Edward Huskisson. Date: 1914

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Society girls practising for the Joy of Life Ball

Mrs Jackie Kriuse, Lady Patricia Moore, Lady Castlerosse and Miss Roy Verney (Miss Rosalind Norman on the floor) rehearsing in their costumes for the Lido scene for the forthcoming Joy of Life Ball, held at Covent Garden on 12th December 1929 in aid of the People's League of Health.
1929

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

1929, Ball, Balls, Castlerosse, Costumes, Dress, Fancy, Fashion, Fashions, Girls, Jackie, Joy, Kriuse, Lady, Lido, Life, Miss, Moore, Mrs, Norman, Outfit, Patricia, Pyjamas, Rehearsal, Rosalind, Roy, Society, Verney