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Trumpers Barbers - Mayfair, London

Barbershop in Central London - Mayfair. G F Trumper & Sons. An elaborate belt-driven machinery above the mirror drives a head massaging brush. Established 1875. Matchless range of gentleman's fragrances and grooming products. Still at the same location today and still has the massaging brushes - in use today! Their own preparations bear a famous cap in the shape of a crown - visible in the cabinets above the sink counter

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, second wife

Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, second wife to Henry VIII 1501-1536. Depicted as she appeared in France with Mary Tudor. She wears a gable hood chaperon with hanging tail, low-cut bodice, velvet surtout trimmed with ermine, and gold embroidered petticoat. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Galerie Francaise de Femmes Celebres, Paris, 1827. Date:

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Page of Victorian adverts 1889

A variety of advertisements in The Graphic dated August 1889, showing Nuda Veritas hair restorer, Nubian, black polish for boots and shoes, Norton's Camomile Pills, for indigestion, Beetham's Glycerin and Cucumber, emollient milk for preserving and beautifying the skin, to cure obesity, Mr. C B Harness electropathic belt, for health, strength and vitality, Dr. J Collis Brownes Chlorodyne, medicine for cholera, dysentery and diarrhea, advice for dyspeptics, Kropp Razor, Peptonized Cocoa and Milk, Pure Irish linen goods, Champion Ice Machine, Swanbill Belts figure improver made of woven silk, Spearman's Serges, summer clothing, Samuel Fox & Co, umbrellas, Eau D'Ambert, French remedy for indigestion, spasms, dyspepsia, bilious, headaches, abdominal pains, Invigorating Lavendar Salts, bottle of perfume, G. E Lewis's treble grip gun.
1889

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans