Buying Gallery

Queen Alexandra and Crown Prince Olav, London

Queen Alexandra (1844-1925) and her grandson, Crown Prince Olav of Norway (1903-1991), leaving the newly opened Whiteleys Store in Bayswater, West London, where they have been shopping for Christmas presents

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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General Store at Orphan Homes of Scotland, Bridge of Weir

The general store at the Orphan Homes of Scotland, Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire. Jars of sweets feature prominently on its shelves. The Homes, laid out as a village of cottage homes, were opened in 1878 by William Quarrier, a successful shoemaker from Greenock, who developed an interest in the welfare of deprived street children

© Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection

Advert from the National Savings Committee 1945

Rhyme and reason'. Sing a song of spare cash, a song to make you sigh; Four and twenty shillings spent on a buy'. When the buy was open the bug began to sing Wasn't that a lot to pay for such a foolish thing'. Buy National Saving Certificates'.
1945

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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