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Tatler front cover featuring Princess Elizabeth & Margaret o

Front cover of The Tatler featuring the fourteenth birthday picture of Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) together with her sister, Princess Margaret Rose, both riding matching ponies in Windsor Great Park. Date: 1940

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The Scout magazine, Special Hobbies and Model-Making Number

Front cover of The Scout magazine, "The Only Weekly Official Organ of the Boy Scouts". As this particular issue is the Special Hobbies and Model-Making number, the front cover depicts two jolly boys, one in a Scout uniform flying toy planes which they have evidently knocked up out of wood with some whittling tools and glue. Other busy boys are seen indulging in wholesome activities - with a home made wireless sets, printing things and, of course, perusing a stamp album

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The Fat Boy of Peckham and his father

John Trundley, or sometimes, Trunley (1898 - 1944), known as the Fat Boy of Peckham appearing with his father on the front cover of The Tatler magazine in 1903 when he was aged five and already weighed 10 stone, 4lb. Unable to walk to school, London County Council proposed to run a tramway an additional 400 yards to Reddin's School so that John could receive an education, a decision criticised by Lord Northcliffe. Trundley lived to adulthood, married and had children, but died in an air raid in 1944. Date: 1903

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