Desmond Collection

Flying Saucers Have Landed, book cover
FLYING SAUCERS HAVE LANDED, a book by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski. In it, Adamski tells of his meeting with a Venusian in the Californian desert on 20 November 1952

Miss Elizabeth Egerton-Warburton
Elizabeth Egerton-Warburton (1911 - 2002), later Viscountess Ashbrook photographed prior to her marriage to the Hon. Desmond Flower in November 1934. Date: 1934

Florence Desmond (1905-1993) English actress with Liberace (1919-1987) American musician

Chelsea Follies Revue by Archibald de Bear and R. Arkell
Chelsea Follies Revue devised by Archibald de Bear (1882 - 1959) and Reginald Arkell (1889 - 1962). Presented by R.H. Gillespie with music by Wolseley Charles (1889 - 1962)

DRYING DISMAL DESMOND
A little girl pegs out her freshly washed Dismal Desmond toy dalmatian dog to dry on the washing line in her back yard! Date: early 1930s

Dismal Desmond was designed by Richard Ellett and was one of the most successful toys of the 1920's. He was the mascot of the England Cricket Team that year

Diana Mitford with her sons
Diana, Lady Mosley (17 June 1910 11 August 2003), born Diana Freeman-Mitford and usually known as Diana Mitford, was one of Britains noted Mitford sisters

Desmond Castle on River Maigue, Adare, County Limerick, Republic of Ireland. circa 1960s

Peggy Piano Desmond - BBC Queen of the Ivories
Peggy Piano Desmond (1913-1977) - The BBCs Queen of the Ivories Date: circa 1943

Sir Mark Norman, Managing Director of Britten-Norman Sales, circa 1970. Sir Mark was the brother of company co-founder Desmond Norman. Date: circa 1970

John Britten and Nigel Desmond Norman in Bembridge
From left: John Britten (?-1977) and Nigel Desmond Norman (1929-2002) in Bembridge, Isle of Wight, 1966. Date: 1966

WW2 - Careless Lives
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, Careless Lives, written by Desmond Leslie. The image shows tw opposing side profiles of young women

The Sergeant Major's Serenade
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for The Sergeant Major's Serenade (Shut The Door Its Coming Through The Window.) Written and composed by Reg Morgan, Charles Chester and Desmond O'Connor

Woman with soft toys including Dismal Desmond
Woman seated with soft toys including Dalmatian dog Dismal Desmond Date: 1920s

Florence Desmond, impersonator, as Marlene Dietrich, in top hat, with cigarette. With description, Florence Desmond is one of the cleverest impersonators there are about at present

Music cover, The Dubarry Operette in 9 Scenes
Music cover, Piano Selection, Stanley Scott presents The Dubarry, Operette in 9 Scenes, by Paul Knepler and J M Welleminsky, English book by Desmond Carter and Rowland Leigh, music by Carl Millocker

Desmond Tutu, South African activist and clergyman
Desmond Tutu (The Most Rev Dr Desmond Mpilo Tutu, b 1931), South African activist and Christian clergyman. He was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa

Dismal Desmond, fox trot. Music sheet. Date: 1926

Sketch cover, Binnie Hale in her dressing room, Hippodrome
Binnie Hale, star of the hit musical comedy Sunny at the London Hippodrome, pictured in her dressing room wearing the fetching shorts for her gymnasium scene and arranging various toys

Charles Hughesdon and his wife the actress Florence Desmond
Charles Hughesdon and his wife, the actress Florence Desmond, at the RAeS Garden Party at the Fairey Aerodrome on the Great West Road, London, 14 May 1939. Date: 1939

9th Earl of Denbigh, Vanity Fair, Spy
RUDOLPH ROBERT BASIL ALOYSIUS AUGUSTINE FEILDING, 9th Earl of Denbigh, 8th Earl of Desmond (1859-1939) The eldest son of the 8th Earl of Denbigh. Caption: H.A.C. Date: 1859 - 1939

Tom Campbell Black, 1899-1936, winner of MacRobertson Air Ra
Tom Campbell Black, 1899-1936, winner of the MacRobertson Air Race, London to Melbourne race in 1934, with his wife, the actress Florence Desmond

Gladys Desmond / 1906
Gladys Desmond Actress

Desmond Morris, scientist, author and presenter
Desmond Morris (b.1928), English scientist, author and presenter, best known for his book The Naked Ape (1967). Seen here with his son Jason. circa 1969

Music cover, Shell Out Waltz by Herman Darewski, danced by Cebalios Desmond. 1912

Countess of Desmond / 148
COUNTESS OF DESMOND Katherine Fitzgerald, second wife of Thomas, 12th earl of Desmond, who lived to the age of 148 (though some say she was even older) Date: 1464 - 1612

Death of Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th earl of Desmond Date: 1583

The happiest new year of all - Music Sheet Cover by Desmond O Connor, Mowriel Watson and Jack Denby, recorded and broadcast by Vera Lynn

Mother and daughter party fashions, 1966
Woman wears an emerald green Irish wool shirt and matching skirt checked with purple from Laura Desmond with silver cover-up shoes from Elliott. The little girls green dress is by Popchicks

King Cormacs Chapel, Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland. Built in the Romanesque style of architecture by Cormac Mac- Carthaigh, King of Desmond. Date: 12th century

Florence Desmond as an air woman
Actress Florence Desmond in her costume for the role in the dance and theatrical revue, Streamline, staged at the Palace Theatre in London in 1934 in which she played Mrs Gladys Potts

Piggy-Back Race / 1973
SPORTS DAY - a piggy-back race in progress at the Desmond Anderson Junior School Date: 1973

Louise Brooks / Dogs
American silent film actress, LOUISE BROOKS (1906-1985), with two toy dogs: Dismal Desmond (left), and Bonzo (right)

Mrs Desmond Fitzgerald, formerly Miss Veronica Villiers, a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill and daughter of Ernest Villiers, MP

Murder Comes Calling
MURDER COMES CALLING (Desmond Reid) Paula (thats her in the off- the-shoulder dress) inherits an old house but finds that it comes complete with corpse

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