Growing Gallery

Neville Chamberlain with RH Stoughton and Samuel Hoare

Neville Chamberlain (Arthur Neville Chamberlain, 1869-1940), British Conservative politician, and Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940. Seen here in the grounds of Reading University with RH Stoughton, Professor of Horticulture, and (in the background) Sir Samuel Hoare (later Viscount Templewood), Conservative politician and Chancellor of Reading University. Chamberlain was there to receive an honorary Litt.D., and is seen here examining grapes growing in the university grounds

© Mary Evans / Marx Memorial Library

Limone, Lake Garda, Italy

Limone sul Garda is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy (northern Italy), on the shore of Lake Garda. This card shows the pillars and walls of the lemon houses (the typical hot-houses where lemons were grown), which can still be seen today. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Citrus, Cultivation, Fruits, Garda, Gardens, Growing, Hot, Houses, Italian, Italy, Lago, Lake, Lemon, Limonaie, Limone, Lombardy, Northern, Ornamental, Pillars, Sul, Walls

Flying for the Summer Week-end by C.E. Turner

Illustration from 1928 by C.E. Turner reflecting the growing rise of civilian flying in the 1920s. The caption reads,'...only last month there was a house-party at which the ten guests (all owners of planes) arrived from London and Canterbury in five Moths and a Widgeon. The landings were made in the host's grounds, and the little flying-machines were housed in the ordinary car garages. On the Sunday, the host adn hostess, accompanying their guests, the whole party flew from Cirencester to Lambourne Down, in Berkshire, for a picnic. Our drawing does not illustrate a particular event, at which Mr and Mrs. Fitzgerald, or Marsden Manor, Cirencester, were the hosts but it is typical

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10224234