Growth Gallery

Just two words! Nestles Milk 1915

Nestle's milk for yourself and baby. Don't - as you value your child's life - experiment with "foods" of unknown composition; the lives of millions of children have been lost in that way. Milk is nature's food for infants; it cannot be improved on. Therefore try Nestle's milk first. By appointment.
1915

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Thanking the Last Post Buglers at the Menin Gate

The Last Post at the Gate has been played at 8pm under the arches by Ypres firemen (with only an interval during WW2) since the unveiling on 24 July 1927. It is played every day, whatever the weather. In the 1970s just two firemen in plain clothes played, sometimes with no audience present. Following the growth of battlefield tourism the buglers now wear smart uniforms and there are often four or more. All are volunteers and it is both appropriate and seeming to thank them after the event, although clapping is not appropriate. Date: 2016

© Holts Battlefield Collection / Mary Evans

Maison Lyons Corner House - Marble Arch, London - Interior

Quote from The Kalevala (Kalewala) a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lonnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology. This section is an allegory relating to the symbolic nature of sowing a field and in turn growing the strength of the whole country. Date: 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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