Guests Gallery

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.'

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Bigbury-on-Sea - The Burgh Island Hotel Tractor

Transportation in the 'Sea Tractor' over to the Burgh Island Hotel, Bigbury-on-Sea, South Devon, allowing guests to travel to/from the mainland at High Tide. It was here (in 'The Beach House' suite) that Agatha Christie wrote her two novels set on the Island (Evil Under the Sun and And Then There Were None). Date: circa 1930s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Author's Club reception at Whitehall Court, 1962

Column of photographs reporting on a party for the Authors' Club at Whitehall Court in December 1962 at which Sir Charles and Lady Petrie received guests. Top photograph - Sir Charles Petrie, the club's chairman with the Marchioness of Bristol. Middle - Mrs Jo Grimond and Signor Pietro Quaroni, the Italian Ambassador and bottom image, Lady Lenanton (novelist Carola Oman), the Countess of Kilmuir, and Mrs John Profumo (Valerie Hobson). Date: 1962

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans