Murray Gallery

Sleeping in the Shelters, 1940

The Bystander depicts a range of different sleeping arrangements during night-time stays in air-raid shelters. On the top-left (Lansdowne House shelter) women can be seen resting on li-los, rugs, cushions, and camp beds. Those on the top-right (a Mayfair hotel shelter) are enjoying the luxury of real mattresses. On the centre-right (the shelter at Murray's dance club), a woman sleeps sprawled across three chairs. On the bottom right (Grosvenor House), deck-chairs and chairs are used. While on the bottom left (the crypt at St. Paul's), the poor individuals sleeping on nothing but rugs are treated to cups of tea.
1940

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

The US Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base

The US Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California. Pilots from left: Maj Charles E. Yeager, Maj H.G. Russell, Col F.J. Ascani, Brig Gen J.S. Holtoner, Lt Col Jack Ridley and Maj Arthur Murray. Aircraft from left and front to rear: Northrop X-4 Bantam, Convair XF-92, North American T-28, Lockheed T-33, Republic F-84F, North American F-86D, Northrop F-89, Lockheed F-94C, Boeing B-47, North American B-45, Boeing KC-97 and Convair B-36. Date: circa 1950s

© The Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library) / Mary Evans Picture Library

Sixth Carriage of the Royal Household in Queen Victoria's

Sixth Carriage of the Royal Household in Queen Victoria's coronation parade. Two Maids of Honor, Hon. Miss Lister and Hon. Miss Paget, Keeper of the Privy Purse, Sir Henry Wheatley, and the Vice Chamberlain, Earl of Belfast. Attended by liveried grooms and valets, drawn by six bay horses. Handcoloured aquatint engraving from Fores Correct Representation of the State Procession on the Occasion of the August Ceremony of Her Majesty's Coronation, June 28th 1838, published by Fores, Sporting and Fine Print Repository, Piccadilly, London, 1838

© Florilegius