Prestigious Gallery

A Corporal of the 1st/9th Battalion Highland Light Infantry

A Corporal of the 1st/9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion Highland Light Infantry in full marching kit.'Hommage du Capitaine Andre. Tres sympathique souvenir. (Very warm memories of Captain Andre). Georges Scott, (1873-1943). Scott Started His Career In The 1890S And Worked As War Correspondent For The News Magazine L'Illustration During The Balkan Wars Of 1912-13. When War Broke Out In 1914, He Joined The French Army And Was Able To Continue His Work As Artist/Illustrator For That Same Prestigious Publication, Producing Many Now Famous Works Dealing With The Great War

© David Cohen Fine Art/Mary Evans Picture Library

New mansions in Park Lane, 1903

New mansions built in Park Lane in 1903, one of the most prestigious addresses in London. On the left is the home of Mr R. W. Hudson and on the right, that of Sir Edward Albert Sassoon. Sir Edward's house was built in 1895-6 by T. H.Smith and C. E. Sayer for Barney Barnato a South African. The house was 13, 000 square feet, had a four-storey-high marble staircase, a conservatory a winter garden and a ballroom. Later renumbered as 4 Park Lane, it became in the 1960s the home of the Playboy Club. It stood just across the street from the mock medieval mansion built for R.W. Hudson, the soap manufacturer, on the site of a dignified Queen Anne house which had belonged to the Earls of Lanesborough. Hudson's astonishing edifice, all stone curlicues and leaded Gothic windows, is the sole survivor today of Park Lane's era of plutocratic fantasy. Today it is a Barclay's Bank. Date: 1903

© Mary Evans Picture Library

Eleanor Malby, wife of Reginald Malby, photographer

Eleanor Malby (1886-1956), wife of Reginald Malby, official photographer to the Royal Horticultural Society, seen here as a young Edwardian woman with a baby. Eleanor was a photographer in her own right, and after Reginald's death kept the company of Reginald A Malby & Co running. Eleanor was awarded the prestigious Veitch Memorial Medal in 1941 for her photographic work on garden subjects

© Mary Evans/Reginald A. Malby & Co. Collection