Rain Bow Gallery

A Land Of Sunshine

The Victoria Falls on the Zambesi River, South Africa, have been described by many travellers as The Eighth Wonder of the World. They are more than a mile in the width and the height of the actual falls varies from 250 to 400 feet. In their natural beauty they are at once sublime and awe-inspiring and mark the culmination of grandeur in a country famed for its scenery. Edmund Blampied (1886-1966) produced numerous illustrations for ILN magazines. As well as scenes of typical London life published in The Illustrated London News, he specialised in showing the privileged class at fashionable resorts around the world, notably the Riviera, for The Bystander

© Estate of Edmund Blampied/ILN/Mary Evans

Palace Theatre, Cambridge Circus, London

The Palace Theatre in Cambridge Circus, London, a Victorian red-brick building opened in 1891 as the Royal English Opera House. It is presenting Finian's Rainbow. Date: 1947

© Mary Evans / Photo Union Collection

1940s, 1947, Architecture, Brick, Building, Buildings, Cambridge, Circus, Exterior, Finians, Palace, Rain Bow, Red, Theatre, Theatres, Victorian

Badge of S.H.A.E.F

Badge of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (abbreviated as SHAEF, pronounced "shafe"), the headquarters of the Commander of Allied forces in north west Europe, from late 1943 until the end of World War II. General Dwight D. Eisenhower was in command of SHAEF throughout its existence

© Mary Evans/Malcolm Greensmith Collection