Reception Gallery
Available as Framed Photos, Canvas Prints, Wall Art and Gift Items
Choose from 243 pictures in our Reception collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. Popular choices include Framed Photos, Canvas Prints, Posters and Jigsaw Puzzles. All professionally made for quick delivery.
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Alexandra Palace, the home of the B.B.C. The large transmitt
Alexandra Palace as the home of the B.B.C television service in 1936 showing the mast and transmitting aerials for vision and sound. Special tests of reception of the B.B.C from Alexandra Palace of synchronised television and speech were held at Olympia by a committee of the Radio Manufacturers Association. On alternate days transmissions from Alexandra Palace were given by Baird and Marconi E.M.I systems. In 1935 the B.B.C experimented with John Logie Baird's television system and Marconi's E.M.I system. The E.M.I succeeded Baird's in 1937
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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Invitation - Reception for Sultan Aziz in London
Invitation to a reception given by the City of London in honour of Sultan Aziz during his stay in London in July 1867. Aziz cultivated good relations with the Second French Empire and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and was the first Ottoman sultan to visit Western Europe, in 1867, which included a visit to England, where he was made a Knight of the Garter by Queen Victoria and shown a Royal Navy Fleet Review with his Khedive of Egypt. He travelled by a private rail car, which today can be found in the Rahmi M. Koc Museum in Istanbul. His fellow Knights of the Garter created in 1867 were Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland, Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Franz Joseph I of Austria and Alexander II of Russia
© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
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Authors 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
