Surprise Gallery

Tennis-playing brunette beauty prepares to smash

Striking! A tennis-playing brunette beauty prepares to hit a net-side smash shot. It looks like game, set and match for her handsome male companion. Date: early 1940s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Scene from Shakespeare's Cymbeline

A scene from shakespeare's Cymbeline, in which Imogen, dressed as a boy, has found a hut in the forest and, being hungry, has eaten some food. The owners of the hut, a man and two boys, have just returned, and are surprised to see her there. Little do they know that she and the boys are related, but for that we will have to wait for the final recognition scene.

© Mary Evans Picture Library

The Deserted Village by H M Bateman

The Deserted Village by H M Bateman. Speaking recently before a distiguished society, an architect named a village which to his surprise, though near the City, did not seem to be known to the people of London. Fortunately the matter was reported in the Press and the error repaired. This illustration shows the said distinguised society with the Press in attendance. The second half of the illustration is of a quaint village filled with cars and omnibus vehicles as the gentle folk of London descend on the village. Date: 1927

© Estate of H M Bateman/ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library