Talking Gallery

It sounds good to me by David Wright

It sounds good to me by David Wright showing a woman in a revealing outfit and stocking talking on the telephone. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940's. David Wright's Lovelies proved hugely popular and adorned practically every military mess, bunker, dormitory or club room in the country during World War II

© Estate of David Wright/ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library

November 1951 by David Wright

November 1951 by David Wright, showing a woman posed on the telephone. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940's. David Wright's Lovelies proved hugely popular and adorned practically every military mess, bunker, dormitory or club room in the country during World War II. He later created a series for Men Only in the 1950's of which this is one

© Estate of David Wright/ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library

Woman patient, St Marys Hospital, Paddington, London

LFB Special Services trying to help a woman patient at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, on 15 April 1959. She has climbed out of a ward window at fifth floor level and is sitting with her feet on a tie rod of the drainpipe. Date: 1959

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library

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