Terry Gallery

Ethel Irving as Lolette in 'Dame Nature' by Frederick Fenn

Ethel Irving (18691963) as Lolette in 'Dame Nature' by Frederick Fenn from La Femme Nue by Henri Bataille, (Renaissance Theatre in Paris on 22nd February 1908). First produced at the Garrick Theatre on 20th January 1910. Transferred to Terrys Theatre on 21st May 1910. Photo by Daily Mirror Studios. Ethel Irving was the daughter of the celebrated actor Henry Irving. Date: 1910

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Terry McHale - Liverpudlian Bantamweight Boxer

Terry McHale (1934-2011) - from Gerard Street, the heart of Liverpool's "Little Italy" - a Bantamweight Boxer, later a boxing promoter and pub landlord (of Lime Street's McHales Irish American Bar). He also served for a time as president of the Irish Ex-Boxers Association. Date: circa 1955

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Photo of Ellen Terry and Mr James Carew in the Tatler

Black and white full page photograph of Ellen Terry and her husband James Carew at home in Kent, in the Tatler of 10th November 1909. Dame Alice Ellen Terry, GBE (27 February 1847 21 July 1928), known professionally as Ellen Terry, was an English actress who became the leading Shakespearean actress in Britain. The last of her three husbands, Terry and James Carew were married on a US tour in 1907. He had appeared with her years earlier at the Court Theatre and was 30 years her junior. Shown posing in the stone doorway, the couple 'spend much of their leisure time in the charming gardens attached to the house'. Unfortunately, they were separated after two years but never divorced. Ellen Terry had purchased this house, Smallhythe Place, at the turn of the 20th-century and lived there until her death. Date: 10th November 1909

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans