Turner Gallery

Boxing - Fives Court with Randall & Turner sparring

The interior of Fives Court in Little St. Martin's Lane, a popular venue for the 'Fancy' in the heyday of the prize ring, showing Jack Randall and Ned Turner sparring. The pair were old opponents of bare knuckle fighting and once Randall beat Turner in a gruelling fight of thirty-four rounds on Crawley Downs in 1818. Date: 1928

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Victorian mother and three children (Polhill-Turner family)

A Victorian mother and three children. They are Mrs Polhill-Turner (nee Emily Frances Barron, d 1913)), wife of Frederick Charles Polhill-Turner (1826-1881), with Alice (Alice Kate Frances, 1856-1931), Arthur (Arthur Twistleton, 1862-1935) and Beatrice (Emily Beatrice Violet, d 1930). They lived at Howbury Hall, Renhold, Bedfordshire. Arthur, along with his brother Cecil (Cecil Henry, 1860-1938), formed part of the so-called Cambridge Seven in the 1880s and spent many years in China as a Christian missionary.

© Mary Evans Picture Library/Gill Stoker

Bubbly by John Hastings Turner

Flyer for Bubbly by J. Hastings Turner, presented by Ralph Haslam with music by Philip Braham. It was first produced at the Comedy Theatre in London, on 5th May 1917. Although the top of the card has 'From the Comedy Theatre' where the revue ran for 426 performances, the reverse has 'From the Alhambra Theatre, London, touring to Theatre Royal, Nottingham on 18th February 1918'. The image shows a large clay pipe on a red and white striped background with many bubbles floating. Seated on the largest is a female pierrot clown. The actors and actresses names appear in these bubbles. They are Ivy Tresmand, Doris Barrington, Gaby Condor, Florence Bayfield, Edith Payne, Bobbie Rutland, Claude Ryder, Ernest Seebold, Cedric Percival and Edmund Russell. The arrangement was by Andre Charlot. Date: 1917

© The Michael Diamond Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library