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Blackpool FC football team 1936

Blackpool FC football team 1936. Back row: Hall, Cardwell (Captain), Smith, Dougall, Roxburgh, Watson, Wallace, Witham. Third row: Hampson, Davidson, Carter, Reeday, Jones, Jones, Watson, Finan. Second row: Shipman, Middleton, Oram, Brallisford, Doherty, Wassell, Lee. Front row: Bonney, Butler, Bokas, Watmough, Jones. Date: 1936

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The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace

The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace. This poster by theatrical artist Albert Morrow advertises Wallaces detective thriller of 1905. The eponymous "Just Men" - four wealthy gentleman vigilantes (including a European prince) who punish wrongdoers who are beyond the reach of the law - appear in several sequels. He had to create his own publishing company, Tallis, to publish it and decided to manage a 'guess the murder method' competition in the Daily Mail Date: circa 1905

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Lady Idina Sackville and Mr Euan Wallace

Lady Idina Sackville (1893-1955), daughter of Muriel, Countess de la Warr and granddaughter of Lord Brassey, pictured on her engagement to the handsome Mr Euan Wallace of the 2nd Life Guards. The couple were married on 25th November 1913 but divorced in 1919. Wallace would be the first of Idina's five husbands. Five-times married Idina would gain notoriety as part of the Happy Valley Set when she moved to Kenya in 1924 with her third husband, Josslyn Hay, Earl of Errol. With her serial marriages and reputation for debauched decadence, she inspired the character of 'The Bolter' in Nancy Mitford's novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies and the character Iris Storm in The Green Hat by Michael Arlen. Date: 1913

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