Images Dated 2011 April

Runcorn-Widnes Bridge

A striking impression of the then newly built Runcorn - Widnes Bridge, which connects Cheshire with Lancashire, across the Manchester Ship Canal. Date: 1962

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1960s, 1962, Bridge, Bridges, Built, Canal, Cheshire, Connects, Impression, Lancashire, Manchester, Newly, Runcorn, Ship, Striking, Transport, Viaducts, Widnes

Lady Charles Cavendish aka Adele Astaire

Adele Astaire (1896 - 1981) comedy actress and dance partner of her brother, Fred Astaire from childhood until 1932, when she retired from dance to marry the British aristocrat Lord Charles Spencer Cavendish, second son of the 9th Duke of Devonshire. Pictured here wearing a white silk blouse with a simple high neck described by The Sketch as very 1934 - if not 1935, as are her array of bracelets of precious stones cut like beads'. Date: 1934

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans