Images Dated 9th January 2012

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberlands house party
A Royal Visit to Alnwick Castle, Northumberland The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) and invited guests including The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, Duchess of Portland

Crosse & Blackwell - Vinegars and Oils
An assortment of condements mainly the bottles of vinegar and Oil made by Crosse and Blackwell

Sculptures on display as part of the Festival of Britain
Sculptures on display in Battersea Park (and on tour) as part of the Festival of Britain: a paper sculpture entitled Hunting by Bruce Angrave (top)

Advertisement for Jaeger in Festival of Britain Year, showing two women wearing classic fashions. Date: 1951

Pifco electric vibratory massager
Beauty that is yours sincerely: 1950s electric vibratory massager, claiming to help you keep slim and trim, promotes a healthy scalp, affords relief for tired feet and many muscular aches and pains

Unappreciated! By Lawson Wood
Two bears teasing a orangutan with a toy monkey. Date: 1930

Fashions for the Festival of Britain, showing a woman modelling a series of scarves by Jacqmar, printed with designs relating to London and the Festival

Gladys Cooper with daughter Joan Buckmaster

Advertisement for Du Maurier cigarettes, filtered for flavour -- the cigarette with the exclusive filter. Showing an elegant woman in black and white, with an open packet of cigarettes in colour

The Countess of St Germans
Lady Blanche Linnie Somerset ), married John Eliot, 6th Earl of St Germans who died in a riding accident during a steeplechase in 1922 aged 31

Marie Louise Berger
The French actress, Marie Louise Berger (renowned in the Theatre Athenie), in this illustration by Domergue. She is sporting an elegant red shawl with frills with ladybird dots

Craven Cigarettes
Those who smoke Craven A seldom care for others cigarettes. Women smoking a cigarette. Date: 1951

Enos Fruit Salt Advertisement
An advertisement for Enos Fruit Salt (used as an antacid and reliever of bloatedness), showing 7 women dancing through a picturesque scene oveshadowed by a mountain in the background

The Rose in The Devils Garden - Gordon Nicoll
The Rose in the Devils Garden by Gordon Nicoll Pretty young blonde-haired girl in a large white tutu and red ballet shoes, standing with her back to a stone wall

Self and Partners!, by Lawson Wood
Orang utan playing multiple hands in a game of cards. Date: 1930

Enrico Cialdini
ENRICO CIALDINI, duca di Gaeta Italian military commander, statesman and diplomat. Date: 1811 - 1892

Lillian Hall-Davies, British film actress
Lillian Hall-Davies (1898-1933), British film actress of the silent era. She failed to make the transition to talkies, and committed suicide. Seen here in a mob cap, holding a basket of flowers

Gladys Cooper with one of her children

The Bather - Domergue
" The Bather" Woman in swimwear holding a large parasol sitting on the pier, getting ready to go for a swim

Pro-phy-lac-tic Tooth Brush Advertisement
A large realisitc representation of the Toothbrush with yellow packaging, another image shows a woman in bath gown and pyjamas using the toothbrush

Guinea Day at the Festival Gardens, Festival of Britain
A cartoon depicting Guinea Day at the Festival Gardens, Festival of Britain, with upper class people in their best clothes, taking part in some unlikely (for them) fairground activities

Gerald Barry, Director-General, Festival of Britain

Incense. The popular fregranced aromatics illsutrated by Gordon Nicoll who pays tribute to Three Nuns Imperial Tobacco

Lady and Donkey ride through a lush meadow

Dr O Grady Arrives - Cast caricatures
Dr O Grady Arrives Nerman of the Play by Canon Hannay, the inclusion of lifelike interpretations of the acting cast by Nerman, (from left to right) Miss Helen Ferrers as lady Rothconnell

The Parisian - A study by Mario De Goyon
" The Parisian" - a study. A beautiful French woman in a very low-cut dress and large extensive skirt, painted in front of a cloudy background. Date: 1923

People dancing the maypole round Eros in Piccadilly
A group of happy people from different walks of life dancing the maypole round the statue of Eros at Piccadilly Circus, London. Date: 1951

King George VI declares Festival of Britain open
King George VI, from the steps of St. Pauls Cathedral broadcasts to the world that the Festival of Britain is open. Date: 1951

Modes for 1809
Man: coat cut-away at the front with an M -cut collar & split cuffs, pantaloons with decorative braid, hessian boots. Woman: gown with vandyked & embroidered hem. Date: 1809

Shorthand on the back of a postcard. Date: 1917

Girl & Doll Off to Bed
A girl in her nightdress about to take her doll to bed 1915

Girl & Doll Off to Bed
A girl in her nightdress about to take her doll to bed 1915

Little girl in frilly white dress with roses 1915
A little girl in a frilly white dress, holding a bunch of artificial roses in the photographers studio. 1915

Female Type with Roses
A demure young woman with a bunch of yellow and red roses. circa 1910

Little girl in frilly white dress with roses 1915
A little girl in a frilly white dress, holding a bunch of artificial roses in the photographers studio. 1915

SUNBEAM 1907
Frederick Eastmead and friends in a 15/20 Sunbeam, a quality tourer fitted with fold-back hood, windscreen, lamps, horn and spare tyre. 1907

Young Italian woman in a red headscarf

Family of three with their Singer car
A family of three with their Singer car. Father and son look out from the car, but mother prefers to stand alongside and show off her new suit. 1950

Santa & Punchbowl
" GOOD HEALTH AND HAPPY NEW YEAR !" A jolly, red-faced Father Christmas, smoking his long pipe and bearing a huge punchbowl full of hot punch. 1890s

Woman in purple hat
Woman wearing a bonnet type purple hat, one definite point on one side while the other side curved outward and down. Date: 1931

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