Images Dated 12th May 2016

Fulham Workhouse, Fulham Palace Road, London

Fulham Workhouse on Fulham Palace Road, London. Postcard dates from the WW1 wartime period 1915-18 when the workhouse was being used as the Fulham Military Hospital (although the image itself may predate that). Date: circa 1916

© Mary Evans/Peter Higginbotham Collection

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Prince and Princess Alexis Mdivani at Hotel de Paris, Bray

Portrait of Barbara Woolworth Hutton (1912-1979), socialite, heiress and philanthropist, dubbed the "poor little rich girl", pictured with her husband Prince Alexis Mdivani, the first of her seven husbands dining at the Hotel de Paris at Bray. The Bystander describes her dress as of parrot green with a little cap of feathers to match. Date: 1934

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans