Images Dated 13th November 2017

Mother and son riding a Rytecraft Scoota-boat - Llandudno

Mother and son riding a Rytecraft Scoota-boat - a wooden plywood motor boat at the Fairground - Tuson's Scoota Boats - Llandudno, Wales. These boats are the electric type with 110 volt motor, powered from a mesh up above, earthing out through the water. Date: circa 1930s

© Grenville Collins Postcard Collection / Tom Gillmor / Mary Evans

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Brussels, Belgium - Statue of Martyr Gabrielle Petit

Brussels, Belgium - Statue of Martyr Gabrielle Petit, shot by the Germans on 1st April 1916. A monument to all women who gave their lives for the country during the war. Gabrielle Alina Eugenia Maria Petit ) was a Belgian woman who spied for the British Secret Service during World War I. Executed in 1916, she became a Belgian national heroine after the war's end. Date: circa 1920s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Adana, Turkey - following the Armenian Massacre of 1909

Adana, Turkey - following the Armenian Massacre of April 1909. A religious-ethnic clash in the city of Adana amidst governmental upheaval, resulted in a series of anti-Armenian pogroms throughout the district. Reports estimated that the massacres in Adana Province resulted in 15, 000 to 30, 000 deaths. Turkish and Armenian revolutionary groups had worked together to secure the restoration of constitutional rule in 1908. On 31 March (or 13 April, by the Western calendar) a military revolt directed against the Committee of Union and Progress seized Istanbul. While the revolt lasted only ten days, it precipitated a massacre of Armenians in the province of Adana that lasted over a month. Date: 1909

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection