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A devastating fire at a British Public School for Boys, which appears to have gutted the

A devastating fire at a British Public School for Boys, which appears to have gutted the elegant Victorian Main building and a number of ancilliary buildings. Sadly, the name and location of the school and a precise date for the fire are, at present, unknown... Date: circa 1920s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

1920s, 20s, Ancilliary, Blaze, Boys, British, Building, Buildings, Burned, Burned Out, Burnt, Destroyed, Destruction, Devastating, Education, Elegant, Establishment, Fire, Gutted, Location, Main, Public, School, Twenties, Unknown, Victorian

View of the monument to the Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852

View of the monument to the Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852) in Moscow, Russia. It was erected in 1909 on Prechistensky Boulevard, but its style proved to be controversial because of its rather negative body language, and in the 1950s it was moved to Nikitsky Boulevard, and installed outside the house where Gogol lived. On the pedestal can be seen a bas relief of characters from Gogol's stories. Date: circa 1909

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Haile Selassie I - Crown Prince and Regent of the Ethiopian Empire (from 1916 to 1928)

Haile Selassie I - Crown Prince and Regent of the Ethiopian Empire (from 1916 to 1928), and then King and Regent (from 1928 to 1930), and finally Emperor (from 1930 to 1974). He is a defining figure in modern Ethiopian history. Surrounded by young European girls at an informal reception. The photograph was taken by Armenian Court Photographer Haigaz Boyadjian Date: circa 1930s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection