Images Dated 27th August 2015

Wedding of Diana Mitford and Bryan Guinness

Group wedding photograph showing the bride, Mrs Bryan Guinness, formerly Miss Diana Freeman Mitford, with eleven bridesmaids. From left, Miss Diana Churchill, Miss Mercer-Nairne, the Hon. Nancy Mitford, the Bride, the Hon. Unity Mitford, Miss Rosemary Mitford (cousin), Miss Rosalie Willoughby and Miss Oonagh Guinness; and, in front, Lady Jean Ogilvy, Miss Grania Guinness, Lady Patricia Guinness and Lady Brigid Guinness. According to The Sketch, the child attendants wore long-skired frocks of cream tulle with gold tissue bodices and the grown-up bridesmaids had parchment coloured skirts.
1929

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250 firemen fight london rice warehouse blaze. Engines from every one of the 60

250 firemen fight london rice warehouse blaze.
Engines from every one of the 60 stations in the LCC were called to a huge fire at St Georgess Wharf, a rice warehouse of Carbutt and Company, Ltd. in Shad thames, Bermondsey,
An emergency call was made and every available appliance was sent.
About 250 men were concentrated on the outbreak. Firemen wore gas masks against the dense smoke from the rice, and a giant turntable water tower was brought into the operation.
It was feared that a wall would collapse.
Photo shows, water from the hose pipes cascading over the burning building.
1 April 1936

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Ex paratrooper Donald Cook, 38 year old aircraft inspector and secretary of the St

Ex paratrooper Donald Cook, 38 year old aircraft inspector and secretary of the St. Pancras United Tenants Association, talks to his 36 year old wife Edith through a barricade of barbed wire and two upturned old pianos at their top floor flat at Kennistoun House, a block of St. Pancras Council flats in Leighton Road, Kentish Town, London. An eviction notice served on Mr. Cook expires at midnight and he says he is prepared if necessary for a three year siege. A rocket will be fired as a signal that the bailiffs have arrived Mr. Cook, father of four children, said that he owes about ?56 in rent on his two-bedroomed foat, which originally cost him 28s. a week. There was a 10s. increase in January and another of 12s. 6d. last month. He and other tenants had been told they could expect another next January, and by then the rent would be 56s. He had refused to pay. - Photo taken 28th August 1960.
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