Images Dated 8th February 2016

Denham Studios restaurant by Tony Wysard, 1937

Intensively populated illustration by Tony Wysard, showing imagined diners at the restaurant at Denham Studios. Illustration includes a key to all caricatures portrayed but include David Niven and Gracie Fields (table 7), Rex Harrison, Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (table 5), and Charles Laughton (table 12). The artist shows himself peeping into the picture top left. Denham Studios covered over 28 acres in a 165 acre estate. There were seven sound stages, two of which were air-conditioned and the largest in Europe. Date: 1937

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Winter cruise fashions for 1937

Fashions for cruising from Bradley's department store of Chepstow Place, London. In the centre is a dress of slub linen. The skirt is cut on trouser lines, cleverly made so that the division is to all intents and purposes invisible. On the left is a suit consisting of flannel trousers, a royal blue coat, and a crepe de Chine blouse with graduated spots. Grey flannel makes the trousers seen on the right and blue stockinette the blouse. Date: 1937

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

China - School Children playing Oranges and Lemons

China - School Children playing Oranges and Lemons - a group of well-favoured children at the David Hill Memorial Girls Boarding School at Hanyang (one of the districts of modern-day Wuhan), maintained by the Women's Auxiliary W.M.M.S. (Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society). Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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