Pollock Gallery

Lady members of the Heston Park flying club

A 3000 mile holiday tour by air by members of the Heston Park flying club, including a number of women pilots, set out from Heston Air Park (Aerodrome) in twenty aircraft. The photo shows (from left to right): Mrs Chalmers, Mrs Spencer Cleaver (Adelaide Franklin Cleaver (nee Pollock) (1885-1939)), Sir Sefton Brancker, Miss Norman (daughter of Sir Henry Norman) and Miss Leathart. Date: 17 April 1930
1930

© The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

St. Dunstans Bazaar at the Albert Hall, WW1

Ladies pose by the stall run by actress Miss Lily Elsie (Mrs Ian Bullough) at the Albert Hall in aid of the funds of St. Dunstan's Hostel for blinded soldiers, a charity founded and run by Sir Arthur Pearson. The bazaar was opened by Queen Alexandra on 7th May 1917 and ran until the 10th. Sir Arthur Pearson in a speech on the occasion explained the After-Care scheme, which was designed to rehabilitate and forward the interests of those who passed through St. Dunstan's as well as those still there learning trades. Photograph shows, from left (back row) Miss Gill and Miss Glyn and in the front, Mrs Smallwood, Miss Anne Pollock, Miss Lily Elsie and Mrs Carpenter. Date: 1917

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Sir George Pollock

Field-marshal sir GEORGE POLLOCK Military officer, appointed Constable of the Tower of London in 1870 Date: 1786 - 1872

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