Ladies Gallery

Theatre Crowd in Shaftesbury Avenue, London

The early winter and Christmas season in London - a theatre crowd pouring out into Shaftesbury Avenue. The scene is outside the Lyric Theatre, looking towards the Globe, the Queen's, and the Shaftesbury. Cars are drawing up to the front of the house and buses are dashing down towards Piccadilly Circus

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Heather Honey by David Wright

Heather Honey by David Wright showing a semi-naked woman covered by a diaphanous black negligee. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940's. David Wright's Lovelies proved hugely popular and adorned practically every military mess, bunker, dormitory or club room in the country during World War II

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Henley regatta in 1897 CC71_00067

Taking tea at the Henley Regatta, Oxfordshire. A group of men and women take tea on a college barge overlooking the Henley Royal Regatta. The Regatta was established in 1839 and became very popular as a socal occasion, particularly after being patronised by royalty in 1851. Henry Taunt 1897

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