1950s Banff, in Colour
About this time last year I posted photographs of Banff, in the Canadian Rockies, from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. Now, Banff is one of my favourite places…
1950s Banff, in Colour
About this time last year I posted photographs of Banff, in the Canadian Rockies, from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. Now, Banff is one of my favourite places…
Farewells
Beautiful and sad. (you may want to get the tissues if you’re anything like me). A series of photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt (see Kissing the War Away) portraying the kisses…
Farewells
Beautiful and sad. (you may want to get the tissues if you’re anything like me). A series of photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt (see Kissing the War Away) portraying the kisses…
Tea, the Soldier's Drink
Sometimes even– or especially– in the midst of war, you just need a cup of tea. (Especially when you’re British…. so much so, in fact, that this will be a…
Tea, the Soldier's Drink
Sometimes even– or especially– in the midst of war, you just need a cup of tea. (Especially when you’re British…. so much so, in fact, that this will be a…
Going to the Tavern
The Three Merry Coblers “Come, follow, follow me! To th’ alehouse weele march all three;Leave aule, last, threed and lether, and let’s goe altogether;Our trade excells most trades i’th’ land,…
Fireside Talks with Stanley Baldwin
In the 1920’s with the advent of the radio, diiferent styles of broadcasting could be the difference between an election victory or defeat, as Vivian Ogilvie expressed in 1953 in…
The Queen of Romance
The Queen of Romance in the 1930’s was Mrs. Wallis Simpson Edwina H. Wilson in her book ‘Her Name was Wallis Warfield’ published in 1936, gives this amazing picture of…
Going to the Tavern
The Three Merry Coblers “Come, follow, follow me! To th’ alehouse weele march all three;Leave aule, last, threed and lether, and let’s goe altogether;Our trade excells most trades i’th’ land,…