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The Walker Cup At Birkdale: No Britisher Could Fail To Be Proud of Our Team's Gallant Fight

... become historic as the place where our 1951 Walker Cup hopes were drowned. Full marks go to our captain, who did a tireless and intelligent job, endeavouring to urge us to regain the Cup, only to see us fail, as I repeat, at the last ditch. The foursomes ...

MUSEUM FEVER IN ENGLAND: Some Thoughts on a New Aspect of National Life

... MUSEUM FEVER IN ENGLAND Some Thoughts on a New Aspect of National Life By JOHN GORE ENGLAND-- A MUSEUM.-- Before it is altogether too late, let us all-- officials and ordinary folk-- seriously perpend and discover what we really feel about the present ...

Published: Saturday 26 May 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1687 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

Festival Tidings: The Boys' Brigade Relay Reaches Buckingham Palace One of England's Best-Kept Villages and its ..

... houses. In 1939 the village won Lord Bledisloe's cup for the best-kept village. THE DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S PRONOUNCES THE CHURCH'S BLESSING ON THE ST. PAUL'S GARDEN WHICH HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO PUBLIC USES AND ENJOYMENT AS A SYMBOLIC CONTRIBUTION BY THE CITY ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 505 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

LITTLE AMERICA IN BRITAIN: LIFE AT THE BURTONWOOD BASE, ... SHIRE, WHICH SUPPLIES THE TEN ... OPERATIONAL BASES ..

... BURTONWOOD BASE, LANG SHIRE, WHICH SUPPLIES THE TEN BRIUS OPERATIONAL BASES OF THE U.S. AIR FORI THE Yanks are back. people are saying to another in Britain. Unobtrusively the U.S. and Air Force have been moving back into where the public has been ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1648 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 30 May 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 380 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WAY TO THE CENTRE COURT AT WIMBLEDON

... Aberdare Cups., Preliminary rounds are arranged I to cut down travelling, and area winners meet at Wimbledon. Last year I Stowe School won the Glanvill Cup, and Chelmsford County High School, I which has only two courts, won the Aberdare Cup. This year ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 869 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

Bright Spots In A Backward Season

... Tournament, in the second week, is still looked on as the Blue Riband of the polo world. At Sutton Park the Duke of Sutherland has made a most excellent ground which was used last year with great success and exceptionally large crowds were attracted to see ...

The Importance of Being British

... called to French k successes. Home-bred horses won all five classics and the Ascot Gold Cup. A reaction set in again, however, last year, more than strong enough to remind us that these foreign inroads were becoming too much of a good thing. It is my purpose ...

No Hurry, At All

... refused to give in, rolling about on the floor and holding the detached handles of coffee-cups. Aden, as always, stank. It must be the least -encouraging place in the world. But a young guide of some fifteen years did his best to ameliorate social life by attaching ...

Published: Wednesday 23 May 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1046 | Page: 35 | Tags: Photographs 

LOTUS

... they have been in constant use for heavy land agency work as well as shooting. To-day they are good for years more the uppers are perfect and waterproof as ever Designed and made to master every vagary of climate. Famous the world over for their long and ...

French Wine Societies

... degree. You see it coming up the Route Nationale from Montpelier, in huge lorries looking just like the petrol tankers used in England, and many drivers back from a South of France holiday must have thought that the amount of petrol going to Paris was ...

Sketch-Book

... called Here 's England, by an American novelist, Ruth McKenney, and her husband, Richard Bransten. Heaven knows how many evenings I have spent trying to persuade friends in America that England in May and June is something out of this world (not to mention ...

Published: Wednesday 23 May 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1823 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs