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England's Rural Crafts

... specialities. Most of the products of these village crafts have their uses, either functional or decorative, in the home. Wrought-iron gates, electric lamps all grades of pottery for ornament or use baskets, chairs, furniture and hand-woven fabrics. THE cost of ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1073 | Page: 43 | Tags: Photographs 

SEPTEMBER DAYS IN ENGLAND: A Survey of Home Events in Pictures

... enthusiastic audiences. On his return to England he said that the Americans want peace and are deeply concerned about keeping it. He thought they were perhaps more pessimists about the possibility of a third world war than people in Britain and that the ...

Published: Saturday 15 September 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1156 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WAY OF THE WORLD: A SURVEY OF THE FOREIGN NEWS IN PICTURES

... seventy aircraft whose ownership he is disputing. After commanding the Flying Tigers, the U.S. Air Force unit which operated in China in the early days of the Second World War, General Chennault later commanded the United States 14th Air Force. In 1948 he was ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1047 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

RANGING THE WORLD FROM BUENOS AIRES TO COPENHAGEN: A SURVEY OF THE FOREIGN NEWS IN PICTURES

... u( New Zealand on his round-the-world goodwill tour. I; a civic dinner in Auckland he met Governor Thomas Dewq, of New York, who was touring countries bordering iR Pacific in order to gather first-hand information I# use during the next Presidential election ...

Published: Saturday 15 September 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1297 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

PRESERVING ENGLAND'S HERITAGE: Up and Down the Country, Craftsmen are at Work Restoring the Raw Material of ..

... background, at Bray-on- Thames, Maidenhead, Berkshire, where the vicar, celebrated throughout the world in the famous old song, defied the Kings of England. Less than £20 has been raised by public subscription towards the estimated cost of £500 to restore ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1110 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

But No, It Has To Be Steak

... this is the crucial time, for if you open your mouth, in friendliness or politeness. then at once you are England. Not an Englishman, but England. And there you are, stuck with it, listening, understanding, agreeing, explaining. It is exhausting. For you ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1222 | Page: 58 | Tags: Photographs 

POCAHONTAS; THE GRAVESEND APPEAL: Renovating a Cathedral Tomb; and the Restoration of Grosvenor Chapel

... converted to Christianity. She was the first American woman to marry an Englishman, and the first American to be buried in England. She was born in 1593, and was the daughter of Powhatten, a leading Werowance or Chief of Attanoughkomouck sometimes called ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 759 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

The Cleveland Show At Redcar

... great disappointment to find only one animal competing for the King George V Challenge Cup, normally one of the most- sought-after awards in the Cleveland Bay world, and which is confined to competition among male animals. That one, however, was Messrs ...

Up and down the land

... advice for making better use of the British farmers' skill. British farmers, it considers, should pay greater attention to farm planning so as to develop enterprises which will afford the greatest scope for the effective use of modern machinery and equipment ...

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... had been employed to give a delightful effect. The challenge cup for the best rock-garden in the competitive section, however, was regained by Messrs. Hensall and Sons, of Matlock Bath, who used Derbyshire dolomite to produce an outstanding piece of work ...

The Blackpool And Fylde Show: And The B.S.J. A. National Championships

... allocate three National cham pionships to the meeting the National, Ladies', and National Juvenile and there are two North of England championships, as well as team-jumping events. Unfortunately, only a handful of horses turned out for the hunter classes on ...

SOME PORTRAITS IN PRINT: Being the lucubrations of your most obedient scribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles

... which takes pride in giving a name and address to everyone, whether the information is either relevant or useful. I have a battered volume of World War One memories of no particular con sequence. It is one of those books which have hung about so long one ...

Published: Wednesday 26 September 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1988 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs