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... A Perfect Setting that will increase the enjoyment of good food and service. HIYTON FIRS HOTEL A Country House in BOURNEMOUTH Standing in a garden, a hundred yards from the edge of the East Cliff, a few minutes from the amusements of the town. THE ROSEMULLION-- Overlooking the sea in an unspoilt corner of South Devon. Rooms with or without bath private suites. Excellent golf and many other ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 735 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

IN FRANCE: Where Complete Mobilisation of Armay, Navy, and Air Force was Ordered, September 1, and a Statae of ..

... I M FRANf^F W^ere Complete Mobilisation of Army, Navy, and Air Force was II N I l\/nl N L Ordered, September 1, and a State of Siege Proclaimed FRENCH RESERVISTS MARCHING THROUGH A FAMOUS FORTRESS DISTRICT OF OUTER PARIS These French reservists who had been called up last week were marching through a street in Vincennes, notable for its bois, which is second only in public attraction to the ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 134 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

I SEE the HASSELT BREAK in the ALBERT CANAL: What a Visit to the Site of the Dam Disaster Revealed

... I SEE the HASSELT BREAK in the ALBERT CANAL What a Visit to the Site of the Dam Disaster Revealed By ROY ELSTON YOU would be surprised, said a Belgian engineer with whom I sat dining in the French Pavilion at the Liége Exhibition, how many people have discovered the Albert Canal since the Hasselt disaster. I was not really surprised. In a world of political and military alarms the peaceful ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1514 | Page: Page 25, 32 | Tags: Photographs 

DUNLOP Fort

... WITH TEETH TO BITE THE ROAD The supremacy of DUNLOP Tyres in world speed records and track and road racing, may seem of small importance to the average car-owner. Reflect, however, that it is these very tests that give DUNLOP experts the experience necessary to build into your DUNLOP tyres the safely and reliability for which the name DUNLOP is universally famous. ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 66 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs 

THE OLDEST HANDWRITING: A Claim from La Vendèe

... THE OLDEST HANDWRITING A Claim from La Vendee mHE oldest handwriting in the world is 1 how Dr. Marcel Baudouin describes the 275 hieroglyphics which he has deciphered on a pre historic stone found at Poire de Vie in La Vendue and which he says represent an octagonal zodiac engraved on the stone about 6,800 B.C., that is in the time of Neolithic man. Dr. Baudouin, who is the founder of the ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 249 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Photographs 

A.R.T LONDON PREPARES

... ADD LONDON M.K.r. PREPARES EXTRA London policemen seen leaving POLICE Scotland Yard last week after being EQUIPMENT equipped with gas masks, which are contained in canvas haversacks A LONDON A new block of buildings under con- WAR-TIME CASUALTY struction for a big London hospital CLEARING STATION is having built into its foundations a war-time casualty clearing station A LODGE-KEEPER'S ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 133 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE DAY of the WAR DECLARATION: Scenes in Whitehall on the Sunny Sunday Morning

... THE DAY ol the WAR DECLARATION Scenes in Whitehall on the Sunny Sunday Mornino the PRIME MINISTER SETS OUT FOR It was an extraordinary scene early-autumn THE HOUSE ON SUNDAY MORNING sunshine streaming down on Whitehall as the Premier's car left for the House amid heartfelt cheers from the spectators THE CROWD OUTSIDE 10, DOWNING STREET A large crowd gathered ovtsidel ON SUNDAY MORNING, ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 173 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

1,400 MILES THROUGH CRISIS BRITAIN: A Wifely Odyssey from the South fo the North

... 1,400 MILES THROUGH CRISIS BRITAIN A Wifely Odyssey from ihe Soufh fo the North ONE crisis day last week, two naval wives received wires from their husbands suggesting that they should visit them during a respite ashore. I was one of those wives who obediently set off by car in the afternoon, after hectic packings and arrangements, with the intention of reaching our destination the next day, ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1259 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Photographs 

GERMANY MEETS TRANSPORT DIFFICULTIES IN HER ADVANCE INTO POLAND: Prior to the Pause of This Week

... GERMANY MEETS TRANSPORT DIFFICULTIES IN HER ADVANCE INTO POLAND Prior fo the Pause of This Week The first advance of the massed German divisions into the Polish corridor territory was made with remarkable celerity. The attack began on September 1 and at the time of writing had continued for twelve days. Some 1,500,000 men, all the motorised divisions and the greater part of the German ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 149 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ON THE ENG LISH COUNTRYSIDE

... During the Second Week-end of the Hitler War jy asM'''' v -i J-si- lt. There has been a stream of unorganised trekkers to the countryside, and camps are being set up by local authorities on commons and elsewhere. It is very necessary that the tents should be well screened v.-' ./ft A VERY NECESSARY PRO TECTION BY CAMOUFLAGE The soldiers sleep in the boxes where the lights of society usually ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 259 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LONDON IN THE DAYTIME AND LONDON AFTER DARK: ENTERTAINMENT? IN WAR-TIME

... LONDON IN THE DAYTIME AND LONDON AFTER DARK Pictured by Camera and Described By PHILIP PAGE ENTERTAINMENT? IN WAR-TIME ALTHOUGH a spot of from-the-horse's-mouth information leads me to think that by the time you read this the theatres and cinemas, at least to some limited extent and under certain conditions, will have reopened, at the moment of writing we are completely without public ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1580 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Photographs 

THE QUEEN CARRIES HER GAS-MASK on her Rounds of Inspection

... Two impressions of Her Majesty during war days fully equipped (like every other Londoner) with hand- I bag and gas-mask in satchel. The Queen had just visited the British Red Cross Society's headquarters, her I characteristic smile in evidence as usual I ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 52 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs