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Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 198 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 22 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Illustrations 

AN ARTIST VIEWS LONDONERS FACING UP TO THE BLITZKRIEG

... . There are few entertainments in wartime London o nights, for we hear only the roar of planes the scream of bombs and the barking of our barrage and see the pale fingers of searchlights probing the sky. But we do not view the scene with righteous wrath only we are filled with pride at the fortitude of the civilians. That is why three of 44 The Sketch critics team Feliks Topolski, and the Hon ...

Published: Wednesday 25 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 145 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 142 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 16 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 221 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Illustrations 

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... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT--We had a sou' westerly storm last week and the waves playfully pushed back some of the barbed wire on the beach into a sad, tangled loop. This delighted the fishermen, who derive much pleasure from the havoc wrought by storms as long as it isn't to their boats and nets. I knew her would, said old Vinnecombe, beaming, as he pointed with the stem of his pipe at ...

Published: Wednesday 16 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 907 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 16 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 127 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 18 December 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 29 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Covers  Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 18 December 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 99 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Nobody Minds

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Nobody Minds. Only with great difficulty had the Dear Old Thing been persuaded to leave London for a few days in the country. She chatted very placidly about the Blitzkrieg. Of course, she said, it is all very dreadful, and most tiresome. All this fuss about the black-out, and I just can't get the maids to draw the curtains properly, and whatever I do, the Air ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2236 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

ENGLAND GOES TO IT

... LONDON DIVERSIONS A PICTURE WHICH REQUIRES NO EXPLANATION. DRAWN BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 16 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations