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CHARLES EARLY & CO., LTD

... liEAMirwAim! S \X rw. ALL WOOL f f WITNEY BLANKETS f S MADE BY i £_f^jRLVS of WITNEY .^OvV r ...

Published: Friday 01 March 1946
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 20 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

HOOVER Ltd

... i Passport to real Hoover Service! If you want efficient service without inflated charges, let no one but an Authorised Hoover Service man adjust your Cleaner. Each carries his personal Hoover identification card. You can trust him. Fill in and post the coupon below if you want him to call. As new Hoover Cleaners become available, they will be allocated to dealers immediately and sold at PRE ...

Published: Friday 01 March 1946
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 89 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Photographs 

The Great Shorthorn Show at Perth

... The Great Shorthorn Shov J at Perth I FROM THREE COUNTRIES The judges were Mr. R. K. Wright from North Ireland Mr. Charles Wyllie, from Argentina and Professor A. E. Darlotv who flew specially for the occasion from Oklahoma, U.S.A. CLUNY MARKSMAN: Calved April 14, 1945 and bred by Mrs. B. Hood Linzee Gordon, of Cluny Castle, Monymusk. First Prize winner in Class XIV. MR. DUNCAN STEWART'S ...

Reliance on Food Subsidies

... BY OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT Westminster, Monday, February 25. THE House of Commons to-day gave further expression to its approval of the Government's long-term agricultural policy, which was described by Mr. Tom Williams in his statement on November 15. There was, however, some criticism of the Government's failure to answer many of the questions put to them in the course of the closing ...

Lord Derby's Yorkshire Stud

... THE EARL OF DERBY, who owns the finest stud in the world, has five separate breeding establish ments, apart from the Knowsley Stud, which is a part of his Lancashire home. The best and most famous mares in England visit his five stallions. His own blood stock, from which his racing stable is supplied and replenished, is reared at the Stanley Stud, Newmarket, and at Thorn ton-le-Street, in ...

Back to Monte Carlo!

... Back to Monte Carlo AS I sit and write my notes this week I cannot help wishing I could send you-- instead of words-- some of the sunshine I am enjoying here in the South of France. That the sun goes on shining all the year round here, and that we can get used to being without it for such lengthy periods, speaks well for our native tough ness, for to feel the sun once again pouring down out of ...

FIRST PICTURES FROM BOMBAY, CAIRO and CALCUTTA

... During the past ten days Bombay, Calcutta and Cairo have been the scenes of rioting and bloodshed, and the most serious incidents have occurred in Bombay, where 12,000 ratings of the Royal Indian Navy went on strike to complain against the slowness of demobilisation and other grievances. Admiral Godfrey, the flag Officer Commanding, Royal Indian Navy, at once brought a British cruiser and two ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 503 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Field and Woodland Gates

... By LAND AGENT I REALLY must do something about the gates as soon as I possibly can, said a man to me the other day, who had recently acquired a small estate; and he added, Give me some idea of the amount for labour and materials that you reckon will be required for a good gate, and also what is generally considered to be its working life? To this double question I replied that costs are ...

Sport at Home and Abroad

... THE BOAT RACE Cambridge University's crew. L. to r., Jackson (Boatman for last 52 yrs.), T. Sullivan (Oundle and Clare), It. Dewar (Trinity), reserve, P. Macdonnell Trinity TIall), G. Thomas Shrewsbury and Jesus), M. Nicholson (Eton and King's), D.Perrins Daunt sey's and Jesus), reserve. Sitting J. Gosse (Trinity Hall), J. Neame (Trinity Hall), stroke, J. Paton Philips Perse and St. John's), ...

Nothing New Under the Sun...: Past Parallels with Modern Characters

... Nothing New Under the Sun Past Parallels with. Modern Characters By Wi'lma Buckley LONDON'S Mrs. Meyrick and New York's Texas Guinan, of the Roaring Twenties, may seem, to the reflec tive, peculiarly contemporary characters. But the London of the eighteenth century produced a sizeable night club queen in the person of a certain Mrs. Cornelys; what is more, the venue of her activities ...

THEY WERE CLEVER ABOUT FITMENTS

... THEY WERE CLEVER ABOUT FITIENTS IT is early yet to talk of house improve ments and reconstructions, but ideas and plans are interesting when one is looking forward to the time, not too far distant now, when these exciting projects can be carried out. Even now, with men returning to the home and materials becoming all the time a little more plentiful, there are certain simple improvements that ...

Published: Friday 01 March 1946
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 447 | Page: Page 40, 41 | Tags: Photographs 

It Looks Like Glass

... One of the important priorities of war was the manufacture of a new type of transparent, mould able substance which looked like glass and had none of its fragility. There were many vital uses for this plastic production, but the most common was enclosing the look-outs of aeroplane fuselages-- aeroplane windows, if you want to put it that way. When this great demand for Perspex ceased, the ...

Published: Friday 01 March 1946
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 312 | Page: Page 41 | Tags: Photographs