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... age. A friend asked one of the members where they came from. His theory was that they were all despatch-riders in the Easter Rising, arid had been there ever since.) R.A.F. REUNION DINNER. Our artist Mac that 's him, tearing along with his drawing-pad ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1915 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations 

A London Newsletter: THE FIRST EASTER GARDEN AT ST. PAUL'S

... A London Newsletter 105-198, Strand, W.C.2. Easter.-- Let it be Easter and not north-easter. It was a lovely Easter day last year (April 18), warm in the shade, hot in the sun, and the young visitors launched out in a rubber dinghy on a piece of water ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2468 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

Palladium

... for fine jewellery 4 Surprise Easter Egg in green gold, pink enamel, pearls and diamonds, by Carl Faberge (1846-1920) goldsmith to the Russian Imperial family. Presented by Nicholas II to his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna, Easter 1898, this Egg contains three ...

Published: Wednesday 19 November 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 166 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations 

THAMES BOARD MILLS LIMITED

... Eastwards in the south pacific rise two thousand feet of monolithic rock, fragment of some vast deep- sunken empire. This is the lonely land that Admiral Roggeveen, the Dutchman, found on Easter Day, in 1722, and christened Easter Island. On its cave-lined ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 175 | Page: 40 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Mond Nickel Co. Ltd

... Russian Imperial family. 1 Pre saitcd by Nicholas II to his W wife, Alexandra Feodorovna, t Easter 1898, this Egg contains three miniature portraits which rise up from the interior of the Egg and open fmwise. Drawing prepared with the guidance of Messrs ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 175 | Page: 61 | Tags: Illustrations 

EASTERTIDE

... the middle of the month we shall be celebrating one of the most significant of all our religious festivals-- Easter. Though Good Friday and Easter have been commemorated since about A.D. 30, there has been a tendency in recent years to neglect many of the ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1327 | Page: 82 | Tags: Illustrations 

Colour In The Arcade

... in support of their loved ones. The film stars from Hollywood who come in search of a choice spotted scarf to give Him for Easter stay to buy check shirts, scarlet slacks and blazing waistcoats for themselves. Perhaps the ageing buck, whose shoes darkly ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 851 | Page: 36 | Tags: Illustrations 

WATCHING THE BOAT RACE FOR THE EAST TIME

... pointing vaguely at some solid houses. After much meandering through elegant little streets we turned a corner into a biting nor'-easter laced with intermittent drizzle and a crowd of mackintoshed eager-looking backs. We had arrived. Using the push-chair as a ...

Published: Wednesday 27 March 1957
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 787 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

DIARY OF A LADY OF LIMITED LEISURE

... DIARY OF A LADY OF LUTED LEISURE HAVE been attempting to smooth down ravages of Easter school holidays, new terms, and fading of drawing-room curtains by unscheduled weekend at seaside hotel. Bright sunshine filtering through double windows and central ...

Published: Wednesday 12 May 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 855 | Page: 44 | Tags: Illustrations 

A RELUCTANT SPRING: Early Nests . . . Pre-Vernal Flowers . . . Dippers and Wagtails

... that Tills tinkle merrily despite grey skies and drizzle --which strikes me as a shrewd and not unjust appraisal of the Easter we had here. Morning haze would clear sufficiently to allow long peeps of bright but hard blue sky. For half an hour or so ...

A PHILISTINE'S CONVERSION AT THE POINT-TO-POINT

... fail to get my money's worth. There is a strange delight in devouring chicken sandwiches seated on a running board in a north-easter, preceded by the bottle of mixed Martinis, companioned by the rather chilly Burgundy and all helped out with hard-boiled eggs ...

Published: Wednesday 06 March 1957
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1253 | Page: 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Story Of The Cross

... precious stones, was set up in the church built by Constantine. It j. remained there for 300 years for worshippers to see each Easter Sunday, till the King of Persia overran Egypt and Asia, eventually capturing and sacking Jerusalem. Ninety thousand Christians ...

Published: Monday 01 May 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1888 | Page: 78 | Tags: Illustrations