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Events of this year in the Illustrated London News
January 3rd - William Joyce ('Lord Haw Haw') was hanged for treason in the UK
January 5th A week in the life of..
January - The opening of Heath Row (Heathrow) airport
January 30th - The inaugural ceremony of the UN General Assembly opened in London. Trygve Lie elected secretary-general
February - Rationing gets worse. Butter , margarine and cooking fat was cut from 8 oz (226 gm) to 7 oz (200g) a week.
A queue more than 80 yards long outside a baker's shop in London on July 21st when housewives arrived early to make sure of getting their share of the first rationed bread
coupon cutting in a London baker's shop
The Ministry of food helpfully circulated a recipe for Squirrel Pie
Other events of 1946
April 5th - Lovely Cottage won the first post-war Grand National Race and Airborne won the Derby
May - Winston Churchill addresses Congress at Fulton,
Missouri.
."A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied
victory....
From Stettin to the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron
curtain has has descended across the continent"
June 8th - declared a public holiday in the UK as Victory Day to celebrate the end of the entire war
June 30th - America exploded an Atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. It cost £8 million to build
July 22nd - Jewish dissidents blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem
July - Bread was now rationed in the UK due to the parlous economic state.
Britians debts had risen from £500 million before the war to £3.5 Billion
at the end of the war
and now had to go cap in hand to the Americans for a
loan
October - At the Nazi war Criminal trial in Nuremberg - Hermann Goering, Ribbentrop and 11 others were condemned to be hanged.
Rudolf
hess was given a life sentence. Goering committed suicide by taking cyanide.
December 19th - Hostilities broke out against the French in Indochina
The Bank of England, Coal and other industries were Nationalised
Opening of Heath Row civil aerodrome (Heathrow Airport)
February 16th
Guarded cells at Nuremberg
The housewife's Problem: Weekly food rations for one person
The menace of the roads: Casualties which must be prevented
The Drifting mine: Hazardous work on our gale-swept beaches
An episode of the recent winter storms: drama in the routine work of ocean-going tugs - with a happy ending (painting by Frank Mason)
The Sun as a colossal radio transmitter: the sun-spot "beam"
SS Queen Elizabeth feature
England's worst floods for thrity years feature
Aftermath of the war: Greece and the United Kingdom
Masterpieces of Greek Art 8000BC to 1944 AD at the Royal Academy feature
February 23rd
Princess Elizabeth and a sepia centrefold photo of her with Princess Margaret,
illustrated articles on the ruins of Berlin Zoo,
26th Indian Division of the Army,
The renaissance of British clock and watch making industry,
Magnetic mines and new types of Navy mines
Earloops of natives in Tanganyika
Centerfold drawings of the evolution of British aircraft Carriers into modern capital ships
March 2nd
The gigantic aircraft-carrier made of ice: HMS Habbakuk compared with HMS indefatigable (2 x double page feature)
The Mutiny at Bombay (see pictures; four pages including picture of Gandhi arriving in Bombay)
The Re-opening of Covent Garden 'Sleeping Beauty' feature
Studies of bees and beekeeping feature
The Ceremony of presenting red hats to the new cardinals: impressive scenes in the Vatican City (two page photographic feature)
Pneumatic decoy tanks and army lorries photo feature
Personalities of the week including Sir Stafford Cripps
Anti-british rioting in Cairo photo feature
Egypian discoveries photo feature
The Maori battalion welcomed home photo-feature
Osterley Park for the nation from Lord Jersey photo feature
Cyprus - wartime discoveries feature
The radar of the bat feature
and more
many adverts include Sunbeam-Talbot 'The Ten and 2-litre), 'why can't I buy
Dunlop Golf Balls', Moss Bros, The New Lagonda 2.5 litre drophead coupe
Fire on board the Cunard White Star Liner Queen Elizabeth,
just as she
was completing her last voyage as a troop carrier during the war.
The worst disaster in the history of British football', at Burnden Park,
Bolton.
The event occured at a cup-tie between Bolton and Stoke when a crowd
surge
caused the death of 33 people, and injured many more.
Battleship HMS Nelson leaving Portland for manoeuvres.
: Cover photo of Field Marshal Lord Alexander on board the "Aquitania" with Lady Alexander, their children and dogs;
M. Gromyko walking out of the United Nations Security Council during discussion of the Persian question;
Hameln (Hamelin), the town of a famous legend (The Pied Piper) hardly touched by the war;
Nash's Terraces, "the most breathtaking architectural panorama in London" - saved from the house-breaker;
Photos of Royal occasions illustrate Princess Elizabeth's civil and military duties;
The "ionosphere" rocket developed by Caltech;
Photo of the G-B 4 television glide bomb;
Photo of the "ROC" television high-angle bomb, whose TV eye transmit a picture of the target to the pilot of the parent aircraft;
"Haslar" mobile smoke producer, used to protect British towns threatened by bombing;
"A Record of the Commandos" includes photos of Brig. J. C. Haydon, Maj. Gen. R. G. Sturges,
Lieut. Col. G. Keyes, Lieut. Col. A. C. Newman, Brig. Lord Lovat, Maj. Gen. R. E. Laycock, and Brig. D. Mills-Roberts;
illustrations demonstrate radar as used by modern ships;
Under two flags? - the case of H.M S. "Seal", and other pictures;
Water jump in the Grand National horse race with huge crowd and background;
Yung Yat and Astometer falling at the first fence in the Grand National at Aintree on April 5, when only six riders of a field of 34 finish the race;
Photos of personalities of the week include Sir Mark Young, E. R. Guest,
Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten with the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and Prince William,
Lieut. Gen. Homma, Gen. Mihailovitch, Lieut. Col. Hutchison, Dr. Marcel Petiot, C.S.M.
J. R. Osborn, V. C., Mr. Hugh Dalton, Field Marshal Keitel, Herbert Hoover, and Dr. Kurt von Shuschnigg;
Women detectives in the making - policewomen at a C.I.D. School;
USS "Helena" at Southampton;
Victory parade rehearsal;
huge crowd celebrating the seventh anniversary of the ending of Spain's Civil War;
Gen. Franco on his Madrid balcony acknowledging cheers;
Photo of desperate Hungarians swarming a train at Budapest as they desperately search for food;
Food offerings in Brussels;
Viennese housewife with her weekly food ration;
Two photos contrast Australia's generous war food rations with that of Britain;
France honouring the memory of Maquis heroes;
Tthe funeral of field Marshal Lord Gort, V.C., at Penshurst, Kent;
Statue of King Charles I on horseback is returned to Whitehall after years of evacuation.
July 27th
: The Commemoration of the Battle of Britain: An Altar in St. George's Chapel Showing Two of the Six Oak Panels Forming the "Pilots'" Memorial.
Features include: Our Notebook; Book Review: "John Varley": by Adrian Bury and "Cox the Master" by F. Gordon Roe;
Aftermath of War: New Light on Allied Strategy;
The World of Science: The Mystery of the Harvest Bug; and Books of the Day.
Pictorial Journals include: The Vital Harvest of 1946:
Destruction by Floods and Gales;
Safety in the Air:
Wartime Discoveries to Assist Civil Aviation;
British Aircraft Christenings:
A New Transport (The "Hastings") and a New Service;
A Window on Europe: News Events Portrayed by the Camera;
Saving Coal: Main-Line Railways Convert Engines to Oil Fuel (Illus. by G.H. Davis);
Training Air Hostesses: Putting Theory into Practice in the Air;
The Old and the New: Camera News From Sea, Air and Land;
Wren's Temple Bar as an Entrance to Theobalds Park, and on Its Original Site;
Now Awaiting Judgment at Nuremberg: Twenty-One Defendants Who Made Final Pleas Before the Tribunal;
Scenes of Japanese Life Today: How the Common People are Living;
At the R.P.S. Exhibition: A Portrait Study of a Gorilla;
At the R.P.S. Exhibition: "The Wheel's Kick and the Wind's Song.";
Peaceful Cologne: The "Patton Bridge" Across the Rhine and the Bomb-Damaged Cathedral Area;
Camera Miscellany: News Pictures of the Week;
The C.M.F. San Carlo Opera Company's Debut at Covent Garden: "La Traviata" with Margherita Carosio as Violetta;
Locating and Rescuing Airmen (R.N. Air Ambulance) Who Crash in Mountain Districts (Illus. by Richard E. Jennings);
and Drawings of a Little-Known R.A.F. (Mountain) Rescue Service in Action (Illus. by Richard E. Jennings). .
September 28th
Vol 209, No 5606
Photos of Ceremonies, demonstrations and departures
Aeronautical news & photos
Personalities and Events of the Week & photos
Model Car Racing at Stanbridge & photos
'Britain Can Make It' exhibition
Article: Aftermath of War: Dowding on the Battle of Britain (II)
Home News in Pictures
Ballet photos: Les Sylphides at Alexandra Palace - 2 pages
Pilgrimage to Arnhem - 2 pages
Syntheic Sapphires & pics - 2 pages
Article on Peripatus
Thickness of the earth's Crust
Article: Three Years with Eisenhower by Capt. H C Butcher, USNR
The Modern Warship
The Return of King George II to Greece
December 28th
The Drawing Room Window of Jane Austen's Cottage at Chawton, Hampshire.
Our Notebook; Aftermath of War:
The Greek Complaint to the Security Council (inc. map);
Book Review: "Foreign Mud": by Maurice Collis;
The World of Science: Ennerdale Water and Its Fauna;
Notes for the Novel-Reader; and Books of the Day.
Pictorial Journals include: The Birthplace of Immortal Books: Chawton Cottage - Where Jane Austen Lived and Wrote;
The Princesses' Personal Setting: T.R.H. in Their Private Apartments;
A Problem Confronting the United Nations: The Greek Guerilla War;
"Blotmaster" But Notable Artist: The Tate Alexander Cozens Show; India at the Crossroads: Nehru's Proposal of a Republic at the First Constituent Assembly; Events of the Day:
Hamburg Tribunal on Inhuman Crimes at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp,
Manhattan Tenement Disaster;
The Setting of the Christmas Story: Christendom's Birthplace;
Naval Relics Exhibited in Paris;
Clearing the Corfu Channel (Minesweeping);
The Glow of Cape Town at Night: Floodlit Table Mountain;
The March into Azerbaijan: Persian Troops on the Frontier;
Life and Trade in the Deep Snows of the Canadian Arctic (Baker Lake Settlement),
Where "Skins" Buy Gramophones for Thriving Eskimos;
Heating Homes in England;
Clay Sculptures Which Summarise the Blackfellow's Legends and Culture: An Australian Artists's (William Ricketts) Thoughts About The Aborigines;
Wild Flowers that Bloom Where Christmas Falls in High Summer; and Unique Flowers of a Unique Landscape: Some of Australia's Lovely Flora.
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