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The Illustrated London News 1947
1947 advert "The Decola" player
Adverts from 1947
Whiteways British wines etc. etc.
Some Events of this year in the Illustrated London News
January 1st - British Coal Mines were nationalised
January - Brought 14 foot snowdrifts and icebergs off the Norfolk
coast.
The sea froze at Margate. London temperatures went down to
-9°C Britain ground almost to a halt with the harsh winter
January 25th - Al Capone, American gangster, died aged 48
February - The power crisis was so bad in the UK The Prime Minister Clement
Attlee announced on the radio "an emergency of the utmost gravity"
and appealed
to everyone to conserve fuel. Factories closed because of power shortages, people at home went to bed for warmth
Eva Peron
July - The announcement of the engagement, from Buckingham Palace of Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten
June - The milk allowance was reduced to 2½ pints (1Litre) per week, newspapers were cut to 4 pages only
June 5th - General George Marshall proposed plan for European recovery
August 15th - British India ended and the Dominions of India (Hindu) and Pakistan (Muslim) came into being
August 24th - Opening of the first Edinburgh Festival under director Rudolf Bing
September - Meat ration was cut again, holidays abroad were banned and motoring for pleasure was banned
November 13th - Hugh Dalton resigned as Chancellor over budget leak
November 20th - HRH Princess Elizabeth (21) married Lieutenant
Philip Mountbatten,
her dress was Ivory with a Tulle veil by Norman
Hartnell.(died 2003) The BBC covered the occasion in 42 languages
British Atomic pile setup at Harwell
The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered
Miscellaneous News of the Week
A Coal saving advert!
April 19th
A man-made Snow Storm in Oregon, U.S.A. - New Science of Weather Control?
Three pages of photos to celebrate PRINCESS ELIZABETH reaching 21 years old. -
Christening in 1926 with DUKE and DUCHESS of YORK;
At 2 years old in 1928 with her nurse;
At 3 years old in 1929 'LILLIBET' at a party;
Age 5 in 1931 as a bridesmaid;
At 6 in 1932 on a rocking horse with PRINCESS MARGARET;
At 7 in 1933 at a Scottish Fete;
Age 10 in 1936 visiting the miniature village of BEKONSCOT;
At 12 in 1938 on board the Victoria and Albert;
Age 13 in 1939 in a swimming costume;
Age 7 in 1933 outside a Welsh cottage Y BWTHYN BACH with PRINCESS MARGARET;
Age 11 in 1937 with PRINCESS MARGARET at the Coronation of their Father;
Age 11 in 1937 with a dog at GLAMIS;
At 13 in 1939 with a pony in WINDSOR GREAT PARK;
In 1947 on horseback with her mother the QUEEN standing by;
In 1947 in her sitting room in BUCKINGHAM PALACE
photos of the Royal Visit to PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA;
The Royal
Family surrounded by BOER WAR Veterans with the magnigicient UNION BUILDINGS
in the background;
The KING speaking from a dias in CHURCH SQUARE, PRETORIA
on his visit of March 29-31
photo of the KING opening the 6th Parliament of SOUTHERN RHODESIA
on April 7th, in the SINGLE CHAMBER of PARLIAMENT HOUSE, SALISBURY
PRINCESS ELIZABETH wearing the diamond spray brooch given to her by RHODESIAN
schoolchildren.
PRINCESS ELIZABETH with H. NICHOLLS and R.G. NORTON
a drawing by G.H. DAVIS of the FAIREY GUIDED MISSILE
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Britain's first radio-controlled projectile from the FAIREY AVIATION COMPANY
LTD
KING CHRISTIAN of DENMARK
CROWN PRINCE FREDERIK of DENMARK
LORD and LADY MOUNTBATTEN with MAHATMA GANDHI
HENRY FORD [Ford Motor Co.] died aged 83
from a Railway painting by TERENCE CUNEO of The New Types of L.N.E.R.
Locomotives in the Paint Shop at Doncaster.
Still
being painted by hand. Featuring the new PACIFIC Type,
a 150 ton engine and
a standard passenger locomotive. Includes CISSIE the Paint Shop cat!
photos of HELIGOLAND, the Island Fortress and bird sanctuary, prior to the proposed demolition arranged for April 18th
drawings by CAPTAIN BRYAN DE GRINEAU.
Showing a proposed Flat Site at BLACKHEATH that already houses pre-fabricated
houses -
The fine GEORGIAN Building, COLONNADE HOUSE; The PARAGON erected
by the L.C.C. in BLACKHEATH;
Fine old houses in ST. GERMAIN'S PLACE - SOUTH ROW opposite the Pond - The Georgian PARAGON majestic
Crescent
photos of a TEXAS-OKLAHOMA Tornado; - HIGGINS, TEXAS, 24 dead;
WOODWARD, OKLAHOMA, 100 dead; 4 rare photos of a tornado; 2 more views of
the devastation at WOODWARD, OKLAHOMA
Photo of a bust of LOUIS PASTEUR; Opening of the LOUIS PASTEUR Exhibition; Apparatus used by PASTEUR.
HARALD WIESMANN being cross-examined in the PRAGUE PEOPLE'S COURT
New 'Lie Detector' or Electro-Encephalograph at IMPERIAL COLLEGE of SCIENCE,
SOUTH KENSINGTON
From the NORTHUMBRIAN PENNINES, looking across the COQUET to SIMONSIDE
ANN of CLEVES Jointure Grant discovered in DUSSELDORF - full page article and photos.
Photos of paintings on Exhibition in America, which had been looted from HOLLAND and recovered by the U.S. ARMY
Showpiece by GERRET HEDA; View of Haarlem by JACOB VAN RUISDAEE
Church Interior by GERRIT A. BERCK-HEYDE;
A Young Tourist by THOMAS DE KEYSER;
Couple in Interior by PIETER CODDE
Ice Fishing by ARENT A. CABEL
Westerkerk, Amsterdam by JAN VAN DER HEYDEN
A' Tobacco by JAN JANSZ VAN DE VELDE the THIRD
The Peahens by REMBRANDT
'Juno' or The Eavesdropper by NICHOLAS MAES
Winter Landscape by ART VAN DER NEER
Jacob de Graeff by GERARD TER BORCH
MICHAEL REDGRAVE and RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH [As the small boy!] in the film The Man Within
JOSETTE DAY, M. RAIMU, and FERNANDEL in the film La Fille du Puisatier -
2 photos
Adverts
KING SIX Cigars
RONUK Polish
GARMER'S Cyder
JAGUAR
FOUR SQUARE Tobacco
ROSS BINOCULARS
HILLMAN MINX
ROLLS ROYCE
REVELATION luggage
CONWAY STEWART Pens
MACKESON'S Stout
FORD
WOLSELEY
SCHWEPPES
April 26th
Munitions ship exploded in Texas City, a port on the Gulf of Mexico.
The
resulting fire caused further explosions in the Monsanto chemical plant,
and
it took several days to bring the situation under control.
The number of dead
was estimated at between 400 and 700
Nash houses of Regent's Park Terraces, as they appeared in 1947
Demolition of Heligoland, the German military and naval stronghold.
May 24th
The Royal Family in an open carriage with crowds on the street, at lunch at the Guildhall with the Lord Mayor Of London,
Democratized Japan,
Germanys food shortage and the British Sector of Berlin,
Thomas Mann, drawings of Nash Terraces Regent Park
illustrations of rocket in the stratosphere
June 7th
Air crashe at LaGuardia aiport, New York,the accident occured when a Skymaster
overran the runway at LaGuardia and burst into flames with the loss of thirty-nine
occupants
The same thing happened in woodland near Bainbridge, Maryland) they both
invovled Skymaster aircraft.
, and the latter when a similar aircraft crashed
into dense woodland at Bainbridge
from a height of 6,000 ft. All four crew
and forty-nine passengers were killed.
Centenary of Radley College, Oxford,with several illustrations of everyday student life.
'American news in pictures from both sides of the Atlantic',
reflecting
the special relationship between Britain and the USA after the war.
July 12th
Wimbledon finals Mens Champion J.Kramer and Ladies Champion Margaret Osborne
Third test England v South Africa at Old Trafford.
Giant flying boat, the short-saro Shetland,
Railton-Mobil Special in which John Cobb was to attempt to break his own world land-speed record 368 mph.
August 23rd
Whitehaven mine disaster in which 104 miners lost their lives.
The article
has pictures of anxious relatives waiting for news, rescue workers, and of
the three men
who made a 'miraculous escape' (James Weighman, John Birkett,
and Daniel Hinde). Seven others were eventually rescued.
Giant assembly halls at Filton, near Bristol, where the Brabazon airliner (the largest plane ever built in Britain) was to be assembled
September 6th
September 13th
September 27th
Feature illustrated story concerns John Cobbs attempt
to smash the land speed record of 400 Mph on the
Bonneville Salt flats of
Nevada. Photos include his car, "The Railton Special," with cobb
standing along side
and another of the car in motion making the speed record
attempt
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