The Illustrated London News was a magazine founded by Herbert Ingram and Mark Lemon, the Editor of Punch,
with the first edition of the Illustrated London News appearing on 14 May 1842.
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This listing is for twenty two pages (44 sides) from a weekly issue of:
The Illustrated London News
……………………. DATED 1956 ……………………
This first part of the description features a list of Images i.e. engravings, sketches, drawings etc (these sometimes have descriptive articles but not always). They include: |
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Southampton and Cadets from the Abandoned Ketch Moyana Leading a Parade Through The Streets and Passing Under the BArgate - full front page, also shows the Bargate Hotel
The Seasie - - Drawing by G. Thomas Landing at Boulogne
MIlitary Precautions Following the Seizure of the Suez Canal : Troops and Equiment of the 16th INdependent Parachute Brigade n Board the Aircraft Carier Theseus Leaving POrtsmouth for The Mediterranean - a full page photograph taken from the air
Full page entitled the Suez Canal: Scenes of the Nationalisation Decree Being Put Into Force - seven photographs:
An Egyptian Policeman on Guard Outside the Suez Canal Company's Offices in Port Said
The Egyptian Flag Hoisted Over The Offices
At Port Said - Egyptian Officials Sealing a Cupboard in the Canal Company's Offices
Egyptian Officials Checking Cash at the Company's Port Said Offices
At the Suez Company's Ismailia Office - Colonel Mahmoud Yonis of the Egyptian Canal Authority with Other officials Studying Papers
Ismailia - Mr Abu Nossier the New Suez Canal Authority Chairman - with others
On the Banks of the Suez Canal - Changing Guards
Full page entitled The Suez Crisis: Egyptian Ships in Britain, The London Talks and The Paris Office - six photographs
Portsmouth Harbour - The Egyptian Destroyer Al Quaher Lying Between the British Destroyer Vigo and a British Mine Layer
Southampton and An Egyptian Ship Recently Bought from Britain - The Destroyer Al Fateh
London Talks - Mr Selwyn Lloyd - Sir Anthony Eden - Mr Dulles - M. Pineau
On the Steps of 10 Ten Downing Street - Sir Anthony Eden - Mr Dulles and Another Man
The Paris Office of the Suez Canal Company
Crowds Waiting in the Rain in Downing Street for the Arrival of the US secretary of State Mr Dulles
Art: Sold in London - View of the City of Montreal in1860 From Priests Farm, by W. F. Wilson
The Stonehenge Excavations - Working on an Arc Which Has Been Opened Revealing Stumps etc - the caption mentions Professor Stuart Piggott - Mr Richard J. C. Atkinson - Dr J. F. S. Stone
An Austrian Airfield - Polish Air Forece Cadets That Escaped in a Training Aricraft from Beblin Airfield, Who Have Been Given Political Asylum
One of the Polish Aircraft Carry the Escaped Pilots Crashed in the Forest near Kirchberg - the photograph shows the aeroplane nose down in the trees
The Reconstruction of the Mediaeval Bridge Ponte Della Pietra in Verona, Which Was destroyed by the Germans in 1945
A Mopdel of the Ponte Della Pietra Being Assembled From Plaster Miniatures of Its Stones - two men working on the model
A Rubens Scetch Found in the Collection of Mrs humphrey Brand at Glynde Place Near Lewes in Sussex - full page. The captions mentions Mr Oliver Millar Dept. Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures
Miss Freya Stark
The Five Ton Motor Sail Boat Elfin i Which Miss Stark Made the Voyage Described in Her Book
Lycian Toms at Telmeussus
Mr D. Balfour with Miss Stark in the Xanthus Valley
Full page entitled The Fourth Test: Laker's Triumphant Ten Wickets The Test Match at Old Trafford, Manchester - eleven photographs:
R. N. Harvey Throws Up His Bat in Disgust After Having Been Caught by Cowdrey
J. Burke Caught by Lock
Lake Appeals as He Has I. D. Craig LBW
K. Mackay Caught by Oakman
K. R. Miller Leaves the Crease Having Been Bowled By LAker
R. G. Archer Caught by Oakman
Australian Top Scorer C. C. McDonald Caught by Oakman
The Surrey Spin Bowler J. C. Laker The Hero of the Fourth Test Matc
R. Benaud Bowled For Eighteen
R. R. Lindwall Caught by Log
L. Maddocks is LBW for Two
Mr Dulles The U.S. Secretary of State
Map Showing the Principal Canadian Oil Wells, Refineries, and the Great West to East Pipelines - near half page with table showing production
Double diagrammatical map entitled Of Interest in View of the Egyptian Seizure of the Suez Canal: The Distribution of the World's Oil Wells and Refineries Shown in a Map it also shows a graph and charts with the countries and amounts of production, and also the refining capacity
Page entitled Piping Oil From Iraq to the Mediterranean: The Lebanon Iraq Petroleum Company Dispute - five photographs:
The Process Plant at Kirkuk in Iraq, Which is the Subject of Dispute Between Lebanon and the Iraq Company
A Man Standing at the End of the Oil Pipeline From Kirkuk to Tripoli
Map Showing the Piplines, Refineries, Pumping Stations, Railways, Oilfields etc. Running From Kirkukto The Mediterranean Showing Terminals at Banias, Syria and Tripoli in Lebanon
The Signal Station at Tripoli, Lebanon the Mediterranean Terminal of the Iraq Petroleum Companys Pipeline
Triopli - The Iraq Companys Refinery
Gloucestershire - The Early 12th Century Frescoes in The Church of St Mary in KEmpley near Dymock - full page photograph by Derek Evans ARPS
The Rescue of The Crew of a Ketch - Moyana in the Severe Wind and High Seas Under Her Storm Canvas as the Steamer ~Clan Maclean is Circling Towards Her to Give Her Shelter Alongside so the Scrambling Nets Can Be Used, An RAF Shackleton Aircraft Circles Above After Dropping a Flare - a wonderful double page Drawn by Our Special Artist C. E. Turner and Based on Eye Witness Description of Chief Officer D. Richards of the Clan Maclean
Double page of diagrams Illustrating the Ever Growing Transatlantic Air Traffic - An Impression of a Busy Period When 5000 Persons May Be Crossing Between Britain and America drawn by G. H. Davis from information suppleid by the Air Traffic Control Centre, Redbrae, Prestwick, Scotland. The diagrams also show the types of planes, the airlines ie Lufthansa, Canadian Pacific Air Lines, TWA, Ital, KLM, Pan American, etc.
Double page Eskimo Carvings - eleven photographs:
A Hunter by an Eskimo of the Sleeper Islands
Carved in Green Soap Stone by Anawak, a Hunter from Kovik, Hudson Bay -An Eskimo Hunter
By an Unknown Carver fron Povungnetuk - Polar Bear
Hunter with Knife
Eskimo Woman in Soap Stone
A Seal by Tikeetuk of Cape Dorset
A Hunter Carved by Isacee of Povungnetuk
Man Pulling a Sealskin Line Carved by Mumungee of Kogalik River
Man Using a Bow Drill
Hunsman Poised Over Reive an Ice Hole
Small Eskimo Carving of a Man
Excavations from Saqqara in the Cairo Museum - Ra'Nufer, High Priest of Mamphis in a Fifth Dynasty Limestone Carving
Boston Museum of Fine Arts - Grey Granite Statue of Princess Senul From Kerma, in Nubia
Art Page - seven photographs:
St John The Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness - From a Painting by Domenico Puligo
Portrait of a Youth - painting by J. Russell RA
Mrs Hannah Maria Edmunds - painting by J. S. Webster
The Entrance to Portsmouth - From the Painting by T. Whitcombe
Landscape with a Watermill - From a Painting by G. Smith of Chichester
The Quay -From a Painting by A .C. Begeyn
Colonel George Smith of Burnhall - From the Painting by J. Wright of Derby
Gardening - A Display of Coronilla Cappadocica in the Garden of Clarence Elliott x2 photographs by Peter Pritchard
Personalities of the Week Page:
The Danish Royal Family on the Royal Yacht Dannebrog, Returning Home to Denmark After Their Visit to Britain - King Frederik IX and Ingrid of Sweden with Their Children Princess Benedikte - Princess Anne Marie - Princess Margrethe
Mr Thomas Bourdillon, the Everest Expedition Oxygen Apparatus Specialist, Killed in The Swiss Alps
Mr Richard Viney Kille in a Climbing Accident in the Swiss Alps
Field Marshal Montgomer Presenting the RAF Cranwell Sword of Honour to Senior Under Officer J. H. Constable
Mister J. Y. Snagster The New BSA Chairman
Mr J. R. Y. Johnston Appointed Managing Director of the Canadian Pacific Steamships
Married in Germany - Princess Christina of Hess, a Niece of the Duke of Edinburgh, Marries Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia
Dr Ralph Vaughan Williams and Sir Adrian Boult Presented with the Harvard Glee Club Medal by Professor Woodworth - photograph of the three men talking
Sir Bernard Docker Former Managing Director of BSA - photograph of him with his wife possibly
Mr Awad Satti theDIrector of Education in the Sudan Now Sudanese Ambassador in London
The Mayor of Southampton Mrs K. E. Cawte Inspecting Moyana's Trophy with Cadet Fewtrell
General Jean Etienne Valluy The New Allied CinC in Europe
The Eland x2 photographs by NEave Parker
Ex Servicemen of the Not Forgotten Association Watching a Boxing Exhibition at a Buckingham palace Garden party
The Battle of the Flowers in Jersey
The New High Speed LaunchKeenlyside.
The 24 Hour Le Mans Race Showing R. Flckhart in His Jaguar At the Finishing Line
The Bristol Britannia 301 Making Its Maiden Flight at Filton Airfield near Bristol - Taking Off
A Model of the New De Havilland Comet 4A
Cinema - Scene from The Eddy Duchin Story - Kim Novak and Tyrone Power
Scene from The Eddy Duchin Story: Tyrone Power - Rex Thompson - Victoria Shaw - Shepperd Strudwick - Frieda Inescort
Full page entitled The Tower of London Ravens - Seven photographs:,
Kala A Raven in the Tower of London Retreats From the Attentions of the Raven Master's Terrier
Kala Enjoying a Favourite Occupation...
TheTaven Master Recording Details in the Official Book
A Raven Struts Across the Lawn During Changing of the Guard Ceremony in Front of the Governors House
Sandwich Time - A Bird Approaches Visitors to The Tower
A Raven Taking His Meat Ration from the Raven Master
Corax the Raven Taking a Bath
Theatre - Scene from Bernard Shaw's Caesar And Cleopatra at the Old Vic - Doreen Aris and Geoffrey Bayldon
Scene from Caesar and Cleopatra - Played By Sir Barry Jackson.s Birmingham Repertory Company at the Old Vic
Earthquake in Burma - A Wrecked Pagoda in Sagaing near Mandalay
Seoul - Legislators of the Democratic Party of Korea Protesting Against the Government's Denial of the People's Right to Contest Elections Miel for Public Offices
Malaya - Sir Donald MacGillivray the High Commissioner Sprinkling Holy Water on Bride and Bridegroom Ruing the Wedding of the Sultan of Kedah's Son and The Sultan of Selangor's Daughter
The New Pneumatic Wheels Fitted to the Trains on the Paris Metro
Germany - U.S. and German Air Force Officers Signing Taking \Over Documents for Forty Nine U.S. Aircraft
Vienna - The new Austrian Army Uniforms
Chess Problem
The RSPCA Hostel at London Airport - seven photographs
General View of the Hostel at London Airport
The Kennels
An RSPCA Lady Feeding a Squirrel Monkey with a Banana
Medicine Being Administered to Two African Grey Parrots
The Resident Manager Giving First Aid to an Ant Eater
The Assistant Manager Feeding Nectar to Indian Fruic Sucers, SHamas and Minivets (birds)
Two Agoutis Being Cared For at the Centre
Full page English Electric Advert: 60,000kW English Electric Steam Turbo-alternator for the Drakelow A Power Station at Burton on Trent - - - 2480hp English Electric Winder Motor for the NCB's Snowdown Colliery in Kent - - - E.E. 132kV Oil Circuit Breakers at the Khatima Power Station, Uttar Pradesh, India - - - The Salime Power Station in Spain, the Spillway
M. J. Murphy the Chief Radio Officer Aboard the P&O Strathnaver - half page advert
Double page of adverts including: Firestone Tyres - Lucas Car Battery - Laycock Positive Overdrive - Highland Queen Scotch Whisky - Ross Binoculars - Pyrotenax Copper Covered Cables
Full page of adverts incl: Barling Tobacco Pipe - Bells Whisky - Conway Stewart Pen - Dry Fly Sherry - Milk of Magnesia Tablets - India Tourist Office
Ballantines Whisky - advert
India Tyres - half page advert
BP Energol Visco-Static Motor Oil - full page advert
Shells Nature Studies - Bees and Wasps - a full page in colour with an identification square for the different types - Advert inside back cover
Looking in on the Navy: Crossing The Line - a full page colour illustration showing a spirited scene on board ship. Back cover advert for Senior Service Cigarettes
Passing Clouds Cigarettes - full page colour advert on inside front cover
This second part of the description features items of news articles etc but have no images associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They include: |
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Note Book Page by Arthur Bryant
Suez Canal Crisis - caption articles
Collectors page by Frank Davis - Ancient Egypt
Timeless Travels in Turkey - The Lycian Shore by Freya Stark – An Appreciation by Sir John Squire
Fourth Test Match at Old Trafford - caption article
A Window on the World - Obscurities of Defence - By Cyril Falls
The Canadian Oilfields: A Possible Alternative to Those of the Middle East in the Future
Oilwells of the World - caption article to accompany map/diagram
Transatlantic Air Traffic - information supplied by the Air Traffic Control Centre, Redbrae, Prestwick, Scotland - approx. 380 words
Lebanon Iraq Petroleum Company Dispute - caption article
The Rescue of the Crew of the Ketch Moyana - with mention of Chief Officer D. Richards of the Clan Maclean - Southampton University School of Navigation - Captain H. Stewart (Herbert Stewart)
Eskimo Carvings Sleekburnc.
Gardening page by Clarence Elliott VMH
Science Page by Maurice Burton - Eland Ignored
Cinema Page by Alan Dent
The Tower of London's Ravens - caption article - approx.200 words
Theatre Page by J. C. Trewin - Through Irish Eyes
Novels of The Week by K. John
Books of the Day E.D. O' Brien
Bridge Problem by Baruch H. Wood
Sleekburnc. 1108
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