An original vintage newspaper/magazine THE SPHERE 1963 Racial Tension Birmingham Alabama AHMADOU AHIDJO Martin Luther King BEN BELLA Algiers MANUELA VARGAS Doreen Wells Ballet ECUADOR Metropolitan Theatre of Varieties The Met ALSACE Suffolk BOULTING BROTHERS Hugh Charles Tett RAF AIRCRAFT. Plus much more; see main description
 

THE SPHERE Vintage Newspaper/Magazine DATED 1963 Racial Tension Birmingham Alabama AHMADOU AHIDJO Martin Luther King BEN BELLA Algiers MANUELA VARGAS Doreen Wells Ballet ECUADOR Metropolitan Theatre of Varieties The Met ALSACE Suffolk BOULTING BROTHERS Hugh Charles Tett RAF AIRCRAFT

Original Weekly Issue


This first list gives a list of images i.e. photographs, maps, sketches, drawings etc (these sometimes have descriptive articles but not always). They include:

Victoria Station London - Mr Ahmadou Ahidjo The President of Cameroon - His Wife - Mr Macmillan.


The Racial Battleground in USA:

Nashville Tennessee - Police Braking up a Band of Young Negroes Who Tried to ink Arms in Order to Block the Entrance to an All White Restaurant.

Birmingham Alabama - A Young Woman Kneels in Prayer Outside the City's Traffic Office.

Dr Martin Luther King the Leader of Negro Integration.

Birmingham Alabama - Two Negro Youths Leaping high in the Air to Avoid a high Pressure Jet of Water.

Birmingham Alabama - Part of a Crowd of Negroes, singing and Praying, as They Gather Before They Attempt to March on The City Jail.


The Primate of Poland Cardinal Wyszynski in Rome - Leaving the Train.

A Recruit to the Swiss Guard is Sworn Reive In In the Courtyard of the Vatican.

Lord Rupert Nevill Receiving a Cheque for £1000 from Mr H. Benedictus Chiar of Lillywhites, for the National Playing Fields Association.

The Rail Strike Threat - Mr Sidney Greene Gen. Sec. of the Railwaymen, Leaving Talks at The Railway Board HQ After NUR Talks with Dr Beeching ' and another man.

The Crisis in San Domingo on The Divided Dominican Republic Island - A Soldier of the DR Faces Haitian Soldiers Across the 10 Foot Frontier Strip.

Haitian Troops Guard President Duvaliers Palace.

Admiral Lord Mountbatten Arrives in New Delhi for Talks - With Mr Nehru the PM and Mr Zakir Husain the Vice President - and others.

The Congo - The Two Presidents of Neighbouring Congolese Republics, President Fulbert Youlou and President Kasavubu.

Kota Baru at West Irian (Indonesia) - Mr E. J. Bonay Sworn in as Governor.

Moscow - Mr Greville Wynne During His Trial on Charges of Espionage.

New Zealand House London - Queen Elizabeth Looking at the View from the Balcony o the Roof, Below is Trafalgar.

RAF Coltishall - Princess Margaret Inspects a Lightning Jet Aircraft.

The Duke of Edinburgh at the French Chamber of Commerce.

Mary The Princess Royal With the Lord Mayor at the Red Cross Annual Service at St Pauls.

Cwrt-y-Gollen - Queen Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh Watching a Training Display of the Welsh Brigade.

Algiers - Huge Crowds reive Surround the Car Carrying the Algerian Premier Mr Ben Bella and President Nasser of the United Arab Republic During a State Visit ' full page photograph.

Westminster - Members of the Convocation of Canterbury Walk in Procession to St Margarets.

Mary Princess Royal the President of the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, Unveils a Statue in Brunswick Square London. Keenlyside

The Little Ferry Across the Avon at Stratford - holy Trinity Church Beyond.

Art On Open Air Display at The Embankment Art Exhibition in London.

Sailing Boats at Leigh on Sea in Essex '


Fiesta Flamenca at the Piccadilly Theatre Under the Supervision of Enrique El Cojo:

Manuela Vargas Demonstrates the Art of Flemenco.

Manuela Vargas Dancing.

Edardo Serrano "El Guito" ...

Photographs by Anthony Crickmay


The Royal Ballet at Covent Garden - The Ballet Sylvia:

Doreen Wells as Sylvia and Bryan Ashbridge as Orion in a Bacchic Dance.

Leonide Massine Rehearsing David Gordon for Le Bal des Voleurs.

Photographs by Anthony Circkmay


Kenya and the Preparations for Elections:

Mr Jomo Kenyatta the Kenya African National Union Leader or KANU.

Mr Ronald Ngala the Kenya African Democratic Union Leader or KADU.

Mr Paul Ngei the African Peoples Party Leader or APP.

After Lunch at Admiralty House - Mr John McEwen the Australian Deputy PM - Sir Eric Harrison Australian High Commissioner - Mr Frederick Erroll President Of Board of the Trade.

Outside Labour Party Headquarters, Transport house in London - Nigerian Trade Unionists - four men.Loght.

Farewell Dinner in Salisbury Rhodesia for the Retiring Governor General: Sir Roy Welensky - Countess of Dalhousie - Mrs J. Bridge Sir Roy's Daughter - Lord Dalhousie.


Taking Diploma Course in Clinical Pathology at Hammersmith Hospital London:

Dr Yvonne Wills and Her Husband Dr E. J. Wills of Sydney Australia at Work in the British Postgraduate Medical School.

Squadron Leader Dr Lowe RAF - Dr Qureshi of Pakistan - Dr H. S. Ahluwajia of Malaya - Miel.

Dr N. J. Mody from Uganda and Dr R. J. Cote from Canada.


Ecuador South America - Land of the Equator

View of The Capital of Ecuador - Quito.

The New Ministry of Works at Quito.

Quito University - The Faculty of Engineering.

Indian Women Barter in the Market - With Wooden Spoon and Bowls - wearing their distinctive hats.

The Church of La Compania i Quito.

A Girl at the Market in Otavolo.

Dug Out Canoes Used to Unload Shrimps for The Canneries at Playas.

Worker Shovels Dried Cocoa Beans into a Sack in Guayaquil for Shipment.

Rafts of Valuable Hardwood Drift Down a Tributary of the River Guaya on the Way to Guayaquil to be Shipped for Export.

A Driver and his Bus.

The Fishing Port of Manta - Gourds Piled on the Shore Which Will Eventually Be Used for Storing Water.

Photographs by Mike Andrews.


Farewell to the Metropolitan Music Hall in Edgware Road London - Drawings by Geoffrey S. Fletcher:

Stone Head of a Figure in the "Met" Music Hall.

The Proscenium Seen Fromthe Gallery.

"The Gods" in the Music Hall.

Drawings of Two of the Boxes.

The Theatre was to be demolished to make way for road widening on the Edgware Rd. - Double page.


Charles Kingsley - From a Painting by Lowes Dickinson 1862.

Yachting - " Musketeer " Running with Spinnaker full Out, Built for Peter Green by Camper and Nicholsons.


Suffolk:

..." The House in the Clouds ", A Timber Building 80ft High Overlooking Thorpeness and Aldeburgh - A Windmill in the Background.

The norman Keep at Orford Castle.

St Peter's Church At Westleton.

A View Across the Mere at Thorpeness near Aldeburgh.

The Rood Screen in Orford Church.

Aldeburgh - Fishermen Relax on the Beach.

The Mercer's Hall at Walberswick.


Alsace in France:

Old Strasbourg - The Lower Rhine - a wonderful photograph showing children playing on steps at the river - rows of houses alongside the river, a car possibly a Morris Minor, cobbled street - Cathedral in distance - possibly La Petite France.

The Cathedral at Strasbourg.

Street at Colmar in haut-Rhin.


Sir Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike in Their Programme "Some Men and Women" at The Theatre Royal Haymarket.

Producer and Directors - John and Roy Boulting.

Peter Sellers as Rev. John Smallwood in "Heavens Above" ...


Mister H. C. Tett - Chairman and Managing Director of Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd ' full page - photograph by Tom Hustler.

The Modified VC10 Flies Over the Vickers Airfield at Weybridge.

The VC10 Lands After a Test Flight at Vickers Airfield Weybridge.

The Westland Scout Helicopter.c.keenlyside.

The Turbine Engined Westland Gnome Whrilwind.

Wessex 11 Twin Engined with RAF Markings.

Whirlwind 10 Helicopters Operating with the RAF.

The Tri Jet de Havilland Trident.

The Hatfield Factory -Trident Production Line.

Globe Air Takes Delivery of its First Dart Herald Turboprop.

Checking the Uniformity of Element Resistance in the "Spinner" opf a Rolls Royce Dart Engine.

Carrying Out Final Sealing onthe Tailplane of a Gannet Anti Submarine Aricraft.

Lowering the tailplane of an ARgosy Freighter into Water for Testing.


The Jaguar Mark 10 Car.

Greece - full page colour travel advert; inner front cover

Vauxhall Victor Estate Car De Luxe - full page advert.

Space for Industry - the North East Development Council - George Chetwynd Director 20 Collingwood St Newcastle on Tyne - advert

Haig Whisky.

Monte Carlo ' full page colour travel advert showing the Casino, Marina etc

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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:

Tensions in the Middle East by John Connell.

The Voice of the Commonwealth.

Land of the Equator - Ecuador.

Farewell to the Metropolitan Theatre Edgware Rd.

Fairy Story for Adults - Charles Kingsley.

Variety in Suffolk by Geoffrey Hart.

Travel and Alsace by Sylvie Nickels.

Books - by Richard Edmonds.

Boost for Cotton with ref. to ICI Courtauld - by The Sphere Industrial Correspondent.

The Paris International Air Show at Le Bourget.

Motoring by Courtenay Edwards.

Good hotels by Ashely Courtenay:

The Isle of Wight: Royal Spithead Hotel at Bembridge Run by Charles Selwyn - - - Royal Cliff hotel at Sandown Owned by Mr and Mrs P. H. Carter - - - Medehamstede Hotel at Sandown Owned by Mr And Mrs C. G. Crawley - - - Shanklin Towers hotel Run by Mrs Walter Mitchell - - - Mill House Hotel Run by the Shafto Family - - - Sentry Mead Run by Mr and Mrs J. H. Conder - - - The Royal Hotel at Ventnor.

Guernsey - Old Government House Owned by Mr R. Wood - - - La Fregate Owed by Mr and Mrs George Hawes with Chef de Cuisine Karl Loderer - - - La Collinette hotel Owned by Squadron Leader and Mrs Peter Chambers - - - Manor hotel at Petit Bot, St Peter Port.

A Literary Letter - by CKS.

Woman’s Sphere by Olivia.

In the Petrol World by R. P. Hearne. 1805


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