Images Dated 2015 November

Sax Usually paying little or no attention to political correctness, Sax cartoons are often saucy

Sax Usually paying little or no attention to political correctness, Sax cartoons are often saucy and irreverent, often a sly look at gender relations, marriage, men, women, drinking, restaurants, family life, health, flirting, adultery, neighbours.... Funny, bawdy, rude, skillfully executed by a gifted cartoonist his images have tremendous energy and are easy to "get" the joke. humour, funny, naughty

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The gypsies are leaving their hundred year old settlement on Hurtwood Hill in Surrey

The gypsies are leaving their hundred year old settlement on Hurtwood Hill in Surrey . They lived in huts, caravans and ' benders ( huts with branches bent over and covered with sacks ) - but now they are forsaking their picturesque homes and many of them are moving into corrugated iron bungalows at West Walton provided by the Surrey Council as alternative accomodation .
In their new homes, the gypsies will discard their Romany customs and follow the ways of civilisation .
Photo shows ; A gypsy family bringing logs to make bass brooms outside their ' bender ' at the Hurtwood Hill encampment .
11 January 1934
30s, 30's, 1930s, 1930's, thirties, nineteen thirties Travellers Romany Gypsy Gipsy gypsies Roma. social history

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Patricia Purser, 18, of Camberwell, who has been elected "Merchant Navy Queen" of Lambeth

Patricia Purser, 18, of Camberwell, who has been elected "Merchant Navy Queen" of Lambeth. She will be crowned at a ceremony which opens Lambeth Merchant Navy Comfort Service Week on the Albert Embankment. A coach and pair will drive her to Lambeth Pier where 20 London Mayors will watch her coronation. The party will then embark to barge, while a display is given by River Thames NFS and land at Albert Embankment for a drive through the streets.
28 April 1946 History of London - Vauxhall / Lambeth

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