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Loch Killin, near Whitebridge, Scottish Highlands. *
Reference: H-0124
Loch Killin, near Whitebridge,...
His Excellency Jan Masaryk, Vice-President of the Czechoslovak Republic. Jan Garrigue Masaryk (14th September 1886-10th March 1948) was a Czech diplomat and politician and Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1940 to 1948. Born in Prague, he was a son of professor T.G Masaryk (who became the first President of Czechoslovakia in 1918). In 1925 Jan Masaryk was made ambassador to Britain. His father resigned as President in 1935 and died two years later. In September 1938 the Sudetenland was occupied by German forces and Masaryk resigned as ambassador in protest, although he remained in London. When a Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile was established in Britain in 1940, Masaryk was appointed Foreign Minister. During the war he regularly made broadcasts over the BBC to occupied Czechoslovakia. He had a flat at Westminster Gardens, Marsham Street in London but often stayed at the Czechoslovak Chancellery residence at Wingrave. In 1942, about the time this photo was taken, Masaryk received an LL.D. from Bates College. Masaryk remained Foreign Minister following the liberation of Czechoslovakia as part of the multi-party, Communist-dominated National Front government. The Communists under Klement Gottwald saw their position strengthened after the 1946 elections but Masaryk stayed on as Foreign Minister. On 10th March 1948 Masaryk was found dead, dressed in his pajamas, in the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry below his bathroom window. The initial investigation by the Communist ministry of interior stated that he had committed suicide by jumping out of the window, although for a long time it was been believed by some that he was murdered by the nascent Communist government. In a second investigation taken in 1968 during the Prague Spring, Masaryk's death was ruled an accident, not excluding a murder and a third investigation in the early 1990s after the Velvet Revolution concluded that it had been a murder.
Reference: 37639
His Excellency Jan Masaryk, Vi...
An Teallach, Wester Ross, from the road to Dundonnell in the Scottish Highlands. *
Reference: H-0206
An Teallach, Wester Ross, from...
Scottish Highlands. *
Reference: H-0207
Scottish Highlands. *...
Scottish Highlands. *
Reference: H-0208
Scottish Highlands. *...
Ness Bridge and the River Ness, looking north from Castle Hill. (Ness Bridge was demolished in 1959. See image H-0011a). *
Reference: H-0196
Ness Bridge and the River Ness...
Greig Street Bridge over the River Ness, Inverness. See also H-0009. *
Reference: H-0195
Greig Street Bridge over the R...
Greig Street Bridge over the River Ness, Inverness. See also H-0009. *
Reference: H-0194
Greig Street Bridge over the R...
Innes - Jones bridal, Grantown-on-Spey. A partial list of relatives to whom prints were to be posted includes: Mr & Mrs F. Innes, 19 Montgarrie Road, Alford, Aberdeenshire. Mr & Mrs J.R. Jones, 65 Hudspeth Crescent, Pity Me, Durham. Mr & Mrs P. Innes, 9 Scotland Place, Boness. Mr & Mrs A. Innes, 'Kent Wynds,' Hever Avenue, West Kingsdown, Kent. Mr & Mrs J. Innes, 'Elmwood,' Townhead Road, Strathaven, Lanarkshire and Mrs P. Innes, 'Carndearg,' Grantown-on-Spey.
Reference: 3363c
Innes - Jones bridal, Grantown...
Innes - Jones bridal, Grantown-on-Spey. Bride and father entering the Church of Scotland in Grantown-on-Spey on Grant Road. A partial list of relatives to whom prints were to be posted includes: Mr & Mrs F. Innes, 19 Montgarrie Road, Alford, Aberdeenshire. Mr & Mrs J.R. Jones, 65 Hudspeth Crescent, Pity Me, Durham. Mr & Mrs P. Innes, 9 Scotland Place, Boness. Mr & Mrs A. Innes, 'Kent Wynds,' Hever Avenue, West Kingsdown, Kent. Mr & Mrs J. Innes, 'Elmwood,' Townhead Road, Strathaven, Lanarkshire and Mrs P. Innes, 'Carndearg,' Grantown-on-Spey.
Reference: 3363b
Innes - Jones bridal, Grantown...
Innes - Jones bridal, Grantown-on-Spey. A partial list of relatives to whom prints were to be posted includes: Mr & Mrs F. Innes, 19 Montgarrie Road, Alford, Aberdeenshire. Mr & Mrs J.R. Jones, 65 Hudspeth Crescent, Pity Me, Durham. Mr & Mrs P. Innes, 9 Scotland Place, Boness. Mr & Mrs A. Innes, 'Kent Wynds,' Hever Avenue, West Kingsdown, Kent. Mr & Mrs J. Innes, 'Elmwood,' Townhead Road, Strathaven, Lanarkshire and Mrs P. Innes, 'Carndearg,' Grantown-on-Spey.
Reference: 3363a
Innes - Jones bridal, Grantown...
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. He wrote more than 60 plays and is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938), for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film 'Pygmalion' (adaptation of his play of the same name). In 1898, Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshend whom he survived. They settled in Ayot St Lawrence in a house now called Shaw's Corner. In 1925 he was staying in Thurso; having been ill his wife had taken him to Caithness and then to Orkney for his convalescence, and it is probable this image dates from that time. Shaw died in Ayot St Lawrence, aged 94, from chronic problems exacerbated by injuries he incurred by falling from a ladder.
Reference: H-0183
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950...