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Mr MacAvoy's show window for the May 1937 Coronation of King George VI, complete with portraits of the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, and sailing motifs.*
Reference: 31295b
Mr MacAvoy's show window f...
Mr MacAvoy's show window for the May 1937 Coronation of King George VI, complete with portraits of the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, and sailing motifs.*
Reference: 31295c
Mr MacAvoy's show window f...
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...
Mackenzie wedding group, from Aultbea, with reflection of Inverness Castle in the windows of the Columba Hotel.
Reference: 26232b
Mackenzie wedding group, from ...
Mackenzie wedding group, from Aultbea, with reflection of Inverness Castle in the windows of the Columba Hotel.
Reference: 26232a
Mackenzie wedding group, from ...
Morrison wedding group, with reflection of Inverness Castle in the windows of the Columba Hotel.
Reference: 26224a
Morrison wedding group, with r...
Ettles Crown Grocery, Inverness December 1927. Window display for Skippers tinned fish, an entrant in the John Bull's Great National Window Display competition. Now Chris Crook Hairdressers on the corner of Charles Street, Inverness.*
Reference: 26935b
Ettles Crown Grocery, Invernes...
Ashes of Roses beauty products in a shop window. An entrant in the ?2,120 Window Dressing Competition of 1927.*
Reference: H-0067
Ashes of Roses beauty products...
The Carlton Cafe, Inglis Street, Inverness, now occupied by Costa Coffee. The reflection in right window shows the storefront of R.S.McColl, now occupied by Highland Souvenirs.*
Reference: 26527
The Carlton Cafe, Inglis Stree...
Mr MacAvoy's show window for the May 1937 Coronation of King George VI, complete with a replica of the Coronation Chair and Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey.*
Reference: 31295
Mr MacAvoy's show window f...
Ettles Crown Grocery, Inverness December 1927. Window display for Skippers tinned fish, an entrant in the John Bull's Great National Window Display competition. Now Chris Crook Hairdressers on the corner of Charles Street, Inverness. (2009).*
Reference: 26935
Ettles Crown Grocery, Invernes...

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