Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• January 19th - Mrs Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister of India
• April 8th - Leonid Brezhnev became General secretary of the Soviet Union
• May - Ian Brady and Myra Hindley (died 2002 in prison ) were jailed for life for the murder of at least 3 children in the 'Moors murders' case. Such was public feeling at the time, hanging had just been abolished, that the defendants had to be protected by bullet proof glass in the court
• July 30th - England defeated West Germany, 4 - 2, at soccer to win the Jules Rimet World Cup at Wembley (after extra time) Geoff Hurst scored 3 of Englands goals
• August 13th - Mao Tse-tung proclaimed a 'cultural revolution' in China
• October 21st - 116 children and 48 adults were killed when a coal tip collapsed and buried their school in Aberfan, Wales
• November 9th - Art treasures damaged and hundreds died in Italy by the worst storms in 700 years. The streets of Florence became raging torrents
• Another General Election where Labour were returned to power. They made cuts in foreign currency allowances and imposed a pay and wages freeze.
• Freddie Laker started an airline for cheap package holidays abroad
• Rising inflation was a deterrent for savers but the first credit card, Barclaycard, was introduced making spending easier.
• The film The War Game was banned by BBC because of its graphic illustration of a nuclear attack on Britain
• The film Cathy Come Home was broadcast on TV The story of a homeless mother provoked outcries in Britain and the charity Shelter was formed
• British Guiana became independent as Guyana

Also contains

THE KIROV BALLET - COVENT GARDENS

THE TATE GALLERY - DAVID SMITH

FRAMPTON COURT

CORSHAM COURT

PRINCESS ANNE AT 16

ADEN

HARROGATE FESTIVAL

THE GENERAL ELECTION

THE QUEEN IN THE WEST INDIES - 30 PAGE SPECIAL

PRINCE ANDREW - 6th BIRTHDAY

PRINCE CHARLES - AT SCHOOL IN AUSTRALIA

BARBRA STREISAND

THE B.M.A. CENTENARY

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

MARLON BRANDO

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

CHRISTIE'S

R.A.SUMMER EXHIBITION

GAUGUIN & THE PONT-AVEN GROUP - AT THE TATE

FARNBOROUGH AIR SHOW

MEREWORTH CASTLE

TURNER'S - THE BURNING OF THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT

SYON HOUSE

EDINBURGH FESTIVAL

NATIONAL HUNT

RAMSAY MACDONALD

THE MOTOR SHOW

DR BARNARDO'S

KANDINSKY

BUCKINGHAM PALACE / WINDSOR CASTLE

PRINCE CHARLES - COMES OF AGE

PIRATE RADIO - CAROLINE, 270, 390, ...

BROOKING - PAINTER

MICHAEL PARKINSON

BRITISH GRAND PRIX - BRANDS HATCH

THE QUEEN IN NORTHERN IRELAND

L.S.LOWRY

AUSTRALIA

BONNARD - THE ROYAL ACADEMY

POST OFFICE TOWER

MILLER'S ALICE

INSIDE SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL'S HOME

WIMBLEDON

QUEEN CHRISTINA - SWEDEN

THE DUTCH ROYAL WEDDING

JEREMY SPENCER - RUGBY

AYUB KHAN

LAUTREC - IN THE KITCHEN

LYNDON JOHNSON

PRINCESS ALEXANDRA'S SECOND CHILD

MARGOT FONTEYN

BILLY GRAHAM - EARLS COURT

KING HUSSEIN

FOOTBALL WORLD CUP - ENGLAND WIN

1966 COMMONWEALTH GAMES - JAMAICA

SWAN LAKE - LONDON FESTIVAL BALLET

January 8th

• A WELSH VILLAGE DIES
• FIRST SKI LESSON FOR PRINCESS ANNE
• BONNARD AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY IN COLOUR

• Front Cover - At the Tate : Gauguin and the Pont-Aven Group
• Inside - Shastri dies after signing peace pact
• Pay Television Stakes its Claim
• Facing up to a Transport Strike
• Cricket - The muse of poet`s, painters and statisticians - including a photo of 1880 English cricketers
• A Floating Tripod to search for gas.

May 28th

• Cover Picture: The Hastings Embroidery
• Features: State Visit of Austria’s President; Seamen’s Strike; Chelsea Flower Show; First camera with instant exposure check; North Sea Gas; Too Many Churches for too few parishioners; The Hasting Embroidery; Chatal Hayuk - the World’s Oldest City; Film Review - the Wrong Box;
• Advertisements: Harvey’s Bristol Cream; Zeiss; Germany; Cardhu Highland Malt Whisky; BMC Vanden Plas Princess; British Aluminium; Midland Bank; Wills Cigars; Singer Vogue car; British Aluminium; Moss Bros; Johnnie Walker; Norwich Union; Dunhill Virginia Filter.
  

June 4th

• Cover Picture: Cervantes Ocean Racing Yacht
• Features: Vietnam Fire Suicide; Royal Artillery 250th Anniversary; Fingerprint Recognition; Khartoum Film; Nimrod Nuclear Accelerator;
• Advertisements: Midland Bank; Zeiss; Barbados; Brinylon; Reliant Scimitar GT; Bisquit Brandy; Mexico; Italy; Cardhu Highland Malt; Harveys Bristol Cream; Rothmans.

July 2nd

• Wimbledon - Australian Tennis Player Roy Emerson Injured on Court ' Front page
• President De Gaulle in Russia
• ' De Gaulle With Mr Kosygin and Mr Gromyko in Moscow
• ' The President Visits a Turbo Electric Plant in Novosibirsk nd Scientists City Akademgorodok ..'

' De Gaulle Addressing the People of Moscow from the Balcony of the City Hall on Gorky Street ...'

' De Gaulle Visits the Piskarevskoye Cemetery in Leningrad ...'

' The President MEeting the Crowds at the Airport '

' President and Mrs De Galle at the Bolshoi Ballet '

' President and Mrs De Galle After Mass in Leningrad '

' Civil Rights March at Canton Mississippi - Crowds Tear Gassed ' with reference to Martin Luther King

' King Faisal in the USA '

' The Bus Crash on The Great St Bernard Pass - Three Britons Killed '

' Wreckage of a Cessna 172 at Warden Airfield Bedfordshire '

Wimbledon

' Owen Davidson Helps Roy Emerson Off the Court '

' Tony Roche on Court ...'

' Maria Bueno on Court 'SleekburnC.

' Ken Fletcher and Fellow Australian John Newcombe on Court ...'

' Clark Graebner of the US '

' Miss Trudy Groenman Playing Miss Norma Baylon ...'

' Australian Bob Hewitt and Fred Stolle on Court ..'

' Manuel Santana of Spain Playing Bobby Wilson ...'

' Mrs Ann Haydon Jones on Court ...'

Double page

' Highgate London - Bardic and Druids Holding their Summer Solstice Ceremonies'

Personalities of the Week Includes

' Dr Rolf Dahlgrun W. German Minister of Finance ..'

' Joan Hayter and Jill Wicken - First Women Scientist on Board a Royal Navy Ship, HMS Fife '

' Sir Adeyinka Oyekan The Oba of Lagos at The Commonwealth Relations Office ' with another man

' Beatitude Justinian patriarch of Rht Rumanian Orthodox church with Dr Michael Ramsay at London Airport ...'

' Dame Sybil Thorndike and her Husband Sir Lewis Casson at Oxford to Receive Honorary Degrees ...'

' Athletics World Records by Chris Carter - John Boulter - Michael Varah - Graeme Grant ...'

' Dame Pattie Menzies and Her Husband Sir Robert Menzies Prime Minister of Australia and Warden of the Cinque ports ...'

' Mr Arthur Calwell Leader of Australias Labour Oppoosition Party, Shot at Sydney '

Full pae

' Bught Park Inverness - The Gathering of the Clans

Six photographs over two pages includes Children Highland Dancing - - The Muirhead Pipe Band - - Chiefs The MacKintosh of MacKintosh and Major Shaw of Tordarroch - - Plus two others. The Article makes reference to The Worcester Kiltie pipe Band from Massachusetts and Clan MacFarlane pipe Band and city of Toronto Pipe Band

' The Tower of St Alban - Royds House - New Divisional Headquarters of The Police London '

' Alan Sorrell's Reconstruction of the Cripplegate Fort in Wood Street ' with key

' Inisde the New Headquarters - Roman Stone Used to Face Arches in the Main Entrance ..'

' The New Stable Block - Two Horses Cromwell and Tudor '

' View from the Station Looking Down on the Foundations of St Mary Aldermanbuyry (moved to Fulton Missouri ) ..'

Training Ship HMS Ganges

' Boys Mast Manning '

' Six Boys Climbing the Masts ..'

' A Chief petty officer and the Boys in a Whaler Raising Their Oars ...'

' HMS Ganges - Boys at Gunnery Training '

' OUtward Bound Schemes and Drill '

' A Main Establishment Dormitory '

Double page

Exhibition in the National Museum at Stockholm to Queen Caroline '

Uganda and Buganda

' 1863 - Captai John Hannin gspeke '

1892 - The Kings House ( Kabaka ) at Mengo ...'

' 1893 - Sir Gerald Portal with Colonel Rhodes '

' 1853 - The Kabaka Deposed and E$xiled Talks with Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton ' - info The Kabaka was Edward Mutesa II - Sir Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa nicknamed King Freddie

' 1955 - The Kabaka Returning to Uganda ...'

' 1958 - Ugandas First Elections Boycotted By Buganda - African lady voting '

' 1962 - The Kabaka with Prime Minister Dr Milton Obote '

' 1964 - British Troops Rounding Up Troops of the 1ast Battalion Uganda Rifles Who Mutinied ...'

1965 - Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon on a Visit to UGanda with Dr Obote and The Kabaka '

' 1966 - Kabaka Arriving in Britain After Fleeing His Palace ..'

' The Kabaka With His Son Prince Ronald at Kings Mead School Seaford Sussex ' info, later The Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II

Radio City - Pirate Radio Stations

' Cottage in Wendens Ambo Saffron Walden Where Mr Reg Calvert Was Found Dead '

' Police Arriving at Radio city to Interview Crew and Invaders - Shivering Sands Maunsell seafort in the Thames estuary

' Major Oliver Smedley Being Remanded on a Charge of the Murder of Calvert '

Full page

' Excavatios at Tell es Sa'idiyeh The Biblical Zarethan in Persia '

Five photographs of items excavated from the site

The Street of a Block of Twelve Houses

A Copy of a house from the Excavation

' Goats Head Cup of Mogul Miel Jade in the Victoria And Albert Indian Collection ...'

' 15c Cup from Transoxiana ...'

' 17c Grey Jade Terrapin found at Allahabad '

Sothebys

' Sothebys Chairman peter Wilson takes a Bid on a Schwitters Collage ...'

' A Drysdale ..'

' Braque Owned by Lady Penros Makes £34000 ..'

' three Studies of Henrietta Moraes by Bacon ...'

Hairstyles - Three examples of hair pieces by French of London and BAndre Bernard of Old Bond Street

Business News - The Brewery Business

' Mr E. P. Taylor of United Breweries '

' Mr John Charrington of United Breweries '

' Viscount Elveden of Arthur Guinness Son & Co. '

' Colonel W. H. Whitbread '

' Lt. Colonel Edward Thompson of Allied Breweries ...'

'The Illustrated London News 100 Years Ago The Marriage of princess Mary of Cambridge and Prince Teck in The Church at Kew ...' double page

' Scimitar Gt from Reliant Motor Company Ltd ' advert

' Zeiss Binoculars ' advert

Cinema page by Alan Dent ' Sid Field ' two poses - - - A Scene from The Film "The Oscar " with Stephen Boyd and Elke Sommer

' Zeiss Umbral Sunglasses ' advert

' Mexico ' full page travel advert

- © (copyright) - Sleekburn Prints 2004 - 2007

This second part of the description features items of news but have no images associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They include :-

Our Note Book by Sir Arthur Bryant includes The Power of the Trade Unions and more

Books - Vienna by Ilsa Barea - An Appreciation by Charles Petrie

Books of the Week column by Iain Hamiliton - reviews include ThePendulum by Anthony Rossiter - - The Life of Eric Gill by Robert Speight - - Diary of a Genius by Salvador Dali

Three Ages of Biblical Zarethan by James B. Pritchard University Museum Pennsylvania

Art Column by Frank Davis

Theatre Column by J. C. Trewin

Letters to the Editor from Cyril Falls - - - John prebble of Coulsdon Surrey - - - Anne Coghill of Farm and Food Society 37 Tanza Road NW3 - - - Gwendolen Barter of Broadstairs Kent - - - William H. Fuller of Richmond Surrey

Cinema by Alan Dent - Reviews in clude Papering the Parlour - - - The Photographeer with Sid Field - - - Intimacy directed by Victor Stoloff - - - The Oscar Directed by Russell Rouse

Classified Adverts include St godrics Secretarial College London - - - Swimming Pools Gerhardt Penick Ltd of Croydon - - - Holiday Accommodation - - - And More

Bridge Problem by Edward Mayer

Chess by Baruch H. Wood

July 23rd

• Front Cover - Jack Brabham, winner of this weeks Grand Prix at Brands Hatch.
• Prince Phillip`s team wins the Cowdray Park Gold cup
• King Hussain - a working Monarch
• London`s heliport fights for existence.
• Early German Painting at King`s Lynn.
• The opening of the Royal International Horse Show.
  

September 17th

• Front Cover - The Queen and Mrs Barbera Castle, Minister of Transport, at the opening of the Severn Bridge
• Inside - The State Funeral of Dr Verwoerd
• Burghley Horse Trials dominated by the Irish
• The frustrated young doctors

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