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• February 26th - The US launched a major attack on Viet Cong bases in Vietnam
• March - The Torrey Canyon oil tanker ran aground on the Seven Stones reef, Cornwall and 13,000 tons of oil contaminated 80 miles of coast line. The tanker was bombed by the RAF to burn the oil
• May 28th - Francis Chichester completed his solo yacht voyage around the world in a 50 foot yacht Gipsy Moth IV. His 28,500 mile trip had taken him around Cape Horn. He was knighted by the Queen at Greenwich with Sir Francis Drake's sword
• Canada Centenary
• June 10th - Israel was victorious in a six-day war against Egypt, Syria and Jordan
• July 14th - A Bill was passed in the Commons legalising abortion in Britain
• September 20th - The passenger liner Queen Elizabeth II was launched at John Browns shipyard on the Clyde. The last of the great liners to be built here.
• December 3rd - The first heart plant operation was performed in South Africa by Christiaan Barnard
• December 11th - A prototype of the world's first supersonic airliner Concorde, was revealed at Toulouse, France
• Twiggy hit the world of fashion
• The Beatles released Sergeant Pepper and Procol Harum a Whiter Shade of Pale
• Desmond Morris published his book about human aggressive behaviour The Naked Ape
• Hippies gathered at Woburn for a festival of flowers
• Donald Campbell was killed on Coniston Water in the English lake district while attempting the world water speed record in Bluebird

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' Sir Francis Chichester in Gipsy Moth IV ' Full front (outer) page colour photograph

' EEC - Italy Pleads Britains Case ' group photograph including De Gaulle - President Giuseppe Saragat and many others

' Caroline Kennedy Breaks a Bottle of Champagne on The New Aircraft Carrier " John F. Kennedy " with Her Brother John - Her Mother Jacqueline - President Johnson - Mr D. A. Holden '

' The British Counsul Mr Norman Ions Leaves Macao - Bing Harangued by Angry Crowds in an Anti British Demonstration ..'

' The Security Council at the United Nations - The Aqaba Deadlock - Mr Arthur Goldberg .... Urging Egypt to Lift The Gulf of Aqaba Blockade ' plus others

' TheQueen at the French National Stud at Le Haras du Pin accompanied by Director Monsieur de Poncins ' mentioned in the caption an possibly in the photograph are Duc d' Audiffret-Pasquier and her racing manager Mr Richard Shelley Sleekburnc.

' Israeli Troups Ready for Military Action ' soldiers in a military vehicle

' The Concorde Model at the Paris International Air Show ...'

' Swing Wing US F iii Fighter Bomber at RAF Wethersfield ...'

' Victory for Glasgow Celtic - the Captain Billy McNeill, with Portugal's President Tomas, Receiving the Cup ' match Galsgow Celtic v. Inter Milan

' The Hendon Urban Motorway Which Was Opened by Mrs Barbara Castle Minister of Transport ...' night time view of the new MI

' Kremlin Moscow - George Brown - Mr Andrei Gromyko - Mr Alexei Kosygin Soviet Premier ' and others

' Record American Casualties in Vietnam - A US Marine Shelters in " An Hoa " Church ... Used Both as a mortuary and Hospital During Mortar Attacks on 16 May ...'

' Liverpools New Roman Catholic Cathedral - Ballet Performing "The Drama of the Mass " Around the High Altar ...'

' LBJ's Flying Visit to Canada - President Johnson Meeting Mr Lester Pearson Canadian PM at Lake Harrington near Ottawa ...'

' HMS Andromeda The RN Leander ClassFrigate launched at Portsmouth by Mrs Gerald Reynolds ' info. now INS Krishna of the Indian Navy Bharatiya Nau Sena

Sir Francis Chichester Arrives Home

' Sir Francis in Front of Crowds at Plymouth '

' Sir Francis Chichester Rounding the Horn - From a Painting by norman Wilkinson ' colour Sleekburnc.

' Sir Frances was Met by the Motor Yacht Sea Huntreee in Mid Atlantic asd Her rounded the Azores ...' colour photograph

' 8.02pm - A Small Fleet of Craft Accompany Him on the Last Miles ' colour

' 8.55pm - Sir Francis Passes Plymouth Breakwater ...'

' 10.03 - On the Steps of the Royal Western Yacht Club About to Stand on Land for the first Time ...'

' ...End of Voyage - Congtatulations From Squires Suppliers of Gin to Sir Francis Chichester on His Great Voyage Round the world ..' full page colour advert

Personalities of the Week:

' Sir Edward Hulton ' Magazine publisher

' Lord Chalfont Minister of State for Disarmament To Lead on Negotiations on Britains EEC Entry ..'

' Brian Close To Captain England in the Three Test Series Against India ...'

' Sir Edward Boyle Shadow Minister for Education Appointed MD of Penguin Press ...'

' Mr Mervyn Brown Appt. Ambassador to the Malagasy Republic ( Madagasar ) ...'

' Mr John G Watson Appt. Secretary of the Institution of CIvil Engineers ...'

' PC Anthony Gledhill of the Metropolitan Police, Awarded The George Cross ...'

' Langston Hughes Eminent Negro Poet Dies in New York ...'

' Mr Nikiforos Mandilaras a Defence LAwyer inthe Greek Aspida Treason Trial is Found Dead on a Beach at Rhodes ...'

' Major Richard Harwood Pearce of the US Army Decorated for Bravery in Vietnam, Has Defected to Cuba ...'

' United Nations Secretary General U Thant Meets President Nasser for Talks...'

' Crowds Protesting in Cairo Demanding "to Fight Against Israel"

' Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, On the Steps of St Pauls Cathedral in Robes of State, Attending the Golden Jubilee of thr OBE ...' full page photograph

' THe ILN 100 Years Ago - Epsom Grandstand in Appalling Weather ' from an old engraving of 1867

The British Museum -

' Work Proceeds on the REconstruction of the Nereid monument ...'

'Swathed in Dust Sheets a Great Lion Sculpture from Branchidae Awaits Completion of the New First Archaic Room ...'

' Bones etc Filed inthe Quaternary Basement ...' staff sitting at the drawers

' The Students Room for Horology and Scientific Instruments ...'

' Inside the As Yet Incomplete Bassae Room ...'

' Scaffolding in the New Gallery for Greek, Hellenistic and roman Sculpture ...'

' Conslervation Staff of the British and Medieval Dept at Work on the Christian Roman Mosaic from Hinton St Mary ...'

' Half of the Halicarnassus Mausoleum Frieze Waits in the Duvee Badement Beneath the Elgin Marbles Room ...'

' Beards in Fashion Again - Charlemagne - W. G. Grace - Edward II - Professor Tyndall - Napoleon III - George V - an Dyck '

One Hundred and Twenty Five Years of The City of London -:

' 125 Years of the City of London ' full page in colour - a photograph showing a reflection in a Modern office block is the Church of St Sepulchre, and the Symbol of Justice on the Old Bailey (Scales of Justice ) - photograph by Iain Macmillan

' Weapons from the Midland Bank Historical Collecction at the Head Office ' full page colour advert showing the interior of the bank at Head Office Poultry London EC2 with the weapons in the foreground

' Sir Robert Bellinger - Lord Mayor of London '

' 125 Years of The Illustrated London News - The Lord Mayor's Procession 1845 ' a full page congratulating the ILN by the Corporation of London which also shows an old engraving from the ILN of 1845

' Modern Architecture ' full page photograph

' A Scene in Old London - Cheapside 1846 ' a street scene showing a row of shops and a church with crowds of people, carriages and carts

' Cornhill and Lime Street Ward Schools ' from an old print

' A Busy Scene in Fleet Street - Trollope and Colls Ltd - from a Lithograph by Thomas Shotter ..' from an old print

' Tower Hill - The Port of London Authority's Building by Edwin Cooper (archt.) '

' At London Bridge - Adelaide House By Thomas Tait '

' The Bank Intersection with Royal Exchange 1851 ' from an old print

' Same Intersection from a Painting by Logsdail in 1887 '

' The Law Courts at Temple Bar Entrance '

' In The Blitz of 1940 - St Pauls Cathedral Surrounded by Flames '

' Wood Street for the City of London Police - Builders to the City of London - Ashby and Horner ' advert

' The Stock Exchange - Interior '

' Stock Exchange - An Architects Model of the 1960's Version in the Offices of Llewellyn-Davies, Weeks, Forestier-Walker and Bor ' the model plus four men in the photograph

' The Demolition of the Old Building of the Stock Exchange ' full page photograph by Iain Macmillan - shows the interior of the building workers dismantling the windows in the dome structure

' London Docks in 1845 ' from an old engraving

' Docks from the River Thames ' a wonderful double page showing working boats on the river with the tall cranes of the dockyards silhouetted in the background - with text

' The National Provincial Bank - CHange of Address ' full page photograph showing the new skyscraper premises (all 30 floors of it) of the bank at Drapers Gardens 12 Throgmorton Ave EC2 looking down on the new offices and surrounding buildings

' One Square Mile of Excitement ' photograph by Gareth Redstone showing a view in the city from just above George Yard looking towards a new building being built by Trollope and Colls - possibly a lot of this does not exist anymore

' Inside the Bank of England - The Parlour ' from an old engraving from the ILN of 1872 Sleekburnc.

' Interior of the Hall 9of Commerce, Threadneedle Street ' from an old engraving of 1872

' Holborn Bars, London ECI - Prudential Assurance ' night time photograph - advert

' The Sun Fire Office - - - The Coal Exchange - - - The Peninsular and Orental Stam Navigation Compan - P&O Offices Leadenhall Street - - - The Mutal Life Assurance Society in King Street, Cheapside - - - The Royal Exchange - - - The Clothmakers Hall in Mincing Lane ' full page from old engravings from the ILN

' Tio Pepe Sherries ' advert

' Wine - The Wine Cellars of Norton and Langridge in The Wood Street Compter - Mister Thomas Fitzsimons Manager of Mermaid Theatre Restaurant Samples Wine with Mr William Pearson and Mr W. I. B.Brooks MD of Norton And Langridge ' plus two other older photographs

' The Mermaid Theatre ' advert

The Omar Khayyam Restaurant at 50 Cannon St London EC4 ' advert showing a dancing girl

' London Fog Canned in London - - Whitbread Pale Ale - - Gentle Summer Rain Bottled in England ' full apge colour advert for Whitbread

' Jules Dauzet of the St Tropez Bank ' full page colour advert for Martell Cognac - a photograph of the man drinking a sample of the brandy on the quayside of St Tropez I presume

' The Conservatory of the Belgian National Botanic Miel Garden at Meise near Brussels '

RAF - Ground Trap for the Air Raider - Nomad Air Transportable Defence Dystem -:

' Missiles Closely Linked to The control Unit Sand Ready for Launching ' from a drawing by Kenneth McDonough

' Nomad Fighters Setting off to Intercept on a Computed Course ..' drawing by Kenneth McDonough

Art by Marcellus Laroon at the Aldeburgh Festival:

' The Music Party 1735 - Lent by Courtauld Institute '

' A Musical Conversation c1760 - Lent by The Duke of Buccleuch '

' The Village Wedding 1735 - Lent by Mr Reresby Sitwell '

' The Song 1760s - Lent Anonymously '

' A Dutchman an dHis Wif 1730s - Lent by John Tillotson '

' Horseman and Fruitseller c1760 - Lent By Mrs Reresby Sitwell '

' Portrait of Dr Chaim Weizmann by Sir Oswald Birley '

Ife Heads Sleekburnc.

' Terracotta Head Found in the Olokun Grove in 1910 '

' Head Found in 1963 with Tribal Scarring and Disc Hairdressing '

' Pena Palace in Portugal '

' Views of Snape at Aldeburgh Festival ' three photographs before and after the concert hall was built and one of the interior

' Theatre - Scene from "Horzontal Hold Comedy - Yvonne Mitchell - Derek Godfrey '

' Cinema - Scene from Ulysses with Milo O'Shea and Barbara Jefford '

Ballet at Covent Garden

' David Wall - Betty Anderton - Performing in the Allegro First Movement of the New Ballet by Kenneth Macmillan ...'

' Kennetrh Macmillan the Choreographer '

' Doreen Wells and Richard Farley Soloists in the Middle, Adagio Movement '

' Jane Landon LAst Movement Soloist '

' Pammie Phillips of Hammersmith with Her Three Year Old Son Sammy ' full page advert showing two photographs of the mother and son - Advert for The Times newspaper

Fashion Page:

' Hat - By the Milinary Institute of Great Britain '

' Hat - By Otto Lucas Couture from Fortnum and Mason etc '

' Hat - By Janet Price for Herbert Johnson '

Photographs by Mario Grattarola

' Findlaters Sherry ' full page advert

The American Torrington Manufacturing Company near Swindon

Mr Andrew Gagarin President of Torrington '

' Marcel Breuer's Classic Modern Factory Building at Greenbridge, Swindon '

' A Blower Unit Assembly Line with Test Bench ' women workers on a factory line

' Blower Housings onthe Conveyor ...'

' Technician Recording the Performance of a Warm Air Producing Unit in the Air Moving Lab '

' Large Size Fans Assembled at Swindon ..'

' Mr Val Duncan OBE Chairman and Chief Executive of The Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation '

Art - Paintings

' North Wind at Kilbrennan Sount 1883 by William McTaggart '

' Noontide at Jovie's Nook 1894 by William McTaggart '

' September Silver and Gold at Sandy Dean by William McTaggart '

' Study of a Hertfordshire Church by William Henry Hunt '

' Carl Zeiss 8x50 Binoculars ' advert

' Piccadilly Cigarettes ' full page colour advert

Full page colour advert for Shell

' The Hon. John Gilbey - Gilbey's London Dry Gin ' full page colour advert

' the Mountfield M3 Dual Purpose Rotary Mower ' lawnmower advert

' Cutty Sark Blended Scots Whisky - Derby Day ' full page advert - from an old engraving

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 :-

Our Note Book by Sir Arthur Bryant

A Message fronm the Lord Mayor of London Sir Robert Bellinger

' 125 Years of the City of London by Roger Baker

TheEver Expanding Market Place - The London Stock Exchange by George Pulay

London - The City's River by Colin Bell

the City of London - One Square Mile of Excitement by Alexander Howard

The Bill on London - With ref to the Merchant Banks of the City of London etc by Jonathon Radice

Still (and Sparkling) Flows the Wine - by Jeremy Harrison

The City Nights Get Brighter - Eating Out by Roger Baker

Gardening by Edward Hyams

Letters to the Editor from P. G. de Bourcier of Ashstead, Surrey - - - Anson Herrick of San Francisco USA - - - Terence E. Clark of Worcester Park, Surrey

A Report by Peter Moir on The Nomad Air Defence Control System Developed by Elliott and Plessey

Art by Andrew Causey Sleekburnc.

' Travel by David D. Tennant - Portugal

June Records by Max Harrison

Cinema by Alan Dent

The Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation - Years Results etc

Classified Advertisements

Bridge Problem by Edward Mayer

Chess Notes by Baruch H. Wood

July 15th

• The Queen's visit to Canada for the Canada Centenary

Xmas Edition

• Retro look at Christmas in Britian. Contains a great nearly full-paged photo of Queen Elizabeth from June 19 when she met the Garter Knights at Windsor Castle for the annual service at St. George's chapel. Entourage includes: Queen Elizabeth, Duke of Edinburgh, Sir Anthony Wagner, Bishop of Windsor, the Marquess of Salisbury and many others. 71 pages.
• Partial list of contents: ....
• 5 Centuries of Russian Art Icons
  Light on London pictorial
  An Eminent Victorian in Wartime London
  The Graceful Fisherman
  Spellbound: A child's view of Christmas
  Inspiration of the nativity
  Iln on the map
  Hearts and Flowers: the story of the valentine
  Christmas crossword
  Festive food and drink for Christmas
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