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The Illustrated London News 1937

Spanish Civil war painting by Carlos Sáenz de Tejada

150th Anniversary of the founding of Australia

Basque refugee children escape to England from the horrors of war

Advert for Contax camera etc.

Dunlop Advert - Dover Castle

Guerlain - Sous Levent

Johnny Walker whisky advert - Velocepede

Leica advert The King of Cameras

Schweppes advert Limeade - Samuel Pepys

April 1st - London County Council formation of a 'Green Belt' around London

April 27th - Bombing of Spanish town of Guernica, 12 miles from Bilbao by 40 planes of the German Air Force.
Over 1,000 people were killed and 1 year later Piccasso immortalised the tragedy on canvas.

May 6th - The Giant German airship, Hindenburg, exploded over Lakenhurst, New jersey USA. 30 people died

May 12th
Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (The Queen Mother).
The ceremony was broadcast to the 8 million people in the UK who had wireless sets.
There was TV coverage outside the Abbey and the audience was measured as a few Thousand.

May 28th
Neville Chamberlain became Prime Minister after Baldwin resigned

June - the Hollywood star the Blonde Bombshell Jean Harlow died aged 26

June - A German pocket Battleship bombarded the little town of Almeria in Spain claiming self defence

June 3rd - The Duke of Windsor married Mrs Wallis Simpson (a divorced woman) in France

July 11th - Death of US popular composer George Gershwin, aged 38 >

August 14th - The Japanese bombed Shanghai in a new offensive against China

August 28th - The great heatwave of New York,

The Dunes of Kurische Nehrung ,

Lemurs,

Spanish Civil War Reinosa occupied, Madrid's slow agony,

Sino-Japan fighting in Tientsin, Shanghai,

Tower parachuting has it's origins in Russia,

Berlin 700th birthday,

Popocatepetl Volcano,

full page adverts

Whitbread Pale Ale-Golf Lesson,

South Africa - Giraffes,

Worthington- This England -

Bournemouth from Branksomes,

Black & White Whisky,

Craven A cigarettes (colour)

October 22nd - Duke and Duchess of Windsor met Hitler in Berlin

December 13th - War - Nanking occupied by the Japanese forces amid much bloodshed, 20,000 civilian casualties

Lord Halifax visits Hitler: attempt at appeasement

Amelia Earhart is lost while flying across the Pacific

The Golden Gate Bridge opened in San Francisco

Some 1937 full page Guinness adverts

January 2nd

Xmas in Spain on the Civil war front

First Giant Panda (Sun-Lin) caught alive by Mrs Harkness Jnr.

full page adverts = Subscription to the ILN, Monte Carlo, Worthington "This England" - Durlston Head - Dorset

January 9th
full page adverts = Bovril,
Worthington "This England" - Exmoor landscape, Johnnie Walker whisky

January 23rd

Malaga under attack by Franco

full page adverts = Black & White whisky - The Lifeguards (colour),
Rolls Royce -Hooper, Duckhams Adcoids,
Worthington "This England" - The Canal nr. Watford

January 30th -
Neutrality of Belgium and Netherlands guaranteed by Hitler

March 6th

The famous Dynamiteros

Asturian miners aat Oviedo

full page adverts = Douglas Stuart, Terraplane & Hudson Cars,
Ford V8 '30', Hillman Hawk,
Worthington "This England" - Chipping Camden Gloucester,
Harrods - shirts to measure

Col plate of Queen Mother (Queen Mary)

March 13th
full page adverts
Terraplane cars, Austin Eighteen, Humber drophead coupe,
Worthington "This England" - A Windmill at Chailey Sussex,
Johnnie Walker whisky, Guinness A song of Guiinness,
Lockheed Brakes (colour), Ford V8 (colour), Dunlop Safety (colour), Lanson Champagne

March 20th

Full page adverts = Douglas stuart the Bookmaker, Rolls Royce - Hooper,
Wakefield Castrol Oil, VAT 69 Whisky, Worthington "This England" - Lion Rock Dovedale, Harrods luggage

March 27th

Madrid - The Spanish Civil war

The Grand National at Aintree

Crosses of Lithuania

The 89th Oxford and Cambridge boat race

The Fenland East Anglia Floods

Full page advert = Worthington "This England" Winkworth Surrey

May 1st

The new National Nautical Museum Greenwich - the opening

Royal occasions 37 Pictures

Bilbao - The Spanish Civil war

The Coronation rehearsal at Windsor castle

The centenary of John Constable

Full page adverts = Alice through the Guinness Glass, Worthington
"This England" Old Harry Nr Swanage, Elizabeth Arden, Czechoslovakia, Douglas stuart

May 22nd

No. 2613, Vol. 100 ,

Coronation Naval Review; and the Royal Guildhall Visit.

This issue is commemorating the Coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth

There are also many foreign ships including the Battleship "New York" from the U.S.

plus foreign ships from Soviet Union, Greece, Denmark, Japan, Sweden and many more.

There is a 4-page pull-out of the Panorama of the Coronation Revue plus on the back 4-page pull-out is

a disection illustration drawn by G. H. Davis of the recently commissioned Cruiser "Southhampton".

There is also a 2-page article with photographs of the German airship
"Hindenburg" exploding on May 6, 1937 at Lakehurst, New Jersey.

This edition also has many photos and articles about the Royal Family and the Coronation.

August 21st

Japanese forces in North China

Spanish Civil War. America, Cuba, The Philippines

Nabataean sculpture

Cameroons West Africa

Shanghai in Peril

sand yachting in Egypt

Full page adverts = Clubberwocky Guinness, Sporting and Dramatic News,
Johnnie Walker "Cricket", Worthington "This England" Boddian Castle Sussex

September 11th

Bombing of Shanghai by Japan

Basking Sharks

Guarding Spanish art during civil war

Demolition of the Bruton Street corner

A White cobra

Suns halo seen for the first time

Athens 2,000 years before Pericles

Refugees escaping Shanghai

Photographs of ribbon lightening

Tientsin after occupation by Japanese troops

The valley of 1,000 hills in Natal

Nature photographs

A diagramatic of Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird

Feminine coiffure in Angola

Full page adverts = Guinness - In Marble Halls,
Worthington - "This England" Salcombe Devon, VAT 69 whisky - Morse Code

September 18th

Bilbao & Madrid by AR Meruvia

Exploring the largest Khmer temple known

War conditions in Shanghai

Komodo Island

Using spider's webs in astronomy

Havoc in Hong Kong from a Typhoon

The Aldridge detector

Racing Cheetahs at Harringdon dog track

Nazi Rally at Nuremberg (Nuremburg)

London Salon of Photography

Spanish Civil War stamps

Full page Advert = South Africa, Giraffes

Full page Advert = This England (Worthington) Bury Hill, Sussex

Full page Advert = Johnnie Walker Whisky

Full page Advert = Rolls Royce Cars / Hooper

September 25th

Full page Advert = National Fur Company

Shivas Temple - Grand Canyon

Japanese troops in Shanghai

Submarine development in the Mediterranean

Germans ready to welcome Mussolini

Cyclist Musicians in The Netherlands

Siberian Art of the Scythian period

The film "Victoria the Great"
with Anna Neagle was awarded the Cup of Nations

Berlin testing for Air Raids

Richard II with John Gielgud and Michael Redgrave

Nanking threatened with Air Raids

Miniature landscapes by John McWhirter

Full page Advert = Craven A cigarettes (Colour)

Making of Iron Lungs for the treatment of Polio

Hands by Frans Hals 16 pictures and the sitters

Full page Advert = Harrods - In the Regency manner

Full page Advert = This England (Worthington)
Poole Harbour from Ballad Down, Dorset

Full page Advert = Spink and Son

Full page Advert = Black and White whisky

October 2nd

An ivory head 30,000 years old found in Vestonice

Miss Farida Zulficar to marry King Faruk of Egypt

Hitler and Mussolini in the 1914 - 18 war

Maya ruins

Windmills of Surrey, Sussex and Kent

Map of China and Japan

The German Autobahn

Mussolini's visit to Hitler

Nanking and Canton

full page adverts = Worthington "This England" -Nr Redmarley Gloucestershire,
Schweppes - Pepys' diary, Italy for a holiday

November 6th

the second cover page: In The Danger Zone of the International Settlement at Shanghai, where
British soldiers have been killed by Shell Fire during the Sino-Japanese hostilities:
A Typical British outpost near the North Station.

1. The Victoria Vogue: A Special Birmingham Art Exhibition in this
Centenary year of Queen Victoria's Accession.

2. Haldane - 1856-1915. By Sir Frederick Maurice.

3. The Royal Holloway College's Jubilee: Higher Education for Women. 4 pages of picture.

4. Full page photo. A fleet as seen by bombers above the clouds: A remarkable photograph taken during
U.S. Naval manoeuvres in the Pacific, showing the diminutive targets presented by the fighting ships.

5. The Question of the Mechanisation of the Royal Scots Greys:
Incidents in their history, and uniforms worn. 2 pages of photos.

6. Revelations of Early Mesopotamian Culture. Sumerian art.
Tell Agrab. Full page photo of a Sumerian Ass-Drawn Chariot.

7. World of Science. The giant panda.

8. Full page picture. Japan "blasts her way Forward:
A Bomb bursting near Shanghai. Plus 2 more pages of Shangai.

9. The Lewins Provisioned by Parchute and rescued by Dinkas.

10. Coloured pictures. Painted pottery from Tell Agrab.

11. Double page coloured pictures. South Africa - A Bird-Lover's Paradise.

12. News by Photography: Matters Military, Medical and "Monstrous".

13. The Focke Helicopter with "Twin" Rotors.

14. The Maharaja of Bikaner's Jubilee.

15. The Italian Scene: Past and Present: Roman
Occasions; and British reaction to "Orders from the House-Tops".

16. Ships - Their origin and development. Ancient ships and early shipbuilders.

17. Full page pictures. Ancient Ships: How Mankind Learnt to Build and Sail Them.

Full page ads of Schweppes, Daimler, MG, This England, Harrods, Guinness and ESSE Cookers.

NANKING, CHINA DECEMBER 18

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