Here Comes the Sun

A magazine insert for Sun Life Assurance, dated 1952; the cover illustration was drawn by 'Armitage', although he does not appear to be Joshua Armitage, also known as Ionicus, featured elsewhere in this blog.

Knit yourself a new wardrobe!

Three 1970s copies of Stitchcraft magazine, bought yesterday in a charity shop. I think that the couple on the middle cover are wearing their tops inside out........

A Quick Polish

Quite why Lord Fotherington -Thomas's maid is buffing up the headlamps on his Alvis in this fashion is unclear, and what is she wearing?

Pea souper

With November now upon us, this picture, another from London - Work & Play (Batsford 1950), seems appropriate, although such 'killer fogs' are now things of the past. That in London in 1952 was so bad that it led to the Clean Air Act of 1956, which eventually banned the burning of domestic coal in built-up areas. There was also, at this time, much air pollution from factory chimneys, London still being a manufacturing city. Furthermore, many trains were steam-hauled, particularly on lines north of the Thames.