| Description | This photo album contains images taken by photographer Robert de Smet and shows various scenes from the 1931 Malvern Festival including garden parties and other events. It includes photographs showing similar scenes to those in MS 978/4/3/2/2, MS 978/4/3/2/3 and other albums. Photographs of other locations and dates are also present.
Includes:
Guests,
At 'Lawnside',
George Bernard Shaw including 'shock scenes' of his arrival at 'Lawnside'and being unable to get in the house because there is no room [events set up for photographing or filming - see also images in MS 978/4/3/2/2 and MS 978/4/3/2/3],
Ernest Thesiger,
Laura Knight,
Cedric Hardwicke,
Barry Jackson dressed for a bard ceremony,
JB Priestley,
George Bernard Shaw with vicar, JB Priestley with George Bernard Shaw and Cedrick Hardwicke,
Sir Granville Bantock,
Hugh Walpole,
John Drinkwater (including similar scenes as shown in Hans Rothe album MS 978/4/3/2/3),
Group shot at 'Lawnside' August 1931 included numbered caption showing various individuals (e.g. George Bernard Shaw, Cedrick Hardwicke, Lord Sandwich and others),
George Bernard Shaw with John Drinkwater, JB Priestley and his wife,
Edward Elgar and George Bernard Shaw,
Scenes from Stratford-upon-Avon,
George Bernard Shaw taking a photograph,
Barry Jackson's chauffeur Peasley with car,
England May 1933, London, Tilbury, Kew Gardens, Hyde Park, Blackhill, Ross-on-Wye, Tintern Abbey, Forest of Dean, Tewkesbury Abbey. |