Images Dated 5th May 2017

The New Aladdin by James T Tanner and W H Risque

Promotional postcard for The New Aladdin by James T. Tanner and W. H. Risque; music Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton. First produced at the Gaiety Theatre, 29th September 1906. The Aladdin story had been dramatised extensively in England before and was very popular in pantomime versions, but this was the first musical on the subject. Date: circa 1906

© The Michael Diamond Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

Ruins of Whitby Abbey monastery, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, UK

Whitby Abbey was a 7th century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey. The abbey and its possessions were confiscated by the crown during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII. The abbey church was situated overlooking the North Sea on the East Cliff above Whitby in North Yorkshire, England. The substantial ruins of the church have been declared a Grade I Listed building and are in the care of English Heritage, while its site museum is housed in Cholmley House. The first monastery was founded in 657 AD by the Anglo-Saxon era King of Northumbria, Oswy (Oswiu) as Streoneshalh (the older name for Whitby). Abbey was an inspiration for early English poet Caedmon and for Bram Stokers gothic tale Dracula

© Emily M. Wilson / DanitaDelimont.com

Boulogne-sur-Mer - Beach, Britannia Statue and Port entrance

Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, Beach, Britannia and Port entrance. The statue was erected to commemorate the arrival in 1914 of the British troops, by a committee of veterans of Boulogne and through a national subscription. It was handed over to the town of Boulogne-sur-Mer and inaugurated by Messrs. The Marshals Lord Cavan and Petain, on 19th July 1938 in the presence of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Date: circa 1930s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection