Images Dated 13th December 2019

RNLI Padstow Lifeboat No. 2 Edmund Harvey with the tug Helen Peele alongside in the background, Padstow, Cornwall. 1901

The photograph is thought to have been taken on the lifeboat's inauguration day in 1901. She served from 1901 to 1929. The crew are all wearing cork life jackets. The crowd of people on the jetty are not only taking an interest in the new lifeboat but some seem to be having a tour of the tug. The tug has a display of signal flags flying from the rigging for the special occasion. This know as being dressed overall. J. Hawken's Corn Store and Langford & Sons can be seen in the background. Photographer: Unknown

© From the collection of the RIC

Motion blurred spinning traditional purple Japanese parasol or umbrella with a bamboo

Motion blurred spinning traditional purple Japanese parasol or umbrella with a bamboo handle, Tokyo, Japan

© Peter Adams / AWL Images

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Official War Artists filmed in Out of Chaos

Six war artists at work, filmed for the Two Cities film "Out of Chaos" - aimed at generating interest in the National Gallery War Artists Exhibition, but also in modern painting generally. (from top left - clockwise): Stanley Spencer sketches on Clydeside, Paul Nash at the vast mound of German plane salvage known as Cowley Dump, Art Critic Eric Newton, Leonard Roseman, Graham Sutherland working among the debris of bombed London buildings and Sir Kenneth Clark who set up the War Artists Advisory Committee. Date: 1944

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans