Kensington and Chelsea Gallery

Janet Lyle wearing a silk culotte suit from Annacat

Janet Lyle, who with her business partner, Maggie Keswick, ran Annacat, the South Kensington boutique favoured by some of the smartest young women of London including Lady Herbert, Lady Bute and Lady Charles Spencer-Churchill. Janet is pictured wearing one of her own designs, a long pink patterned silk culotte suit and riding her Raleigh fold-up bicycle. Date: 1966

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United Kingdom, England, London, Chelsea. View of Chelsea Bridge

United Kingdom, England, London, Chelsea. View of Chelsea Bridge, Chelsea and the River Thames

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The Loan Collection Exhibition - South Kensington: (left to right from top

The Loan Collection Exhibition - South Kensington: (left to right from top) Largest Known Pearl, Silver Flask, Silver-gilt Spoon, Coffret in Gilt Metal, Silerv-gilt Reliquary, Double-bulbed Cup, Sevigne Gold Open Filigree-work Set with Pearls, Hemispherical Cat's-eye, Silver and Silver-gilt Spoons, Silver-gilt Nef, Pencase of King Henry VI, Oliver Cromwell's Watch and Silver Parcel-gilt Nef. Date: 1862

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