1909 Gallery

Suffragette Board Game PANK-A-SQUITH

A suffragette board game called Pank-A-Squith which was first advertised in the pages of Votes for Women, October 1909. It was described as a highly artistic TABLE GAME that helps to spread the movement. A suffragette tries to get from her home to the Houses of Parliament facing a series of challenges and various incidents. There are 50 squares, each having a detailed and colourful vignette, showing 10 Downing Street, Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park Demonstrations, Bow St. Court, Queen's Hall, Clements Inn, Mrs. Pankhurst, Inspector Jarvis, Prime Minister Asquith, Tax Resistance, The Suffragette Dreadnought, Hunger Strikers, Holloway Prison and the forging of suffragette brand handcuffs. There are six metal suffragette figures with sashes and scrolls. The base of the board is of purple, white and green stripes. Date: 1909

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Loughborough - Bell-ringing - World Record Change-ringers

Bellringing - World Record Change-ringers - who produced a peal of 18, 027 Stedman Caters - rung in 12 hours and 18 minutes at All Saints, Loughborough on Easter Monday - 12th April, 1909. "This is the Greatest achievement ever attained in the annals of Ringing. It supercedes all records, being the heaviest long peal, the greatest number of changes and the longest time ever rung without rest." Date: 1909

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Sir Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (1857-1934), English composer. He composed oratorios, chamber music, symphonies, instrumental concertos, and songs, and was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924. He is best known for the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches. Seen here sitting in a chair with a book on his knee

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