Resting Gallery

The Last Resting Place of Captain Scott

The inner tent in which Captain Scott and his two companions were discovered taken by a member of the relief party which found the tent on November 12th 1912. The view shows the inner lining of the tent supported on its poles

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Antarctic, Antarctica, Captain, Death, Discovery, Expedition, Exploration, Historical, History, Place, Polar, Pole, Resting, Scott, South, Tent, Tents, Tragedy

Eve Before The Fall. By A. E. Bestall

A scene beside a waterfall of four girls in their bathing costumes. The girls are watching the waterfall, prehaps resting after swimming. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986) is best-known as the artist who drew Rupert Bear for thirty years. Previous to this, Bestall produced more than forty colour illustrations for The Tatler as well as countless humorous line drawings and cartoon sketches

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Sheep graze in Kensington Gardens

Sheep grazing in Kensington Gardens, London. The first ever Ha-Ha in the country acted as the dividing line between Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens and was then copied throughout the land as a method of division of open land. Sheep grazing ended in 1935

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Chairs, Deck, Deck Chairs, Flock, Folding, Gardens, Graze, Grazing, Historical, History, Kensington, Resting, Shade, Sheep, Sitting, Summer, Wooden