THE CHINA, MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1953.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

THE Earl of Dalkeith assisting his bride, the former Miss Jane McNeill, in the cutting of their huge wed. ding cake at the reception given at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, following their wedding at St Giles Cathedral.

RIGHT: Centuries old method of testing wine by candlelight is carried out in a Bristol wine vault. The workman is checking for sediment and testing the true colour of the wine.

(Reuterphoto)

MR D. J. Goodlate, Chief Barker of the Variety Club, presenting a cigarette case

lo Lieut. Abbie Sweetwine, the calm negro U.S. Air Force nurse who comforted so many victims at the Harrow-Wealdstone train crash last October. Lleut. Sweetwine was christened "The Angel of Platform Six." Presentation was made at a luncheon at the Savoy Hotel, London.

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MEN of the Royal Horse Guards who will form part of the Coronation Escort checking, at Knightsbridge Barracks, the ceremonial full-dress equipment which they will be wearing. (Reuterphoto)

PETER HENDRICK, 12, of Teddington, has a preview of the planet_Mercury, complete with space ship and ramp" and tractors for the use of It is a space explorers. diorama produced. for the Schoolboys' Own Exhibition a1 the New Horticultural Hall, London. (Reuterphoto).

FOUR South Korean journalists, on a visit to London, viewing the panel of tho new fully automatic signalling system for the London Underground at Ealing Broadway. Seated before a telophons of microphonic type, the signalman cou -trols the signals just by pressing buttons - (Heuterphoto),

LEFT: The Duke of Norfolk (left) with Sir Robert Knox, Secretary of the Coronation 'Commitice, at the luncheon. hold in the House of Lords to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of John-Debreti, who founded the famous volume, "Debrett's Peerage, Baronetuge, Knightage and Companionage." (Reuter-

photo)

RIGHT: Outside St Paul's Cathedral, on Twelfth Night, a company of players pre- .sented Shakespeare's play of that name. Carols were sung before the play. Picture shows three choirboys light- ing their torches on the steps. (Express)

NANCY. Wrong Guess

TVE BEEN MAD AT SLUGGO FOR A WEEK.

I THINK, TLL; FORGIVE"

CHIME

GUESS WHO?

ER LET'S SEE NOW...

THE Tedworth Hunt, which met at Enham-Alamein, the village centre for curative treatment for ex-Servicemen near Andover, Hampshire. The workshops

are seen in the background.

WELL--- I KNOW IT ISN'T NANCY---

SHE'S TOO....... PIG-HEADED TO:

"GIVE IN

ABOARD the as United States on her last docking, at Southampton were General R. E. 8. Williamson, t the new US Military Attache in London, and his "wife, They were met by their 21-year-old daughter, Louise (right), who is studying drama in London. (Renterphoto)

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